User's Manual

Chapter 3: First-time B.A.S.I.S.® Offline System Configuration
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Notes4 Type the name of the card format. A typical name for the
guest format is ‘Guest format.’
5 Complete all appropriate fields including facility code,
access control track, total characters on track, and the
guest format check box.
Defining badge types
To use B.A.S.I.S. G functionality, you must define a guest
badge type. This badge type allows you to define and allocate
a range of badge ID numbers that will be programmed into
the lock. Badge type is an ID Credential Center function used
in the configuration of Guest products and determines the
block or pool of badge numbers to be allocated to a group of
locks.
Also, badge type determines the card format to be encoded
on the badge. In this instance think of the badge type as a way
of allocating a block of badge numbers to a facility, building,
or other group of related guest locks.
Applica-
tion note
A badge type could be used to allocate a pool of badge num-
bers for a dormitory from which smaller blocks of numbers
could be obtained for the individual dormitory units.