Manage Users

Only Service Engineers and Administrators have permission to add, edit, or delete permissions for Technicians and other users at their level.

User roles define user access and rights to perform certain tasks.

Role

Description

Service

An Illumina Field Service Engineer who performs initial installation and system setup (including creation of the Administrator). Also troubleshoots, performs server repair, sets up and changes configuration settings, and provides ongoing software support.

Administrator

A Laboratory Administrator who sets up and maintains configuration settings, administrates users, defines email subscribers list, changes shared folder password, and reboots and shuts down the server.

Technician

A Laboratory Technician who views system status and alerts.

At initial installation, an Illumina Field Service Engineer adds the Administrator user.

Add a user as follows.

1. From the User Management screen, select Add New User.

All fields are required.

2. Enter the user name. Requirements are as follows.
• Lowercase alphanumeric (a–z, and 0–9), underscore (_), and hyphen (-) characters only.
• Must be 4–20 characters and contain at least one numerical character.
• The first character cannot be numerical.

The user name is not case-sensitive.

The VeriSeq NIPT Assay Software uses user names to identify the persons involved in the different aspects of assay processing and interactions with the VeriSeq NIPT Assay Software.

3. Enter the full name of the user. The full name is shown only in the user profile.
4. Enter and confirm the password.

Passwords must be 8–20 characters and contain at least one uppercase letter, one lowercase letter, and one numerical character.

5. Enter an email address for the user.

A unique email address is required for each user.

6. Select the desired user role from the drop-down list.
7. Select the Active box to activate the user immediately or deselect the box to activate the user later (ie, after training).
8. Select Save twice to save and confirm changes.

The new user now appears on the User Management screen.

Edit user information as follows.

1. From the User Management screen, select the user name.
2. Edit the information for the user, and then select Save.
3. Select Save again to confirm changes.

The changes to the user now appear on the User Management screen.

Deactivate a user as follows.

1. From the User Management screen, select the user name.
2. Clear the Activate checkbox, and then select Save.
3. On the confirmation message, select Save.

The user status changes to Disabled in the User Management screen.