Updating Your User Profile

You can change your profile details and customize the appearance and behavior of the Management Portal.

You can also change your password from the Management Portal. For information on the rules for passwords, see Password Rules.

A notification group is a group of users who are notified by email when an event occurs. Notification groups are similar to mailing lists. You can manage the public notification groups that you want to join or leave. An organization administrator can add and remove you from notification groups.

  1. To manage your user account profile, select Tools > My profile.
  2. On the My Profile page, change any of the fields as needed.

    Field

    Description

    Email address

    The email address for your user account, which you use to log in to the Management Portal.

    Default organization

    The default organization to use after logging in to the Management Portal. You can be a member of multiple organizations.

    First name

    Your first name.

    Last name

    Your last name.

    Company

    Your company name.

    Title

    Your job title.

    Office phone

    Your office phone number.

    Mobile phone

    Your mobile phone number.

    Timezone

    The timezone used for displaying timestamps on the Management Portal. Timestamps are stored in Device Cloud in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) and displayed for individual users based on this selection.

    Language

    The language to use on the Management Portal for this user.

    Hide things dashboard

    Hides the dashboard tab when you click Things. Things now appear in the table view.

    Enable live updates on things

    Enables live updating of things. Use of this feature will result in increased API usage.

    Things live update frequency

    Specifies the frequency at which the portal checks for updates to things. Appears only if Enable live updates on things is enabled.

    Default method timeout

    Specifies how long to wait for methods to return a result from things. Applies to all method calls regardless of success or failure status.

    Notification Groups

    Shows the list of public notification groups to which you can subscribe.

    Enable MFA

    Not supported.

    Warning:

    Do not enable this option or you will not be able to log in to your account.
  3. To add or remove your user account from a notification group, click Notification groups in the left panel.
  4. On the Notification Groups page, click the + (Join) icon for the notification group to which you want to add your user account.
  5. In the confirmation window that appears, click OK.
  6. To remove your user account from a notification group, click the - (Leave) icon for the notification group you want to leave.
  7. In the confirmation window that appears, click OK.