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Passwords

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The employee records password file records are used to provide additional protection to the employee records data over and above the standard Permissions and Security mechanism used within the Autoline package.

An ADP user will have created their own and the payroll or human resources manager's security record as a part of the system set up. The payroll or human resources manager should ideally be a priority 8 employee records user, this person should then maintain all other employee records security records.

The employee records priority has to be 8+ for a user to be able to maintain employee records password records fully, a user with a employee records priority below priority 8 can only access the password field on their own employee records password record using the Change password option on the PE MISCELLANEOUS OPTIONS menu.

Standard functionality exists that allows you to create and maintain records.

Note: Password details are set up by your payroll or Human Resources manager or Autoline consultants. If you are unsure what to do, contact your payroll or Human Resources Manager in the first instance.

To access password records:

  1. From the Rev.8 Master Menu, select the Employee Records option and Company you require.

    The Employee Records Password form is displayed.

  2. Enter your employee records password.

    The EMPLOYEE RECORDS menu is displayed.

  3. Select the System maintenance option.

    The PE SYSTEM MAINTENANCE menu is displayed.

  4. Select Passwords option.

    The Passwords form is displayed.


Passwords Form

The passwords form is displayed when you select the Passwords option from the PE SYSTEM MAINTENANCE menu. From this form you can set up and maintain password details.

Maintenance of payroll password records

User Id: An 8 character user identifier which already has access activated for the employee records module within the Permission & Security.The user id will default to your own user id.

Tip: Click the Ellipsis button [...] to search for a user id code.

Encrypted password: Enter the employee records password - this should be different to the normal login password and not predictable. Once the password has been entered it is necessary to re-enter the password as confirmation and click OK.

Last changed: System maintained - the date of when the password was last changed.

Grade: The 'highest' grade of employee records that can be accessed. The grade is a 2 character field ideally left as letters only, for example, grade AA is the highest grade and grade ZZ is the lowest grade.

Tip: Click the Ellipsis button [...] to add a grade to the grade file.

Priority: The priority of the user when in the employee records module. The priority entered overrides any priority allocated from within the System Utilities, Permission and Security option.

The priority field is used to control access to menu options and maintenance functions within the employee records module. The standard functions are as follows:

Priority Description
1 Display employee records with sensitive fields such as address, home and mobile telephone numbers, dates and NI number suppressed.
2 Display employee records with the date of birth suppressed.
3 Display the full employee record.
4 Edit and creation of employee records.
5 Report generator use.
6 Maintenance of employer records.
7 Spare
8 Employee Records systems maintenance allowing for change control audit set up and record deletion, default employee, employer record maintenance, purging of employee records, system parameter maintenance, password, location and grade maintenance.
9 ADP only system set up.

A table of up to 20 different location rules then follows:-

Wild card: Tick if the location field is to be used as a wild card otherwise leave blank.

Location: If the wild card field on the current location grid row has been ticked then enter the location using * or ? as wild card characters otherwise enter the full location code.

Tip: If the wild card field is blank select the drop down menu, adjacent to the Location field to view / select from all the available Location codes.

Include/Exclude: Enter either Include or Exclude.

If location security is not used the records should be left with just location 1 reading All locations.

The locations entered are used to restrict access within the employee records.

Tip: Select the drop down menu, adjacent to the Location field to view / select from all the available Location codes.

Enable user access: Tick this to allow the user ID to enter employee records, this is de-activated if the user fails to enter their correct password after the maximum number of login attempts allowed as defined within the system parameters of the employee records module.

Import data allowed: Tick this field if the user is allowed to use the Import user defined data option on the PE MISCELLANEOUS OPTIONS menu.

Last changed by: System maintained - the user ID that last changed the security record.

Date last changed: System maintained - the date the security record was last changed.

Time of last change: System maintained - the time the security record was last changed.

Created by: System maintained - the user ID that created the security record.

Date created: System maintained - the date the security record was created.

Timed created: System maintained - the time the security record was created.

Login attempts: System maintained - the current number of login attempts.

Last login attempts: System maintained - the last number of login attempts.

Date last logged in: System maintained - the date of the last login.

Time last logged in: System maintained - the time of the last login.

Terminal last login: System maintained - the terminal used to last login.

Summary of setting up a new Employee records, Payroll or Human Resources user

The following processes need to be performed by a combination of the computer systems administrator, the payroll manager and human resources manager in order for a user to be able to log onto the computer system and to enter and use the employee records, payroll and human resources modules.

Warning: If you need to contact software support to perform this process you will be required to fax authorisation to software support on letter headed paper, signed by a director stating the new user details - name, user id, module, company, priority and any existing user that is to have their details cloned from.

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