Updating Your User Profile

Updating Your User Profile

When a new user is added to an Ektron CMS400.NET Web site, the administrator sets up a personal profile for him. It contains information such as password and email address. You can update some personal profile information when needed. This section explains how to modify your personal profile.

Viewing Your Profile

Before changing your personal profile, you must view it. To do so, follow these steps.

Access your Smart Desktop. See Also: Understanding the Smart Desktop
From the lower left frame, click Settings.
From the top left frame, click User Profile.
Your user profile appears.
Click the Edit button ( ) in the top left corner.

The Edit User Information screen appears. The following table explains fields you can edit.


Field	Description
Password	If desired, enter a new password into this field. If you change your password, you do not need to log out then log back in. However, the next time you log in, you must use the new password.
Confirm Pwd	Confirm your new password by retyping it into this field.
User Language	Select a language in which to view Ektron CMS400.NET. Click the black down arrow on the right (circled below) to see a list of choices.
Email Address	Enter a new valid email address. Notification email is sent to this address unless the Disable E-mail Notification field is checked. To understand how email notification operates within the content workflow, see Example of an Approval Chain. Also, this address identifies the user sending Instant email. See Also: Sending Instant Email
Disable Email Notification	Check this box if you do not want to receive notification email.
Work Page Size Your system administrator may let you change the work page values. If he does, the following fields are editable. Otherwise, you can only view the fields.
Width	If desired, change the width of the screen in which Ektron CMS400.NET appears. The width in pixels must be between 400 and 2400. This field accommodates users who have larger monitors and/or prefer a smaller resolution, such as 1280 x 1024.
Height	If desired, you can change the height of the screen in which Ektron CMS400.NET appears. The height in pixels must be between 300 and 1800. This field accommodates users who have larger monitors and/or prefer a smaller resolution, such as 1280 x 1024.
Display button text in the title bar	Check this box if you want any button's caption text to appear in the screen title's bar whenever a user moves the mouse over the button. Note the word Update, describing the button, in the illustration below. If you do not check this box, the screen's title remains in the title bar when the user moves the mouse over the button, as illustrated below.
Landing Page after login	If you want one page in your Web site to appear after sign in, enter the URL to that page. You might select a page that leads to a group of pages that you maintain. If you don't know the URL, navigate to the page, go to the browser address bar and select the text following the directory in which Ektron CMS400.NET resides. For example, if the browser address bar says http://www.ektron.com/customers.aspx?id=945, you would enter customers.aspx?id=945 here.
Set smart desktop as the start location in the Workarea	If you want the Smart Desktop to appear as soon as you enter the Workarea, click inside this check box. See Also: Understanding the Smart Desktop If you leave this check box blank, when you enter the Workarea, you go to the folder of the content block specified at the Landing Page after login field.
Inherit Task Permissions From User Groups	This area indicates your task permissions and if you inherit them from user groups to which you belong. For more information, see Task Permissions

Click the Update button ( ).