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Administration Guide

Account creation

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Account creation

  1. A guest sees a welcome screen with instructions supplied by the administrator.
  2. The guest clicks Start in the welcome screen.
  3. A screen opens with a form. Guests must enter their e-mail address, but the other information may be entered upon their arrival or later, when they activate their account.

    Parameter

    Description

    E-mail

    The guest’s e-mail address. This becomes the guest's user name for logging on to the network. It is also used to email credentials if desired. Required.

    Account Start Date

    In Kiosk mode, the date and time cannot be changed. The account end date is determined by the duration entered in the kiosk template specified in the kiosk administrator profile. Accounts will never remain active beyond 11:59 PM each day.

    If no duration is specified in the template of if the duration extends beyond midnight, the account will expire at 11:59 PM on the current day.

    If the duration ends before midnight, the account will expire at the specified time.

    Account End Date

    Additional Account
    Information

    Guests enter Additional Account Information to create an account. The asterisk (*) indicates required fields. Note that the fields that appear in this screen were predefined in the template.

    Mobile Number
    Mobile Provider

    If you intend to allow guests to send themselves an SMS message with their login credentials, these two fields must appear on the Kiosk window.

  4. The guest clicks Apply, which opens an account details screen containing the guest's e-mail and a generated password. Depending on the configuration of the template used to create the account, guests can print out their credentials so they have password available when they log in later, they can email credentials to themselves or they can send an SMS message to their mobile telephones.
  5. Click Finish.

Account creation

  1. A guest sees a welcome screen with instructions supplied by the administrator.
  2. The guest clicks Start in the welcome screen.
  3. A screen opens with a form. Guests must enter their e-mail address, but the other information may be entered upon their arrival or later, when they activate their account.

    Parameter

    Description

    E-mail

    The guest’s e-mail address. This becomes the guest's user name for logging on to the network. It is also used to email credentials if desired. Required.

    Account Start Date

    In Kiosk mode, the date and time cannot be changed. The account end date is determined by the duration entered in the kiosk template specified in the kiosk administrator profile. Accounts will never remain active beyond 11:59 PM each day.

    If no duration is specified in the template of if the duration extends beyond midnight, the account will expire at 11:59 PM on the current day.

    If the duration ends before midnight, the account will expire at the specified time.

    Account End Date

    Additional Account
    Information

    Guests enter Additional Account Information to create an account. The asterisk (*) indicates required fields. Note that the fields that appear in this screen were predefined in the template.

    Mobile Number
    Mobile Provider

    If you intend to allow guests to send themselves an SMS message with their login credentials, these two fields must appear on the Kiosk window.

  4. The guest clicks Apply, which opens an account details screen containing the guest's e-mail and a generated password. Depending on the configuration of the template used to create the account, guests can print out their credentials so they have password available when they log in later, they can email credentials to themselves or they can send an SMS message to their mobile telephones.
  5. Click Finish.