Specifications

ID Works Standard and Enterprise Version 5 Administrator’s Guide
1 System Overview
Datacard® ID Works® Standard and Enterprise
identification software includes four applications:
ID Works Designer lets you create projects that
meet your organization’s specific needs for card
designs, report designs, data entry, and database access.
In some organizations, one person performs all the Designer
functions. In others, a graphic artist may be responsible for card
designs while a programmer, database administrator, and/or
manager develop the Production Forms, reports, and connections.
ID Works Production lets a Production operator use the projects you
create in the Designer application to gather information, access your
database, and print identification cards.
ID Works Reporting lets a Production operator generate and print
image-rich reports from your database.
ID Works Administrator contains tools to manage user accounts,
monitor security, and configure your ID Works software.
Introducing the ID Works “Project”
An ID Works project is similar to a folder or directory on a computer: it
is the container that holds information about an identification
implementation. In fact, when you create an ID Works project, the
software creates a folder on your hard drive with the name you give
the project. And, just as you can have many folders on your
computer, you can have many ID Works projects. The only limitation
is your disk capacity.
A project contains a Production Form and one or more card designs
(although a card design is not required). Optionally, your project can
contain one or more report designs and one or more stored searches.
By using field connections, information entered in a Production Form
can be saved in a database, printed on a card, used in a report, or all
of the above. The Production Form can also be used to query an
existing database so that you can add or change information in the
database or print cards and reports using information in the database.