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The User Management Pattern consists of the following components:

• User Personal Data: it allows users to view and change personal information, like first and last name or email address.

·         Users List: it allows users or administrators to view or manage (e.g. add, delete) accounts of portal users.

• Content/Resources Association: it allows users or administrators to change the association between user’s accounts and Content/Resources. For example, the user can choose which components he/she is going to use and what his/her portal page looks like (personalisation of portal view).

• Content/Resources List: it allows users to view the available portal resources, i.e. components (e.g. Portlets) that they could possibly use.

All operations performed by User Management Pattern components can be divided into two main streams. The first one concerns management of the user personal data and resources association by account owners mainly. The second one consists of the same component list as the first one and additional possibility to view or manage users accounts list (this functionality is available only for users with appropriate rights e.g. portal administrators). In the second case the first step is to choose a user account from the list and then to change the personal rights of the chosen user.