Onboard Internal Users

In this walkthrough, you sign in to the ThunderID Console as your admin user and invite two new staff members: Sam Rivera onto the support team and Maya Patel onto the destinations team. Each invitee receives an email, opens the link, fills in a few additional attributes, and gets onboarded.

Onboarding internal users happens entirely in the ThunderID Console, so this walkthrough applies regardless of which solution pattern the app uses.

Prerequisites

Complete Set Up Your Environment before starting this walkthrough.

Background

Understand It covers the requirements story behind this use case.

Try the Use Case

The Wayfinder onboarding flow prompts the admin to pick the staff role (Support or DestinationsAdmin), then collects the invitee's email and sends the invitation. When the invitee accepts, the matching role is attached automatically: no separate role-assignment step.

1. Sign in to the ThunderID Console at https://localhost:8090/console as your admin user.
2. Navigate to Users and select Add User.
3. Select Staff as the user type.
4. Pick Support as the role, enter Sam Rivera's email (sam.rivera@example.com), and click Send invitation. ThunderID emails Sam an invite link.
5. Open the email in Sam's inbox and open the link. The browser opens a Complete Your Profile page.
6. Fill in the additional attributes (username sam.rivera, display name Sam Rivera, a password) and submit. Sam's account is now active with the Support role attached.
7. Repeat the flow for Maya Patel (email maya.patel@example.com, username maya.patel), picking DestinationsAdmin as the role.

Going Deeper

• Want to understand how the staff user type and roles fit together? See User Types and Roles in the Build It tutorial.
• Prefer to build the user onboarding side of the model manually? See Onboard Internal Staff in the Build It tutorial.