Settings That Control User Access; Setting Up Time Zones; What Time Zones Are; When You Need To Set Up Time Zones - Schlage PIB300 User Manual

Settings That Control User Access

Setting Up Time Zones

What Time
Zones Are
When You Need
to Set Up Time
Zones
When You Do
not Need to Set
Up Time Zones
Time zones are periods of time on different days of the week when users
can have access. There is no connection between what we call time zones in
HandNet and the time zones we usually think of that have to do with different
times around the world. This does not have anything to do with Eastern, Central,
Mountain, or Pacific time; it only has to do with controlling which hours of the
day access is available through readers.
If you want some users to be able to use certain readers only during certain
hours or on certain days of the week, time zones let you identify when access is
available. For example, suppose some users should only be able to gain access
through certain readers between 8:00 AM and 5:00 PM, Monday through Friday.
You would create a time zone that identified these times and days, associate
that time zone with appropriate readers using an access profile, and then assign
that access profile to the users. After you did this, users with that access profile
would only have access during the times you identified in the time zone.
You can also use time zones to determine when certain doors should be
automatically unlocked; see Automatically Unlocking a Door on a Scheduled
Basis on page 128.
If users should have different access on holidays than on other days, you can
set different hours for holidays in the time zone. You will have to also set up
holidays; see page 65.
If you do not need to limit access by day or time (that is, if users could use the
readers twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week if they wanted), and if you
do not want doors to unlock automatically, you do not need to set up time zones.
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