ALMS - Self service guide

If someone is visiting your department or professional service for a month or longer and requires an ID card, IT credentials or both you can request this using the Account Lifecycle Management System (ALMS) self-service form. The account will require approval from your department or professional service head, but as the requesting member of staff you will be considered the account’s sponsor.

To request a visitor account, go to: https://alms.lboro.ac.uk/SelfService

Please note that in order to access ALMS you will need to be signed into the Cisco Secure VPN Client.

On initial login to the self-service form, you will need to choose the school or professional service that the visitor is attending - this will be the only field on the screen. You can either scroll through the drop-down list or search for one by typing in part of the school or service name. Once you’ve selected a school or professional service to be visited, the rest of the fields will appear.

Fields in red italics are mandatory and must be filled in as they form the bare minimum of data required to create a user account. The first field is Visitor Access Reason; a list of reasons why the visitor needs an account. Note that if you select Contractor/Consultant in this field there will be an additional mandatory field to fill in for the company that the consultant or contractor is from.

The other initial fields are simple; the first and last name should be the visitors first and last names, and the valid from and to dates are the dates upon which the account will be activated and deactivated, respectively. The user IT access level field denotes whether a visitor should have an IT account created for them and if so, the type of access they should have. Selecting staff or

student-like here does not mean that all the tools available to staff and students, like the library resources and Learn, will be available. If the visitor will need an ID card then user requires ID card should be set to yes, otherwise this can be set to no. If the visitor does require an ID card then an additional field will be revealed – also mandatory – and you will need to upload a photo of the visitor to be used on their ID card.

The rest of the fields are not mandatory and can be left blank, however if you wish to fill them in then you may do so. User middle name is the visitor's middle name, should they have one, and preferred name is what they prefer to be called – if filled in this will be the name they are known by downstream systems. Their telephone is their preferred contact number and their email is their personal email address.

Once all the mandatory fields have been filled in a make request button will appear on the bottom left of the screen. If you have filled in the mandatory fields but left both user IT access level as no access and user requires ID card as no then this button will not appear, as no visitor account is needed. Clicking on make request will send an email account to the head of your department or professional service.

As the sponsor of an account, you will receive an email from ALMS thirty days in advance of the visitor’s expiry date requesting that you reapprove the user so their account doesn’t expire. You will need to log into ALMS within that thirty-day period and reapprove the user, otherwise on the expiry date the account will be marked as expired, and a new account will need to be requested for that visitor if an account is still needed. The email will provide you with the details of the user and a link for you to click on to take you to the list of users waiting for reapproval, but you can also find it here: https://alms.lboro.ac.uk/SelfService/Reapprove.html

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This screen will list all users waiting for reapproval by you, not just the one that you were emailed about.

The below table describes the various fields held in ALMS which relate to users as visitors to the University. Most of these fields will be completed via the self-service visitor request form.