Dale is the right choice here:
Expire?
Extend?
Limit?
And is the Period really Days or is it in minutes, or hours?
JOhn :}
At 03:06 PM 8/3/1998 -0500, you wrote:
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: emerald-request@iea-software.com
>> [mailto:emerald-request@iea-software.com]On Behalf Of Alan D. Criado
>> Sent: Monday, August 03, 1998 2:58 PM
>> To: emerald@iea-software.com
>> Subject: Grace Period
>>
>>
>>
>> Hello Dale.
>>
>> I'm using Emerald 2.2.38.
>>
>> I have most of my accounts expiring on the 1st of the month. I wanted to
>> build into emerald a seven day grace period for the customers to
>> be able to
>> get their checks in on time. For example:
>>
>> User account due to expire: 9/1/98
>> Emerald actually stops authenticating seven days later: 9/8/98
>>
>> I went into Client Configuration (with the Emerald admin, ver. 2.2.31) and
>> put "7" in DEFAULT EXTEND. My understanding is that it will extend ALL
>> accounts 7 days past their expiration date. Everyone's accounts who were
>> due to expire on the 1st of this month was stopped by Emerald, instead of
>> extending them the 7 days.
>
>This will work on all new accounts, but you will need to run a script to
>change the extend field on the current accounts if you want to apply it to
>them as well.
>
>>
>> I guess I must have misunderstood how this works.
>>
>> I would appreciate your help.
>>
>> Thank you.
>>
>> Alan D. Criado
>>
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