Registration form widget

Overview

The Registration formwidget enables your website users to register in your website. After they create an account, they can then use the Login form widget to login.

Place the widget on the page

You can place a Registration formwidget only inside a Section widget.
To do this, perform the following:

  1. Inside a column from the Section widget, click Add widget here…
  2. Select the Login & Users tab.
  3. Click the Registration form widget.
    The widget is placed inside the selected column of the Section widget.

RESULT: The widget displays the First and Last name fields, the Email field, the Password and Repeat password fields, and a Register button.
You can change these labels in the advanced widget settings.

Widget settings

To open the widget settings, perform the following:

  1. In the page editor, hover over the widget.
  2. Click the toggle menu in the widget label.
  3. Click DotNetCore8 (Edit).
    The Login form page opens.

In the Select pages section you can do the following:

Choose what to do after a user registers

Under If form is submitted successfully, users will..., choose what to do after the users change their password:

  • If you want to display a message after a password is changed, select View message.
    You can configure the message in the advanced widget settings.
  • If you want to redirect the user to a particular page, select Redirect to page...
    Click Add (Select page) and select a page from your website.
    For example, you can select the login page.

To facilitate the users that are already registered, you can display a link to the login page.

To do this, under Login page, click Add (Select page) and select a page from your website.
The page must have the Login form widget.

The Registration form widget displays the Log in link.

Enable external identity providers

You can allow your users to login with external identity providers, such as social media.

PREREQUISITES: Before adding an external identity provider as an option to the Login form widget, you must first have configured it.

To do this, perform the following:

  1. Under Allow users to log in with…, click Add (Add).
  2. A list of external identity providers appears.
  3. Select one or more external identity providers.
  4. Click Use selected.
    The Registration form widget displays links to external identity logins.

In Display setting section, you can do the following:

Change the template

To change the template that the Registration widget uses, select the new template in the Registration template dropdown box.

You must first have created a custom template.
For more information, see Next.js pages and templates.

Configure the widget margins

In Margins, you can choose the margins between the text and the column where it is placed.
Choose from the predefined values of none, small, medium, or large.

Save your changes.

Advanced widget settings

To open the advanced settings, in the upper-right corner of the Registration widget page, click DotNetCore11  (Advanced settings)

  • In Label, you can enter a specific name for this widget. This name will be displayed in:
    • The page editor as a label for the widget
    • In the treeview with the page structure in the right pane of the page editor.
  • In CSS class, you can enter individual CSS class for the Login widget widget.

Save your changes.

Configure the labels of the widget

You can change the following labels:

Label

Description

Default value

Registration header

The label that is displayed on the frontend page

Registration

First name field label

The label of the field where the users enter their first name

First name

Last name field label

The label of the field where the users enter their first name

Last name

Email field label

The label of the username field

Email

Password field label

The label of the field where the user enters the new password

Password

Reset password field label

The label of the field where the user repeats the new password

Repeat password

Secret question field label

The label of the security question dropdown, if implemented

Secret question

Secret answer field label

The label where the user enters the answer of the security question

Secret answer

Register button

The label of the button that confirms the registration

Register

Activation link header

The instructional text set to inform the user that email activation is requited

Please check your email

Activation link label

The instructional text confirming that activation have been sent to the user email

An activation link has been sent to

Send again link

The label of the button for resending activation email

Send again

Send again label

The confirmation message that the activation link has been resend

Another activation link has been sent to {0}. If you have not received an email please check your spam box.

Success header

The header of the message that confirms the registration

Thank you!

Success label

The message that confirms the successful registration

You are successfully registered.

Login label

The label of the link to the login page

Already registered?

Login link

The text of the link to the login page

Log in

External providers header

The header displayed above the buttons for external logins, such as Google or Facebook

or connect with...

Required fields error message

The message that is displayed when a required field is not filled out

All fields are required.

Invalid email error message

The message that is displayed when an invalid email format is entered

Invalid email format.

Password mismatch error message

The message that is displayed when the new password and its confirmation do not match

Password and repeat password don't match.

Activation message

The message that is displayed when the user follows the activation link and activation is successful

Your account is activated

Activation fail message

The message that is displayed when the user follows the activation link and activation fails

Your account could not be activated

Custom fields for User profiles

For more information, see Implement custom fields » Custom fields for User profiles.

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