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See the Password resetting configuration article to learn about password configuration settings.

In SimpleOne, the password resetting process runs automatically, not involving agents. A newly added user can set password via specific link from the email notification. If a user forgot the password, it can be reset via portal and email.

Setting a password


After adding a new user, they will receive a notification via email.

  1. Click on the link in the email message. You will be redirected to the New Password page.
  2. Enter a new password and click Confirm. You will be redirected to the Login page.
  3. Enter your login and password and click Log in.

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Resetting a password


Users can reset their account passwords if necessary. To perform this, navigate to the Reset Password page up from the login page using the Forgot Password link.

How to reset a password

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After that, a user should specify his account email and submit a form. In some seconds, he will receive an email that will help to reset a password.

  1. On the Login page, click the Forgot password? link. You can change the link text in the source message.
  2. Enter your email.
  3. Click Submit

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4. After that, you will receive a message containing a link for resetting a password. The link will redirect you to the New Password page where you can set up a new password.

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The password reset email contains a link looking like:

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<a href="{instance.uri.without.protocolscheme}/new-password/{userpassword.reset.token}">Your new password</a>

The user password.reset.token value should be specified in the Password Reset Token field for the user who retrieved a password.

After clicking on a password reset link, a user is redirected to a page where he can set up a new password.

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After setting up

5. Specify a new password

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and click Confirm.

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 You will be redirected to the

login page where you can reset the Password Reset Token parameter value for this user.

Login page.

6. Enter you login and password and click Log in.

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Note

A user with an LDAP server the LDAP Server or Source fields specified will not be able to retrieve a password.

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Password resetting configuration

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In this section, you can find instructions and recommendations dedicated to the configuration of the various aspects of password resetting functionality in your instance.

To display a password retrieval link on the agent interface login page, please do the following:

To display the password retrieval link on the portal login page, please complete the steps below:

  1. Set the simple.passwordreset.enabled system property value to 'true'.
  2. Navigate to the specified portal record (Portal Structure → Portals).
  3. Navigate to the login page (specified in the Login page field of the portal record).
  4. Scroll down to the Related Lists area and navigate to the related page container.
  5. After this, scroll down again to the Related Lists area and navigate to related page rows.
  6. When you are on the page row, scroll down again to the Related Lists area and navigate to related page columns.
  7. After this, scroll down to the Related Lists area and navigate to related widget instances.
  8. Start editing the Schema Option Values value:
    1. Specify the "true" value for the password reset enabled option.

Changing the letter prerequisites

To change the password retrieval letter subject and/or body, do the following:

Changing the link text

To change the Forgot Password link text, you need to edit relevant values in Source Messages and Messages dictionaries. Please complete the steps below for changing this message:

  1. Navigate to System Localization → Source Message.
  2. Open a search bar using a magnifier icon on the top of the title area.
  3. Find a message containing the desired text using this search bar.
  4. Navigate to the Messages tab and click on the record related to this.

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5. Click on the ID in the right column to navigate into the record. If it's not displayed, then put it on the list using the Personal list layout functionality.

6. Edit the message for every language you need. You can also use inline-edit functionality to edit messages. For this:

  • Double-click on the value in the Translation column.
  • Enter a new value.
  • Click the check icon.

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Warning

Please avoid changing the Source Message value when editing messages; this value is used to displaying the relevant Message value.

In this section, you can find instructions and recommendations dedicated to the configuration of the various aspects of password resetting functionality in your instance.

Displaying a password retrieval link

To display a password retrieval link on the agent interface login page, please do the following:

To display the password retrieval link on the portal login page, please complete the steps below:

  1. Set the simple.passwordreset.enabled system property value to 'true'.
  2. Navigate to the specified portal record (Portal Structure → Portals).
  3. Navigate to the login page (specified in the Login page field of the portal record).
  4. Scroll down to the Related Lists area and navigate to the related page container.
  5. After this, scroll down again to the Related Lists area and navigate to related page rows.
  6. When you are on the page row, scroll down again to the Related Lists area and navigate to related page columns.
  7. After this, scroll down to the Related Lists area and navigate to related widget instances.
  8. Start editing the Schema Option Values value:
    1. Specify the "true" value for the password reset enabled option.

Changing the letter prerequisites

To change the password retrieval letter subject and/or body, do the following:

Changing the link text

To change the Forgot Password link text, you need to edit relevant values in Source Messages and Messages dictionaries. Please complete the steps below for changing this message:

  1. Navigate to System Localization → Source Message.
  2. Open a search bar using a magnifier icon on the top of the title area.
  3. Find a message containing the desired text using this search bar.
  4. Navigate to the Messages tab and click on the record related to this.

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5. Click on the ID in the right column to navigate into the record. If it's not displayed, then put it on the list using the Personal list layout functionality.

6. Edit the message for every language you need. You can also use inline-edit functionality to edit messages. For this:

  • Double-click on the value in the Translation column.
  • Enter a new value.
  • Click the check icon.

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Warning

Please avoid changing the Source Message value when editing messages; this value is used to displaying the relevant Message value.


Changing a password


You can change your or other user's password via agent interface in the User table.

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Role required: admin, security_admin or user_manager.

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User with the user_manager role must belong to the same company as the user for whom they change the password.

Users without these roles cannot change other user's passwords, i.e., they can edit the Password field only in their user record.

To edit a user record, perform the following steps:

  1. Navigate to User Administration → Users.
  2. Find and open the record you need using the Condition Builder or the list search boxes.
  3. Enter a new password into the Password field.
  4. Click Save or Save and Exit to apply changes.

When a user changes another user's password, an email notification is sent to the user whose password has been changed.

See the Available Notifications article to learn more.

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