Designing badge templates - Security Center 5.12

You can design customized badge templates to use as printing templates for credential cards.

Creating a badge template

1. Open the Access control task, and click the Badge templates view.
2. Click Badge template ().
3. Type a name for the new badge template that appears in the entity list, and press Enter.
4. On the Identity page, type a description for the badge template.
5. In the Relationships section, select the partition where you want the badge template to be placed.
   Partitions determine which Security Center users have access to this entity. Only users who have been granted access to the partition can see the badge template.
6. Click Apply.

Designing a badge template

1. In the Access control task, and click the Badge templates view and select a template.
2. Click the Badge designer tab.
3. To select the size of the access control cards you want to print, click Properties ().
4. In the Format dialog box, select a card size and orientation.
   • To create a custom card size, click , enter the card name, width, and length, and then click OK.
5. Click OK.
   
   Once the card size and format are chosen, you can design the actual printing template.
6. In the Tools section, select a tool, and then click the template to use it.
   There are six graphical tools that you can use to edit the template:

   Select tool

   Click and select an object on the template.

   Rectangle tool

   Draw a square or rectangle on the template.

   Ellipsis tool

   Draw a circle or oval on the template.

   Text tool

   Insert text on to the template. You can enter static text or add dynamic cardholder and credential text fields, such as First name, Last name, and so on.

   Image tool

   Add a picture to the template. You can insert cardholder pictures, a background image for the card, and so on.

   Barcode tool

   Add a barcode to the template.

7. If you added an image to the template, select the image to edit it using the options in the Image and Color and border widgets.
   In the Image widget, choose whether the Source of the image is a cardholder picture or an image from a file, and whether the image should be stretched or not.

   Cardholder’s picture

   Dynamic cardholder picture that changes, depending on which cardholder credential you are printing. This image field links to the value Cardholder picture in the configuration database.

   Tip: If a cardholder’s picture was taken in front of a chroma key screen, you can make the picture background transparent. This is helpful if you are creating a badge template that has an image in the background.

   File

   Static image selected from a file.

   In the Color and border widget, you can use the following tools:

   Fill

   Modify the fill color of an inserted object like a square or oval.

   Border

   Modify the border color of an inserted object.

   Opacity

   Modify the opacity of an inserted object.

   Border thickness

   Modify the thickness of the inserted object’s border

8. If you added text to the template, you can edit it using the Text widget or by right-clicking on the text.
   In the Text widget, you can:

   • Click Add field () to add a dynamic cardholder or credential field. You can mix static text with the dynamic fields.
   • Click Fill to set the text color.
   • Click Align left, center, or right to set the text alignment.
   • Click Wrap text if too long to turn on text wrapping.

     If text wrapping is turned on, the system wraps the text if it is too long to fit inside the text box, without changing the font size. If text wrapping is turned off, the system fits the text inside the text box by changing the font size.

   Right-click in a text field to modify the following properties:

   Z Order

   Move a layer to the front or back of a badge template. For example, you could layer white text on top of a black image using Bring to front.

   Border

   Add borders around the text. Use the Text widget to change the border color.

   Font

   Edit the font type, style, and size used for the text.

   Text color

   Set the color of the text using RGB or HEX values.

   Alignment

   Set the text alignment to left, center, or right.

9. If you added a barcode to the template, right-click the barcode, and then click Properties to edit it. The data on the barcode can be static or use dynamic credential properties.
   
10. In the Size and position section, select where the text, image, or barcode is located on the badge, and its width and height. You can also drag and drop these entities, and the resulting coordinates are displayed in the Size and position section.
11. Click Apply.