Who is this article for?

Admins, Module Developers and advanced Users configuring and testing new projects or changes.

Administrative access and area access are required for testing.

In the Login Page Preferences screen, accessible from the Area Tools menu, you can:

• Enter messages to be displayed to users. Any messages created after the last time a user logged on will be automatically displayed to them the next time they log on.
• Block user access to your area by specifying a scheduled downtime. This is useful during major application changes or other planned outages. Use the hover help in the screen for instructions on what time zone to use for your downtime.  Add &admin=Y to the end of the URL to bypass downtime restrictions and complete necessary maintenance. Note: Downtime will not logout users already in the system. 
• Require that users specify a reporting authority to restrict access to when they log in. This is useful if your organization has multiple sites, for example, and users only ever want to see information about a specific site during a session.

When you allow users to specify reporting authorities in the login screen, those authorities you select to include appear in a pop-up after the user has authenticated:

If Require Login Selection is unchecked, the user can select - None - to log on with access to all authorities in their profile. If Require Login Selection is checked and only one authority is available, we will automatically select it for them and bypass the pop-up entirely.

Select reporting authority at login
This attribute is not currently supported by the Single Sign-On (SSO) functionality or mobile.