Set the Current User dialog box

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Set the Current User dialog box

Use this dialog box to enter your login information. This is data is used by Project Center to access and display project information specific to you each time you log in.

Contact Information tab

E-mail Address

Project Center validates your user license through the Windows domain and pre-populates your email address automatically through Active Directory when you first log in.

You can edit your email address if the Only Administrators Can Edit Internal User Email Addresses checkbox is cleared in the General tab of the Project Center Administration Activity Center Servers tab.

First/Last Name

Enter your first and last name.

Disciplines

Click to open the Choose Disciplines dialog box to apply disciplines to yourself.

Job Title

Enter your job title.

Department

Enter the name of your department.

Roles

Click to open the Choose Roles dialog box to assign the roles you perform.

Culture

Click to open the Select a Culture dialog box to set the language for any notifications that are sent to you that are not project-specific, such as Info Exchange account notifications and password reset instructions.

Company

Company

Click to open the Choose Company dialog box to select your company.

Edit

Click to open the Modify Company dialog box to view the listed company’s information.

Office Location

Click the drop-down list to select your office location.

Numbers

Work/Mobile/Home/Fax

Enter your work, mobile, home, and fax numbers.

 

Show in Contact Lists

Mark this checkbox to list yourself in contact dialog boxes and contact lists throughout Project Center. All users will be able to see you.

If this checkbox is cleared, the following occurs:

Content Administrators and Global Administrators will still have full access, but for Professional users:

You will still appear in Project Manager, Principal in Charge, and Main Contact fields and columns in projects.

You will still appear in the Project Team activity center.

You will appear in Main Contact fields in company dialog boxes..

You will still appear in Send To/From/To/ Forwarded to/Due Back from/etc. fields for project items throughout Project Center.

You will not appear in the Contacts tab of the Contact Directory.

You will not appear in Browse Company Contacts dialog box from the Contact Directory.

You will not appear in the Select Project Team Members from Companies dialog box or the Choose New Team Members from Global Contact List dialog box.

You will not appear in the Choose Project Team Members dialog box or the Choose a Project Team Member dialog box in the All Contacts filter list.

Status

  • Select Active if you are an active Project Center user.

  • Select Inactive to inactivate yourself. Inactive users cannot log into Info Exchange, and do not appear in project teams. If the users are reactivated, they will reappear in project team lists.

Source

Select whether you were added Manually or from the Microsoft Exchange Global Address List.

If the source is the Global Address List, the fields in this dialog box are read-only and cannot be edited.

Address

Use Office Address

Mark this checkbox to use the information from the office selected in the Office Location field.

Copy

Click to copy the information in the address fields to the clipboard.

Map It

Click to open the address in Google Maps.

Address

Enter your address.

City

Enter your city.

State/Province

Enter your state/province.

Zip/Postal Code

Enter your zip code.

Country

Enter your country.

Address Type

Click to open the Choose Address Type dialog box to choose the location’s type.

 

Custom Fields tab

This tab will appear if there is a custom field layout defined for contacts. This tab lists any additional fields that were created for the custom layout.

 

Project Assignments tab

This tab lists all of the projects on which you are a team member.

Add to Other Projects

Click to open the Select a Project dialog box to add yourself as a team member to other Project Center projects.

Remove from Project

Click to remove yourself as a team member from the selected project.

 

Change Log tab

This tab lists all changes made to your information regardless of the project.

 

To access this dialog box

This dialog appears only when you log in to Project Center for the first time.