To accommodate seasonal cardholders, such as students who are enrolled during a semester, or permanent cardholders who need short term access to a restricted area, you can create and assign temporary access rules.
What you should know
NOTE: From the Cardholder
management task, you can only assign a temporary access rule to one
cardholder at a time. To assign a temporary access rule to multiple cardholders or
cardholder groups, you must update the access rule properties from Config
Tool.
For Security
Desk
users to able to create temporary access rules, you need to grant them the Add access
rules privilege.
To assign a temporary access rule to a cardholder:
-
In the Cardholder management task, select a cardholder, and then
click Modify (
).
-
Click the Access rules (
) tab > Add (
).
A dialog box listing the access rules that are not yet assigned to this cardholder opens. -
Do one of the following:
- Select an existing temporary access rule (
) and click Add. - Click Temporary access rule ().
The temporary access rule creation wizard opens.
- Select an existing temporary access rule (
-
In the Access rule information page, do one of the
following:
- Click Use an existing access rule as template, then select
from the Access rule drop-down list, the access rule you want to
use as template.
The schedule and the associated entities will be copied to your temporary access rule.
- Click Specify custom access parameters, and specify the following:
- Access to:
Expand the area view and select the entities you want to grant access to. - Activation: Activation date and time, or when the rule schedule starts to apply.
- Expiration: Expiration date and time, or when the rule schedule stops to apply.
- Schedule: Choose when this access rule is active.
- Click Use an existing access rule as template, then select
from the Access rule drop-down list, the access rule you want to
use as template.
-
Click .
A temporary access rule () is
created and assigned to your cardholder.
