<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD><title>Cloning Users</title> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.6000.17092" name=GENERATOR> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=unicode"></HEAD> <BODY><FONT face=Arial size=2> <P>When you are setting up a new user, it can be a tedious task to determine every group the user needs to be a member of and manually entering them into each group. VAL offers a way of cloning a users permissions from an existing user, automatically adding them into every group that the base user is a member of.</P> <P class=code>To clone a user, the person who is requesting the new user to be setup should provide you with the name of the existing user that you can clone from. This will normally be a member of their team or their own name. </P> <P class=code><STRONG>NB - Always request a user ID to clone from as it makes the setup process much easier!</STRONG></P> <P class=code>The following steps will guide you through cloning a user</P> <DIV class=code> <UL> <LI>Open the Admin Screen <LI>Click on the 'Wizard' icon on the toolbar <LI>Enter the new user details. Either do this manually, or pick from Active Directory</LI></UL></DIV> <P align=center><IMG src="images/NewUserDetails.png"></P> <UL> <LI> <DIV align=left>Select an existing user to clone from. Highlight the user in the list and click Next</DIV></LI></UL> <P align=center><IMG src="images/SelectExisting.png"></P> <P align=left>That's it! Click finish and all the user permissions from the 'Existing User' will be copied over to the new user</P> <P align=left>NB: If you have configured a workgroup for Access databases, the system will attempt to create the new user details in the workgroup as well</P> <P align=left> </P> <P align=left> </P></FONT></BODY></HTML>
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