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Manage User Accounts

Manage User Accounts

Owned by Chanel Zhang (Deactivated)
Last updated: Oct 06, 2021
3 min read

 

Objective

This page helps you to understand and manage different types of user and user permissions.

Complexity: Medium

 

Page Contents

 

 

Assumptions

 

Key terms and concepts

There are two types of user permissions:

  • Administrator

  • Non-administrator

 

Workflow

Be advised

For below detailed workflows, users require full admin privileges to process.

  1. Expand the Users folder on the left hand side to reveal a list of the current users.

     

  2. Hovering the mouse at the Users section, right click and highlight New, and click on User.

     

  3. The following dialog will appear

  4. Type in Username (refer to user's log in name), Name (display name under the Users folder) and email address

  5. Choose to assign the user permission as an administrator or not. 

  6. Click on Save button. 

 

  1. After you created a new user account by following the above workflow

  2. You can assign the administrator status by select Yes or no from the Edit User window

 

Warning

Rapla will not allow you to delete a user account that has created one or more events. Instead we advise changing the password to "retire" user accounts that are no longer required.

  1. Hovering the mouse at this inactive user you want to archive, right click Change Password.

  2. Simply create a new password for this inactive user, enter in twice.

  3. Click Change.

 

  1. First to check the current User from the top right hand corner

    . In this case, Silverband is the current logged in user.

  2. Hover your mouse to the user you want to log in and right click Switch to 

  3. You will notice the screen has been refreshed with a welcoming message from the top right hand corner. 

  4. If you want to log back in the original user account. Go to left hand top corner and Click on File, select Administrator and click Switch back

  5. You will log back to your original account.

 

 

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