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Overview

Inactive User Management helps website user maintenance by a one-off or scheduled clearning up of dormant user accounts. These are users who have not logged into their accounts for a set period of time. An automated process initiates the deactivation process. To ensure only truly abandoned user accounts are deactivated, the user is emailed a first warning. They can keep their account active by clicking the 'keep me active' link in the email, If this is not done, after a set period, a reminder is sent. If there is no response to the second email within a set time, the user account is deactivated.


CMS administrators can set:

  • the inactive period (default: 365 days) before the first warning is sent

  • the number of days after the first warning to send the final warning

  • the number of hours the activation link to login in each warning email is valid

  • the number of days after the final warning to deactivate the account

  • the date to start the inactive user task and what time it will run daily. 


Deactivation of a user is considered permanently. The email address/user id remains in the system but permanent. This means the user cannot login to your website and will see this message. (NOTE - The user's account history will still be kept, and their account can be reactivated.)


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A user who has not logged into their account cannot be deactivated if they:

  • are the only approver on the customer account, or

  • has orders awaiting their approval. 

They will automatically be automatically added to the deactivation suspended list. You can leave the user in this status or flag them to be deactivated when the task is next run. However, deactivation will be suspended again if one of the two conditions still apply.

See: Manage Approver User Deactivation




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Set the system to auto-deactivate inactive user accounts.



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What deactivation settings can be configured?

CMS administrators can configure:

  • the inactive period (default: 365 days) before the first warning is sent
  • the number of days after the first warning to send the final warning
  • the number of hours the activation link to login in each warning email is valid
  • the number of days after the final warning to deactivate the account
  • the date to start the inactive user task and what time it will run daily. 


    Step-by-step guide

    Configure Inactive User Management

    1. Configure inactive user deactivation task settings

    Set when the warning emails and permanent deactivation are triggeredwill be trigger.


    1. In the CMS, go to SettingsSettingsFeature ManagementUserUser Accounts.

    2. Ensure User Accounts is enabled, then click Configure.

    3. Scroll down to Inactive User Management.


    4. Toggle ON Enable Inactive User Management. This enables the feature on your website.

    5. Inactive User Activation Link Expiry in Hours: number of hours after a warning email is sent before the link expires. Default: 48 hours

    6. Inactive Warning Email in Days: number of days a user has not logged in before first warning email is sent. Default: 365 days

    7. Inactive Reminder Email in Days: (if a user does not click on the 'remain active' link in first warning email or has not since logged into their account) number of days after first warning before final warning email is sent. Default: 60 days

    8. Deactivate Email in Days: (if a user does not click on activation link in final warning email or logs into their account) number of days after final warning email is sent for account to be deactivated. Default: 30 days

    9. Click Save. NOTE - If the task schedule has not been set, do that before saving.

    Configure Scheduled Task

    Set how often the task for this feature is

    2. Set schedule for daily task

    The scheduled task checks user records for inactive users, sends the warning emails, deactivates users, and adds inactive approvers who cannot be deleted onto the approver management list.

    Enter the date the daily task is to begin and the time each day it will run.

    1. Scroll down to Scheduled Task Settings


    2. Date- click icon to set date the task will first run

    3. Clock- click icon to set the time each day the task will run

    4. Click Save.

    3. Manage Inactive Approver Users (optional)

    Inactive users who failed to login within the set period or respond to the warning emails but are the an account's only approver on an account or have orders awaiting their approval cannot be automatically deactivated. Instead the system adds them to the Inactive Approver Users list with deactivation suspended. This means the user's account is still active and they can login to the website.

    You can manually flag such a user an approver on this list to be deactivated the next time the task is run. (However, they will only be deactivated if the conditions preventing deactivation no longer apply.)

      

    To view and manage edit inactive approver users found by the system:

    1. On the Inactive User Management page, scroll down to Approver User Management
    2. Click the Approver User Management button.

    3. All Click Search to find all inactive Approver Users who cannot be deactivated are listed here, initially with . Any new users on this list will have deactivation suspended.


    4. To switch to/from marking a user to be deactivated, toggle ON the user, then click Add to Reschedule List or Suspend Deactivation

      Here, the user has been rescheduled for deactivation.

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    Edit landing page and email templates

    The landing page after a 'remain active' link is clicked and the deactivation email messages can be edited. Just click on the button under each field to go directly to the template you want to edit.
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    Tip

    You can also access these templates via the navigation menu. 


    Additional Information

    To manually set a user to permanent deactivation, 


    If you want to prevent a user from logging onto the website, Tois different from disabling a user. 

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    Minimum Version Requirements


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    Prerequisites


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    Self Configurable


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    Business Function


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    BPD Only?


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    B2B/B2C/Both


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    Third Party Costs


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    n/a



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