System information

DSX Access Systems, Inc. 10731 Rockwall Road Dallas, Texas 75238 / 888-419-8353 / www.dsxinc.com
12/2010
Scroll through Card Holder Images
Card Holder images can be viewed from the
Card Holder Names screen (General Tab) in
DataBase and from the Names Search Window
(Binoculars) in Workstation. By double clicking
on the picture in the image window in either
place will now rotate through the all of the
available images. This will not display signature
images!
Visitor Management & DataBase
Sharing
DSX has a basic Visitor Management feature
and a Database import utility built into the
software. When the customer’s requirements
exceed the features of our visitor management
system there are several integrated solutions to
choose from. One Visitor Management solution
is EasyLobby - www.easylobby.com
and the other is - Que Accounting -
www.queacct.com
Global Holiday Assignment
WinDSX now has the ability to save a Holiday to
all the locations in the same location group that
the operator has password privileges for. This
simplifies the adding of holidays to all locations
in the group instead of having to assign them to
each location individually.
Daily Ops from any Workstation
Daily Ops occurs once a day at midnight
traditionally from the Communications Server
PC. When Daily Ops runs each day several
automated processes are initiated. Cards that
have pending Start or Stop Dates and Times
and those with Temporary Access Levels are
evaluated and modified. Cards that are assigned
to a company with a “Use it or Lose it”
parameter are evaluated and de-activated if
appropriate. Backups of DataBase and/or
History are created if the system is configured to
do so. ASCII import is another function of Daily
Ops that is performed by the Comm Server PC
with considerable delays built in to prevent the
import from occupying all of the Comm Servers
processor time. All of these processes are
performed at the Communications Server PC.
With Version 3.6.4 / 4.6.4 and higher the “Daily
Ops” routine can be assigned to any workstation
instead of the Comm Server which is the default.
This can be beneficial for example in situations
where the automated backups need to be run on
a PC other than the Comm Server. Another
example would be moving the ASCII Import to
an administrative PC that could be dedicated to
the import process. This is ideal for sites that
want to send large amounts of data through the
ASCII import and want them to be processed
quickly. The Daily Ops PC must be left on at all
times for all of these functions to operate.
Starting with version 3.7.28 and higher the Time
when Daily Ops runs can now be adjusted to a
time other than Midnight.
ASCII Import Cardholder Data
Card Holders, User Defined Fields and All Card
Data can be imported into the WinDSX System
through the use of an ASCII – Text import file.
The system constantly looks for the file imports
the data and deletes the source file. The recent
updates to these import routines are outlined
below.
Added the ability to set the temporary access
level and the temporary access level start/stop
dates to the ASCII import definition.
Added several new commands to the ASCII
import function which will allow for better editing
of the card data. New Commands include
ReplaceCode, Copy2Code, AddAcl,
AddTempAcl, DelAcl, DelTempAcl, ClearAcl,
ClearTempAcl, DC, CopyPerm2Temp, and an
Update command.
Added the ability to print a badge from the ASCII
import file. The P command will cause the
system to print a badge for the Cardholder that
was last defined. The system will print the badge
template that is assigned to the company the
cardholder is in.
Card Holder Enrollment Export
Starting with version 3.7.28 and higher the
system has the ability to export cardholder data
to a biometric or other enrollment program.
When configured there will be a new button in