This section lists the settings found in Door configuration tabs, in the Area view task.
Door - Properties tab
In the Properties tab, you can configure the general behavior of the door. Some of
the behaviors are not supported by all types of access control units. If the configured
behavior is not supported by the selected access control unit, a yellow warning appears on
the page, explaining why your configuration is not valid.
- Unlocked for maintenance
- Turn on this option if the door is unlocked, and possibly open for maintenance
purposes. While the door is in maintenance mode it remains unlocked, and no events are
generated except for the Door offline: Device is offline event. The
maintenance mode icon (
) is also displayed on the door icon in maps. - Standard grant time
- Amount of time the door is unlocked after an Access granted event is generated.
- Extended grant time
- For cardholders with the property “extended grant time” turned on, the amount of time the door is unlocked after access is granted.
- Standard entry time
- Amount of time the cardholder has to cross the entry sensor, in addition to the
Standard grant time. If no entry is detected during this time, a No entry
detected event is generated. This option is only supported when your door is
configured with an entry sensor. If no entry sensor is configured, entry is assumed
when the door opens. If no door sensor is configured, entry is assumed when access is
granted.
For example, if the Standard grant time is 5 seconds, and the Entry time is 3 seconds, the cardholder has a total of 8 seconds to trigger the entry sensor of the door.
- Extended entry time
- For cardholders with the property ‘extended grant time’ turned on, the amount of
time the cardholder has to cross the entry sensor, in addition to the Extended grant
time. If no entry is detected during this time, a No entry detected event is
generated. This option is only supported when your door is configured with an entry
sensor. If no entry sensor is configured, entry is assumed when the door opens. If no
door sensor is configured, entry is assumed when access is granted.
For example, if the Extended grant time is 10 seconds, and the Extended crossing time is 10 seconds, the cardholder has a total of 20 seconds to cross the entry sensor of the door.
- Door relock
- Specifies when to relock the door after access has been granted.
- On close
- Relocks when the door closes.NOTE: This option is not supported by HID units.
- Delay after opening
- Relocks after the specified delay after the door has been opened.NOTE: For HID units, the maximum delay is 27 minutes.
- When door is unlocked by schedule
- Select the events that you want to suppress when the door is unlocked by schedule.
- Door open too long events
- Access granted and Access denied events
- Door held
- What to do when the door is held open.
- Trigger event
- Turn on this option if the Door open too long event must be generated after the specified duration.
- Reader buzzer behavior
- Set to either Suppressed to never sound the buzzer, or to Suppressed when door closes to silence the buzzer when the door closes.
- Trigger pre-alarm condition
- (Only for doors controlled by Synergis™ IX) Turn on this option if you want to generate a pre-alarm condition after the specified delay. The pre-alarm delay must be shorter than the delay for triggering the Door open too long event, otherwise, no alarm is triggered. The pre-alarm condition is typically used to activate an output to warn users that the door generates an alarm if it is left open any longer. For more information on pre-alarm, see the documentation on Synergis IX.
- Door forced
- What to do when the door is forced.
- Trigger event
- Turn on this option if the Door forced open event must be generated.
- Reader buzzer behavior
- Set to either Suppressed to never sound the buzzer, to Suppressed when door closes to stop the buzzer when the door closes, or to Suppressed on access granted stop the buzzer when access is granted, or when the door is manually locked.
- Request to exit (REX)
- The options in this section are used to decrease the number of false Request to
exit events at a door.
- Time to ignore REX after granted access
- Ignore any requests to exit for the specified time after access has been granted.
- Unlock on REX
- Turn on this option if a REX is being used, and you want to automatically
grant access to all requests to exit. NOTE: Security Center does not receive REX events if the access control unit is not connected to the Access Manager. However, the REX events are received when the unit is offline and then reconnects to the Access Manager.
- Ignore REX events while door is open
- Do not generate REX events when the door is open.
- Time to ignore REX after door closes
- After the door has closed, wait the specified time before generating more REX events.
- Visitor escort rule and two-person rule
- Settings common to the visitor escort and the two-person rule restrictions.
- Maximum delay between card presentations
- Maximum delay allowed between the two card presentations to satisfy the visitor escort rule and the two-person rule restrictions.
- Two-person rule
- Setting specific to the two-person rule.
- Enforce two-person rule
- Turn on this option if two cardholders must present their credentials within a certain delay of each other to gain access. This rule can be enforced on one door side or both.
Door - Hardware tab
In the Hardware tab, you can configure the physical wiring relationships between the
access control unit and the door, and associate cameras to door sides.
- Preferred unit
- Access control unit that is connected to the door.
- Preferred interface
- Interface module that is connected to the door.
- Door side
- Readers, REXs, entry sensors, and cameras associated with the door side, that match
the physical wiring done on the controller and the door.The available reader settings are:
- PIN entry timeout
- Sets the time that you have to enter the PIN after the card has been read. By default, you have 5 seconds to enter all the PIN digits.
- Reader mode
- When the Unit default option is selected, the reader behaves in either Card only or Card or PIN mode, depending on the unit-wide parameters configured in the portal of the Synergis unit. For HID units, the reader behaves in Card only mode. When the Card and PIN option is selected, the reader behaves in Card and PIN mode when the selected Schedule is active. Outside of the selected schedule, the reader behaves as if you selected the Unit default option.
- Additional connections
- Other physical connections associated with the controller and the door.
Door - Access rules tab
In the Access rules tab, you can view the access rules applied to this door.
- Door access applies to
- Which door sides the access rules apply to.
- Both sides
- Apply the same access rules to both door sides.
- Individual sides
- Apply individual access rules to each door side.
- Access rights for door (side)
- Define who has access to this door (or door side).
- Access rules
- Add access rules to grant (or deny) access to the door to cardholders and cardholder groups based on a schedule. This is the recommended approach.
- Cardholders, cardholder groups
- Add cardholders and cardholder groups to grant them access to the area at all
times. Only use this approach for temporary situations.NOTE: If all perimeter doors of an area share the same access rules, define those rules at the area level.
Door - Unlock schedules tab
In the Unlock schedules tab, you can configure scheduled periods when the door is
not used for secured access, and no access rules are in effect.
- Unlock schedules (free access)
- Periods when the door is unlocked, and no access rules are in effect.
- Exceptions to unlock schedules (controlled access)
- Periods when the door is locked, and access rules apply.