Rollcall Client - Advanced

Rollcall Client - Advanced

1.0 Introduction

Advanced Rollcall is an option that can be enabled on your license.

 

Rollcall Advanced - Enabled

 

The main benefit of Rollcall Advanced is you have the option of adding muster readers and you also have the ability to automatically print area occupancy lists.

 

An example of where this would be useful is if you had a building with multiple floors and different companies or department working on each of the floors. Each floor would have an IN reader and there would be an OUT reader to exit the building, plus a muster reader located away from the main building, such as in a guard station. When employees enter their floor they would be seen as IN their work area but when they badge the OUT reader to exit the building they would be taken out of the area.

 

In the event of an evacuation, perhaps due to a fire or fire drill, some employees may exit the building via a fire exit (which may not have access control operating on it). The employees would then be required to badge their card at the Muster station located at the assembly point (such as near to the car park). A security guard in a guard station would have Doors.NET Rollcall Client installed on the PC in the guard station and the security guard would be able to use the Rollcall Client to print of a list of who is still within the building (because they have not badged the OUT reader or the reader at the Muster Station.

 

 

2.0 Rollcall Advanced Setup Example

This example explains how to set up a area representing a floor of a building (for example; floor 1). The floor will have an IN reader to enter the work area and there would be a RTE switch to exit the area. The OUT reader would be located at the front reception and employees would use this reader to exit the building. There would also be a Muster Station reader located in the car park (which would be the assembly point for emergency evacuations of the building).
  1. In the Doors.NET standard admin client ensure you have three readers appropriately labeled.

    Name the Doors

  2. Double-click the Rollcall Client icon on the desktop of the client installed at the guard station.

    Rollcall Icon

  3. Log into the client using the default user name and password (both admin)
  4. Once logged in you will see a message stating: "There are no readers assigned to this area" - This is expected so click OK.
  5. From within the area selection list, click on the browse icon, highlighted below:

    Rollcall - Area Browse Button

  6. You will then see the Manage Areas window.
  7. Click the Add Area button.

    Add Area Button

  8. Rename the area Floor 1.
  9. While you are on the General tab place a check mark in the Muster Area option.

    Rename and Save

  10. Set the Print Interval to a value of between 1 minute and 10 minutes. This is the frequency of how often you want the occupancy list to be printed in the event of an emergency evacuation.

    Print Interval Setting

  11. Then click the Save icon to save the area.
  12. Next, click on the Readers tab.

    Readers tab

  13. On the right of the window you will see a list of all the available readers on the system, you will also see an "In " readers section and a "Muster" readers section.

    Available Readers List

  14. You will perhaps be wondering why there is no section for "OUT" readers... that is because any reader that is NOT added to either the "IN" or "Muster" list is AUTOMATICALLY regarded as an OUT reader by the Rollcall feature.
  15. Right-click the reader for Floor 1 and select "Add to In Readers".

    Add IN reader

  16. Right-click the Muster reader located in the car park and select "Add to Muster Station".

    Add to Muster Station

  17. So now you have one IN reader and one Muster Station reader, save the area settings and close the manage areas window.
  18. You will then be back on the general Rollcall client screen.
  19. Select the newly created area from the area selection list.

    Area Selection

  20. Even though the occupancy list is empty to begin a report will be printed to the default printer as soon as the list is selected.
  21. To prevent further printing you have to click on the pause printing icon. The pause print icon will remain highlighted in yellow while printing is paused.

    Pause Printing

  22. The status grid at the top of the screen will provide you with status information for the doors which are added to the area.

    Door Staus Information

  23. If you right-click one of the listed doors you will notice that there is the option to perform a momentary unlock, or you can select Mode and then set the door to Lockout, Lockdown, Unlocked or Locked (Card-only).

    Remotely Operate Doors

  24. As cardholder gain access through the reader for Floor 1, the occupancy count will start to increase and the occupancy list will contain all the cardholders names along with the time stamp of when they badged their cards.

    Occupancy List

  25. In the event of a building evacuation some employees may leave the building via a fire exit (without badging their cards)... therefore the Rollcall client will still 'see' those cardholders as being in the area. Therefore when they reach the assembly point they should badge their cards at the Muster Station reader.
  26. The Muster Station reader is regarded by the Rollcall Client as an 'out' reader, so when cards are badged those cardholders are automatically removed from the Rollcall occupancy list.
  27. Once the employees have been given an adequate amount of time to congregate at the assembly point (and badge their cards), the Rollcall operator then presses the Print Pause button again to resume printing.
  28. The Pause Print button will then not be highlighted and printing will resume every X minutes (depending on what you have your print interval set at).
  29. The report which is printed off will have a list of all the cardholders who are still in the building (or those who have not yet badged at the Muster Station reader).

    Muster Report

  30. When all personnel have been accounted for the Rollcall operator can click the Pause Print icon again and the printing will stop. Remember: Once printing is resumed an occupancy report will be printed every X minutes according to the value that has been set in the Print Interval setting in the Rollcall Area setup.
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