Create login credentials for many employees at once

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To sign in, everyone needs an e-mail address as a username. An employee without a business address gets one the system builds — firstname.lastname@domain — and it exists only as a username; no mail arrives at it. This guide shows how to create such accounts for many people in one run. The action only creates accounts for people who have neither an e-mail nor an account; everyone else is skipped and left unchanged. Passwords are shown only once — at the end, in the window, as an Excel file and in a copy to your e-mail. For administrators and HR who may add employees.

Animated overview: filtering the employee list and starting the action, the domain and role step, the preview of every selected employee, the passwords on the result step, closing the window, and the two cases in which the action does not start — steps 1 to 6
The whole process in one place (it loops). Each section below explains one part.

1. Find the people and start the action

The employee list with More filters open at the Access section, the application access filter set to Does not have access to application, three ticked rows, the selection bar and the Mass actions menu with Create login credentials highlighted
① people without access · ② Search · ③ tick the rows · ④ Mass actions · ⑤ Create login credentials.

In the left menu, open the ADM tab (if the tab strip is shown) and select Employees. Then click More filters.

  1. In the Access section, set Application access filter to Does not have access to application. This step is optional — people who already have an e-mail or an account are skipped anyway — but it keeps the list to the people you actually mean. To narrow further, add a department or office filter.
  2. Click Search. The list now shows only the matching people.
  3. Tick the rows you want. The checkbox in the column header ticks every row on the current page.
  4. In the selection bar above the list, click Mass actions.
  5. Under Generate · evaluate, choose Create login credentials (Login for employees without an e-mail). The window opens on its first step, Setup.

2. Step 1 — the domain and the role

Step 1 Setup: the Domain field with the @ in front, the Role for new accounts list open with the system roles, the live preview of the first addresses, the count of who gets an account and the Next — preview button, with an example of an invalid domain below
① the domain, without @ · ② one role for all · ③ the addresses, live · ④ the count and Next — preview · ⑤ what are placeholder e-mails.
  1. In Domain, type only the domain — for example butchershop.com. The @ is already part of the field. Capital letters and spaces are corrected by themselves. The domain does not have to be real, because no mail is sent to these addresses. If it has no dot or starts with @, the field turns red and says so.
  2. In Role for new accounts, pick the role every account in this run gets. There is no pre-selected role on purpose. Only the system roles are offered, and the list can be searched. For a different role, run the action again for those people.
  3. As soon as the domain is valid, This is how the addresses will look shows the first three addresses. Letters are lower-cased, č, ć → c, š → s, ž → z, đ → d, dž → dz, and spaces, hyphens and apostrophes are dropped — Ana Marija Ivić-Perić becomes anamarija.ivicperic.
  4. The footer says how many of the selected get an account (12 of 15 selected get an account). Next — preview becomes active once both the domain and the role are set.
  5. The info icons next to the title, the domain and the role open What are "placeholder" e-mails? — five short steps explaining the idea. Closing it keeps what you entered.

3. Step 2 — check the list

Step 2 Preview: the count of accounts that will be created and of skipped people, the list of every selected employee with the e-mail to be created and a status, skipped rows greyed out with the reason, a second Ivan Ivić with a number added, the warning that passwords are shown only once, and the Back and Create 12 accounts buttons
① how many will be created · ② skipped, with the reason · ③ a number added · ④ passwords only once · ⑤ Back or Create.
  1. The top line says how many accounts will be created and how many people are skipped (12 of 15 selected will be created · 3 skipped). The list is sorted by last name.
  2. Everyone you selected is in the list. People the action will not touch are greyed out as Skipped, with the reason: Already has an account or Already has an e-mail (with the address they have), The name can't be used for an address, or Not available for this action.
  3. If an address is already in use — by a colleague with the same name or anywhere in the sign-in system — a number is added at the end (ivan.ivic2@…) and the row says Address taken — number added.
  4. Read the yellow warning: passwords are shown only once. After the window is closed they can only be reset, one employee at a time.
  5. Back returns to step 1 with the domain and role kept; a new domain recalculates the addresses. Create 12 accounts (the number follows your list) starts creating them — there is no further confirmation.

4. Step 3 — the passwords

Creating accounts with the counter 37 / 120, then step 3 Result: the passwords warning, the counts, Copy all and Download Excel, each account with its password and a copy button, one row in red with the reason, the note that the employee was not changed, the copy of the list sent to your e-mail and the Done button
① wait for the counter · ② copy one password · ③ Copy all or Download Excel · ④ an error stays in its row · ⑤ a copy to your e-mail · ⑥ Done.
  1. While Creating accounts runs, a counter shows the progress (37 / 120). Don't close the window until it finishes. Each employee is handled on their own, so a problem with one doesn't stop the others.
  2. Every new account is listed with its E-mail and Password. The copy icon next to a password copies just that one — handy when a supervisor needs a single login.
  3. Copy all copies name, e-mail and password for every created account (it pastes straight into Excel). Download Excel saves the list as a file with the sheet Login credentials.
  4. A row that failed is red, Not created, with the reason — for example The address is already taken in the login system. That employee's data was not changed: tick them on the list again later and run the action, for instance with another domain.
  5. The footer confirms A copy of the list was sent to your e-mail. Nothing is ever sent to the made-up addresses.
  6. Click Done when you have what you need.

5. Closing the window and handing out passwords

The Close without downloading? confirmation with Download Excel, Close anyway and the tip to reset a lost password, next to the four notices that can appear after creating accounts
① download first · ② or close anyway · ③ a lost password can be reset · ④ what the notices mean.
  1. If you click Done or ✕ before downloading the Excel file, Close without downloading? appears. Download Excel is the main button — use it.
  2. Close anyway closes the window. The passwords can no longer be read after that.
  3. If a password is lost anyway, open that employee's card and run Reset password — they get a new one (see Create a user account, step 8).
  4. Notices appear at the top right: green when every account was created, yellow when some were not (the reasons are in the table), red when none were created (nothing was changed — try again), and Accounts created, e-mail not sent — then the window is your only copy, so download the Excel file before closing.
  5. After closing, the selection on the list is cleared and the list reloads; the new accounts no longer appear under Does not have access to application.
  6. Hand each password to the employee in person, and delete the e-mail copy once it is no longer needed. Closing the window before creating anything (steps 1–2) needs no confirmation and changes nothing.

6. When the action won't start

Two cases in which the action does not start: No employees to create an account for, when everyone selected already has an e-mail or an account, and Too many employees at once, when more than 200 are selected, with four numbered steps
① nobody to create an account for · ② more than 200 selected.
  1. No employees to create an account for — everyone you selected already has an e-mail or an account. Close the window and filter the list as in section 1. The message calls the filter Access → No account; in the filter panel it is Application access filter → Does not have access to application.
  2. Too many employees at once — one run takes at most 200 people. Click Got it, narrow the list (for example by department or office), tick up to 200 and run the action; repeat for the rest.
The action is offered to users who may add employees. It creates accounts only for people without a work e-mail — an employee with a real business address gets an account from their own card, on that address. Everyone in one run gets the same role. There is no forced password change at the first sign-in, so hand passwords over personally.

Related: What's new: accounts for the whole shop floor in one go · Create a user account (one person) · The employee list.