Personal Administration

Personal Administration lets users change passwords, secret questions, and e-mail addresses as often as they want. This function of QAD CSS frees administrators from performing tasks for which they are not needed. Additionally, users can take responsibility for themselves in real time. Overall, it prevents duplicate efforts.

Administrators can perform this and other more advanced functions on their own or the user’s behalf in User Maintenance.

The menu location of Personal Administration is Home Menu|Personal Administration. Personal Administration is available to all users.

Clicking the Personal Administration menu option displays the screen in Personal Administration. If the user password has expired, Personal Administration may display as the login page.

Personal Administration

Personal Administration does not permit changes to user ID, user name, or the password expiration date. Users are not permitted to view or change sensitive areas of information.

The specific components found on this screen are:

User ID

Unique ID of the user currently logged in.

User Name

Unique name of the user.

Password Expiration Date

Date the current password will expire. The length of time a password is valid is determined in System Control Maintenance.

Enter your old password

Verifies the current user and grants permission to proceed.

Enter your new password

User’s new password.

Confirm your new password

Used to check against typographical errors.

Enter your secret question

Used to verify user’s identity when they have forgotten their password.

Enter your secret answer

Works with Enter your secret question.

Edit your email address if desired

Permits e-mail address updates.

Clicking a command button executes one of the following actions:

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Update saves the record to the database. Before saving, ensure that all required fields are populated. The system verifies that the record is unique and compares the password to the existing record. When validated, a record is updated in the database. If validation fails, a message specific to the error is displayed and the record is not updated.

•	Cancel returns to the index page without changing the database.

Adding a Personal Administration Entry

See Detail User Registration Editor.