HOPEX Administration > Administrator Guide > Managing Users > Managing Users > Defining a Person
Defining a Person
*Person represents a physical person or a system.
*For more information on properties of a person, see Person Properties.
From the profile properties window of a person, you can define:
• name of the person
*See step 1.
• image of the person
*See step 2.
• e-mail address of the person
*See step 3.
• phone number and initials of the person
*See step 4.
• data language of the Web user
*See step 5.
• default library to store objects created by the person
*See step 6.
• writing access area of the user
*See step 7.
• reading access area of the user
*See step 7.
• login of the user
*See step 8.
• if the user belongs to a person group
*See step 9.
To configure a Person:
1. Access the properties of the person.
2. (Optional) To add or update the image of the person, click Update Image, select the image and click OK.
*The image is stored in binary on an attribute of the person. To delete the image, click Reinitialize Image.
3. (Optional, but recommended) In the E-mail field, enter the e-mail address of the person.
*The e-mail address is required, for example, to initialize the user password, for distributing documents, receiving notifications and questionnaires, or when a Web user lost his/her password.
4. (Optional) Enter the Phone Number and the Initials of the person.
5. (Web specific, optional) In the Data Language field, you can define a specific data language for this user.
• Click the arrow and select Query Language.
• In the query wizard, select the data language (objects) and click OK.
*If the field is not specified, the default data language is the interface language defined in environment options (Options/Installation/User Management: Data Language).
6. (Optional) In the Default Library field, click the arrow and select the default library in which objects created by the user are stored if the creation context does not define one.
7. (Optional, with the HOPEX Power Supervisor technical module) You can modify the values at the following levels:
• user writing access via the drop-down menu in the Writing Access Area field.
*By default, all users are connected to the only writing access area that exists: "Administrator". For more details on writing access, see Managing Data Writing Access.
• user writing access at creation via the drop-down menu in the Writing Access Area field.
• reading access via the drop-down menu in the Reading Access Area field.
*This field only appears if reading access management has been activated, see Managing Data Reading Access.
• reading access at creation via the drop-down menu in the Writing Access Area field.
*This field only appears if reading access management has been activated, see Managing Data Reading Access.
8. So that the person can connect to HOPEX, the person must have a Login.
9. (optional) If necessary select Belongs to a Person Group
10. Click OK.
The person is configured.