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Personalizing Your Account

In the Title Area, click the Account link to personalize your application settings, change your user name and password, and change your security questions and answers.

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Modifying Your Application Settings

Use the Application Settings section to change your e-mail address, if granted permission by the administrator.

Follow these steps to modify your application settings:

  1. In the Title Area, click the Drop-down Arrow to the right your name, and then click the Account link. The Account page displays.

  2. Click the Expand button to expand the Application Settings section.

  3. Modify your e-mail address, if necessary.

Your administrator must grant you permission to change your Alio Vendor Portal e-mail address. If permission is not granted, this field is protected.

  1. Click the button to save your application settings.

  2. When prompted, enter your current password.

  3. Click the button.

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Modifying Your User Account

Follow these steps to change your user name and/or password. This section displays only if you created a unique username and password when creating your Alio Vendor Portal account.

Important Note to Alio Vendor Portal Administrators: The User Account section does not display if your organization is using LDAP authentication. However, if your organization is using LDAP authentication and allows employees assigned a specific employment status in Alio to access Alio Vendor Portal using their Alio Vendor Portal authentication (e.g., a terminated or inactive employee), this section will display if your employment status defined in Alio matches an employment status with permission to use your Vendor Portal user name and password to access Alio Vendor Portal.

  1. In the Title Area, click the Drop-down Arrow to the right your name, and then click the Account link. The Account page displays.

  2. Click the Expand button to expand the User Account section.

  3. To change your user name:

  1. To change your password:

  1. Click the button to save your new user name and/or password.

  2. When prompted, enter your current password.

  3. Click the button.

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Modifying Your Security Questions

You can modify the personal questions that may display when requesting your user name or resetting your password.  Examples of personal questions include your favorite hobby, mother's maiden name, the name of the college from which you graduated, and so on. You can also modify the answers to these questions.

Answers to security questions are masked for security purposes. The next time the Account page is accessed the message "Saved Value Not Displayed" is displayed in the Answer field for each security question.

Important Note the Vendor Portal Administrators: If your organization is using LDAP authentication and allows employees assigned a specific employment status in Alio to access Alio Vendor Portal using their Alio Vendor Portal authentication (e.g., a terminated or inactive employee), this section will display if your employment status defined in Alio matches an employment status with permission to use your Vendor Portal user name and password to access Alio Vendor Portal.

Security questions and answers are disabled for administrative users.

Follow these steps to change a security question and/or answer:

  1. In the Title Area, click the Drop-down Arrow to the right your name, and then click the Account link. The Account page displays.

  2. Click the Expand button to expand the Security Questions section.

  3. To change a security question:

  1. To change an answer to a security question, type the new answer.

  1. Click the button to save your new security question and/or answer.

  2. When prompted, enter your current password.

  3. Click the button.

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