About the Import tool - Security Center 5.10

Security Center Administrator Guide 5.10
Applies to
Security Center 5.10
Last updated
2023-06-12
Content type
Guides > Administrator guides
Language
English
Product
Security Center
Version
5.10

The Import tool is the tool that you can use to import cardholders, cardholder groups, and credentials from a comma-separated values (CSV) file.

The CSV file must be plain text with delimiters (commas, spaces, periods, and so on) to separate the fields. The delimited fields in the text files would represent values such as first name, last name, cardholder group, path and filename of employee photo, and so on.

The Import tool Security Center license must be enabled in your system for this tool to be available. The Import tool privilege is also required to launch this tool.

You can use the import tool on a schedule, using the Import from file action.

How you can use the Import tool

You can use the Import tool to do the following:
  • Import credentials alone:
    • Card format
    • Card number
    • Credential activation date
    • Credential code
    • Credential expiry date
    • Credential name
    • Facility code
    • License plate
    • Number of inactive days to expire credential
    • Number of days after first use to expire credential
    • Partition
    • PIN
    • Status
  • Import cardholders alone:
    • Cardholder activation date
    • Cardholder expiry date
    • Cardholder group
    • Cardholder name
    • Custom field
    • Description
    • Email
    • Mobile phone number
    • Number of inactive days to expire cardholder
    • Number of days after first use to expire cardholder
    • Partition
    • Picture
    • Status
    • Whether cardholder escort visitors
  • Import cardholders and credentials together (in this case, the cardholder and the credential are specified on the same line and automatically linked together).
  • Replace old credentials with new ones.

Limitations of the Import tool

If you are importing multiple cardholders who are members of different partitions, and there is either no cardholder group or only one cardholder group specified in the CSV file, the imported cardholders are added to all the partitions.

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