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The Users tab is where Administrators and users with appropriate access permissions can add, delete, edit, and view users who have access to the CMS. This tab . The Users Tab is also used to lock out a specific user from CMS, expire a user's password, set the user's access permissions, create the user's rules, and transfer assigned reports from one user to another.

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There are two roles for users: Administrators and Investigators/non-Administrators:

  1. Administrators have unlimited access to the entire company database, including all tabs. Responsibilities include adding and deleting new users, managing company settings, and assigning report Investigators to specific incident reports. 

  2. Investigators/non-Administrators have access to the Incident Report tab only. They must be assigned to a specific report by an Administrator to view and work with an incident report. Throughout the remaining sections of the help documentation, an "Investigator/non-Administrator" user will be referred to as an Investigator. The CMS automatically sends Investigators an email informing them of an assignment. An Investigator's access permissions can be changed by an Administrator or another user with access permissions via the User page.  

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Adding a New User

  1. Click the Users tab on the left toolbar.

  2. Select the Add User icon.

  3. Fill in the new user's name and contact information. (It is not necessary to complete all fields.)

  4. Choose a user role: Administrator or Investigator/non-Administrator.

  5. Click Save.

  6. The CMS automatically sends the new user a welcome email with their login information.

  7. Alternatively, click Cancel to exit without saving.

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Remember: An Investigator/non-Administrator user must be assigned (either manually by the an Administrator or by an auto-assignment rule) to a specific report to have the ability to access the report. 

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Note: You can identify which reports are assigned to a specific user by clicking on a user's "Show Record" icon. This will display all reports assigned to that user. 

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Non-CMS User

When a user does not need access to the CMS but would like to be a report recipient or a recipient of report or month-end activity summary reports, ​there is a checkbox displayed when the User Role selected is recipient, ​their role must be Investigator/non-Administrator, and the checkbox ‘non-CMS user' . Checking must be selected. 

Checking the 'non-CMS user’ checkbox will prevent this user from accessing the CMS. The  

The user can be identified as a report recipient or a month-end activity summary report recipient on the Manage Rules page.

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Editing a User

​There are many ​Many fields on the Edit User page that can be modified.

  1. Select the Edit Record icon and to display the Edit User page will display.

  2. Modify the user information as needed. It is not necessary to complete all fields.

  3. Click Save to close and save the changes.

  4. The CMS will automatically send the user an email if their User ID or User Role fields were changed.

  5. Alternatively, click Cancel to exit without saving.

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To change the User ID, edit the contents of the User ID (email) field and click the Save button. An email will be sent to the user informing them that their username has changed. The next time the user signs in to the CMS, they will need to must use their new user nameusername.

Note: The User ID must be a valid and active email account as the CMS uses this email address to communicate incident report/user account information to the CMS user. 

Expiring a User's Password

To force a user to change their password at their next login, check the Password ‘Password Change Required at Next Login Login’ check box and click the Save button.

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To prevent a user from signing in to the CMS, check the ‘User Locked’ checkbox and click the Save button.  The next time the user tries attempts to sign in to the CMS, they will be presented with an alert message will pop up, informing them that their account has been locked. 

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An Administrator can resend the a user activation email that was sent when the user was originally added to CMS by email by clicking the Send “Send 'Create User Password Email'button. The CMS will send an email to the user with a link that will allow the user to create a new password for the system.​

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Viewing User Information

Select the Show Record ‘Show Record’ icon to view a user's information. Selecting this icon will display the Show User page shown below. This page displays all of the user's information, their CMS access permissions, and all assigned reports they are assigned to.

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Transferring Assigned Reports

To transfer a user's assigned reports to another user, select the Transfer Reports icon on the Users tab. Selecting this icon will display the Transfer ‘Transfer Reports from User User’ page shown below.

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To transfer all of a user's assigned reports to another user:

  1. Select the receiving user in the ‘Select user’ dropdown.

  2. Select the 'Transfer Now' button.

  3. To close the Transfer transfer page without transferring any reports, select the 'Cancel' button.

Manage User Access (Dynamic User Profile)

The CMS provides Administrators and users with appropriate access permissions the ability to can assign specific distinct access permissions to each user by clicking the ‘Manage User Access’ row icon.

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Note:  An Investigator user who is given access permissions to user administration functions can perform all of the tasks mentioned above, with the exception constraint that the tasks performed are are limited to other Investigator users and not Administrators.

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 Deleting a User

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Delete a User by clicking the row checkbox and selecting the page delete icon. There will be a popup to confirm the deletion. 

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The ‘Manage Rules’ toolbar icon directs to the page where auto-assignment, report recipient, and month-end summary report rules are managed.  To

Click here to get additional information on the rules

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features.

Show User Access

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The ‘Show User Access’ toolbar icon directs to the page that displays all

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users and their corresponding CMS access permissions. 

The Show ‘Show User Access Access’ page is shown below:

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This page shows the current access permissions for each user. Click here to get additional information on the Manage User Access feature.