Introduction
Customize Your User Profile
3 min
after the initial swimlane installation, you customize your user profile and create additional user profiles for your organization for details about installing swimlane, see the swimlane platform installer guide https //swimlane com/knowledge center/install/ to create your user profile, click edit profile on the complete your profile welcome screen the initial installation of swimlane utilizes an administrator user account that is necessary for the install tasks once the installation is complete, when you click edit profile, it takes you to the user profile editor for this administrator account you can then customize the admin account for your use, or create an additional administrator or general user account from the profile editor, you can upload an image to use as your swimlane profile picture complete personal information change your password create a personal access token view a profile's most recent activity (admin only) specify groups and roles associated with the profile (admin only) select the default dashboard for the user profile the roles and groups you want to assign must be created before an administrator can assign them to specific users! the default dashboard is the dashboard that displays each time you log in to swimlane if no dashboards appear in the list for selection, then you either need to create a default dashboard, or the current user does not have permissions to view those that have been created creating a personal access token use your personal access token in python scripts or apis that you use from swimlane once you generate the token, take care to copy it somewhere secure for use in scripts or apis you can delete and then regenerate the token if necessary, but it is hidden from view after it's initially created