Create multiple user at once

[matrix0807 2]

hello my friends, i want to ask some question.

So, i want to create many user for my emby server (local network). if i setup manually from setting menu, it'll takes time.
is there any way to create from db? maybe with sqlite or something like that..

and is there any max user for local network? 

 

thankyou in advance

[Luke 42085]

Hi, there's no way to do this in the user interface. I suppose you could use the api if you're handy with that sort of thing.

[visproduction 316]

Matrix,

The XML files for users are in (serverUser or Administrator)\AppData\Roaming\Emby-Server\confg\users\(30 character name)

If you create new users and give them a profile image, you could go into the newly created users directories, open each config.xml and copy past your preferred Ordered views, which is a feature that takes the longest to adjust using the GUI.  And in Policy.xml you could update Preferred folders, but this is quite easy to do with the GUI.  All the other options are there in config.xml.  You could copy and paste as you need.

Warning! You have to be very careful. Use an editor with undo.  It's very easy to cause more problems than it's worth and breaking one or more accounts with a misplaced character.

It's possible to add, say 10 new users with images so you can easily see which account is which, then update all preferences you like using a code text editor and maybe take 2 minutes per user to set it up.  You can't just copy paste an entire directory for a user, because the access folder name has to be entered first into the dbase.  If this all makes sense, then maybe consider trying this.  If not, then I would suggest don't do this.  It would be fairly easy to ruin multiple user logins and you might have to reinstall from scratch the entire server.

[chef 3810]

Interestingly enough, I realized the other day that all my users had different layouts and options with their account.

Mind you, my users aren't the kind of family members that would change options for themselves. They just take the setup as default.

But I found a certain home screen layout best, and I went through each profile as changed it for them.

They all really liked and commented on the 'new look', even though it was just a couple setting changes.

Perhaps there is room for some kind of plugin here that simply recreates the same layout for each user when the admin doesn't want to use default.

It doesn't have to be complicated.

If that would be useful, and there is more then a couple users that would use it,  then I would definitely put some time into something.

 

Edited September 30, 2022 by chef

[Happy2Play 9783]

2 hours ago, chef said:

Interestingly enough, I realized the other day that all my users had different layouts and options with their account.

Mind you, my users aren't the kind of family members that would change options for themselves. They just take the setup as default.

But I found a certain home screen layout best, and I went through each profile as changed it for them.

They all really liked and commented on the 'new look', even though it was just a couple setting changes.

Perhaps there is room for some kind of plugin here that simply recreates the same layout for each user when the admin doesn't want to use default.

It doesn't have to be complicated.

If that would be useful, and there is more then a couple users that would use it,  then I would definitely put some time into something.

 

Yes it would be uses full as it would basically be User templates.

https://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/21744-fr-copy-user-user-templates