What is a guest user?

Question

When a project administrator does not have Internet access and needs to add a user to a project, the administrator can add a guest user.

A guest user is one who has not been a regular Paratext user, but who is given a temporary registration for a project and becomes a temporary user on that project.

Guest users are restricted to the project to which they are added and to any project derived from that project (such as a back translation, transliteration, daughter translation).

Once the project administrator has Internet access, guest users should be registered on the Paratext Registry, and should be added to projects by their Paratext registration name.

Tips:

• Guest user names will have the form: "Guest# XYZ" (where "#" can be a number from 1 to 255, and "XYZ" is the project short name).
• Guest users have limited functionality to encourage registration at the earliest convenience of the project administrator. (See: [What are the limitations of Paratext for guest users?](http://support.paratext.org/t/what-are-the-limitations-of-paratext-for-guest-users/1229))
• A guest user cannot be a project administrator.
• The Registration Code for a guest user is generated automatically by Paratext. The project administrator copies that code and enters it on the computer of the guest user the first that the guest user starts Paratext.

See also:

• [How do I add a user to a project?](http://support.paratext.org/t/how-do-i-add-a-user-to-a-project/129)

* [How do I make a guest user a registered user?](http://support.paratext.org/t/how-do-i-make-a-guest-user-a-registered-user/1225)

Answer 1

There are 2 common internet-limited scenarios I’m trying to work through for the sake of teaching Paratext 8.

1. An internet-free classroom situation.
2. An internet-free village translator situation.

In the classroom we may want to teach students to set up new projects, add users to their projects, interline arise and do all kinds of things that guest users can’t do, while offline. We anon421222’t have internet access for all the students and even if we did it would be considerably slower to get everyone sending and receiving over a shared internet connection than S/R through a network server.

• Can we use PT8 in any way for this? (Or would it be better to have people practice this on 7.6 for the foreseeable future, given this doesn’t rely on the internet server?)
• Or do we need to just demonstrate but not do any user role permission changes?
• Do we need to just tell students to work out some solution for internet access?

For the village situation

• Do all users, roles and permissions changes need to be done by taking the administrator computer to an internet-connected place?

My main concern is that I really want to give students learning PT the chance to experience adding and removing and changing users, making all the usual mistakes that they normally do so that they can handle real life, but requiring internet connectivity for this is a real pain and will be either impossible, or very tedious.

Comments

rowbory:

Do all users, roles and permissions changes need to be done by taking the administrator computer to an internet-connected place?

Adding a user, removing a user, or changing the role of a user requires an internet connection in PT8. Changing permissions of users should be doable offline.