New users and groups functionality

join_form moved and renamed

In Plone 3, the login form was living in the portal_skins/plone_login skin layer of the Plone (Products.CMFPlone) package. This form has been moved to a Zope 3 view named @@register in the plone.app.users package.

This means that you'll have to adapt any customizations made to the join_form template to use the new @@register view.

Added @@new-user form

This is the form that site administrators, or any other user with the Manage users permission, can use to add new users, bypassing the Enable self-registration and Let users select their own passwords settings, that only affect the public @@register form.

User registration fields made flexible

The new join and user-addding forms let you to select the groups to which the user will be assigned once created. You can customize which fields do you want to be shown in this form from the Site Setup → Users and Groups → Member registration dialog. You can also modify the list programatically and add new fields as described in collective.examples.userdata.

Nested groups enabled by default

When viewing a group's membership page, you can add groups as well as users as members. This way, members of the nested group inherit all roles and permissions assigned to the parent group. For example, the "Biology Department" and "Chemistry Department" groups as well as the college's Dean may belong to the "Science" group. If "Science" is given view rights over the college's intranet folder, the Dean, and anyone belonging to the Biology or Chemisty groups would gain view access to that folder.

If you want to disable this behavior, deactivate the recursive_groups plugin at plone_site_root/acl_users/plugins/Groups Plugins.