Performing User Maintenance › Add a Profile to a User

Add a Profile to a User

If a user has characteristics that are common to a group of users, you can assign a profile to the user. Then, when you want to change an option for all of the users, you only need to make the change to the profile.

Note: To create a profile, see Performing Profile Maintenance.

To add a profile to a user

1. Select option 3, User Maintenance, from the TPX User/Group Administration Menu. A panel will prompt you to enter the user ID you want to administer.
2. Type the user ID to which you are adding a profile in the space to the right of the prompt and press Enter.

   In the following panel, the administrator is entering a user ID of USR1.

                        TPX User Maintenance 
                                                          Panelid - TEN0196 
    Command ===>                                          Userid  - TPXADMIN
                                                          Termid  - DXAP59B 
                                                          Date    - 03/14/03
                                                          Time    - 07:35:49
      Enter Userid to administer or '*' for list ===> USR1
      Record Count Limit ===>
   

   The options menu for user maintenance is displayed.

   Note: If you know that a userid begins with the characters ‘USR’ then you can list all users that begin with USR by typing USR* and pressing Enter. If you do not know the user ID, you can type an asterisk (*) and press Enter. A list of the user IDs that you can administer is displayed. You can select a user ID from the list by typing an S to the left of it.

3. Select option 5, Maintain List of Profiles, as shown in the following panel. The TPX User Maintenance Detail Table is displayed.

                       TPX User Maintenance 
                                                          Panelid  - TEN0118 
    Select Option ===>  5                                 Userid   - TPXADMIN
                                                          Terminal - D08L074 
        Userid: USR1                                      Date     - 01/19/03
                                                          Time     - 21:21:37
       1 TPX User Options 
       2 TPX Session Options
   
       3 STX User Options 
       4 STX Session Options
   
       5 Maintain List of Profiles 
       6 Maintain Administrator Capabilities 
       7 Maintain TPX VIEW Capabilities
   

4. If there are no profiles in the list, use the Tab key to move the cursor to the space to the left of the word Profile in the heading above the asterisks. If there are one or more profiles in the list, use the Tab key to move the cursor to the profile after which you want the new profile to be inserted.

   Important! For more information on ordering profiles, see Changing the Order of Assigned Profiles in this chapter.

   How User Options are Built—User options are built from the first profile in the user's profile list. User options are not superceded.

5. Type an I (insert), as shown in the following panel, and press Enter.

                     TPX User Maintenance Detail Table
                                                           Panelid - TEN0159 
    Command ===>                                           Userid  - TPXADMIN
                                                           Termid  - PUN01
                                                           Date    - 03/30/03
                                                           Time    - 08:44:19
   I Profile name(s) from which the user is built: 
   ****************************** BOTTOM OF DATA *****************************
   

   If there are no profiles in the list, a blank line is inserted between the heading and the asterisks, as shown in the following panel. Otherwise, a blank line is inserted after the profile where you typed the I.

                     TPX User Maintenance Detail Table
                                                           Panelid - TEN0159 
    Command ===>                                           Userid  - TPXADMIN
                                                           Termid  - PUN01
                                                           Date    - 03/30/03
                                                           Time    - 08:44:19
     Profile name(s) from which the user is built:
    
   ****************************** BOTTOM OF DATA *****************************
   

6. Type the name of a profile that you want to add to the user's list of profiles on the new blank line. In the following panel, the administrator is adding a profile named BASEPROF to the user's list of profiles.

                    TPX User Maintenance Detail Table
                                                           Panelid - TEN0159 
    Command ===>                                           Userid  - TPXADMIN
                                                           Termid  - PUN01
                                                           Date    - 03/30/03
                                                           Time    - 08:44:19
     Profile name(s) from which the user is built:
     BASEPROF
   ****************************** BOTTOM OF DATA *****************************
   

7. If you want to add another profile, repeat steps 4 through 6.
8. Press PF3 four times to return to the TPX Administration Menu.