Specifications

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ID Works Basic Version 5 Administrator’s Guide
Try It Out
Run the project in the Production and Reporting applications to make
sure it behaves as expected and produces error-free results:
• Are text fields wide enough for all the characters that need to be
entered in them?
• Are any composite fields on the Production Form configured
correctly, and coordinated with the corresponding card or report
block field?
• Can you save records to the database—and retrieve them?
Also consider having your Production operators test the project and
make suggestions for improvement.
Implement Production
If you work in an organization with a single office, you can begin using
your ID Works project as soon as you have completed the design and
testing.
If you are designing a project that will be used in a number of facilities
or on a number of computers in a single location, you will need to plan
for the following aspects:
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).