Specifications

ID Works Standard and Enterprise Version 5 Administrator’s Guide

Production-only

Systems

ID Works software was designed to

be modular, so you need to

purchase only the truly necessary applications for each of your

locations. For example, a corporation with a headquarters and five

manufacturing plants might choose to have all identification cards and

ID Works projects designed at headquarters on a system with the

Designer application, then export the projects to the manufacturing

plants, where ID Works Production products are used.

This chapter is written for the ID Works System Administrator. It pulls

together all the information you need to consider when you distribute

ID Works projects to production-only systems.

Physical Components

Your overall system will work most consistently if all the ID Works

stations in it have the same image capture devices and printers.

Having identical components will allow you to set default values that

save your Production operators time and effort. For example, assume

all your ID Works systems have the Datacard Tru photo solution as

the image capture device. When you add a photo field to the

Production Form for your project, you can specify the Tru photo

camera as the Default Photo Source on the Source tab of the Edit

Field Properties [Photo] dialog box and you can specify that the

camera initiate capture as soon as the Production operator enters the

field (by selecting Automatically When Field Selected on the

Advanced tab of the dialog box). When used by the ID Works

Production application, a project with the settings described above

will save the Production operator two steps (selecting the photo

source and starting the capture process).

Individual computers in your system can have different processing

capabilities without significantly affecting how projects are used, but

different monitor capabilities may affect how the Production window

appears. If you develop and test your project on a large format, high

resolution monitor but the Production operators will be using smaller

monitors with lower screen resolution, there may be a difference in