ACS WebService Administrator Manual - Brivo Systems

Page 194What are Schedules?A schedule is an editable, reusable time template that can be used to control such things aswhen a door is accessible or when a device is activated. A user’s access privileges are theresult of a three-way relationship that is created between: (1) a group, (2) a schedule, and(3) a secured device, such as a door, floor or valid credential device.Doors. A group of users is permitted access to a door according to a predefinedschedule. This access is granted on the group’s Edit Privileges page. This pageenables you to define access to a single door differently for individual groups ofusers. For example, the group “Staff” may have access to the “Front Door” accordingto the schedule “Work Day,” which allows them to access the door, using a validcredential, between the hours of 7:00AM and 6:00PM. At the same door, the group“Cleaning Crew” may have access according to the “Night Shift” schedule, permittingthem access only during the hours of 8:00PM and midnight.A door may also be assigned a Door Unlock Schedule, which specifies a period of timeduring which no credential is required to access the door. All users have free access duringthe Door Unlock Schedule period.Floors. Using the Floor Unlock Schedule, you can specify periods of time during which nocredential is required to access a floor. At other times, groups of users may bepermitted credentialed access to the floor. For example, the floor “Cafeteria” may beassigned a Floor Unlock Schedule of “Lunch” which allows anyone free access to thefloor between the hours of 10:45 AM and 1:15 PM. Before 10:45 and after 1:15,however, a user must present valid credentials to access the floor. The group“Cooks” may have access to the floor according to the “Lunch Prep” schedule, whilethe group “Cleaning Crew” may have access according to the “Night Shift” schedule.In this way, multiple schedules are used to control access to a single floor.Devices. A schedule assigned to a timer defines when the timer will go off; a scheduleassigned to a switch controls when the activation of the input point will cause theoutput point to be activated; and a schedule assigned to an event track devicedefines when the event will be tracked at the specified door. Before any of thesedevices is created, you must first define the schedule according to which they willoperate. (No schedule is assigned to valid credential devices.)FilteringThe filtering system allows administrators to sort results using a variety of criteria. Forschedules, filtering allows for sorting by the following:Name – all schedules containing the provided criteriaSite - all schedules that are linked to the selected criteria