A short week!
Everyone likes a short week.
This week I mainly worked on one project. It's a banner password reset page.
First I'll give a little background on the situation.
Our Staff uses something called INB (Internet Native Banner) to track students, report grades, report attendance, bill students and more... It's used for just about everything related to a student.
It seems that we get multiple calls a week stating that someone had has been locked out of their account or forgot their password. Users will be locked out if they guess the wrong password too many times... A lot of time was being wasted reseting accounts and resetting passwords. What could be done?
My co worker created a function to reset the banner password when I passed it certain information. I created a Web Self Service, which uses a totally seperate password where users can log in and change their password. It resets the account if it's locked.
This will be a huge help for our department and a big help for the faculty that forget their passwords. With one click (well 2 now), users can quickly reset their banner password.
Much work needed to go into this package. It seemed simple, but you have to account for all kinds of errors.
It was a great project for a short week and should be moved to production sometime soon.
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