Creating A User
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The User object is the primary representation of a person's account in Elements. The User is what helps connect Profiles, Inventory, Progress, and other collections inside of Elements.
Each authentication method maps to a User UID internally, which in turn keeps a reference to the User. There can be any number of these User UIDs, but each scheme can only exist once per User. In other words, there can be any number of different ways to access the User, but that User can only have a single Google Id, Apple Id, Steam Id, etc.
Many of the core features are associated directly with a Profile. Elements uses a one-to-many model for the User / Profile relationship. A Profile is linked directly to both one single Application and one single User.
One example might be a game where you might have your account login (User) and several characters that you can create with individual character attributes and story progress (Profile).
As Elements is a multi-tenant system, there can be many Applications that allow for many Profiles per Application.
Some collections, such as Inventory, are associated directly with the User object, and can be accessed across multiple Profiles. However, other collections reference the individual Profile directly.
Ah right! There are a few different ways to make a user, but without diving into a custom Element, here are the three simplest.
First, we can use the CRM as a SUPERUSER to create new users (see Users and Profiles).
Second, we can use the SignUp API from our frontend code for basic user id / password auth.
Lastly, we can use any OIDC, OAuth2, or Custom Auth to sign in, which will automatically create a user with the info in the token if one doesn't exist yet.
