User Accounts
The database's interface is not a publicly accessible website - a user account is required, even if the intention is only to view existing records without making any changes to them.
To request a new user account, please email the admin team at [email protected], and provide the following information:
- your email address
- a display name (generally this should be 'FIRSTNAME LASTNAME', but we are happy to accommodate alternatives to 'FIRSTNAME' such as middle names, preferred shortened names or nicknames)
Please note that we do not allow multiple user accounts for a single person. Please also be aware that both your email address and display name will be viewable by all other database users.
Once the team has received this information, your account will be set up for you with a temporary password, and you will receive an email (at the address you specified in your request) inviting you to change this password to one of your own choosing. You do not need to know the temporary password in order change it, so please go ahead and do that as soon as possible. Once this is done, you will be able to access the interface by browsing to https://apa.dunedb.org, pressing the blue Login or Sign Up button, and entering your email address and password at the prompt.
Once you are able to access the database interface, you may view your account details at any time by clicking the Account button in the top-right corner of any page.
The interface uses a system of permissions to fine-tune exactly what each user is allowed to do. However, instead of manually assigning specific permissions to each user, certain sets of permissions are grouped into roles, and each user is then assigned a certain role that grants them the associated permissions. Please note that each user may only have one role assigned to them at a time. The table below shows the available roles and permissions:
If a user attempts to access a page or activity in the interface without having the required permission to do so, a message will be displayed indicating as such. If you feel that you have been assigned the wrong role (for example, if you consistently encounter 'incorrect permissions' messages), please email the admin team at [email protected] and we will investigate.