Importing Authorization File (.auth) to Session Manager MIDSA

First Use

The first time the Session Manager uses MIDSA, the program will present a window asking you about your profile. You choose “I am a Session Manager who has never used this MIDSA, but I have an .auth file.” MIDSA will open the Import .auth Assistant. (see First Use of MIDSA: Session Manager Profile)

Subsequent Uses

Launch MIDSA and log in, using the username and password provided by your Administrator. Choose Import Authorization File from the workspace or Import .auth from the Assessment menu.

MIDSA will display a navigation window. Click on the Select button and navigate to the place you stored the .auth file.  

Highlight the .auth file and click on the Open button. Click the Next button. Review the respondent list and click the Finish button.

The information will be incorporated into the Session Manager’s MIDSA. MIDSA will display the respondent authorizations. 

NOTE:  If you are importing a subsequent authorization file for a respondent who is in progress, you will be so informed and his/her second authorization will not be imported. If you wish to start the respondent anew, you must first end his/her current assessment. 

NOTE:  If you have more than one session computer, use the same authorization file to set up each computer. Be sure, however, that each respondent’s assessment is restricted to one session computer.

NOTE: Whenever the Administrator authorizes new respondents in the Administrator’s MIDSA, this procedure must be repeated. 

NOTE: Whenever authorization of Session Managers changes (new Session Manager authorized or Session Manager deauthorized), a new authorization file must be imported to transfer that information to the Session Manager MIDSA.

NOTE: Whenever you update MIDSA, the Administrator must create an authorization file with the updates and the Session Manager must import that authorization into all remote MIDSAs.

NOTE: This process always goes from Administrator’s MIDSA to Session Manager’s MIDSA. Session Managers make copies of respondent answers to give to Administrators, but they never create authorization files and authorization files are never used to transfer information from the Session Manager computer to the Administrator computer.