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Working with the Personal Profile Menu

The Person Profile contains information about the user that is logged into Sinai Central. It is REQUIRED that you complete your CONTACT INFO and ADDRESSES portion of the profile. Other portions of the profile are available for further editing, review, and changing preferences. This folder contains an overview of all of the options available in the menu.

Changing Your Contact Info
Details like your box number, e-mail address, and phone number(s) are stored in this section of the Personal Profile. It is REQUIRED that this information is completed so that you are able to complete requisitions.
Changing Your Addresses
This information is REQUIRED for the creation of purchase orders on Sinai Central.
Turning on Notifications
Using the Preferences | Notifications tool, you enable a critical function of Sinai Central, sending notifications to a selected email address.
Personal Profile > Public Info
The information available to other users on the intranet such as your contact info and E-mail address are viewable from this menu item. Move your cursor around the table shown below for more information.
Personal Profile > Public Info Edit
This menu option allows you to add a title, middle initial, and/or degree suffix to your name. Portions of this may be populated already from your Human Resource record.
Personal Profile > Private Info
Your private info is not viewable by departmental or finance administrators. Making sure that this information is correct to avoid problematic situations. For example, if your Social Security Number is not matching what is on record, it may trigger certain compensation issues - causing a delay in pay.
Personal Profile > Appointments
This menu item displays information that has been passed to Sinai Central by your Human Resources records. Move your cursor across the image for more details.
Personal Profile > Roles
This menu item displays the different roles that are assigned to the user on Sinai Central.
Personal Profile > Admin
This menu item displays employees assigned the role of Administrator for Sinai Central in your Department.
Personal Profile > Account
This menu item displays your user login account information. From here you can track failed login attempts and the number of logins made with this account.
Changing Your Login
Having problems remembering your password or username that you use to login to Sinai Central? Use these menu items to adjust your details as needed.
Changing the Layout (viewlet)
Open this short demonstration to see how to change your layout and the information displayed on Sinai Central.
Person Profile > Session Timeout
With this menu item, you can adjust how long your session will remained logged in during inactivity. The amount of time set by default is 15 minutes.
Upload a Picture
This tool allows you to upload your picture into the Sinai Central directory.
Announcements
This tool will allow you to review past announcements and change their visibility in your annoucements lists.
Agreements
Use this selection to review the electronic agreements made during your first login into portions of Sinai Central.
Personal Profile > GL Access
Depending on the rights and roles associated with funds, you may be able to view their corresponding reports.
Changing the Attention line on a Purchase Order
Users can have purchases forwarded to a responsible person. You will want to do this based on your availability for receiving packages.
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