Picture Perfect 4.6 User Manual - UTCFS Global Security Products

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Picture Perfect 4.6
User Manual
Operating features
The Picture Perfect operating features include:
• UNIX-like Operating System (AIX or Linux) provides multitasking, multi-user capabilities.
Multiple tasks can be performed by multiple users simultaneously. An operator can view
several windows at once.
• Host System architecture is powerful enough to support the operating system and relational
database management systems.
• Graphical Menu-Driven Operator Interface almost completely frees you from the keyboard.
Primary and secondary menus lead to input forms (screens) where you can add, change, or
delete information. These forms can be customized to include only those fields necessary for
your specific site.
• Pop-Up Window Alarm Messages appear on whatever form (screen) is currently displayed.
You can continue with the current form or exit to an alarm response form.
• Online Help can be accessed by clicking the Help button to display a pop-up help window for
any form or field. Help constitutes an online reference manual that explains every form and
field in each form.
Note: If the online help window does not launch, make sure that the browser does not have pop-ups disabled.
• Powerful Query Function. Picture Perfect uses Informix Dynamic Server, a relational
database management system (RDBMS) with a query function that reduces the need for
printed reports. The RDBMS frees you from canned search criteria. Use the Find function to
query and display data. As an alternative to printing a report, you can display the report on
screen and scroll back and forth through data. The RDBMS allows you to define direct
relationships between separate database tables so that a single report joins multiple tables.
The report function also lets you customize reports with Structured Query Language (SQL) so
you can pinpoint just the data you need.
• Real-Time Monitoring. Badge activity displays in real time on a scrolling window with image
thumbnails, where you can scroll backward and forward through the transaction data or
perform a transaction search.
• Database Protection. The system database is protected from unauthorized use by the
Operator Permissions feature which controls (using a login ID and password) each operator’s
authorization to display or update forms and to print reports.
• User-Defined Schedules. The system provides an interface for user-defined schedules. For
example, an area can be scheduled for general employee access during business hours, but
restricted to selected employees after hours. All schedules can be manually overridden from
the operator’s console. If the host and micros stop communicating, the micros continue
processing all resident schedule changes.
• Operator Input Validation. All system forms (screens) and menus provide extensive dataentry
error checking. The system rejects a form if fields do not contain acceptable data;
therefore, bad data cannot corrupt the database. Field labels of required entries display in
red.
• Operator Activity Monitoring. The activity of all system operators can be viewed and is
saved to operator history.
• User-Defined Alarms. Alarms may be assigned priorities to control processing in the event
of simultaneous alarms. Multiple-action messages may be configured to notify the operator
when and where the alarm is occurring and what actions to take.