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Accessing Administration Functions |
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Administration operations are normally disabled. This means that when you try to select an operation from one of the Administration submenus, the items are all grayed out; clicking on them does nothing.
In order to enable administration operations, you must login as the MainBoss administrator. If you aren't already logged in as the administrator, you can do so by selecting Session —> Login from the menu. MainBoss will display the usual login window. For "User Name" type ADMINISTRATOR, and for "Password" type the administration password.
| Note: For more information about logging in, see Logging In. |
When you first license MainBoss, you will be given the password to use as administrator. Later on, you may change to a different password, as described in Changing Your Password.
| Important: Anyone who knows your Administration password can control all the administrative functions of MainBoss, including security features. Therefore, you should only give the password to people who have the authority to control all other MainBoss users at your site. |
A person who is logged in as ADMINISTRATOR may grant other users the ability to use the Administration menu. Therefore in some organizations, a person logs in as ADMINISTRATOR when MainBoss is first installed and grants administration privileges to various other users; from this point on, there is no need to log in as ADMINISTRATOR, since you can perform administrative operations under other user names. For more about granting permissions to other users, see Authorizing New Users.
If you have logged in as ADMINISTRATOR to do some administrative work, then want to go back to being a "normal" non-administrator user, select Session —> Login from the menu, then log in with both "User Name" and "Password" blank (no characters). This puts you back to being an "anonymous" user.
| Note: MainBoss will only let you log in as an anonymous user if you have security turned off. If you have security turned on, you must always log in as a "named" user. For more about turning security off and on, see Browsing Authorized Users. |
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