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Create - Access account

Path to function: Accounts > Create > Access account

Unlike personal accounts, access accounts can be shared, but are restricted by location. As with a personal account there is a four-tab wizard.

Login

First you set the username, password and expiry date. The username is limited to English characters, sorry. This is a shared account and might even have its details posted on a wall, so giving it a username and password that are easy to type is a common approach and quite OK (there is another limitation on the account).

Login tab of a wizard titled 'Create a new access account under NHS England'. There is a text field, 'Choose a username', in which the account prefix is already loaded. This is followed by a date field labeled 'Expires on', and text fields labeled 'Password' and 'Confirm password'. At the bottom of the screen are buttons marked 'Next' and 'Cancel'.
Permissions

These are the IP addresses where the account will work. You can use wildcards and hostnames for wider ranges, but you must list the external IP address - any starting with 10. or 192. are internal addresses and will not work. There are many online resources that will display your IP address for you.

Permissions tab of the 'Create a new access account' wizard. It contains a large text field labeled 'Authorized addresses', in which two addresses have been typed on separate lines. At the bottom of the screen are buttons labeled 'Next', 'Previous' and 'Cancel'.

Examples:

TEXT 
88.104.35-37.*
*.holbycity.nhs.net
121.12.*
100.95.12.22
Account

The title of the account so you can easily tell access accounts apart. The department and address fields will inherit from your administrator account but can be changed.

Account tab of the 'Create a new access account' wizard. It contains three text fields - 'Title', 'Department (optional)' and 'Postal address (optional)'. At the bottom of the screen are buttons labeled 'Next', 'Previous' and 'Cancel'.
Permission sets

Which permission sets should be assigned to the account. Default permission sets are already selected.

'Permission sets' tab of the 'Create a new access account' wizard. Following the text 'Choose the permission sets to assign to this account' are two check boxes labeled with the names of permission sets. Both permission sets are marked as default and are ticked. At the bottom of the window are buttons labeled 'Create account', 'Previous' and 'Cancel'.

See also:

How to enter IP ranges when IT tells you something weird

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