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Introduction

The Revive Adserver software supports 4 different types of users:

• Administrator user
• Manager user
• Advertiser user
• Website user

The first user will be both the first Administrator and the first Manager user. You can see in which context you’re currently working by looking at the ‘Working as’ tool in the top right corner of the screen after logging in.

How to add a manager user

There are two ways to reach the screen where new users can be added. One way is to use the “Working as” dropdown to select the account you want, the other way is to navigate to the list of accounts under the Inventory tab while working as administrator, and then clicking the “Switch to this account” link on the corresponding line in the table.

Once you’re in the appropriate account, and while still in the Inventory tab, just click the “User access” tab in the left column.

Next, click the Actions button in the top right corner, and then click the Add user link that appears.

Enter username

This opens a screen asking you to type the username of the new user you want to add. While typing, if the same username happens to exist somewhere else in another account, advertiser, or website, the software will display a list from which you can choose the user. However, for this article we’re going to assume that it is an entirely new username. When you’ve typed the username, click the Add user button to proceed.

Enter user’s details

On the User properties screen that now appears, enter the rest of the information needed for the new username. If necessary, you can still also make changes to the username itself.

There is a checkbox labeled “Allow this user to manage this account’s users” as well, which is checked by default. With this checkbox on, the newly created user will be able to add more users by themselves. You should carefully consider if you want this to be the case. Theoretically, the new user could log in and then delete your own username.

Once you’ve entered all the fields, don’t forget to click the Add user button.

The new user will now be created, and you will return to a list of all the available users. There is a little note at the top of the list informing you that the new user was added.

Be aware that the Revive Adserver software does not inform the new user about their new username, at least that was not the case at the time this article was last updated (October 2020). You will have to contact the new user and tell them about the login address, their username, and their password.

There is a pending feature request to tweak the New user process by not asking for the password, instead the idea is to send an email to the new user, with instructions on how to set their password and a link to do that.