Changing personal properties

Your personal properties determine how you appear to other users in Project Portal, where you receive notifications, the groups you are a member of, and your logon credentials.

Note    You cannot change your personal properties in systems that use LDAP or Active Directory; your personal information is not managed in Project Portal.

To change your personal properties:

1. Click your user name in the upper left corner of the top pane. The Workspace User <YourUserName> page appears.
2. Click options or type values using the descriptions in the following table.
3. Click Save user.

Personal properties

Option	Description
Username	Your account name as created by a system administrator.
First names	Your first and middle names.
Last name	Your last name.
Address	Your postal address.
Email	Your email address.
Organization	Select a value from the list. Consult a system administrator if your organization is not listed.
Default group	Select your default user group. Note    Your default group does not influence the basic Project Portal functionality.
Password	Your logon password. Confirm the password in Again. Note     You do not have to type the password if you are changing other properties, for example, your email address. The Password fields are used for changing the password only. Project Portal passwords are case-sensitive. Your password is the same in all workspaces. Passwords must: Be at least 8 characters Contain letters (a to z excluding accented letters) Contain at least one non-letter character that is not at the beginning or end Cannot contain the user name, first name, last name, or email address Cannot contain more than two consecutive characters in alphabetical order Cannot include the same character for one half or more of the total characters (for example, “p1a1s1s1” is not valid but “p1a1s1s1w” is valid)

When changing an existing password, Project Portal does some basic verification to ensure the quality of your password. The purpose of this is to ensure higher information security in your organization and to prevent possible attackers from guessing the most obvious of passwords.

The checks Project Portal makes are statistical in nature and examine the password character distributions. If a password is weak, Project Portal shows an error message and the password is not changed. This functionality does not check the old password. It only applies when passwords are changed or new ones created.