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Overview

This knowledge article will provide a comprehensive list and description of all the minimum, optional, and related fields required to create a new contact record in Paradigm. This will also provide the workflows on how to search, add, and edit the contact’s information, and all other related how-to guides in maintaining a contact record in the system.

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titleAssumptions

Assumptions

  • You have the minimum required level to access the Contacts menu; and

  • You have the permission / authority of the Institution to.

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titleKey Terms and Concepts

Key terms and concepts

Security group: Security group determines the level of access the user is given in Paradigm. By default, new accounts are given staff security group. For administrators and power users this value is normally set to full or flex admin.

Minimum Required Fields to Create a Contact Record

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BE ADVISED: Entering Date of Birth is part of triggering the system to create the user login. It does not matter if it is user's true date of birth.

When adding a contact the minimum required data to create a record: 

Required Fields

System Required

First Name

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Last Name

X

Date of Birth

X

Home Institution Party Id

X

Status Id

X

Email Address

X

Although the above is the minimum required fields to create a record, the additional fields can be completed and used for information for PIR, HEIMS Staff Reporting, or for the HR Department.

Staff ID cards can also be produced from Paradigm.

Adding a New Contact Form Fields

Field Name

Brief Overview

First Name

The new user’s First Name

Last Name

The new user’s Family / Surname

Date of Birth

Primarily used for triggering a password reset for a specific contact. This does not need to be the contact's real date of birth.

Email Address

An email address is required for the system to send emails from and to using the communication module.

Status

NOTE: Marking a contact with the status of "Archived" will also prevent that login from being able to access the system.

  • Active

  • Archived

  • Deleted

Home Institution

Note

BE ADVISED: There is an optional site configuration that is disabled by default that limits the ability of a contact to only edit records that belong to the same institution as that contact’s Home Institution.

This same logic is automatically triggered by default when a contact’s Home Institution is set to a provider with the role of AGENT.

The primary provider with whom the contact is associated. A contact may only be associated with a single provider.

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Contact Related Fields

Field Name

Description

Title

A salutation, honorary title, or social prefix given to an individual

Given Name

The new user's Given Name

Family Name

The new user's Family / Surname

Address Line 1

User's Personal Address

Address Line 2

User's Personal Address

Suburb

User's Home Suburb

Postcode

User's Home Postcode

State

User's Home State

Country

Default is Australia

Phone

User's Home Phone Number

Fax

User's Fax Number

Work Phone

User's Work Phone Number

Mobile

User's Mobile Phone

Email

Email Address is required to create a new user record as well as for using the Communication module within the system.

DOB

Date of Birth

Area of Expertise

What is the user’s teaching area of expertise?

Organisation

To which organisation(s) does the user belong?

Home Institution

If the institution operates more than one institution out of the system at one time the user can be defaulted to be able to access data from their Home Institution.

Status

  • Active

  • Alumni

  • Applied

  • Archived

  • Deceased

  • Deleted

  • Discontinued

  • Inactive

  • On Leave

  • Prospective

  • Suspended

Notes

Any additional or required notes about the user.

Picture

A passport style photo can be added to the record in order produce photo staff Id Card.

External Id

Used to store a unique ID assigned to the contact that is used in a 3rd party or external system.

Employment Status

The current status of the Contact. The default list of options include:

  • Casual Full Time

  • Casual Part Time

  • Permanent Full Time

  • Permanent Part Time

Academic Qualifications

A list of qualifications earned, bestowed or achieved by the Contact.

Highest Academic Qualification

The highest academic qualification achieved by the Contact.

Studied at

The name of the institution where the Contact earned their highest academic qualification or award.

Completed

Year that a qualification was awarded to the Contact.

Relevant Experience

The relevant experience currently held by the Contact.

Current Role

The role currently given to the Contact.

Length of Service

Length of time that the Contact has been associated with their Home Institution.

Publication

Publications written or associated to the Contact.

Professional Development

Professional Development undertaken by the Contact.

Professional Activities

Professional Activities undertaken by the Contact.

Current Research Activity

The research focus of the Contact.


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title2. How to Create / Add a new Contact / User to Paradigm

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BE ADVISED: Please ensure that the contact doesn't already exist prior to creating a new contact record. It should not give you a result when you do a search of the new contact information to be added. Refer to the workflow

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for a Contact or User above.

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Choose Contacts > Add New menus on the side.

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Enter the required information - minimum required fields are (refer to the form fields table above under the Key Terms and Concepts section, or you can refer to the highlighted in RED fields in the screenshot below).

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Click the SAVE CONTACT button.

