Thursday, January 12, 2017

Forgot PIN Feature in ValleyCat

ValleyCat now has a 'Forgot PIN' option that allows the user to reset their 4-digit PIN themselves - IF they have an email address in their Horizon account. Here's how it works.

If they don't have an email address is their Horizon account, they get this message:

If they do have an email address in their Horizon account, they'll get this message. Obviously, if the email address on their account is someone else's, out of date or has a typo, they won't receive the Reset PIN email as expected despite this onscreen message.


Note: they don't need to also have 'email notices' selected in order to get the email; just an email address. 

Click on the link in the email.
The user is automatically logged into their account once they click Reset PIN.


If they try to enter a PIN with more than 4 digits or any other type of character:






This feature is NOT available in the Enterprise catalog.


rev. 5/2018