User

Displays the name of the selected user.

Translator

Select Yes to set the user as a translator.

As translator the user is allowed to overwrite custom (user-defined) translations.

User-defined translations get status ‘2’ in the application.

Typically, when importing a new language file, user-defined translations remain unaffected. However, when importing a language file as ‘translator’, the user-defined fields are overwritten by the translations in the language file.

Language

Select a language for the user.

Theme

Select a theme for the user.

The following themes are available in Planon:

Use 24-hour notation

Select Yes to set the 24 - hour clock in the user’s application.

Displayed unit of length

Select a unit of length. The available options are meters and feet.

Reply email address

Select an email address for email correspondence. You can only select a single email address.

Sender’s email address

Select an email address from the list to be added as a sender’s email address.

Contact's email address

Select or add an email address that must be used as the user's Exchange email address. This field is used by the Connect for Outlook feature in order to link the Outlook user to a user account in Planon.

Bcc email address

Select an email address to be added as a Bcc email address.

Field name size (in pixels)

Specify the field name size. By default, a field name size of 200 pixels is specified.

Show labels of toolbar buttons

Select Yes to display the labels of toolbar buttons.

Autoselect first item in list?

Select Yes to automatically highlight and select the first item in the elements list.

Anonymized?

This field indicates if the user's data have been anonymized. Anonymization is related to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) functionality in Planon.

Alternative e-mail addresses for Exchange

Displays the alternative e-mail addresses linked to the user.

Keep session alive?

Set this field to Yes if you want to keep the application open to its user. The user in question will not be logged out of the application and will be able to continue work even if the general setting on Keeping sessions alive is switched off.

If it is set to No, the application will behave according to the Web application settings in System Settings.

Enable additional accessibility support?

When enabled (Yes) this field will add tab focus and tab index to disabled buttons in the Web client.

These will allow for easier navigation of the web client for visually impaired users (for example by using screen reading software).

When the setting is disabled (No), the regular power user focus behavior will apply.

Note that this setting requires a log out/log in to apply changes.

Show menu when hovering over level

When enabled (Yes), this field ensures that the steps under a level are displayed when hovering over a level.

If you add this field to the My Account definition, users can determine this setting for themselves.

Block AppSuite user & retract all data from device?

Use this field to block an engineer's access to AppSuite and retract all data from the mobile device. The data is sent to the back-office. Jobs will later be reassigned to the field engineer. This setting is useful for re-installing the app without losing the data on the device or when switching between MDM tools.

Enable work assignment 'envelopes'?

Select Yes in this field to enable the 'mobile envelopes' functionality for the selected user. This setting will then be applied to send work assignments to the PMFS Live app . Enabling the 'mobile envelopes' functionality automatically means that work assignments are no longer sent to Planon AppSuite, for the selected user(s). By default, this field is set to No.