The option box of Employee is like this:

Move the mouse to the row the employee to select is in, left­click the  mouse, and this row will turn blue. To select more than one employee, hold down “Ctrl” key to select.

In the box of Date click ” ” button to select the date, and in the box of Time click ” ” button to select the time or directly change the time. In the drop­down box of Date, click       ““or”“button to move the date  one month upward or downward:

Click the year number to change the year directly, or click  ““button
to move the date one year upward or downward. Click on the date you want to select it.

1. Connect device.

Choose  upload  device.  Click  icons to  choose  the  device with  mouse,  right­click mouse, select Connect item, show as below:

2. Upload information
Click “Upload Device“, under the door manage menu on the left tool  bar, and show as following interface:

Select the Access control option which you want, the two kind of option  could  to  be  selected  at  the  same  time.  After  success  upload,  it  will  display the success information on the window, show as below:

Access Control privilege mainly applies to user access control setting: if  a user whose personal No. is assigned as 1, 2, 3, 4, and is distributed to  No.1 device in the default period time, likes as follow, add user to right  list first, then add device to right side list. Click “Allows passing”.

Set up the Access Control Privilege when a user belong a group

1. Click Access Control Privilege sub­item,  under the door manage  menu on the left tool bar. Enter the “Access Control privilege” interface  such as shown.

2. Click on “Edit Privilege” button and enter the Access Control  Privilege to edit the interface, shown such following.

3. Default users belong to Group 1, if need be assigned to other user  groups, the need for users to re­allocation group. Here we illustrate: ID 1  user assigned to Group 1  First selected ID 1 user, shown as following.

4. Click on the “Set Group” button and enter the group setting interface,  select group 2.

5. Through the  above  steps, the  users will be  assigned  to  the  second  group, shown as following.

6. Follow the 3­5 steps, set up the group those users respective. After the
setting completed, through the tool bar’s button, a single or all of users  will be moved to the right critical areas, waiting for the Privilege setting.  Shown as following, move the ID1 user to the right list:

7. In the machine list choose the machine that need to upload Privilege,  and then move to the critical region, waiting for Privilege setting. Show  as below:

8. After users and machine is selected, click on  button,
the group Time zone which is used by user in the critical periods will be  assigned to the selected devices. After distribution is successful, prompt  will appear shown as following

9. On the “User Access Control Privilege” interface, click button
and enter the Access Control Privilege Setting interface and synchronize  set  up  information  of  user  groups  will  display  in  the  list.  Show  as
following, machine 2 in the ID 1 user group 1 Time zone.

Set up the Access Control Privilege when a user do not use group
1. If a user belongs to the group, but she/he does not use group Time  zone, then in the User AC Privilege setting interface, select the Time  zone to be used, shows as below, ID 21 users belong to the third group,  but she does not use group 3 Time zone, and use the 1,2,4 Time zone.

2. After complete setting, click button and then click
button on the “User AC Privilege” interface. Enter the Access Control  Privilege  setting  interface  and  synchronize  set  information  of  user  groups will display in the list. Show as following ID 21 user use group 3  Time zone, the non­use group, but use 1,2,3 Time zone.

Delete the User Access Control Privilege
1. After choose the user who will ready to be deleted and his group ,  move  their  to  the  critical  areas,  and  moved  equipment  whose  the  Privilege will be deleted to the critical, shown as below, delete the ID 1  user, who use the Group 2 Time zone.

2. Click on the  button, the group Time zone the user use
will be deleted in critical area from the selected equipment. After deleted  successfully, the system will prompt. Show as below.

Definition of unlock combination function

Unlock combination is the direct expression for controlling unlock. For  example, if you want that all registered users cannot unlock door, then  set Unlock Combination to null.

Definition of  unlock combination is  defined to different combinations  that can unlock door, and each combination consists of different groups.  Unlock combination directly uses group number and does not consider  order  for  identifying  user  between  each  group.  For  example,  “123”  means door will only be unlocked when at least one user in each group  of Group 1, Group 2 and Group 3 passes identification together with  other  two  users.  “4”  means  door  will  be  unlocked  when  one  user  in  Group 4 passes identification together with other two users. System can  define up to 10 unlock combinations at the same time and door will be  unlocked  as  long  as  one  of  these  10  unlock  combinations  passes  identification.

Concrete step show as below:
1. Click Unlock Combination sun­item, under door manage menu, the  following window will popup:

2. Edit: Click on the one which need to be edited, show as below:

3. Select group through the drop­down list, show as below:

4. If forget what you  had defined, you can click Group Detail button
““to see the detail. Show as below:

5. After setting, click “Save” button to save.

Group  function  can  divide  users  into  groups  and  combine  different  groups  to  different  unlock  combinations,  which  make  group  management of Access control more  convenience. So user can define  many  unlock  combinations.  System  has  defined  5  groups:  Group  1,  Group 2, Group 3, Group 4, and Group 5. Under system default, new  registered user is in Group 1 and can be re­assigned to other group.

