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User Types Configuration
To setup a user type, go to the Admin Options menu and hover over Users
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Types.
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Create a New User Type
The User Type Administration tool opens.
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The list of existing
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User Types will appear.
To add a user type, click on the
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Create New User Type In this example, we are creating a user type of Public Parker.
Enter the Type Name and set the
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Grouping to Public, we also have the ability to toggle if the user type is select able upon registration to your users by clicking Visible to Users as well as the number of Extra Active Vehicles that user can have. By default users can have a single vehicle at a time unless this field is specified.
Next you may scroll to choose allowed payment types for this User Type.
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Extend Info is the internal system master user types. There are four categories. |
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Now when you look at the list of user type, notice Public Parker is now one of the user types.
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Apply User Type to User
Applying a User Type to a user can be done when the user account is created. It can also be changed at any time in the future.
In the user profile, click in the field labeled Select User Type to display the pick list where you can choose Public Parker.
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The user profile will now look like the following:
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User Types in Searches
User Type can be used in search criteria as well. In the user search tool select Public Parker with no other search parameters set,
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You will now see
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the elleb user in the returned search results simply based on the user type.
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Configure Access to Lots
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with User Types
In Lot Administration, the user type can be applied to provide or restrict access by user type.
In the General Tab, you can select what users have access to the lot in question by selecting the user types you wish to allow access to in the Lot Types section.
Under User Type Lot, select the user types you wish to have park in this lot. In our example, we are choosing Full Time Student, Part Time Student and our recently created Public Parker.
The scenario for this lot is that we will allow students as well as Public Parkers to purchase permits in this lot but not Staff/Faculty users.
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When looking at the list of lots in Lot Administration, you can see what user types a lot is configured for by clicking on Show/Hide Lot User Types.
In the example below Red Staff Lot is restricted to Full Time and Part Time Staff whereas Red Student Lot is accessible to both Full and Part Time Students as well as Public Parkers.
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By adding user type to lots the user side will appear as follows. In this example we are logged on as
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Joseph Callaghan.
When you go into the process of purchasing a permit, the system will only display lots that are configured for that user type.
In this example we see our
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Standard Permit Lot and Text2Park only.
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