A person is an identity: a name, email addresses and postal addresses. A user is a person’s sign-in, frontend for members or backend for admin users; an author is a person’s public byline. Groups collect people, and permissions are granted to groups per module, entity or record.
API ReferencePlatform
Users
The signed-in account, users, people, address types, authors, groups and permissions.
About users
Identity
Person
Users and authors each point at a person; the person holds the name and addresses.
People, users, groups and permissions
User types
Frontend or admin
type is frontend for members, or backend, admin, superadmin or developer for people who sign in to the admin, with permissions from their groups.
Permissions
Per group
Granted to groups at three levels: a module, an entity, or one record.
PermissionsIn Users
Accounts13 endpoints
User accounts, the signed-in user’s own account, and the forgotten-password request.
People5 endpoints
Person records, the identity behind a user account.
Address Types5 endpoints
The kinds of address a person can hold, such as billing and shipping.
Authors6 endpoints
Author records, the byline on blog posts and other authored content.
Groups5 endpoints
User groups, which permissions are granted to.
Permissions2 endpoints
Permissions, addressed per module, entity or record: the path names what they apply to.