When I first started creating users in Maximo 7, I quickly realized that I needed a users email address in order for me to save the record. Out of the box, Maximo required that I set the password and email it to the user. Of course I had to configure the SMTP in Maximo in order to do this. So that got me thinking, what if I didn’t want to email the passwords to the user? or if they didn’t even own an email address? or if I didn’t have an SMTP server? How would I be able to create users? Here’s how…
First, go into the Users module. Click on Select Action -> Security Controls. There you will find ‘Automatic Password Generation’. The default is set to: “Always E-mail Generated Passwords to Users (Never Display On Screen)”, which requires an email address to be populated. Select the other option like so:
Automatic Password Generation
Now create a new user and set the users password. You should now be able to uncheck “E-mail Password to User?”.
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