Select your cookie preferences

We use cookies and similar tools to enhance your experience, provide our services, deliver relevant advertising, and make improvements. Approved third parties also use these tools to help us deliver advertising and provide certain site features.

create_user

create_user(**kwargs)

Creates a user in a Simple AD or Microsoft AD directory. The status of a newly created user is "ACTIVE". New users can access Amazon WorkDocs.

See also: AWS API Documentation

Request Syntax

response = client.create_user(
    OrganizationId='string',
    Username='string',
    EmailAddress='string',
    GivenName='string',
    Surname='string',
    Password='string',
    TimeZoneId='string',
    StorageRule={
        'StorageAllocatedInBytes': 123,
        'StorageType': 'UNLIMITED'|'QUOTA'
    },
    AuthenticationToken='string'
)
Parameters
  • OrganizationId (string) -- The ID of the organization.
  • Username (string) --

    [REQUIRED]

    The login name of the user.

  • EmailAddress (string) -- The email address of the user.
  • GivenName (string) --

    [REQUIRED]

    The given name of the user.

  • Surname (string) --

    [REQUIRED]

    The surname of the user.

  • Password (string) --

    [REQUIRED]

    The password of the user.

  • TimeZoneId (string) -- The time zone ID of the user.
  • StorageRule (dict) --

    The amount of storage for the user.

    • StorageAllocatedInBytes (integer) --

      The amount of storage allocated, in bytes.

    • StorageType (string) --

      The type of storage.

  • AuthenticationToken (string) -- Amazon WorkDocs authentication token. Not required when using Amazon Web Services administrator credentials to access the API.
Return type

dict

Returns

Response Syntax

{
    'User': {
        'Id': 'string',
        'Username': 'string',
        'EmailAddress': 'string',
        'GivenName': 'string',
        'Surname': 'string',
        'OrganizationId': 'string',
        'RootFolderId': 'string',
        'RecycleBinFolderId': 'string',
        'Status': 'ACTIVE'|'INACTIVE'|'PENDING',
        'Type': 'USER'|'ADMIN'|'POWERUSER'|'MINIMALUSER'|'WORKSPACESUSER',
        'CreatedTimestamp': datetime(2015, 1, 1),
        'ModifiedTimestamp': datetime(2015, 1, 1),
        'TimeZoneId': 'string',
        'Locale': 'en'|'fr'|'ko'|'de'|'es'|'ja'|'ru'|'zh_CN'|'zh_TW'|'pt_BR'|'default',
        'Storage': {
            'StorageUtilizedInBytes': 123,
            'StorageRule': {
                'StorageAllocatedInBytes': 123,
                'StorageType': 'UNLIMITED'|'QUOTA'
            }
        }
    }
}

Response Structure

  • (dict) --

    • User (dict) --

      The user information.

      • Id (string) --

        The ID of the user.

      • Username (string) --

        The login name of the user.

      • EmailAddress (string) --

        The email address of the user.

      • GivenName (string) --

        The given name of the user.

      • Surname (string) --

        The surname of the user.

      • OrganizationId (string) --

        The ID of the organization.

      • RootFolderId (string) --

        The ID of the root folder.

      • RecycleBinFolderId (string) --

        The ID of the recycle bin folder.

      • Status (string) --

        The status of the user.

      • Type (string) --

        The type of user.

      • CreatedTimestamp (datetime) --

        The time when the user was created.

      • ModifiedTimestamp (datetime) --

        The time when the user was modified.

      • TimeZoneId (string) --

        The time zone ID of the user.

      • Locale (string) --

        The locale of the user.

      • Storage (dict) --

        The storage for the user.

        • StorageUtilizedInBytes (integer) --

          The amount of storage used, in bytes.

        • StorageRule (dict) --

          The storage for a user.

          • StorageAllocatedInBytes (integer) --

            The amount of storage allocated, in bytes.

          • StorageType (string) --

            The type of storage.

Exceptions

  • WorkDocs.Client.exceptions.EntityAlreadyExistsException
  • WorkDocs.Client.exceptions.UnauthorizedOperationException
  • WorkDocs.Client.exceptions.UnauthorizedResourceAccessException
  • WorkDocs.Client.exceptions.FailedDependencyException
  • WorkDocs.Client.exceptions.ServiceUnavailableException