Hello Piet,

with the manual registration the password must always be changed by the website owner.

But for your case I may suggest you to use the automatic registration:

You can let everybody register to your site but only people you want will be able to see the protected contents.

In order to achieve this you can create a group in the private area and let only people in this group to access your proteced page. People registered automatically, once synced in the software, are inside the "automatic registration" group but you can drag them into the other group.

More info about the automatic registration here: https://help.websitex5.com/en/v2020.1/pro/index.html?area_riservata.htm

Hope this helps

I see, thank you for your advice. But would it not be a lot easier if I could just leave out the registration form? It seems to me t would be quite simple for Incomedia to give this option in a new version. Just by a tick box or something...

Hello Piet

I apologize but I do not understand what you mean by this. 

In the automatic registration the user must be able to see the form or he would not be able to register. At the same time, you cannot allow a manual user to change its password since it would not be updated in the software. You would then find that the project has out of sync passwords with the manual users

I hope I was clear enough, but let me know if you have any doubt

Thank you

Stefano

Sorry that it was not clear what I mean. I will try to explain more clearly.

• I make websites for various clubs. Only members are allowed to get access to the member's area of course 
• I do not want other people to be able to register themselves, so I do not want a regsitration form.
• But I do want members to be able to change their password or retrieve it when forgotten.
• That means I have to work with a database (like you do with auto-registration) but I, as administor add new members to the database.
• So I want to be able to choose to work with a database but leave out the regsitration form but keep the possibility for members to reset their password. 
• The problem with manual registration is that I get too many e-mails from people who lost their password,

I think it would not be too difficult to add this new function: choose to work with a database without auto-registration.

I hope I am more clear now. 

Piet

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Hello Piet

Thank you for the clarification.

I have to confirm that, in order to achieve what you need, you will mandatorily have to use the Manual Registration for now.

The topic is set as Idea so that it might be kept under consideration by the Staff for future improvements

Stefano

Thank you. I hope they will see it as an improvement. I am sure I am not the only one who works for clubs and encounters the same problem.