Users List
To access: VOTER FOCUS ADMIN > User
Permissions
Before a user can access Voter Focus, you must add their Windows user
ID to the Users List dialog. When
adding a user, you assign them a user type, which is a grouping that
defines their permissions in Voter Focus. If you later need to change
a user's type, you make the change on this dialog.
The columns on the dialog can be
sorted by clicking a column heading.
The value in the Database column
denotes which database(s) the user is allowed to access: Production,
Training (which includes Sandbox),
or All. This feature is intended
to prevent users in training from accessing the live production database.
If a user whose database access is set to Training starts a Voter Focus
program while attached to the production database, Voter Focus switches
them to the Training database.
Note: If your
county has its Training database on a different server and its Training
applications and production applications in different folders, the assignment
to Training database cannot be used to prevent trainees from accessing
the production database.
Add a user to Voter Focus:
- Go to
VOTER FOCUS ADMIN > User Permissions.
- On the
Users List dialog, click New. A line with the user name New User is added to the bottom
of the list.
- Click
in the User Name field for the
new user and enter the user's Windows user ID. (Do not include the domain
name.)
- In the
Type field, select the user type
for this user.
- In the
Database field, select the database
to which this user will be restricted or leave the setting at All
if the user can access all Voter Focus databases on the system.
- If your
office uses printer
zones, you have the option of selecting a zone for this user in the
Printer Zone column. Users assigned
to a printer zone will then have their print jobs directed to the printer
in their zone. At the time of this writing, only the Document Maintenance dialog uses printer zones.
- To review
the permissions assigned to the user's type, click in the Permissions
field to open the User Permissions
dialog for the user type. Remember that if you change any permissions
here, they are applied to all users assigned to that user type, not just
the new user you are setting up.
- Click
Save.
Change a user's user type:
- Go to
VOTER FOCUS ADMIN > User Permissions.
- On the
Users List dialog, click the user
name in the list.
- In the
Type field, select the new user
type and click Save.
Delete a user from the Users List:
- Go to
VOTER FOCUS ADMIN > User Permissions.
- On the
Users List dialog, highlight the
user name.
- Click
Delete; then confirm that you
want to delete the record by clicking Yes.
The name is removed from the list and from the Voter Focus database.
