The programmed door behavior can be manually overridden by using these buttons. The override can be made either temporary or permanent.
Permanent – the override condition will stay in effect until manually removed by using the Clear button. If an Unlocked Badge or Unlocked Automatic permission or a Scheduled Event shift starts or ends, any “normal” changes in the door(s) will be ignored and the manually set door condition will continue in effect. It may be reset by the Clear button.
Temporary – the override condition will only stay in effect until changed by the next Unlocked Badge, Unlocked Automatic or Scheduled Event shift change. It may also be reset by the Clear button.
Roster
The “Roster” button accesses the Current Roster List window, as shown below.
If you have chosen to designate some Door Groups as Roster Tracking Zones, and some of the Doors in the Door Group are defined Doors as IN, OUT or IN/OUT Toggle, then the system will keep track of which people have most recently been seen going through an IN door for that Door Group.
When a person who is “IN” goes through an OUT or an IN/OUT Toggle door, they are removed from the Roster.
If you choose to implement anti-passback for the Roster Tracking Group, then any person who is already IN will be refused access at any door coded IN, even if they would otherwise be authorized to operate that door. NOTE: Master badges are an exception to this rule. Master badges will ALWAYS be admitted, even if the door has been put in LOCKDOWN mode. If some doors are coded INOUT, then the behavior is as follows: if anti-passback is NOT enabled, the person will be “toggled” IN and OUT each time they pass through a door coded INOUT. If anti-passback IS enabled, the person will be toggled IN and OUT as long as they are presenting a badge at the same door. If they are IN and present a badge at a different door, they will be refused.
If Operations are enabled, the operator may remove people from the IN list by using the Delete Button located below the list.
You may filter the Roster display and associated report by Door Group and by Date/Time.
The Rebuild function is provided to deal with a special circumstance. Intermittent network difficulties can cause a reader controller to lose communications with the computer. While the unit is offline, it will continue to operate in standalone mode, using it’s internal database to make decisions about admitting or rejecting
presented credentials. The reader controllers will record events that occur while they are offline, and these events will be retrieved by the Crystal software when the reader controller comes back online.
As these records are retrieved, they are put into the History and Current History tables, but they do not update the Roster because that could create errors and inconsistencies.
What the Rebuild function does is replay the Current History records to create a Roster. This will correctly process all the records that may have been recovered from standalone reader controllers.
NOTE: If you plan to use this Rebuild function, you should set the retention days for the Current History file to a large enough number to guarantee that you get an accurate Roster as a result of a rebuild. The default retention is zero days, which means that the Current History table contains only information beginning at
midnight of the current day. People who entered a tracking zone before that time would not show up in the Roster. By setting the retention days to 2 or 3 you can be sure that you properly see all of the correct records.
Lookup
The Lookup button will bring up a search screen.
Typing a string into the search string box will and pressing Next will find the first match in the database. Next and Previous will navigate forward and backward. The search may be made case sensitive by checking the box. The Enable and Disable buttons at the bottom of the screen will enable or disable the persons access rights by either expiring or removing the expiration from all of the badges assigned to the person.
Doors
The Doors list shows the doors that are currently defined in the system and shows their current Mode and Status.
The Modes are:
Normal – the door is prepared to read BadgeIds as presented and will unlatch if the badge is authorized at this time for that door.
LockDown– the door will ignore all badges except Master badges, even if the BadgeId would otherwise be authorized for the door at this time. Unlocked – the door is unlatched and anyone may enter without
presenting a badge.
The buttons to the right of the list will be enabled if operations are enabled and if the level of authorization is greater than or equal to the level required to operate the selected door. If the buttons are enabled, the operator may change the Mode of the door. If the Mode of the door is changed and the door has been set to operate in LOCAL mode, it will be forced into HOST mode.
If you check the All Doors checkbox under the buttons, you will be asked to enter the Administrative Password. If you correctly enter the Administrative Password, all of the buttons will be enabled and whatever action you select will be applied globally to all the doors in the system. The All Doors checkbox will be disabled after you press any button or select a door in the Door List.
The Status column shows the current status of the door. This may include: Inactive – the door is not operating
Closed Open
Emergency – the door is in an emergency state of some sort.
Door Groups
The Door Groups tab will show the available door groups. If the UNLOCK, LOCKDOWN or NORMAL buttons are pressed, the action will be applied to the selected DOOR or DOOR GROUP.
Alarms
The display above shows both an active alarm and a cleared alarm displayed in the Alarm list. When the alarm first occurs, it will flash and a tone will sound (if the computer is equipped with a sound card). A silence button will allow any operator to silence the sound, regardless of whether they have operations enabled. If operations are enabled at level 1 or higher, the operator will also be able to clear the alarm, which will remove it from the active display. The operator may optionally add a note to the alarm as part of the clearing process. If
operations are enabled at level 2 or higher the operator will be able to delete cleared alarm records.
Alarms may also be cleared by the presentation of an authorized badge to the door controller at which the alarm occurred if the door and badge have been properly authorized to do so using the facilities described in the administrative module.
Activity
The Activity display shows the most recent activity, either at all doors or at only a selected door as illustrated above.
If operations are enabled, the Operator may unlatch the selected door by pressing the Admit button.
From the Monitor application you can monitor input and output points. Inputs typically monitor Alarms or status, Outputs could be used to control lights or other devices.
The Input and Output tabs allow you to review the status of the I/O points, and filter the display with numerous criteria.