When an Administrator adds new users to the portal, they're assigned a random password by default. Administrators can create a notification to allow these users to set their own passwords.

Here’s how:

1. Sign in to your TalentLMS account as an Administrator, go to Notifications (1), and click Add notification (2).

2. Type a Name (3) for your notification in the respective field.
3. From the Event drop-down list, choose On user create (4).

4. Select Related user in the Recipient field (5).
5. In the notification Body text area (6), do the following:

First, type a subject for your notification email and press Enter to change lines. (This first line of the message will be used as a subject line for the email).

Then, type your notification and ensure that you have included the Create password URL smart tag from the Smart Tags drop-down menu (7).

Finally, add a footer with some basic notification info.

6. Click Save (8) to save your settings.


The  Create password URL smart tag generates a link, which is sent to the user via email. The user needs to open this email and click the link, which will redirect them to the password creation screen.

The user can then type their preferred password and click Create password (1).


Once their password is accepted, they will see the relevant confirmation message on their screen, and they’ll be redirected to the Login page.

The link is valid for 48 hours. If the user clicks it after this period, they’ll get an error message informing them that the link has expired. In this case, they can then enter their username or email address to request another password creation link by clicking Send (2).

This triggers the Create password system notification, which sends the user a new email with the link. To customize this notification, please check this article.