Brivo Onair’s Group Enabled Schedule
feature allows you to implement a First-Person-In or Supervisor-on-Site
functionality at your facility.
With First-Person-In, you stipulate
that the schedule controlling a specific door or elevator cannot be activated
until a member of the enabling group accesses it. For example, you may have
scheduled the front door of your building to be unlocked at 9:00AM, but only if a security guard is present.
If no member of the Front Door Guard group arrives until 9:15, the door remains
locked until that time and can only be accessed with a valid credential.
Supervisor-on-Site performs
essentially the same function but applies to a situation where you want to
ensure that no other employees enter a designated building or area until a
supervisor has arrived. Not only does the door remain locked until that time,
but card readers and keypads also remain inactive.
Implementing either of these features
requires careful thought to ensure that you do not inadvertently bar your
employees when you do not intend to, nor leave doors unlocked when they should
not be. To ensure the security of your facility you must perform the following
steps in the order indicated:
1.
Create a group that includes only those people you want to
activate a specific schedule at a specific door or device. Give the group an
identifying name, such as “Openers.” These users will almost certainly belong
to at least one other group as well, a group that defines their overall access
privileges; their membership in the group Openers means only that they can
activate the schedule for a specific door or elevator. See Creating a Group for procedural information.
2.
Associate a schedule with the enabling group. When you make this association, you are NOT indicating that members of the group will only have access
privileges during that schedule’s time period; it means that when the first
member of the enabling group accesses the designated door or elevator the
schedule will then become active. See Creating a Schedule for guidelines on associating a schedule with an enabling group.
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WARNING: Enabling Group Grace
Periods When you assign an enabling group to
a schedule, you are prompted to specify a Grace Period. Without a grace period, the schedule only becomes
active if a group member arrives at or after the schedule start
time, not before. For example, if the schedule starts at 9:00 and a
member of the enabling group arrives at 8:55, the schedule will not
become active at 9:00. With a grace period of ten minutes, a member of the
enabling group could arrive any time after 8:50 and the schedule would still
become active at its 9:00 start time. |
3.
Assign the enabling group access privileges at the desired door or
device. By giving the enabling group access
privileges at a specific door or device according to a specific schedule you
tell the system “This schedule does not allow access for any user until it is
first activated by a member of the enabling group,” If the group “Day Shift”
has access to the Front Door according to the schedule “Mon-Fri 9-5,” but the
“Day Hours” schedule is associated with the enabling group “Openers,” an employee arriving at work at 9:05 will not
be allowed entry at the Front Door unless an Opener has already accessed it.
See the instructions for Editing Group Information above for instructions on managing group privileges.