Maintaining security permissions

User access to Synergetic is controlled by security permissions. The system administrator grants and restricts access to:

• Synergetic modules. For example, Students, Payroll, General Ledger.
• Programs within modules. For example, Pay Code Maintenance within the Payroll module.
• Tabs within programs. For example, the Salary tab of Payroll Maintenance.
• Actions within a tab. For example, access to medical incidents on the Medical tab of Student Maintenance.

You can administer security for individual users or for groups of users. Administration by groups allows you to:

• put users in functional areas
• give the whole group access to the Synergetic functions they need.

For example, reception staff, creditors, year level coordinators and teaching staff.
Synergetic is used in conjunction with SQL Server Management Studio to allow new users to access both Synergetic and its databases.

How to:

• Add new users to SQL Server. See Adding new users to SQL Server.
• Maintain security groups. See Creating and configuring new security groups.
• Add several users to a security group. See Adding multiple users to a security group.
• Add groups to a user's security groups. See Adding groups to user security groups.
• Reset another user's Synergetic password. See Resetting another user's Synergetic password.
• Change your Synergetic password. See Changing your password in the Introduction manual.

What you can do:

Also see:

• Tips about group/user security.
• Password policies.