You can modify user passwords by changing the format, its length and specific requirements as needed by your organization.
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For example, you may require that passwords have both uppercase and lowercase characters, a number, special character, and a specific number for characters in length. |
To configure the format and requirements for a user’s password, complete the following:
- Open the Registry application from the AudienceView Desktop.
- Navigate to the following nodes:
- Registy::EN::Business Objects::TSuserBO::User::Password
- Registy::EN::Business Objects::TSuserBO::User::Confirm Password
- Registy::EN::Business Objects::TScustomerBO::User::Password
- Registy::EN::Business Objects::TScustomerBO::User::Confirm Password
- Set the password formatting requirements.
The Password nodes contain the following properties:
| Field |
Description |
| Default Value |
The initial value of the field, before the user makes any changes. |
| Label |
The name of the field as it displays to users. |
| List |
Not applicable for this category. |
| Maximum Length |
Maximum number of for the password. |
| Maximum Number of Values |
Not applicable for this category. |
| Minimum Length |
Minimum number of characters a password must include. AudienceView ships with a default length of seven characters. |
| Mode |
There are five options for mode, each with three possible settings. The mode options are:
- Readable: Identifies whether the field is visible. (The default setting is No.)
- Writeable: Identifies whether the field can be edited. (The default setting is Yes.)
- Unbound: Not applicable.
- Persistable: Identifies whether the field can be saved to the database or not.
- Optional: Identifies whether the field is optional or mandatory
- Masked: Not applicable for this category.
The three possible settings are:
- Default: The generally anticipated use of the field
- Yes: Field option is active (e.g. 'Optional' set to Yes indicates an optional field)
- No: Field option is active (e.g. 'Optional' set to No indicates a mandatory field)
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| Needs Digit |
0: Indicates that the password does not require a number.
1: Indicates that the password must contain a number. (The default setting is 1.) |
| Needs Lowercase |
0: Indicates that the password does not require lowercase letters.
1: Indicates that at least one letter included in the password must be lowercase. (The default setting is 1.) |
| Needs Symbol |
0: Indicates that the password does not require symbols.
1: Indicates that the password must contain at least one symbol (e.g. @, #, $, %, &). (The default setting is 1.) |
| Needs Uppercase |
0: Indicates that the password does not uppercase characters.
1: Indicates that at least one letter included in the password must be uppercase. (The default setting is 1.) |
- Click 'Apply'.
A window confirms that the application updated the Registry.
- Click 'OK'.