Users

Application Users are people who work for your organization and will be using Mifos X to track all the information about your organization's operations. For example, an accountant working at a branch needs a user account in this application to track all the accounting related tasks and information. Similarly, a branch manager needs a user account to manage his/her client's portfolios.

In this section, you will learn how to add, delete or modify your organization’s users. These are people with system access working at the offices within your organization. They are subject to different restrictions based on the roles assigned to them (by the system administrator).

Before setting up usernames, the organization should give thought to the standard that will be used throughout the organization. This may be first.lastname; it may be a numerical identifier such as 101lastname (indicating the main office) or 201lastname indicating a branch office. Whatever the method adopted by your organization, it should be consistently used when creating users.

From the main screen, click on then select Users from the drop down list.

This will launch the users page that displays a list of Users with their details (refer to the screenshot below) such as:

First Name
Last Name
Email
Office

Tip: Use the Filter by Name feature at the top of the screen to avoid scrolling through all the entries. Just begin typing the name you are looking for and Mifos X will automatically narrow down the search for you.

Create a User

Start this process by clicking on the blue Create User button at the top-right corner of the Users screen.

You will then be prompted to fill in a series of fields and define the new user's office and role(s), such as:

Username
First Name
Last Name
Email
Office
Selected Roles

NOTE: Fields marked with asterisks ('*') are mandatory.

By default, the Auto generate password checkbox will be checked. It will send an auto generated password to the provided Email ID.
Alternatively, un-checking the box will allow you to provide a password manually. This will give you access to the Password and Repeat Password fields that allow you to create your own password.

Select the associated office of the new user from the drop-down menu:

Once you have filled all the information fields, click the Submit button.

View User's Profile

To view a user, click on their name on the list and their profile will open. There will be additional information displayed such as:

Login Name
First Name
Last Name
Email
Office
Roles (assigned to this user)

Once you open a user's profile, you can perform the following actions:

Edit user
Delete user
Change a password

Edit User

You may edit the profile of current users within your organization. Follow these steps to do the so:

Navigate to the chart of current Users - If you are not sure how, please see the View Application Users section of this manual.
Select the user you would like to edit by clicking on their name in the chart (this will launch their profile).

Once you have opened the user's profile for editing, you may modify the following fields:

Username
First and last name
Email
Selecting staff that report to this user by using the drop-down menu marked Staff:

Transfer user account from one office to another office by selecting the office drop-down menu.

After making changes, click Submit.

Change User Password

Navigate to the list of current Users - If you are not sure how, please see the View Userssection of this manual.
Select the user whose password you would like to change by clicking on their name in the list. This will launch their profile.
This will launch a pop-up window:

Fill in the Password and Repeat password fields.
Click Submit.

Delete User

Navigate to the chart of current Users - If you are not sure how, please see the View Application Users section of this manual.
Select the user you would like to delete by clicking on their name in the chart. This will launch their profile.
Click Confirm.

Override password expiry policy

This option determines whether the password expires or not for this user even if the global configuration for password expiry is enabled.

This means that checking this check box will grant you access using the same password, regardless of whether global configuration for password expiry is enabled.