Maintaining Users

Use the GUI Administrator routine to add or edit a user for your system.  In addition, you can remove a user from your system by following the instructions for deleting a user seen below in this topic.

Tip:  For more information about working with data in fields, see the Data Entry Guidelines.

Directions:

To see directions for...

• Opening GUI Admin for Maintaining Users, click More.

   

  To open GUI Administrator for CURL system users:

  1.  From your Desktop, click Start.

  2.  Click Programs.

  3.  Click NDS.

  4.  Click GUI Admin.

   

  

   

  To open GUI Administrator for X/RTS system users:

  1.  Use Internet Explorer to access w:\web on yourservernamehere.

  2.  Open the directory W:\nds\mkuser.

  3.  Click guiadmin.hta.

   

  GUI Administrator Window Example:

  

   

• Creating a New User, click More.

   

  Tip:  Default entries display.  Only maintain the fields noted with an Asterisk *.

   

  GUI Administrator Prompts Tip:  To see more information about a field, click the hyperlink for the field name.
  * User Name	Enter the User Name to use to log onto the system. (up to 6 characters)
  * Clerk Initials	Enter the user initials as the Clerk Initials.
  Email Active?	Note: Maintain the default setting for this field.
  User Number	Note: Maintain the default setting for this field.
  * User Group	Enter ES for the preset function keys for the sure.
  Default Printer	Note: Maintain the default setting for this field.
  Set Print Default	Note: Maintain the default setting for this field.
  Tax Receipt Printer	Note: Maintain the default setting for this field.
  Port	Note: Maintain the default setting for this field.
  Notebook	Note: Maintain the default setting for this field.
  Camera Active	Note: Maintain the default setting for this field.
  * Scanner Active	If the user will be using a scanner, select True.  Otherwise, maintain the default setting of False.
  Proxy?	Note: Maintain the default setting for this field.
  * Scheduling Operator ID	Enter the identification of the user for scheduling, if applicable. Note: This field only pertains to INSight.  If you maintain an ID here and in INSight, the Scheduling Operator ID will automatically fill in for the user during scheduling.
  Operator ID	Note: Maintain the default setting for this field.
  Demo Profile?	Note: Maintain the default setting for this field.
  Coder Profile?	Note: Maintain the default setting for this field.
  Super User Profile?	Note: Maintain the default setting for this field.
  Graphic Effects?	Note: Maintain the default setting for this field.
  * Terminal User?	To set this field to Terminal User, select True.
  Local Root?	Note: Maintain the default setting for this field.
  Allow Background Print Jobs?	Note: Maintain the default setting for this field.
  Allow Background Process Jobs?	Note: Maintain the default setting for this field.
  Stream Print Jobs?	Note: Maintain the default setting for this field.
  Allow Write?	Note: Maintain the default setting for this field.
  Allow Delete?	Note: Maintain the default setting for this field.
  * Read Only Applications?	If the user should only be allowed to read data within an application, enter the application name.  Otherwise, leave blank.
  NDSServer Administrator?	Note: Maintain the default setting for this field.
  * Save User	To save the user information, click Save User.
  	CAUTION To avoid losing data, you must save new or changed records.

   

• Editing an Existing User, click More.

   

  CAUTION:  To avoid losing data, you must save new or changed records.

  1.   To position the pointer to the information that you want to change, press [TAB] or click the field using the mouse.

  3.  Enter the data changes.

  4.  To complete the edit process, click Save User .

   

• Deleting an Existing User, click More.

   

  To delete a User who is no longer working at your facility or who has changed their work responsibilities:

  1.  Use Internet Explorer to access w:\web on ndsserv.

  2.  Open the following directory W:\resources\home\users.

  3.  Find the desired User directory and right-click to open the shortcut menu.

  4.  Click Delete.