Personalizing Your User Profile

This topic discusses features that allow you to personalize your user profile. In addition to the basic demographic data, you can customize the profile so that the application functions the way you like. Let's look beyond the basic demographic information in the General area and focus on Workspace Search, Time Zone, External Calendar URL, and Out of Office fields.

To personalize your user profile:

  1. On the ClientSpace menu bar, click the down arrow next to your username and select My Profile.

    The User Details form opens.

  2. Complete the form.

    Note: Some of these fields/modules may not be available for external users.

Action Center:

 

 

 

Modules

You can add modules to your modules bar to provide enhanced functionality and navigation.

You can also manage the order of modules that display in the modules bar. See User Modules.

 

Workspace Search

If your Home page contains the Workspace widget, you can set the default to Favorites or Recent Workspaces.

User Settings:

 

 

 

Enable Email for this account

Default is enabled. Enables email notifications to external email, such as Gmail or Outlook.

Note: Keep in mind that if you disable this option and your email is used on a ClientSpace email template as an ad-hoc email recipient, you will not receive the email.

 

Load Home Page by Default Default is enabled (selected).

 

Adjust for DLS Automatically adjusts your calendar events to take daylight savings (DLS) time into account when setting the event time.

 

Disable Original Value Popup

Displays only when "Revert to Original Value" functionality (that allows you to restore a previous value in an editable field by displaying a popup containing the original value) is enabled at the system level. Clicking the checkbox disables "Revert to Original Value" functionality at the user level.

 

Time Zone Select a time zone. Default is Eastern Standard Time.
 

Upload Email Attachments

Default is Yes. Determines if attachments can be uploaded when attaching Activities from the Email Add-In. See Creating Activities, Cases, Tasks, and Claim Notes from Outlook.

 

External Calendar URL

Can be set to use the ICS file location for an external calendar such as Exchange and Gmail. This exposes external calendar events on the ClientSpace calendar which allows you to combine your external calendar with your internal system calendar. You provide the URL to a shared calendar in this field. The external calendar events display as green and are not editable.

After you enter an external calendar URL in this field, you can click the Sync button (located on the right side of the External Calendar URL field) to send a request to connect to the external calendar and validate your settings.

See Adding external calendar events for more information about selecting a calendar.

 

Signature

Adds a custom signature message to Email Activities.

Use the rich text editor toolbar to make customizations according to your branding specifications:

 

Tips: 

  • When selecting the color picker tool to change the text color or text background, there is a limited palette of colors available. To achieve an exact color to match your branding, use an online color selector tool or a desktop image editor's color selector tool to get the hex color code. Then select the View HTML  option on the rich text editor toolbar, enter the hex color code and click Update to save the change:

Note: You can use the View HTML option to make other changes and apply other custom effects that are not available on the toolbar.

  • To add an image, such as a logo, drag and drop the image from your PC to the Signature field. Then, drag the corners of the image. (It will resize proportionally.)

  • Consider experimenting with adding a table with transparent borders and embedding an image (such as a logo) and any nearby text within its cells to hold those elements in place and control alignment and spacing between them as shown in the example below:

    Drag the cell borders of the table cells to adjust cell widths and achieve the desired spacing.

Out of Office:

 

 

 

Enable Out of Office

When you enable this option, you can:

  • Assign a Back Up User to receive your notifications for items such as cases and tasks while you are away.
  • Establish a Start Date and End Date for your out of office period.
  • Reassign your cases and tasks to the Back Up User while you are away.

     

    Note: Case and task reassignment requires your Global Admin to enable the Reassign During Out Of Office feature. This feature is an optional enhancement to the Enable Out of Office feature which can be set in the PEO Configuration. When enabled, in addition to the Back Up User receiving notifications of new cases and tasks, new cases are reassigned to them while you are away. If the assigned OOO backup user is also marked "out of office" or is expired, inactive, or lacks appropriate case type access, ClientSpace then evaluates Case Type default backup assignment settings to determine an appropriate reassignment path.

See Enabling Out of Office option.

Administrator Settings:

Note:  Only Global Admin users can maintain the Administrator Settings.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Global Admin

Select to establish the user with admin rights to ClientSpace.

 

Password Never Expires

Select this option to indicate that your Global Admin user password never expires. If you select this option, the system disregards the Password Reset password settings. If you do not select this option, the system uses the value in the Password Reset password settings to determine when your user password expires. See Configuring your ClientSpace authentication settings.

 

Change Password Next Login

Select this option to require the user to change their password on the next login.

 

Can Create Workspaces

Select this option to allow the user to create workspaces.

 

Send Escalation Email

Enables users to select whether to receive escalation notices for tasks in the system.

 

Send Account Info Email

When this field is selected, the user receives an email with their username and login instructions.

 

User Type

Auto-filled when using a Template User. 

 

Default Workspace

Available when User Type = External. Determines the workspace an external user will be directed to after logging in.

 

Date to Expire

Set a date to expire the user account.

 

Authentication Type

Auto-filled when using a Template User.

 

Domain

This field is available when Authentication Type = Active Directory. Select an Active Directory Domain for this user.

 

Reporting Profile

Auto-filled when using a Template User. Used for Business Intelligence reports. See Configuring Security in Business Intelligence Reporting.

 

Notes

Auto-filled when using a Template User.

Personalization:

 

 

 

Photo

If your Global Administrator has configured a setting to allow profile pictures, the Personalization fieldset is displayed. Global Administrators can add profile pictures.

 

Upload a profile picture in the Photo field by clicking the Upload New Photo button and then browsing to the image file on your computer or by dragging and dropping the image onto the Upload a Photo window. (Any size photo can be used. The system will scale the photo as necessary.) Once the photo is uploaded, drag the blue circle to capture the display area and click Save.

Profile pictures display next to the username in the upper right corner of the ClientSpace menu bar as shown in the example below:

Profile pictures also display when you click a User Information icon next to a User selection drop-down field:

Additional maintenance options:

  • Click Preview Current Photo to view the profile picture in the Document Previewer.

  • Click to Delete Current Photo to delete the profile picture.

Watch the video about "Out of Office" Notifications and Other User Profile Personalization Settings.