-- 17 --Security Codes & Authority Levels (cont’d)To view your authority level and system capabilities:1. Enter your code + [S] + [S].2. The keypad will display the partition(s) that you are authorized tooperate, and your user number and authority level in eachpartition.General Rules on Authority Levels and Changes• A user may not delete or change the user code of the SAME orHIGHER authority than which he is assigned.• A user may only ADD users to a LOWER authority level.• A user may assign access codes only to those partitions to whichthe user adding the code has access. (ex. a user with access to onlypartition 1 cannot assign codes in partition 2.)• The only way to assign a user's authority level is by using the"Add A User" procedure. To change a user's authority level, thatuser must first be deleted, then added again.• A user can only be DELETED or CHANGED from within thepartition he is assigned.• User numbers must be entered as 3-digit entries. Single digit usernumbers must be preceded by a "00" (example, 003, 004, etc.).Security codes are entered as 4-digit numbers.• Before assigning a security code, be sure it does not conflict withany DURESS code.Note: When adding, changing or deleting users, all other alphakeypads in that partition will display "User Edit Mode – Please StandBy", and key depressions (except Panic) at those keypads will beignored. Panic key depressions will cause an alarm and terminateuser entry.