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ACCESSING OTHER PARTITIONS
Common Area
Operation
When an installation consists of a partition shared by users
of other partitions in a building, that shared partition may be
assigned as the "common area" partition for the system. An
example of this might be in a medical building where there
are two doctor's offices and a common entrance area.
This option employs logic for automatic arming and
disarming of the common area. Partitions may be set to
affect and/or attempt to arm the common area. This will affect
the way the common area will react when arming or
disarming activity occurs in another partition.
Partitions set to
affect the common area will cause the
following to occur:
a. When the first partition that affects the common area is
disarmed, the common area will also be disarmed.
b. The common area cannot be armed unless every partition
selected to affect it is armed.
c. Arming the last partition that affects the common area will
not automatically attempt to arm the lobby.
Partitions set to arm the lobby will cause the following to
occur:
a. When the first partition that affects the common area is
disarmed, the common area will also be disarmed.
b. The common area cannot be armed unless every partition
selected to affect the lobby is armed.
c. Arming the last partition that is programmed to arm the
common area will automatically attempt to arm the common
area. If any faults exist in the common area partition, or
another partition that affects the common area is disarmed,
the common area cannot be armed, and the message
"UNABLE TO ARM PART" will be displayed.
The following chart sums up how the common lobby partition will operate.
Partition Partition Arms Disarms when Attempts to arm Can be armed if
Affects Common Area partition disarms when partition other partitions
Common Area arms disarmed
NO NO NO NO YES
YES NO YES NO NO
YES YES YES YES NO
NO YES ---ENTRY NOT ALLOWED---