Manage multiple accounts from one Desktop Minimum version: FirstClass 8.3 Audience: Administrators and other users who manage multiple FirstClass accounts Experience:   FirstClass applications used:            Bookmarks Summary Are you responsible for managing multiple FirstClass accounts, either on the same server or multiple servers? Want to make it easier to log into these accounts? Use FirstClass bookmarks to create links to these accounts right on your own FirstClass Desktop. Advantages of storing information for multiple accounts in a bookmark • It is secure. John must first log into his own FirstClass account to access the login bookmark. • If he forgets his login information, he can view it on the bookmark's Info form. • Since the bookmark is stored on his FirstClass server, he can access it from any location. Example In addition to being an English teacher at Avalon Academy, John Smith is also the FirstClass administrator at the Avalon school board. He is responsible for maintaining the servers at the various schools in the Avalon district. He logs into these accounts daily using bookmarks he created on his FirstClass Desktop.   To set up each bookmark, John does the following: 1              He opens his FirstClass Desktop on his own server and chooses File > New > New Bookmark. This creates a new bookmark in the Bookmarks folder on his Desktop, and presents him with the Info form. 2              He types a bookmark name and a subject to remind him of the purpose of the bookmark. 3              He completes the URL field as follows: server://username:password@sitename/path where •               server is fcp:// •       username is admin •       password is 54#rrr3 •       sitename is the IP address or the web site name of the server he is linking to. In this case it is fc.avalon.com. •       path is the object he wants to open, relevant to his FirstClass Desktop (for example, "Mailbox"). If he leaves this field blank, FirstClass logs him in at the Desktop level. So the URL becomes: fcp://admin:54#rrr3@fc.avalon.com/Mailbox When finished, the form looks something like this: Note He changes the icon of the bookmark by clicking the icon field. Finally, he drags the bookmark from the Bookmarks folder to his FirstClass Desktop on his own server. Now, when John double-clicks his bookmark icon, it logs him directly into the account on his other server. He repeats the above steps for each server in the Avalon district. Using a bookmark to access conferences John took this process a step further and created a bookmark to automatically open the Internet Monitor form for each site. He did this by typing the complete path to the conference at URL. The result of this bookmark is a direct link to the Internet Monitor form for each site that John is responsible for. By dragging the link from the Bookmarks folder to his Desktop on his own server, it appears that the conference is sitting right on his server. Tip If John logs directly into a conference, he can access the Desktop of that account by pressing CTRL+0 (Win) or Apple/Command+0 (Mac). More information • To make a change to a bookmark he has created, John can simply update the Info form for the bookmark. • He can easily share a bookmark by attaching it to a message and sending it to a local user account, or by placing it in a shared folder or conference.