Admin Rights on Laptops

Data collectors need admin rights on the laptops. Usually all collectors at a site are set up as admins during Laptop Setup.

Adding admin rights

Anyone who is already an admin can set up another collector as an admin.

1. Click on start menu -> settings -> control panel -> user accounts
   • if you are not an admin you will get a message telling you so; get another collector at your site to log in and set you up
2. click the Add button
3. click the Browse button
4. type the user id of the non-admin collector into the "enter the object name..." box and click "check names"
   • the name should be resolved, if it does, click OK
5. click Next >
6. click the radio button for "Other:" and make sure the dropdown says Administrators
7. click Finish

Why collectors need admin rights

• admin rights are required to view and make changes to many settings; to avoid having collectors off-line while we make our way out to sites we need to be able to walk collectors through these over the phone since we don't have remote control access to the laptops
• when the database exits irregularly when one collector is logged in, and then a second collector who is not an admin logs in and tries to use the software they get an error that the database is read-only; making the second collector an admin fixes this.