Setting up users

The first tasks your System Administrator must perform are to:

• identify who needs to access PowerShape.
• specify a naming-convention for models.
• establish the access rights that individuals and groups of users need for individual projects.

For further details, see Managing your data.

When you run PowerShape for the first time, a new user is created for you using your Windows login name (with security level 3). Although you can set yourself up as a user by running PowerShape, you must have administrative privileges to set up other users.

To set up a new user:

1. Run PowerShape.

2. Double-click the Command box in the status bar to open the Command window.

3. In the Command window, type: admin create user

4. Enter the login name of the user. This is usually the same as the user’s system login name.

5. Enter a user password. Alternatively, if no password is required, type: none.

   Note: Windows and PowerShape passwords need not be the same. If you specify a PowerShape password, the user is prompted for it each time they start PowerShape.

6. Enter the name of the user in single quotes, for example: 'Francis Dollarhyde'

7. Enter the security level of the user.

8. Enter the path of the login macro for the user. Alternatively, if no login macro is required, type: none and the default login macro is used.