Designing badge templates

To use customized printing templates for credential cards, you can design new badge templates that are tailored to your needs.

To design a badge template:

1. Open the Access control task, and click the Badge template view.
2. Click Badge template ().
3. Type a name for the new badge template that appears in the entity list, and press ENTER.
4. In the Identity tab, 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.
7. Click the Badge designer tab.
8. To select the size of the access control cards you want to print, click Properties ().
9. In the Format dialog box, select a card size and orientation.
   • To create custom card size, click , enter the card name, width, and length, and then click OK.
10. Click OK.
    

    Once the card size/format is chosen, you can design the actual printing template.

11. In the Tools section, select a tool, and then click on the template to use it.
    There are six graphical tools you can use to edit the template:

    • Select tool:

      Use to click and select an object on the template.
    • Rectangle tool:

      Use to draw a square/rectangle on the template.
    • Ellipsis tool:

      Use to draw circles/ovals on the template.
    • Text tool:

      Use to insert text on to the template. You can enter a static text or add dynamic cardholder and credential text fields, such as First name, Last name, and so on.
    • Image tool:

      Use to insert a picture on to the template. You can insert cardholder pictures, a background image for the card, and so on.
    • Barcode tool:

      Use to insert barcodes on to the template.
12. 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:

      Use to modify the fill color of an inserted object like a square or oval.
    • Border:

      Use to modify the border color of an inserted object.
    • Opacity:

      Use to modify the opacity of an inserted object.
    • Border thickness:

      Use to modify the thickness of the inserted object’s border
13. If you added text to the template, select the text to edit it using the options in the Text widget.

    Right-click the text field to select the Z order, the text Border, Font, Color, and Alignment.

    In the Text widget, you can use the following tools:

    • 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 will wrap 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 will fit the text inside the text box by changing the font size.

14. 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.
    
15. In the Size and position section, select where the text, image, or barcode is located on the badge, and its width and height.
16. Click Apply.