User Management

Managing Users in the Console

User management can be found in the user dropdown in the top right corner of the Console.

Listing Users

The list of users is shown immediately after going to User management in the user dropdown.

Searching for Users

You can search for users by ID using the search field above the list of users. It is currently not possible to search for users by other fields than the user ID using the Console, but you can do this with the CLI.

Creating Users

See the following video from The Things Network youtube channel for instructions to create a user in the console.

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Inviting Users

It is currently not possible to invite users from the Console, but you can do this with the CLI.

Updating Users

In order to update a user, select that user from the list. You’ll now see the edit view.

After making the changes to the user, click Save changes to update the user.

Deleting Users

In the bottom of the edit view, you can click Delete user to delete the user.

Managing Users using the CLI

We define some user parameters that will be used below:

NAME="My Colleague"
EMAIL="colleague@thethings.network"

Make sure to modify these according to your setup.

Creating Users

Network Administrators can create user accounts as follows:

ttn-lw-cli users create colleague \
  --name $NAME \
  --primary-email-address $EMAIL

You will be prompted to enter the password:

Please enter password:***************
Please confirm password:***************

{
  "ids": {
    "user_id": "colleague"
  },
  "created_at": "2019-12-19T10:54:53.677Z",
  "updated_at": "2019-12-19T10:54:53.677Z",
  "name": "My Colleague",
  "contact_info": [
    {
      "contact_method": "CONTACT_METHOD_EMAIL",
      "value": "colleague@thethings.network"
    }
  ],
  "primary_email_address": "colleague@thethings.network",
  "password_updated_at": "2019-12-19T10:54:53.674Z",
  "state": "STATE_APPROVED"
}

Inviting Users

You can create invitations for users to join the network with the users invitations create command:

ttn-lw-cli users invitations create $EMAIL

After you do this, you will be able to list the invitations you’ve sent:

% ttn-lw-cli users invitations list

[{
  "email": "colleague@thethings.network",
  "token": "MW7INQWYOE46GLP3AEFQEHR5XIKRYPSRAXFF3CUCLIQPPQ3BNBLQ",
  "expires_at": "2019-12-26T11:41:29.485Z",
  "created_at": "2019-12-19T11:41:29.486Z",
  "updated_at": "2019-12-19T11:41:29.486Z"
}]

You will also be able to delete an invitation if you want to revoke it:

ttn-lw-cli users invitations delete $EMAIL

Listing Users

To list users with the CLI, use the users list command. Make sure to specify the fields you’re interested in.

ttn-lw-cli users list --name --state --admin

[{
  "ids": {
    "user_id": "new-user"
  },
  "created_at": "2019-12-19T09:10:31.426Z",
  "updated_at": "2019-12-19T09:10:40.527Z",
  "name": "New User"
}, {
  "ids": {
    "user_id": "admin"
  },
  "created_at": "2019-12-18T14:54:12.723Z",
  "updated_at": "2019-12-18T14:54:12.723Z",
  "state": "STATE_APPROVED",
  "admin": true
}]

Use the pagination flags --limit and --page when there are many users.

Searching for Users

To search for users with the CLI, use the users search command. Make sure to specify the fields you’re interested in. We’ll search for users with IDs that contain “new”:

ttn-lw-cli users search --id-contains new --name

[{
  "ids": {
    "user_id": "new-user"
  },
  "created_at": "2019-12-19T09:10:31.426Z",
  "updated_at": "2019-12-19T09:10:40.527Z",
  "name": "New User"
}]

Use the pagination flags --limit and --page when there are many users.

Updating Users

To update users with the CLI, use the users update command. The following command updates the state of user new-user to “approved” and makes them admin of the network:

ttn-lw-cli users update new-user --state APPROVED --admin true

{
  "ids": {
    "user_id": "new-user"
  },
  "created_at": "2019-12-19T09:10:31.426Z",
  "updated_at": "2019-12-19T11:44:39.609Z",
  "state": "STATE_APPROVED",
  "admin": true
}

Deleting Users

To delete a user, use the users delete command.