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Chapter 2Administering Sugar• To edit the status of multiple employees, use the Mass Update panel as describedin “Editing and Deleting Multiple Records” in the Sugar Community Edition UserGuide.• To edit an employee’s record, on the detail page, click Edit, update theinformation, and click Save.• To duplicate a record, on the detail page, click Duplicate, modify the informationif needed, and click Save. Duplication is a convenient way of creating a newemployee. You can change the information in the duplicate record to create thenew employee.Note:You cannot delete an employee record.• To go back to the Employees Home page from a detail page, click Employees inthe Shortcuts menu.To convert an employee into a user1. On the employee’s detail page, click Create User.2. Specify a user name to enable the employee to log into Sugar.3. Click Change Password, specify a password for the user name, and click Save.4. Send an email notification to the employee with the username and passwordinformation.Advanced Configuration OptionsThe advanced configuration options listed below enable you to exercise tighter controlover user actions in your Sugar instances.Locking Down the Upgrade WizardIf you are managing multiple instances of the Sugar application and you want tomaintain complete control over the Sugar instances, you can lock down the UpgradeWizard to ensure that no user with administrative privileges can upgrade any of them.To lock down functions on the Administration page1. Navigate to the config.php file in the Sugar root directory.2. Set the following parameter to true as below:$sugar_config['admin_access_control']=true3. Save the file.Locking Down the Module LoaderIn order to ensure that users with administrative privileges do not load sub-standardmodules into Sugar, you can lock down the Module Loader and direct them to loadmodules from a location of your choice.102 Sugar Community Edition Installation and Administration Guide