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13 June 2006 at 4:10 am #939
Not in the userguide that I have… maybe in the new one?
Everyone is forced to change their password when they log in for the first time. You can set this using the bulk import.
The format is:
MM/DD/YYYY HH:MM:SSI used yesterday’s date:
06/11/2006 01:00:00I added this to the excel spread sheet .txt file – using search and replace. Excel kept on formatting the date once I entered it in the .xls sheet.
While in the control panel and mapping your fields… there is a bulk import field alllllll the way at the bottom for account activation, account expiration, and password expiration dates. If you set the password expiration date for yesterday (or the day before it becomes active) then it will be expired after they log in for the first time.
I did not see this info anywhere in my userguide – it may save you a call in to support.
Other ways to set a password to expire (this is what I was looking at before I called support, which may be usefull to someone else?):
1. You force the user to change their password (check box) when you add users individually, one at a time.
Users –> Create/Add Users –> select Force user check box2. I can go into a user’s properties, set an expiration date and apply to the entire LC. It will do this for all users in the LC.
Users –> manager users –> click on the properties icon of a person –> click on the wrench –> set an expiration date –> apply to the entire LC.3. I can set it to expire every x number of days. using same steps in no. 2
4. I can bulk import a specific set of users from an excel .txt file and reset their passwords from the excel sheet. I had made all my user’s have the same password.
5. I can have users set their password in the LC “site”. In the USA LC I have a My Profile section set up where I included the Change Password fields using the dynamic tag in the HTML editor.
PS – limit on password length is 12 characters, I think! Mine was 13 – one character too long, I had to change it. It would not import.
11 August 2006 at 6:49 am #1078Be carefull when using the bulk import w/ account expiration. I need to have certain users setup with only 1 month of access and when I did the bulk import w/ the date/time format, I was only putting the account exp date for those affected accounts. Not the other accounts (thus, leaving that field blank).
What happens is the system sets the expiration for the accounts to 1/1/1900 00:00:00 – So, yes, all those accounts I left blank were calling me until I figured out my mistake and fixed them.
FYI.
11 August 2006 at 6:54 am #1079Oh, and carful on bulk import w/ copy and paste from Excel (anyone reading this). If you accidently copy a merged cell, all sorts of buggy things can happen. For me, it wouldn’t recognize my username field even though it was selected and populated.
FYI.
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