Edit a user

Last modified: 15 May 2025

Note

Only admins or managers can display and use these user management functionalities. See Permissions.
But you can not apply these user management functionalities to users with the user role admin. Contact our support if you want to apply user management functionalities to admin users.

You can change profile information, grant or withdraw access to your organization’s meteocontrol applications, or as an admin manage two-factor authentication (2FA) for a single user.

Prerequisites

User role admin or user manager.

Steps

Navigate to the Users page. To get there, you have two options:
- Select your avatar in the tool bar, then select Users.
- Or select All users in the footer of the Recent sign-ins widget on your dashboard.

Select the Options menu at the end of the line of the user you want to edit.
Select Edit user.
You can make the following changes in the pop-up window:
- Profile information: Change username, email address, first and last name.
- Role: Change the user role and corresponding permissions. See User roles and permissions.
- Change application access: Change the user’s access rights to your organization’s meteocontrol applications here. Changes will affect the user management of the corresponding applications as well.
- ADMINS ONLY Manage two-factor authentication (2FA) by making it either mandatory or optional:
  1. Activate the toggle Two-factor authentication (2FA) is mandatory to mandate 2FA for a user. They must set up an authenticator application for 2FA the next time they sign in.
  2. Deactivate the toggle Two-factor authentication (2FA) is mandatory to make 2FA optional for the user. From now on they can remove the 2FA from their account or keep on using it if desired. See Remove linked devices or disable 2FA for your account.

Select Save changes.

The user information is updated now.

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