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User Registration
QAD CSS allows potential customers to request a user login by registering directly from a QAD CSS Web site. When a customer submits an online registration, a new account is not created immediately. The information the customer provides on the online registration form is passed to User Registration. Administrators can review the request through User Registration and set up a new customer account in QAD EA and QAD CSS.
Important: Before you create the user, make sure that you verify that the customer record exists in QAD EA.
The menu location for online registration is Home Menu|Misc Menu|Register Online Start.
Clicking the Register Online Start menu option displays the initial online registration screen that contains two buttons—one to start the registration process and one to cancel the request. Clicking Open Registration Page displays the initial registration screen shown in Detail Register Online Company Info.

Detail Register Online Company Info
After filling in their company information, the user clicks Next to proceed to the second registration screen requesting information about the user, as shown in Detail Register Online User Info.

Detail Register Online User Info
Clicking Next displays a summary of the online registration information. Clicking Submit on the summary screen sends the registration information to User Registration.
Before an actual account is set up in QAD EA and QAD CSS, administrators use User Registration to review and verify user information.
When an online request is submitted, an e-mail notification can be sent automatically to the requestor and to the person responsible for setting up new customer accounts.
Before the user can be established in QAD CSS, other setup is required:
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This user ID is specified as the value for the defaultCustomerRegistration system registry key in System Registry Maintenance.
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Note: Sometimes, QAD Global Services are required to modify the program that executes the commit for the new user records to supply additional default information, depending on the specific needs of your implementation.
When administrators are notified, they can review the registration request in User Registration. Initially, they have two choices. They can:
After the account passes verification, the administrator can then click Create User to establish a new user record. The system generates the new record by using the information supplied during registration in combination with the defaults associated with the default user ID.
The menu location of User Registration is Home Menu|Administration Menu|User Registration.
Clicking the User Registration menu option displays the screen in User Registration.

User Registration
User Registration Navigation summarizes the contents of the User Registration navigation screen.

User Registration Navigation
 
Detail User Registration Editor
Clicking the User ID link activates the Detail User Registration screen.

Detail User Registration
The components of the detail user registration editor screen are:
User ID
Unique ID of the user currently logged in.
User Name
Unique name of the user.
Account Number
The code representing the company defined in QAD CSS and QAD EA that this user is associated with. When the user record is created in User Maintenance, the system associated it with the specified company. You can click the Verify Company name to ensure that this account number is valid.
If the user registering does not know their company or supplied an invalid company, it is recommended that you contact them regarding their account information.
User Title
The user’s title representing their function at their company.
User Phone
Complete telephone listing including country and area codes.
E-Mail Address
E-mail address associated with this user record.
Secret Question
Used to verify user identity when they have forgotten their password.
Secret Answer
Works with Secret Question to identify a user.
Clicking a command button executes one of the following actions: