The following guide assumes you have already installed

your Sigma Fingerscan, VisionPass Facial Reader or MorphoWave Compact Reader

(if not please see the Installation Wizard)

 

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To Backup your Employee Registrations (Fingerscans, Facial, etc.)

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STEP 1. Open your Lauranka COMMS Sigma Software

 

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STEP 2. Select 'Employees' from the 'Main Menu'

 

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STEP 3. Select/Highlight the Terminal under the 'Terminal List' (top-left of screen) you wish to backup/transfer Employee Templates from.

 

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STEP 4. Next press 'Terminal to P.C (All) or (New).' (top-right of screen) and press 'Yes' to start the backup/transfer back to your Lauranka COMMS Sigma database.

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The 'ALL' option transfers All templates, while the 'NEW' option just transfers those templates that are New. Please note we define New as being, either they do not existing in the Lauranka COMMS Sigma Software (under the 'Employees on P.C.') display but are on the Biometric Reader, or the number of Templates against the individual on the Software is less than than the count in the Biometric Reader. It is not based on the registration or re-registration date of of an employees Biometric information.

 

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Once completed all new employees will be shown (populated) in the 'Employees Templates on P.C.' box.

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To Change an Employee's registration setting to Biometric only (after doing a default registration on the Reader)

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Step 1. Ensure you have backed up your Employee Registrations (per the above STEPS 1 to 4).

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Step 2. Staying in the 'Employees' screen (from above Step 1.) select the 'Global Punch Method Alteration' option at the top of the screen. This will automatically change all default registrations to remove the keypad option.

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Step 3. Once Step 2 is completed select the employee(s) you wish to transfer back to the Reader(s) from the 'Templates on P.C. List' box and send the back to the Reader (per the below STEPS 1 to 4). Hint - please remember you can use the Shift or Ctrl buttons to select multiple employees)

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To Send/Transfer Employee Registrations (Fingerscans, Facial, etc.) to your Sigma, VisionPass or MorphoWave Reader(s)

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STEP 1. Open your Lauranka COMMS Sigma Software

 

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STEP 2. Select 'Employees' from the 'Main Menu'

 

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STEP 3. Select/Highlight the Terminal(s) under the 'Terminal List' (top-left of screen) you wish to send/transfer Employee Templates to.

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STEP 4. Next select/highlight the desired Employees you wish to send/transfer to the selected Terminal(s). Hint: you can select multiple employees by holding down the 'Shift' or 'Ctrl' buttons on your keyboard when selecting.

 

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STEP 5. Next press 'P.C. to Terminal (All) or (New)' (top-right of screen) and press 'Yes' to start sending/transferring the selected Employee Templates to the readers(s).

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Like above the 'ALL' option this transfers All templates, while the 'NEW' option just transfers those templates that are New. Please note we define New as being, either they do not existing in the Reader (but are in the Lauranka COMM Sigma Software under the 'Employees on P.C.' display), or the number of Templates against the individual in the Software is greater than than the count in the Biometric Reader. It is not based on the registration or re-registration date of of an employees Biometric information.

 

Once completed you can confirm what is actually in a Reader (a live look) by selecting the desired Reader (top-left of screen) and pressing 'Display Employees' (bottom-middle-left of screen).

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To Broadcast in one action ALL user Employee Registrations across all (same type) Readers

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STEP 1. Open your Lauranka COMMS Sigma Software

 

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STEP 2. Select 'Employees' from the 'Main Menu'

 

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STEP 3. Next press 'Broadcast' (middle-right of screen) and press 'Yes' to start sending/transferring Employee Templates From/to all (same type) Readers.

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For further information on this process and exactly how it works, including how to schedule it please click here

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To Delete an Employee across all (same type) Readers

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Please note removing/deleting an employee's templates in their entirety is in essence a 2-step process. First you need to remove/delete them from the Reader(s) themselves, and second delete their backup from the COMMS Sigma Software. The reason for separating this function is users with multiple Readers need an ability to pick and choose which Readers an employee can or cannot use. So hence the primary template is stored in the COMMS Software (subject to the Backup guide above). This means the templates on each Reader vs what is stored/backed up in the COMMS Sigma Software are treated as separate items.  

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STEP 1. Open your Lauranka COMMS Sigma Software

 

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STEP 2. Select 'Employees' from the 'Main Menu'

 

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STEP 3. Next select/highlight the desired Employees you wish to remove/delete from the selected Terminal(s) from the 'Employees on P.C.' list. Hint: you can select multiple employees by holding down the 'Shift' or 'Ctrl' buttons on your keyboard when selecting.

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STEP 4. Select/Highlight the Terminal(s) under the 'Terminal List' (top-left of screen) you wish to delete the Employees Templates from.

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STEP 5. Next press 'Remove from Terminal' (top-right of screen) and press 'Yes' to start removing the selected Employee Templates from the readers(s).

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The above function just removes the selected Templates from the Reader. If you now want to delete their Backup's off the COMMS Sigma Software as well, please proceed to Step 6 below. 

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STEP 6. Next while still having the selected Employees highlighted, right-click your mouse and select 'Delete Selected Employees...'.

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