Under system default, a new registered user uses time period of Group 1.  After the user is re­assigned to other group, the user uses default time period  of  the  corresponding  group.  So  please  make  sure  to  define  default  time  periods for each group.

Group Setting
1. Click Group sub­item, under the door manage menu on the left tool  bar, enter the Group setting interface, shown as following figure.

2. Group editing; left click item that need to edit with cursor to enter the  editing state.

3. Through drop­down box to choose the Time zone.

Set up is completed; click on “Save” button to save.

4. According to your needs, you can repeat step 2 and 3 to edit other  Time zone.

5. Add group, click “Add” button can add a group, show as below:

6.  Delete  group,  select  the  group  you  want  to  delete,  and  then  click  “Delete” button to delete it.

Time zone is the smallest time period unit in Access control setting. In whole  system,  you  can  define  up  to  50  time  zones.  Each  time  zone  defines 7 time intervals, i.e. one week. Each time interval is valid time  period in 24 hours everyday. Each use can set up to three time zones and  the relationship between these three time zones is “Or”, which means  the user is valid as long as identification time satisfied one of these three  time zones. Each time zone format of time zone is HH: MM­HH: MM,  i.e. in term of 24 hours format and precision to second.

End time less than start time “23:57­23:56″, means all day forbidden.  End time larger than start time “00:00­23:59″, means valid in the time  interval.

Valid time period for user unlocks: all day open “00:00­23:59″ or time  period with end time larger than start time.

Concrete Step show as below:

1. Click “Time zone” from Drag­down menu of door manage, window  of AC Time zone option will pop up, show as below:

2. Click “Add” button and system will pop up a timetable from Sunday  to Saturday. Here, you can define any time zone you may use, show as  below:

3.  Then  click  “OK”  button to  save  the  time zone automatically,  and  return AC Time zone option window, the new zone will display in he list,  show as below:

4. If you want to use several time zones, continue to click “Add“, and  then  repeat  step  2  and  3.  In  addition,  time  zone  can  be  edited  and  deleted.

5. Edit Time zone, select time zone on the list, then click “Edit” button,  the edit window will popup. Show as below:

After  modify,  click  “OK”  button  to  save,  and  return  AC  Time  zone  option window, the time zone’s information  will display as after edit.  Show as below:

6. Delete time zone. Select the time zone need to be deleted, then click  “Delete” button, the following window will popup:

Click “Yes” button to delete it. Click “No” button to cancel operation.

7.  After  delete  operation,  the  AC  Time  zone  option  window  will  not  display the time zone. Show as below:

This function is mainly used to back up all attendance data in the current  attendance system or clock/in data, click this command on the menu and  the following operation window will pop up

1) Export to Files 
Export  four  file  style:  secret  attendance  data  (*.abt),  attendance  clock­in  data  (*.txt),  back  up  attendance  data  (*.attbackup.mdb)  and attendance  system  database  file  (*.mdb).  Click  ”  ”  button,  a  file  manger menu will pop up confirm the path and file name for the back  file and click “Open”.

2) Conditions and Range for Exporting Data Records

Export data records during the time range.

Note:  you  must  choose  a  new  filename  if  the  file  has  existed,  the system will suggest you to define new file name.

Exporting record will not lead to clean data in database. After finish to  export data, click      “” button to close  window, and then return  main  menu.

To  import attendance  record  to  another  machine  or  old  record  to  the  current attendance software, click this command on the menu and this  operation window will pop up:

1. Import from Files
All information of original database can be import to Attendance system  database file; to import attendance clock/in employee attendance data is  imported.  Select import from USB flash­disk, click “Import” following windows  pup­up:

2. Import from database
Import from database means to import attendance data from attendance  database  backups,  and  the  data  include  employee  information,  shift  information,  clock­in  records,  etc.  You  can  import  the  data  from  databases of previous version, or databases of the same version. For the  data format of database files of versions previous to 1.2 differs from that  of  Version  1.2X,  if  the  version  of  the  database  file  that you  want  to  import is below 1.2 (Not including 1.2), please select versions before1.2  option;Otherwise please select 2.2 x options.

Note: Before importing data, if it is unnecessary to remain the data  in  your  system,  please  first  select  initialize  the  system.  This  is  because if some data remaining in the current system overlap with  the data that will import, errors will appear when importing data,  and data’s importing speed will slow down.

Click versions1.2 or version 1.2x button, and a file manager will pop up.  Enter the path and file name of the database to import, and click “Open“,  the system will import data automatically.  If your database is SQL Server database, you can click button to begin  settings. For detailed information please refer to Database Setup.  After importing data, click  ““to go back to the main menu.

In  order  to  make  sure  data  security  and  to  restore,  we  suggest  you  backup database in regular time, click command on the menu, pop­up  following window.

Select position to save  file,  input filename (maybe  defined  filename),  click  “Save”  button.  When  original  database  was  damage,  it  need  to  restore, you should change back up filename as ATT2000.mdb, copy the  file under attendance install directory to cover same name file, but the  action only restore these data to before back up. E.g. you back up data in  31.3, so that these data be restored are only one before 31.3.