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After clicking the SAVE CONTACT button, the contact information has now been added to the system. The next thing to do is to add a security group or access level to which you would want that contact to belong, depending on his/her role in your business or institution. Refer to the next workflow
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title3. How to Maintain / Add a  Security Group to a Contact / User's Record

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INFO: After creating a new contact record in Paradigm (from workflow

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a New Contact or User to Paradigm), it is now time to add roles and security group to the new contact. Refer to the instructions below.

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Roles to the Contact Record


Roles within the system are allocated to the contacts record, these will allow for a contact to be assigned tasks or roles within the system e.g. Teacher, Lecturer, Administrator, Order Clerk, Request Taker, Registrar, HEIMS Contact, Mentor. Note that these roles do not determine the access level for the contact.

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With the newly created contact record loaded in the system, choose Contacts > Edit Details > Roles menus on the side.

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Click the drop-down list to select the role you want to assign for that contact record.

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After selecting a role, click the ASSIGN ROLE button. The new role that you’ve just added will now show on the ASSIGNED ROLES FOR CONTACT Form section above.

To add more roles, repeat steps

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To delete, all you need to do is click the DELETE button (bin icon, as shown in the screenshot below) on the right of the role.

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Security Group to the Contact Record


NOTE: A user name is allocated automatically by the system if a user name has not already been allocated. If a password has not yet been set, allocate a password and press the Save button. (The Save button will only appear only when the password strength meets or exceeds a satisfactory level.) A user login can only belong to one security group at a time, so if a security group has already been assigned, follow the steps at

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Removing a Security Group below to remove the existing security group, and then continue here to assign the new security group.

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With the newly created contact record loaded in the system, choose Contacts > Login menus on the side.

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Click the drop-down list to select the permission level you want to assign for that contact record.

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Click the ASSIGN SECURITY button.

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After clicking the ASSIGN SECURITY button, the selected role will now show in the ASSIGNED SECURITY FOR USER LOGIN Form section, and just below this section, is the ACTIVATE USER LOGIN Form section, to enable the user’s login, click the ENABLE USER LOGIN button. This should put a Y on the Enabled field and the date to when you’ve enabled the user login.

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Removing a security group:

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a Security Group or Access Level to the Contact Record


A login record can only have one security group associated with it. In order to remove a security group, load the contact, click on Login in the side menu, click on the Remove Security button next to the security group to be removed. The system will prompt user to whether to delete the selected items. Click OK to make the change.

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Disable a user account:  Load the contact, click on the Login in the side menu, Click on the Disable User button. This will disable the users login for the system.To remove, delete, or change the security group or level that you want your contact to belong or to be disassociated from, follow the instructions below:

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Load the contact’s record. Refer to the workflow above
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for a Contact or User: https://silverband.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/PKB/pages/985085/Contacts+-+Search+Add+and+Edit#01.-How-to-search-for-a-Contact-or-User.

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With the contact’s record loaded in the system, go to Contacts > Login menus on the side.

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In the ASSIGNED SECURITY FOR USER LOGIN Form section, click the REMOVE SECURITY button.

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After clicking the REMOVE SECURITY button, a pop-up window on top of the page will ask you to confirm the removal of the security group, click OK to proceed.

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NOTE: With the current security group of the user removed, if you want to change it or add another level or type of security group for that user, follow the above workflow

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This will disable the user from logging into Paradigm.

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Load the contact’s record. Refer to the workflow above
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With the contact’s record loaded in the system, go to Contacts > Login menus on the side.

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In the ACTIVATE USER LOGIN Form section, click the DISABLE USER LOGIN button. This will give you a SUCCESS message as shown in the (green bar) screenshot below, and the Enabled field is set to N with the last updated date.

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title4. How to Add  / Reset a User Password

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  1. Click on Contact tab in the side menu, 

  2. Click on Search in the Side Menu

  3. Enter at least one of the following options in to the relevant search box: 

    • Given Name 

    • Surname

    • Home Institution

    • Status

    • Contact Role 

  4. Click on the Search Contact button

  5. To filter the list of contacts, in the search box above the list of contacts, start typing the contact’s first or given name. 

  6. This will return a list of contacts that meet the searched criteria

  7. When you see the record for the contact you are looking for, click on the contact role for that contact, highlighted in blue in the left column of that row

  8. Click on Login option in the side menu.

  9. Enter in the new password into the Change Password section. 

  10. The Update User Password button will not appear until the password strength indicator is satisfactory. When is does click the Update password button

  11. Open a different browser, copy and paste the login ID for the user account that has just been created to the username filed, click on “forgot password?” to trigger the system to send an email to the with the email address registered in Paradigm to change the password.

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