User Types

In XWiki, users are of two types: Simple users and Advanced users. This distinction allows adjusting the UI based on the user type, bringing the following advantages:

• For Simple users: the UI is uncluttered and only main actions are visible. This is especially valuable for newcomers who need to adjust and learn the XWiki UI.
• For Advanced users: More actions are available in the UI. Advanced users are used to the XWiki UI and can accept seeing more advanced options, to perform complex actions.

For example, the following UI elements are only visible to Advanced users (the list is not exhaustive and any XWiki Extension can use the user type concept to decide to show or hide some UI elements):

• The Edit button is a button with a dropdown list allowing to choose other editors such as the Inline Form editor, the wiki editor, the Object editor and more.
• When creating or moving a page, the user can decide to mark the page as terminal (i.e. it cannot have children).
• The job status logs are displayed.
• And a lot more...

By default, new users are assigned the Simple profile, but this can be changed by editing the profile preferences (accessible by clicking on your avatar icon for example).