The Badging program will print information from the People database onto prox cards. Here are the menus available when you bring the program up.
Options
Image Directory
This choice allows you to set the Image Directory, just as you can within either the Administrative program or the Monitor program.
Password
This choice allows you to change passwords. User Defined Field Names
This choice allows you to set or change the labels assigned to the User Defined Fields.
About Badging
People/Badges
People
This screen is similar to the one in the Administrative module.
The index value above the image may be set from 1 to 9 to define or select one of 9 possible images associated with an individual. These can be different pictures (front view, profile view) or other images such as images of signatures.
Read BadgeIds
This function is provided to make it easy to read in badgeids and assign them to “new” People in the database so the badgeids may be easily printed on cards.
To use this function:
1. Select the door controller from which you wish to read badgeids 2. Enter a prefix to be used for the person’s name
3. Enter a starting number to be used for the person’s name. 4. Start the read operation by pressing the Start button.
5. Present badges to the door controller. As each badge is read, the program looks in the database to see if the badgeid exists in the database. If it does not, the program creates a Name by using the prefix and the number and adds a person with that name to the database with the assigned badgeid.
Later when the Card Printer program is described, you will see that having the People defined (and sorted in order) makes it simple to print badgeids on the plastic cards.
Card Layouts
Here is where you define the layouts you wish to use. The system is shipped with some example layouts which will help you get started.
The list on the left shows the names of the defined layouts. You may use the Insert/Change/Delete buttons to manage this list. The Copy button is handy if you want to make a layout that is similar to an existing layout without changing the existing layout.
The list on the right shows the “Controls” that have been defined for the current layout, and the raised panel in the bottom center shows detail about the selected control.
If you press the insert button under the list of controls, here is the screen you will see:
On the left side of the screen is a list of the possible choices for the type of Control you are defining. The options are:
Text String – this is a string of fixed text, such as the company name Variable String – this is an item to be read from the People database, such
as the persons last name or social security number
Image – this is either the person’s picture from the Image file or another selected image such as a company logo.
Region,Line,Box,Ellipse – these are shapes you may draw on the card using various boarder and fill colors.
If you select the Image type of control, here is the screen that appears:
You may select one of nine possible images associated with a person or may select another static image such as a logo.
The control you define will have its “origin” at Xpos , Ypos and will have the indicated Width and Height. It is recommended that you simply accept the defaults and then move and size the control using the mechanisms described below.
There are two ways to select a control to work on it: Select it in the list on the right
Select it with the mouse by positioning the mouse over the control and holding down the ALT key on the keyboard while pressing and releasing the left mouse button.
Once a control has been selected you can MOVE it by:
Directly dragging it. Put the mouse over the control, press and hold the left mouse button, and drag the control where you want it. Then drop it by releasing the left mouse button.
Press the left, right, up or down arrow keys. The control will move in the indicated direction.
You may also resize a control
Hold the shift key down and press the left, right, up or down arrow key. The size of the control will change in the indicated direction.
As you select different types of controls the raised panel will display current information about the selected control and allow you to make appropriate changes. Here is the information for a TEXT control
You can change the font, including typeface, color, size and special effects like underline and italic. You can set a background color, control the justification, rotate by tenths of a degree and set the background to be transparent. The same facilities are available for Variable strings.
For images, here are the choices
The software will always make the image fit in the available space. If the space is larger than the image, you have the choice to have the image stretched (without allowing distortion) Note: Stretching an image will reduce the “quality” of an image. You also may justify the image both horizontally and vertically. Here are the choices for shapes:
CardPrinter-Single
This screen allows you to print a single card, which may be either one sided or two sided.
When you select the CardPrinter menu you will immediately be asked to select the printer to be used. (Note.. if you do not have a printer defined you can not get to this screen).
On this screen, you select the desired layout from the list on the left and the desired person from the list on the right. You see an image of what will be printed, and press the print button to send the data to the printer. Whenever you print, the system will automatically select the next person. If you have used the Read BadgeId screen described earlier, the People you added will be in the database in order and you can easily print the badges with badgeids.
CardPrinter-Multiple Badges
This screen allows you to print multiple badges on a single sheet (one sided). The layout of the badges on the sheet is controlled by the templates that are displayed on the bottom left. The selected layout is shown visually to the right of the layout list. To enable reuse of partial sheets, there is a skip count field that will cause the software to skip printing the first “skip count” positions. The badges that will be printed are controlled by the selection arrows to the left of the People List. Use these arrows to move the names of the selected people in or out of the selection box.