## Registering and Logging In

Once you've connected to a database, you need to login to that database. You can use the login screen to do that.

Datapage+ Login Screen

Registering a New Account

If you don't have an account with this database, you need to first use the Register button to create one. Clicking this button accesses the Register User dialog box.

Register User dialog box

Fill out this dialog box and click OK to register your account into an existing database. Required information is indicated by the asterisk character (*).

The Browse... button at the bottom of the dialog box lets you choose to add your own photograph or other picture to your user account.

Activating your Account:

Once you register your account, the software's administrator must use the Tools | Account menu item to activate your account, changing its status from WaitingForApproval to some other privilege level. Until that happens, you cannot log into the database. See "Account Management" for more information.

Important: If you are the system administrator and you need to setup user account privileges for the first time, use the following credentials to log into the built-in administrator account:
User Name: Administrator
Password: 123456
Once you have logged into this account, you should change your password to something more secure. To do this, access the Edit User dialog box for the Administrator account by clicking on the linked Administrator text from the main toolbar:
Then fill out the Edit User dialog box with the new password.

Once you have registered an account with the current database, you can type your user name and password into the appropriate fields, and then click the Login button to access the database.

By default, the Remember Me check box is marked. This causes Datapage+ to remember your user name and display it along with your selected photo or user icon in the scrolling list next to the edit boxes the next time you login. Clicking the photo for an account automatically inserts the associated user name into the User Name box. Click the small black triangles at the top or bottom of the list to scroll through any remembered accounts.

If you do not want your user name to appear in the scrolling list, edit the login.user text file located in the installation directory using a text editor. Remove your user name, and save the changed .user file. The next time you start Datapage+ to login, the user name will be hidden from view. This does not delete your account; instead, it merely hides your user name from the login screen, thereby providing another level of security. Note that marking the Remember Me? check box will once again remember your user name, so you will need to keep that cleared when logging in.

Switching Languages

Datapage+ supports many different languages. The current language flag is displayed above the User Name box and in the bottom left of the login screen, on the status bar.

To change the current language, simply select the language from the menu on the lower-left side of the login screen:

Datapage+ will immediately close and reopen in the selected language.

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