## Registering and Logging In

## Registering and Logging In to DataGauge+

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

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 (*).

- You must choose a unique login name. The software will tell you if that user name already exists in the database.

- The password field must contain at least numbers and letters and must be at least six characters long.

- The Strength bar shows the defined password's strength.

- user must change password at next logon / user must change password in # [days, months, years]- If marked, you will receive a prompt to change your password the next time you attempt to login; or when you attempt to login and the allotted time has passed.

This is a security feature that you or the account administrator can enable by marking one of these must change password check boxes.

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 in DataPage+ 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 inside of DataPage+.
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 the software 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 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.

Locked Accounts

An account automatically switches to a locked state if 180 days passes without account activity. Once locked, the account can only be unlocked by an account administrator. See "Account Management" for more information.

Switching Languages

The software 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:

The software will immediately close and reopen in the selected language.

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