Users Guide

Using the Admin tab in Dell Rugged Control

Center

Accessing Admin tab features

You can view and configure the features available in the Admin tab.

The Admin tab is disabled under normal operation of the Dell Rugged Control Center. To enable this tab, the administrator must launch

the application with the admin parameter. To launch Dell Rugged Control Center, with the admin parameter, enter

RuggedControlCenterUI admin or RuggedControlCenterUI options at the command line, or hold down Alt+Ctrl+A. The

admin feature is available when a red box is displayed around the Ribbon. This feature is disabled when the administrator closes the

application.

In Windows 10, the administrator can configure the system to open in Kiosk mode, which enables a single application to use the entire

desktop space and prevents access to the Taskbar, Start menu and so on. After configuration, Dell Rugged Control Center detects the

Kiosk mode and automatically hides the ribbon. The administrator can use the visibility keys to switch the ribbon. To set the combination to

switch the ribbon, provide the keyboard combination in the Keyboard Combination to Toggle Ribbon section and select Set. For

example, use Alt+Shift+R to switch between visible and hidden modes.

The administrator can also hide the ribbon at startup by selecting the option Hidden in the Application Settings section, hiding the

ribbon from the user, but enabling the programmable buttons to function.

NOTE:

The administrator does not need to log in to the system with administrator privilege to use the admin feature.

Using Dell Rugged Control Center, a system administrator can enable or disable an individual user's access to certain configuration

settings. See the following table for more information:

Table 5. Features and descriptions

Setting Control Description

Ribbon Ribbon settings

Control Controls on the dashboard

Quick Launch Quick launch on dashboard settings

Programmable Button Programmable button settings

BarCode Barcode scanner settings

Night Mode Night mode settings

Kiosk Mode Configure Dell Rugged Control Center to use the entire desktop

Application Settings Application Settings panel

Keyboard Backlight Keyboard backlight settings

NOTE: Administrator can disable the settings page, but

cannot unify the keyboard backlight settings.

Stealth Stealth mode settings

NOTE: Administrator can disable edit page, but cannot

unify the Stealth mode settings.

GPS GPS settings.

Features are enabled or disabled by setting values in the policy file. In previous versions of Dell Rugged Control Center, these controls are

handled in the Registry, but with version 2.3 and later, these controls are part of the admin profile .JSON file. See the following table for

more information about the setting values:

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