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myELEXON Features
This page describes the five main features of myELEXON.
In order to use the features described on this page you need to be a registered
user of myELEXON. To register please proceed to the registration
page . You may log into myELEXON by entering your email address and
password at the top right of any page on the website.
The features are described below.
myProfile
Purpose of Feature
myProfile allows you to change your password, edit personal and contact details
and identify your industry role and/or committee membership.
How to Use
To edit your myProfile information, log in to myELEXON and click on the 'myProfile'
link. Select from 3 options:
- Change Password
- Update Contact Details
- Update Customer Type/Membership Details
The Change Password option provides a simple form where you should enter
an alphanumeric password of at least 6 characters in length (special characters
are not supported). You must also set and answer the security question which will
be used to verify your identity should you ever need to reset your password.
Your password is stored in encrypted form in our database so that is not visible
to us. However, this increased level of privacy results in us being unable to email
you your password, should you forget it. Instead, we reset the password to a random
value stored in an unencrypted form which you should then change.
The Update Contact Details form is fairly self-explanatory. The email address
also acts as your myELEXON userid. All fields marked with a red asterisk * are mandatory.
A screenshot of the form is shown below:
The Update Customer Type/Membership Details allows you to identify the nature of your role within the industry or your membership of a variety of industry groups and committees. Having this information will, in due course, allow us to better tailor information and services to your needs.
myColleagues
Purpose of Feature
This feature has been designed for people without Internet access from their workplace
desktops and who would like to receive ELEXON Circulars and Newscast.
myColleagues allows a registered user of myELEXON to add the names, email addresses
and telephone numbers of colleagues so that they can continue to receive ELEXON
Circulars and Newscast. No other attributes or preferences can be assigned or managed
for people added using myColleagues. The process is very straight forward and is
described below.
How to Use
The table of colleagues is empty by default. If you have colleagues who are not
already registered with myELEXON or who have not been added as a 'colleague' by
someone else in your organisation, they can be added as one of your colleagues.
Clicking the 'Add More Colleagues' link takes you to a page where you should enter
some basic contact information. All fields except the telephone field are mandatory.
Please note that you will not be able to add a colleague if they already exist in
our database with the same email address as the one you enter. They will only exist
if they have been added as a colleague by someone else or if they have registered
with myELEXON. You will see an on-screen message if you try to add a colleague with
an email address that already exists in our database. Feel free to
contact the ELEXON web team if you need assistance resolving issues such
as this.
Having added a colleague, you are returned to the table of colleagues. You can add
more colleagues if you wish or edit the details of an existing colleague if you
need to make an amendment. Don't forget to click the 'Update' link once you have
made the amendment. You can also delete colleagues from this table. You will be
prompted to confirm the deletion of each colleague before they are permanently deleted
from our database.
You can sort the table of colleagues by first name or last name by clicking on the
column headings.
If you have registered colleagues in this way and decide that you no longer want
your own myELEXON account, please contact the
ELEXON web team to arrange for your colleagues to be transferred to another
registered user.
myEvents
Purpose of Feature
myEvents allows you to view ELEXON event registrations that you have made either
for yourself or on behalf of colleagues. You can also view previous event registrations.
You can also cancel event registrations.
How to Use
Below is a screenshot of a table containing 4 event registrations and a previous
registration.
Clicking on an event title takes you to the relevant event details in the
Events section of the website or the relevant meeting papers.
An event registration can be cancelled by clicking the cancel button and confirming
when the pop-up message appears. Any additional attendees that you registered will
also have their registration cancelled. You will be sent a confirmation email.
Clicking the View Registration Details link will allow you to view and cancel any
additional attendees that you registered, any event topics you registered for and
any additional options you requested such as space in the business centre or a meeting
with your OSM. If you have not registered yourself (only registered for an event
on behalf of other attendees) a message will be displayed to indicate this.
myNotifications
Purpose of Feature
myNotifications allows you to be notified when documents published on the website
are updated. It is now possible to tag individual documents, tables of documents
or even documents in whole sections so that you will receive notification by email
when they are updated or new documents are added.
How to Use
Below is a screen shot of a typical Elexon documents table.
There is a check box directly above the table to the left, and check boxes to the
right of each document. If you wish to be notified when a particular document is
updated, click in the check box to its right. Your selections will be recorded in
your myNotifications section and you will receive an email notification when this
document is updated.
If, however, you click in the check box above the table, you will to be notified
when any of the documents in the table are updated or if a document is added to
the table. Please note that some tables of documents cannot be selected in this
way for notification. This is due to the way documents are categorised and we
will be addressing this issue in due course. In the meantime, if there are
tables of documents that you would particularly like to select for notification
of updates, please email the
ELEXON web team.
You need to be logged into myELEXON to make the selections described above.
If you make a selection when you are not logged in, you will be automatically
taken to a log in screen. After you have logged in you will be returned to
the page you were on.
In order to be notified of a change to any document in an entire section, log into
myELEXON, go to myNotifications
and scroll down the page until you see a table of sections of the ELEXON website.
This table is shown in the screenshot below:
Select any section by clicking in the check box to its right and click the button
below the table to save the change. You will be notified if any document is
updated in, or added to anywhere in the entire section.
myPublications
Purpose of Feature
myPublications allows you to choose which of ELEXON's range of regular
publications you will receive or be notified of by email.
The publications are 'ELEXON Circulars', 'Newscast and What's New' and 'Quarterly
Report'. Further details regarding the content of these publications is available
from the myPublications page within myELEXON.
How to Use
When you register with myELEXON you are automatically subscribed to all three publications.
If you wish to unsubscribe from any of the publications, log in to myELEXON
and click on the 'myPublications' link. You will see a table like the one
in the screenshot below:
Make your selection by checking or unchecking the boxes to the right and click the
button below the table to save the changes.
myCalendar
Purpose of Feature
The BSC Calendar displays important
events such as meetings, deadlines and seminars - see screenshot below:
Using myCalendar you can filter out those categories of events which are not relevant
to you.
How to Use
When you register as a myELEXON user, all categories are selected by default.
The table showing your selected events of interest is shown in the screenshot below:
To remove categories from your calendar view, uncheck the check box to the
right of the category.
Each category listing in the table is a link to the relevant section - if you are
not sure whether or not you need this category to show in your calendar, visit the
section by clicking the link.
Click on the button below the table to save the changes.
myDownloads
Purpose of Feature
This facility is an extension to the Document Basket feature that is useful to those
people who regularly download the same files, e.g. Best View Prices.
How to Use
Once you are logged in, any documents you add to your basket will be remembered
and added to the table in your myDownloads section, between visits to
the website. A screenshot of this table is shown below:
Any documents in this table can now be added to your basket simply by clicking in
the check box to the right of the document and clicking the button below the table.
This saves you from having to navigate to many different areas of the
website in order to add the documents to your basket.
When you click the button, you will be automatically taken to the View Basket page
(Document Basket Management ).
The selections you make in this table will be remembered so that the next to you
come to use this feature you need only click the button beneath the table to populate
the basket and be taken immediately to the Document Basket Management page.
You can keep the list of documents to a manageable length by clicking the 'waste
bin' icon to remove documents that you are unlikely to download again.