How to create a Regular user account using Admin's session id

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1

I’m trying to create a Regular user account using Admin’s session id in postman using rest API but it shows Response body as Invalid method call can you help me with a an example API for creating a user

2

Hi and welcome!
Just tested it with a very simple request, but it did work directly:

Request:

method: set_entry

{
	"session": "{{my-sessionid}}",
    "module_name":"Users",
    "name_value_list":{
         "user_name":"apitest"
     }
}

Response:

{
    "id": "<someId>",
    "entry_list": {
        "user_name": {
            "name": "user_name",
            "value": "apitest"
        }
    }
}
3

I have tried with the following rest data

{“session”:"mysessionid,“module_name”:“Users”,“name_value_list”:{“user_name”:“myusername”,“status”:“Active”,“first_name”:“myfirstname”,“last_name”:“mylastname”,“new_password”:“123”}}

But when i tried to login with the credentials that i created using the V4 API in postman My SuiteCRM login page says “You must specify a valid username and password”.

4

Did you check if the user was created (are you able to see him in the users list)?
If so, please try to submit the password as md5-hash.

5

Ya the user that i have created was stored in the database even i have tried the md5 password to login but it was not working. Should I give my password in MD5 when creating an account in postman?

6

You should try to provide the new user’s password as md5, and verify afterwards if the same hash is visible in the users table (->I could imagine your CRM is automatically creating a new password that overwrites the one you provided).

7

Can you mention the parameter name for creating the password, Is new_password is a valid parameter?

8

mh…I guess the correct column is called “user_hash” :slight_smile:

9

Should i send my password in md5 with user_hash parameter?

10

I have tried it with user_hash parameter but the userhash value for that user is null

11

you’re right, doesn’t work for me too :frowning: But I don’t know why, usually it works to use the exact column names.

But maybe this is an alternative: you can configure Suite to automatically create passwords and mail them to the new users, would that work for you?

12

I didn’t try that Can you mention how to do that?