The Security settings area brings your access tools together. Use this page as a quick map, then open the full article for step-by-step detail.
People who can sign in to CoolFocus for your organization. Review access, assign a user group, turn Administrator on or off, and link each login to a People record when they use schedule or Home views.
See Users.
Pending invites for people who still need to create their login.
See Invitations.
Groups of users who share the same access — which areas they can open, whether they can view, add, edit, or delete, and whether they are a module admin who can manage a module's settings.
See User Groups: What Staff Can Open and Change.
Approved network locations for sign-ins when your organization uses IP restrictions (for example, office-only access).
See IP Address Access.
A record of security-related events — successful sign-ins, failed sign-ins, logouts, and denied IP addresses. Filter by event type and date. From a recent IP denied row you can Approve IP for a short window.
See Security Log.
A unified timeline of staff sign-in activity, clinical record access, and summarized record changes. Filter by date, category, or a specific user. You can also open a person's log from Users → Quick Actions → View activity log.
See User Logs.
When your plan includes them, data access rules limit which individual records a user group can see or change (for example, only one campus's donors). They sit on top of user groups.
See Data Access Rules: Limit Which Records Staff Can See.
Review and sign your organization's Business Associate / Vendor Confidentiality Agreement (BAA), download the executed PDF once signed, and find related compliance documents.
See Legal & Compliance Settings.
Write down the change you are making and why. If something does not work as expected, this makes it easier to undo or adjust.
• Administration Overview
• Users
• User Groups: What Staff Can Open and Change
• Inviting Your Team
