# Create User

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## Overview

Create User is a **Step (action)** in **Users**. Creates a Joomla user with username, email, and password.

When the flow reaches this step, JOrchestrator executes **Create User** against your linked site or an external integration, using the field values you set on **General** and **Design**. Downstream steps can read the output payload fields defined for this node.

## Why use this node

Create User is a **action step** in the **Users** group. Action steps run in the middle or end of a flow. They perform work on your CMS, call external services, or transform data for the next step.

Typical reasons teams add **Create User** to a flow:

- Create User on your linked Joomla site when the flow reaches this step
- Create user based on webhook, schedule, or CMS event data
- Integrate Users operations with messaging, AI, or database steps in one canvas

## Example workflows

Common patterns on the canvas:

1. **Trigger or Webhook** → upstream steps → **Create User** → **Send Email** or CMS update
2. **Scheduled trigger** → **Create User** → **Debug** (while testing) → production action

## How to set it up

Password supports {{placeholders}}; user groups from the list or empty for Registered (ID 2). Password is stored hashed.

## Good to know

Use After Save user event flows for welcome email or provisioning without blocking registration.

## Properties panel

The designer shows these tabs for this node:

| Tab | Purpose |
|-----|---------|
| **Info** | Plain-language description and output payload fields for downstream steps |
| **General** | Canvas label and read-only node ID |
| **AI** | Optional assistant to help draft settings from plain language |
| **Design** | Node-specific configuration fields |

### System (automatic — not edited by the user)

These fields are managed by the designer or runtime — you do not type into them directly:

| Property key | Label | Type | Required | Visible when | Notes |
|--------------|-------|------|----------|--------------|-------|
| `_nodeId` | Node ID | `node-id` | No | — | — |
| `_payloadFields` | Available Fields | `payload-panel` | No | — | — |

### User-configured — General tab

| Property key | Label | Type | Required | Visible when | Notes |
|--------------|-------|------|----------|--------------|-------|
| `label` | Label | `text` | No | — | Node label |

### User-configured — Design tab

| Property key | Label | Type | Required | Visible when | Notes |
|--------------|-------|------|----------|--------------|-------|
| `username` | Username | `text` | **Yes** | — | Login name or {{placeholder}} |
| `email` | Email | `email` | **Yes** | — | user@example.com |
| `password` | Password | `payload-secret-text` | No | — | Plain password or {{placeholder}} — stored hashed on save |
| `name` | Full Name | `text` | No | — | Display name |

### CMS-backed (options from the linked site)

| Property key | Label | Type | Required | Visible when | Notes |
|--------------|-------|------|----------|--------------|-------|
| `groups` | User Groups | `user-groups-multi` | No | — | Select groups — leave empty for Registered (ID 2) |

### CMS site configuration (not on this node's properties panel)

Credentials, API keys, mailers, SMTP, and integration defaults are configured in the CMS plugin under **Node Configuration**, not per step on this node. Link the flow to a domain before testing CMS-backed fields.

## Output payload fields

After this step runs, later nodes can reference these fields using placeholders such as
`{{create_user.id}}`.

| Field key | Type | Description |
|-----------|------|-------------|
| `id` | string | Primary record identifier. |
| `username` | string | Text value from this node's output. |
| `email` | string | Text value from this node's output. |
| `name` | string | Display name of the record. |
| `groups` | array | User group IDs assigned to the account. |

## Validation rules

- **Username** (`username`) must be filled before the flow can be saved.
- **Email** (`email`) must be filled before the flow can be saved.

## Related nodes

Other steps in the same area of the palette:

- **Block User** (`block-user`) — Users
- **Create User** (`wp-create-user`) — Users
- **Delete User** (`delete-user`) — Users
- **Delete User** (`wp-delete-user`) — Users
- **Get User** (`get-user`) — Users