SFPIF Help Page

Login and Password Help

Using the Member's Page

Using the Sub-Chair's Page

Using the Chair's Page

Creating An Account:

  1. Before you can login, you must first create an account.
  2. If you already have an account but cannot log in, see 'I forgot my password' below.
  3. From the login page, click the 'Create Account' link.

  1. In the 'NLaw User Name' field, enter your email account name.
    • for example, Joe Smith of the class of 2011 would type 'j-smith2011'.
  2. Click the 'Populate email' button.
  3. Double check that the email matches your Northwestern email address.
  4. Choose a password of at least 7 characters.
    • Your password must include at least one non-alphanumeric character.
    • For example, non-alphanumeric characters $, #, !, ", or [.
  5. Type your password in the 'Password' field.
  6. Retype your password in the 'Confirm Password' field.
  7. Choose a question other people aren't likely to know the answer to.
  8. Type that question in the 'Security Question' field or use the default question.
  9. Type the answer to that question in the 'Security Answer' field.
  10. Click 'Create User'.

Forgotten Passwords:

  1. If you have an account but have forgotten your password, click 'Recover Password'.

  1. Enter your login in the 'User Name' box.
    • Your login the same as your Northwestern email address without the @nlaw.northwestern.edu .
  2. Click 'Submit'.

  1. Type the answer to the security question and click 'Submit'.
  2. An email will be sent to your northwestern email account with a temporary password.
  3. Return to sfpif.org and use the temporary password in the email to log on.
  4. After logging on, follow the instructions below to change your password.

Changing Your Password:

  1. After logging in, click the 'Change Password' link in the upper right.

  1. Enter your current password in the 'Password' field.
  2. Choose a new password of at least 7 characters.
    • Your password must include at least one non-alphanumeric character.
    • For example, non-alphanumeric characters $, #, !, ", or [.
  3. Type your new password in the 'Password' field.
  4. Retype your new password in the 'Confirm Password' field.
  5. Click the 'Change Password' button.
  6. Your password has now been changed.

Requesting Points:

  1. To request points, first select the committee for which you volunteered from the Committee drop-down menu.
    • For example, if you volunteered for the SFPIF book sale, choose 'Book Sale' from the menu.
  2. Choose the kind of activity you performed from second drop-down menu.
    • For example, if you sat at the table during the sale, choose 'Worked the Sale'.
  3. Enter the number of points you are requesting in the 'Points Requested' field.
  4. In the optional 'Note' field, describe what work you did and for how many hours.
  5. Click the 'Go!' button to submit the request to your committee chair for approval.

Reviewing Point Requests:

  1. Until it has been approved by your committee or subcommittee chair, you can modify your previously filed points requests.
  2. If a row has an entry for 'Points Given,' it has been approved by a committee or subcommittee chair, and cannot be modified.
    • If you have questions or would like to change your entry, email your committee or subcommittee chair.
  3. To change the note or number of points requested, click the 'Edit' link in the row you want to modify.

  1. The row should now be editable.
  2. If you have made a mistake and clicked 'Edit' in the wrong row, click the 'Cancel' link on the left side of the row.
  3. You can now update the number of points requested in the 'Points Asked' column to reflect the correct number of points.
  4. You can also change the note you have left for your committee or subcommittee chair.
  5. When you are finished modifying your request, click the 'Update' link. Your changes are not saved until you do so.

Removing a Point Request:

  1. If you would like to rescind a request for points, click the 'Delete' button in the request's row.
  2. If a row has an entry for 'Points Given,' it has been approved by a committee or subcommittee chair, and cannot be deleted.
    • If you have questions or would like to remove the entry, email your committee or subcommittee chair.
  3. After you have clicked 'Delete', the row should no longer appear in the 'Review Existing Points' table.
  4. If you have made a mistake, you must re-enter the information to request the points again.

Approving a Point Request:

  1. Select one or more activities from the 'Select activities' list.
    • To select more than one activity, hold down CTRL (the Command-Key on Mac) and click on each activity you wish to select.
  2. Choose proper the sorting options. See 'Sorting' for more info.
  3. Click 'Go!'.

