Managing My Settings

The My Settings component contains information about your user account. Information is grouped in two tabs, located on the left side of the component. To go to your My Settings component, select My Settings from the Actions menu on the Menu Bar.

The My Settings component opens on the User Information tab, which allows you to view, but not change the following user information for your user account:

• First Name

• Last Name

• Person ID

When the New User Help check box is selected, the system opens the Role-Based Workflows help topic when you click the Help button on the Menu Bar. This section of the help system provides an orientation to the system for specific roles. To enable this feature for your user account, select the New User Help check box, and click the Save button. To disable this feature, clear the check box, and click Save.

If the person record associated with your user account is set up to require an email address, the Email tab is displayed. Click the Email tab to view or change your email address. If the Email tab is not displayed and you want to enter your email address, contact your system administrator. For more information, see Changing Your Email Address. For the Email tab to be displayed for a user, an administrator must enter a value in the Address ID field and select the Default Address check box on the Person Summary component. See Maintaining Addresses for a Person for more information.

Generating a Secret Access Key

If your agency uses a claims-based provider for user authentication and also uses applications or third-party tools that use the OData protocol to retrieve and update system data through the business layer in AASHTOWare Project, the system will require that you provide a secret access key in addition to your password when you log on to the system. You can generate this secret access key on this component.

Follow these steps:

1. Select Set External Access Secret from the Actions menu on the component header.

The system displays the Set External Access Secret window.

2. Click in the Secret text field and type a word or combination of words, letters, or numbers that only you will know.

3. Click Save.

The system displays a confirmation that your secret access key was saved in the database.