Job Management

User Detail Field Descriptions

User Detail

User Name: Name of User. This is typically the first initial of the person’s first name and their last name up to 8 characters. For example ”kwright".

Name: User's full name. For example, Jane Doe.

Password: User password. Depending on the company setting, passwords must be at least 4 to 10 characters. No special characters, numbers, or capital letters required.

 

Depending on the module settings for you company, if you reset another user's password, that user may be required to change their password upon their next successful login.

When a new user is created, they will be required to change their password the first time they login.

 

Confirm Password Change: When changing a user's password, enter the new password a second time to confirm.

Password Expiration Days: If you want your users to change their passwords at regular intervals, type the number of days until the password expires in this field. The default is 0 for no expiration.

Set User to Inactive: This field is an optional module and may not appear on your screen. Enter a date in which you would like the user's status set to inactive.

Organization: Select from the drop down list of available organizations.

Phone: Users phone number.

Fax: Users fax number.

Email Address: Users complete email address. For example, jdoe@companyname.com.

Email Task Daily: If checked, indicates whether to send the user a daily email with a list of scheduled tasks.

Access to Mobile BuildPro: Activates a hyperlink on the home page to allow the user to download the Tablet PC and Mobile version of BuildPro.

Email PO Submit CC’s: If checked, indicates that the user receives email notification when a purchase order is submitted.

Email PO Received CC’s: If checked, indicates the user receives email notification when a purchase order has been received.

Email EPO Ready: If checked, indicates the user receives email notification when an EPO is marked ready.

Autopay Approval Required: If checked, the user may mark tasks complete but these tasks will not be exported to the accounting system for payment automatically. The tasks must first be approved by a manager for payment approval to be exported.

EPO Authority Amount:  The dollar amount or threshold that the user can enter without needing approval. Blank indicates no limit and $0 would mean that all EPO's must be approved.

Warning / Locked:  This determines whether the user gets a soft warning when going over the limit of an EPO. Warning means the user will only get the soft warning and the user will be allowed to create and submit the EPO. Locked means that the user can create the EPO but it will need approval before submitting to the supplier/vendor.

MPO Authority Amount:  The amount in which the user is allowed to receive over the original amount of the MPO. Receiving more than this amount will require approval before the task is exported to the accounting system.

MPO Authority Percent:  The percentage in which the use is allowed to receive over the original amount of the MPO. Receiving more than this amount will require approval before the task is exported to the accounting system. When used with the MPO Authority Amount, BuildPro will use the higher of the two when determining if an MPO needs approval or not.

Saturday Schedule: Used as the default when this user is creating a job manually.

Sunday Schedule: Used as the default when this user is creating a job manually.

International Weather: If checked, tells the system to display weather from the country selected from the drop-down list.

Time Zone: Select the appropriate time zone for the user from the drop-down list.

User Status: Options are Active and Disabled. Default is Active. Change the status to Disabled to prevent a user from logging into BuildPro. You cannot delete a user, so you must disable the user instead.

Address

Address: Users Street Address if different from the user’s organization’s address.

City: Users City if different from the user’s organization’s address.

State: Users State if different from the user’s organization’s address.

Postal Code: Users Zip Code if different from the user’s organization’s address.

PDA Profile Assigned to this User: Click the Add PDA Profile link to add a profile for this user so they can use BuildPro from their Nextel phone or their hand-help computers.

Roles Assigned to User: If, after viewing the roles assigned to the user, you want to add or remove a role, click the Add or Remove Roles link to go to the User Role Detail screen.

Alternate Organizations: If you want to assign the user to another organization, click the Add or Remove Alternate Organizations link. This section only appears after roles have been assigned to the user.

 

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