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1. Send a request for a new user creation (not a new licence) to Veson Support. 
2. If the request is not for a new licence, confirm if one of the existing users can be made "Inactive" to accommodate the new user. Otherwise, Veson Finance will charge for an additional licence. 
3. Veson creates the new user's password and username and informs all the interested parties. The credentials are sent directly to the new user's email address as an encrypted email. 
4. Create the new user in IMOS in the desired environments, Prod and/or Test, following the below standard new user creation guidelines.
5. Please Note, Existing/Old user accounts cannot be replaced by new user accounts for auditing and security purposes.
   When a new user is required to replace an existing one, please create the new user and inactivate the existing/old one.

Creating a new user

To create a new user:

1. On the Security List, click  and then click New User. The IMOS User Properties window appears, with the User tab active.
   

      2. On the User tab, enter the following information:

• User Name: Up to 128 characters.
• Full Name: The user's full name.
• Initials: The user's initials.
• Email: The user's email address.
• Phone No.: The user's telephone number.
• Select any of the following options:
  • Read-Only: Make this a Read-only user.
  • Security Administrator: Make this user a Security Administrator.
  • Inactive: Inactivate this user.
  • External Access Only: Prohibit this user from logging in. This user type does not count against your IMOS license.
• Authentication: Select one.
  • Windows Authentication: If you select this option, IMOS uses Windows login credentials for authentication, and the user does not have to log in a second time with possibly a different user name and password. If the user changes the Windows password, it is also changed here.
  • IMOS Authentication: If you select this option, enter a New Password for the user (at least five characters), and then enter it again to Confirm the password.

1. To set up group membership for the user, click the Membership tab. It contains a list of groups. Each group name is preceded by a check box.
   
   1. To add the user to a group or remove the user from a group, click the group's check box.
      = The user is not a member of the group.
      = The user is a member of the group.
      
      Note: We recommend that you do not assign the Administrator to any groups, but assign all rights individually. As a member of a group, the Administrator might be denied rights if the group has any rights actively denied.

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2. To assign user rights to modules, and/or to adjust user rights inherited from groups, click the Module Rights tab.
   
3. Assign module rights by module, by area within a module, or by item within an area. See About Groups, Users, and Rights.
   • To assign the same rights for the whole module, click the module's check box. To change to a different right, click again. Each time you click, the right changes.
   • To expand the list of areas in a module, click  .
     • To assign the same rights for the whole area, click the area's check box. To change to a different right, click again. Each time you click, the right changes.
     • To expand the list of items in an area, click  .
       • To assign rights for an item, click its check box. To change to a different right, click again. Each time you click, the right changes.
   • To collapse a list, click  .
     
     Note: A user's rights include the individual user rights plus the rights from any groups to which the user belongs.
     
     Hint: After assigning user rights, print the IMOS Group and User Report from the Security List. It includes the groups and their members, the users and their information and memberships, and the rights of each user and group. You can use it to keep track of rights when assigning them to users.

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4. To assign user rights to objects, and/or to adjust user rights inherited from groups, click the Object Rights tab.
   
5. Assign object rights by object type or by individual object. See About Groups, Users, and Rights.
   • To assign the same rights for all objects of an object type, click the object type's check box. To change to a different right, click again. Each time you click, the right changes.
   • To expand the list of objects of an object type, click  .
     • To assign rights for an object, click its check box. To change to a different right, click again. Each time you click, the right changes.
   • To collapse a list, click  .
     
     Note: A user's rights include the individual user rights plus the rights from any groups to which the user belongs.
     
     Hint: After assigning user rights, print the IMOS Group and User Report from the Security List. It includes the groups and their members, the users and their information and memberships, and the rights of each user and group. You can use it to keep track of rights when assigning them to users.

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