Users
Managing users via the Keyfax Admin Tools.
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Managing users via the Keyfax Admin Tools.
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Users can be said to be Advisors/Operators/Agents who actually run the scripts or Administrators who are responsible for creating and maintaining scripts. Anyone attempting to launch Keyfax must be registered as a user via Admin Tools.
Clicking Users from the menu ribbon will present the following tab:
The list can be filtered by any combination of:
Full Name or Username (and toggled between the two with the ‘Full/User’ button)
Selecting a user ‘Type’ to filter by disabled or administrative status
Selecting a 'User Group' to filter by - this filters by the group displayed in the brackets after the Full Name of the user
Login Mode - this can be either ‘Windows’ or ‘Keyfax’ affecting Admin logins only. This is what each mode does:
Windows mode expects the Username to be a valid Windows User allowing Admin login without a password. The Admin Password Reset button is hidden as not required. In Windows mode, the Usernames can be prefixed or suffixed with the domain name; this will be set up by your system implementor.
Keyfax mode requires a password as with the current login. Security has been added around the password storage and authentication process. Configuration of (e.g.) password strength will be set up by your system implementor.
Username - for all operators, this name must match the name passed by the system that launched the Keyfax diagnostic. There is no password validation when launching from a host system
WARNING Usernames can be changed, however any previous activity/history records will be retained with the original Username.
Forename, Surname & Email Address - these three fields are mandatory.
User Group - This allows a free format text entry identifying the user as a group member. The User Group is intended for scripting purposes allowing different behaviour according to the user’s group. For example, some users may be designated as out of hours shift workers requiring that different script sets are presented to them; these could be set up in a group named 'OOH' and a Startup script can examine this and load the appropriate Script Set.
There is no predefined list of User Groups, however, the system presents a dropdown of all current User Groups for selection. This allows easy selection of any currently used group or just type a new group name to create one.
The following fields can be hidden by configuration, if required:
Department
Address1-3
Town
County
Postcode
Telephone
Extension
Fax
User Group
This section is only displayed for Admins with permission to access the ‘User Permissions’ feature themselves. Script Permissions control access to all Script maintenance functions.
Advisors without a need to use Admin tools should be set up with no Script or System permissions.
Script permissions are as follows:
Scripting - Allows maintenance of the script and all related structures and entities.
Scripting (Exclusive allowed) - Allows selection of exclusive mode for all scripting as above.
Templates - Allows maintenance of Keyfax Base Task Templates.
Reporting - Allows access to the Reports Viewer and all standard Keyfax reports.
System Admin - This option is only available for system administrators in their support capacity.
User Maintenance - Allows maintenance of Keyfax Users as described in this document.
User Permissions - Allows Keyfax User maintenance as above with the ability to change user permissions (excluding System Admin permission).
Keyfax user passwords are only required for administrators configured with a Keyfax login. Advisors and Admins using Windows login have no separate Keyfax password.
Initially, new Keyfax users, with any Admin permissions, are set up with a system generated random password. The person setting up a new user is never aware of the new users password which is automatically emailed to the new user. Emails are sent directly to the new user from the web server. The Password Reset button is enabled before an Edit session is started. If a user forgets their password this can be reset by any user with User Maintenance permission. Clicking ‘Reset’ will set a new random password and email this to the selected user. A confirmation message is displayed when the email has been sent.
The Password Reset button is hidden when the Edit button is clicked and the user properties are being edited.
New administrative users are set up with an auto-generated password emailed to the email address assigned to that user. Users must change this password when they first login to Admin Tools. The same process applies for password Reset.
Mandatory fields must be populated, the Username must be unique and password validation prevents re-use of last n passwords (where 'n' is configurable). It also enforces a minimum length, mixed case, alpha, numeric and special characters as configured by your system implementor.
'Exclusive mode' is not required to delete a User. Any other admin trying to select or edit a newly deleted user will be presented with a message advising the user has been deleted and the administrator will be unable to edit.
DANGER Deleting a user cannot be undone and is permanent.