  1. A table of active requests for the activity types you selected will appear.
  2. Click the 'Edit' link in the row of a request you wish to approve or deny.

  1. If you have selected the wrong row, click the 'Cancel' link on the left of the row.
  2. The number of points the volunteer requested is listed in the 'pointsAsked' column.
  3. Enter the number of points you they actually earned in the 'pointsGiven' column.
    • Do not modify the 'pointsID', 'SubComName', or 'studentID' fields.
  4. If you wish to leave comments for the volunteer, enter them in the 'memoChair' field.
  5. Once you are done modifying a row, click the 'Update' link on the left of the row. Your changes are not saved until you do so.

Sorting Point Requests:

  1. If you aren't proactive in approving requests, you may be faced with a large number to approve at once. Sorting them properly can make the task less daunting.

  1. The matrix of radio buttons allows you to change the order member's point requests appear in.
  2. There are three filters by which requests are sorted:
    • Subcommittee - sorts alphabetically by which activity the requests are for.
    • Member - sorts alphabetically by the member's login name (e.g. j-smith2011).
    • (Un)Reviewed - makes requests that have not been approved show up first.
  3. The rows in the matrix (Sort 1, 2, and 3) determine the order in which the filters are applied.
    • Sort 1 is the primary, top-level grouping
    • Sort 2 determines how items within groups determined by Sort 1 are sorted.
    • Sort 3 determines how items within groups determined by Sort 2 are sorted.
  4. For example, if you are only in charge of approving points for working the book sale table, you would probably want to choose the following settings:
    • Sort 1- Subcommittee
    • Sort 2- (Un)reviewed
    • Sort 3- Member
  5. These settings mean that all requests having to do with working the sale will be listed together, because Sort 1 is set to 'Subcommittee'.
  6. Within that set of rows, the requests that have not yet been approved will be listed first, because Sort 2 is set to '(Un)reviewed'.
  7. Finally, the unreviewed requests will be listed in alphabetical order by member login, because Sort 3 is set to 'Member'.

Creating an Activity:

  1. Before volunteers can submit requests for points, you must have at least one activity created within your committee.
  2. Select the committee for which the activity was done from the 'Select Committee' drop-down menu.
  3. Enter the name of the activity in the 'SubCommittee Name' field.
  4. Enter instructions for how points should be awarded in the 'Instructions' field.
  5. If you would like to appoint another user to approve points for this activity, see the 'Appointing a Subcommittee Chair' section below.

Modifying an Activity:

  1. To change the name or instructions of a subcommittee, first find it in the 'Existing subcommittee activities' table.
  2. Click the 'Edit' link at the left of the subcommittee's row.

  1. You can now change the subcommittee's name and/or the instructions for approving points.
  2. Once you are done modifying a row, click the 'Update' link on the left of the row. Your changes are not saved until you do so.

Removing an Activity:

  1. Think very carefully before doing this.

  1. Locate the subcommittee in the 'Existing subcommittee activities' table.
  2. Click the 'Delete' link at the left of the row.

Appointing a Subcommittee Chair:

  1. If you have not already created a specific activity for your subcommittee chair to oversee point approval for, follow the instructions in the 'Creating an Activity' section above.

  1. In the 'Add new subcommittee chair' section, select the name of the activity from the 'Subcommittee' drop-down menu.
  2. Select the name of the member you would like to be in charge of approving points for this activity from the 'Member' drop-down menu.
  3. Click 'Submit'.
  4. Once you do this, the member and the activity should appear in the 'Existing subcommittee chairs' table below.

Removing a Subcommittee / Activity Chair:

  1. In the 'Existing subcommittee chairs' table, locate the row or rows with the member's username.
  2. If the member is in charge of more than one activity, locate row that also lists the activity for which you no longer wish the member to be able to approve points.
  3. - Click the 'Delete' Link on the left side of this row.