Picture Perfect 4.6 User Manual - UTCFS Global Security Products

Chapter 9
Area management
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Fields and controls
Table 76. Category form fields
Field
Description
Permission
Group
Description
Enter a category description up to 30 alphanumeric characters long.
From the list box, select the permission group to be associated with the category.
Type None Access to an M2MR controlled area is not permitted while M2MR control is enabled.
Guest
Team Member
A Guest is not allowed entry to an M2MR controlled area unless two (2) team
members are already present in the area.
If an M2MR controlled area is empty, a Team member is allowed entry only with a
second Team member. Additional team members can enter individually after the initial
two (2) team members are present in the M2MR controlled area. Additionally, the final
two (2) team members are not permitted to exit until no Guests remain.
The None, Guest, and Team Member buttons are only available to operators with Occupancy Control
permission granted. See Occupancy control on page 330.
Escort Required
A badge with this category must be accompanied into an area by an escort with valid
a non-Escort category match. See Escort required on page 381 for more information.
Facility
Click Facility to display the facilities list box. This field reflects the facility to which this record is assigned.
For more information, see Creating facilities on page 52.
Related procedures
To create, edit, or delete a Category record:
1. Select Access, Places, and then Categories tab.
2. Refer to Creating, editing, deleting, and printing records on page 36.
Creating areas
An area is a group of one or more readers. Identify functions within the facility that require the same
kind of access control and give descriptive names to these areas. For example: Accounting, MIS,
R&D, Lobby, Stairwells, Cafeteria.
A single area may be assigned to multiple readers and doors. For example, the Accounting
Management Area may be assigned to a reader using the Area button on the Readers form. The
same area may be assigned to a door using the Area button on the Doors form. Additional readers
and doors may be assigned to the same area, but an individual reader or door can only belong to
one area.
The permission assigned to an operator determines which areas that operator can assign to readers
and doors. See Chapter 6 Operator administration.