Lock and Unlock Doors

Lock and Unlock Doors

1.0 Introduction

Any doors on the system can be manually locked and unlocked from the software via one of three locations: On the hardware tree (via a right-click), the doors status grid (via a right click), or selecting the reader and then clicking the appropriate icon located on the ribbon bar.

 

Note: If a door is assigned an auto-unlock schedule and is manually locked it will unlocks again as per the next schedule activate/de-activation time. Therefore is you do not wish for the door to go back to following the schedule you should 'Suspend' or 'Restore' the schedule.

 

 

2.0 Lock and Unlock from the Hardware Tree

  1. Go to the hardware tree (Setup >> Hardware Setup >> All).
  2. Double-click on a controller to expand the controller's connected readers.
  3. Right-click on the reader you wish to lock/unlock.
  4. Select Mode >> Lock or Unlock.

    Lock

  5. The door will immediately lock or unlock and will remain in the new state.

 

 

3.0 Lock and Unlock From the Doors Tab

  1. Go to Setup >> Hardware Setup >> Doors.

  2. Highlight a door or use the SHIFT key on the keyboard to highlight multiple doors.

  3. Select Mode >> Lock or Unlock.

    Unlock

  4. The door(s) will immediately lock or unlock and will remain in the new state.

 

 

4.0 Lock or Unlock from Live Events

  • From within the Doors.NET software go to Home >> Live Events to open the live events grid.
  • Wait for, or generate a reader-related event to appear, such as 'Access Denied - Not in Live'.
  • Right-click the door in the live events grid.
  • Select Mode >> then select lock or one of the unlock options.

 

 

5.0 From Live Events

If a reader related event appears in live events, such as door forced or access denied, the system operator can perform a temp unlock on that door. An example might be if the operator has visually verified the identity of someone who has perhaps lost their card or who has accidentally been assigned incorrect access rights.

 

  • Right-click on the reader related event.
  • Select the Temp Unlock option.

 

Temp Unlock - Image 5



6.0 Card and PIN Mode

PXL, NXT, NXT-MSC and True Mercury controllers all support Card + PIN mode, so if a reader is configured for Card + PIN/Dual Verification (Doors.NET - Dual Verification Setup) you can set the reader mode to Card + PIN using the Mode menu.



4.0 Setting Card Or PIN or PIN Only

If you are using the NXT-MSC or True Mercury controller types, it is also possible to set the mode to Card OR PIN or PIN only (these 2 modes are ONLY supported with the NXT-MSC controller type and require Unique PINs for all cardholders).

Unique PINs are required when using Card Or PIN or PIN only so that the system will correctly determine which cardholder is using the PIN (and therefore the correct cardholder name will be displayed in live events).

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