How to Add Technicians

This article gives guidance to Rescue Administrators.

Master Administrators can add technicians to any Technician Group in the organization, while Administrators can only add technicians to groups to which they are assigned.

How to Add a Technician

Technician permissions are inherited from the Technician Group.

Right-click the Technician Group to which you want to add the technician and click Create technician.
Result:
Make sure the user you want to work with is selected on the Organization Tree and click the Organization tab.
Result: The Configuration page is displayed.

Edit the following options:

Option	Description
Name	The user's name as it will be displayed on the Organization Tree and in the Technician Console, if licensed.
Nickname	The user's name as it will be displayed to the customer during a session. Example: [10:46 AM] Chat session established with Nickname.
Email	The email address the user will use to log in to GoTo Rescue.
Single Sign-On ID	The identification number the user will use to log on if Single Sign-on is active.
Description	This is for your own reference.
New password	The password the user will use to log in to GoTo Rescue. Note: To require the user to change this password when they first log in, make sure the Admin password changes force user to change password at next logon option is selected under the Password policies section of the Global Settings tab.
Minimum password strength	The minimum required password strength as set on the Global Settings tab under Password Policies.

Under Status, select Enabled to activate the user.
Click Save changes.

Tip: To move a technician to another group, select a technician on the Organization Tree and drag it to the desired Technician Group or use the Move to Technician Group drop-down list on the Configuration page.

How to Import Technicians from a File

Master Administrators can import technicians "in bulk" by uploading a CSV or JSON file.

Note: During the below procedure, you will be required define a password for each technician that you import. As a best practice, before you perform the import, we recommend that you enable a setting that will require the technician to change this initial password when they first log in. To do so, make sure the Admin password changes force user to change password at next logon option is selected under the Password policies section of the Global Settings tab in the Rescue Administration Center.

Log in to your Rescue account. On the My Account page, click Import technicians.
Note: For detailed information about requirements related to the CSV or JSON files, you can download example files from the Import technicians page.
To change the delimiter used in the example file, follow the below instructions.

Windows

Mac
Select the Technician Group to which you want to import technicians by starting to type the name of the group in the Search technician group... field.

Fastpath: If the uploaded file contains valid Technician Group IDs for each line, you may leave this field empty.
Click Upload file to choose the CSV or JSON file from your source.
Click Start import.
Result: Import starts. When the process ends, the Import Summary is displayed listing all the successful or failed import items.

Note: The CSV or JSON file must meet the following requirements.

All column headers are required and MUST remain in their original order in the file.
The following fields are required and each row must contain data as part of the import:
- Name
- Email address
- Password
- (technician is) Enabled
- (has) Standard License
- (has) Mobile License
If you set all users to be imported into the same Technician Group (by selecting a global group), you can leave the Tech Group ID column blank.
Remember: The column header must remain in the original order.
If you select a global Tech Group, Tech Group IDs in the file will be ignored during the import.
Each import file is limited to a maximum of 500 users.

Article last updated: 27 September, 2022