Person - Quick Start

Overview

An access control system fundamentally controls the flow of people through a secure Facility. It should be no surprise that each Person's record contains a large amount of information. In most cases entering a Person, is straight forward. Input the basic information, determine if the Person needs a login of their own. Assign them one or more Access Level or Access Level group to provide access to secure portions of the system. Assign the Person a Card so the Readers can identify them. If the Person does need to utilize BluSKY, when you assign them a Role, remember to ensure they are also given a BluSKY login.

Getting to People in BluSKY

Administering People in BluSKY

See below for more information on how to manage your personnel:

• Create a Person

• Assign a Role

• View History

• Create a New Login

• Edit a Person Basic Info

• Assign an Access Level

• Create or Change a Person Photo

• Change their Badge Template

• Change a Password

• Assign and Register a Card

• Suspend a Person

There are certainly a lot of option under this record. Most of this functionality is straightforward enough, but if you have any remaining questions, please check out the links provided above. Our knowledge base provides in-depth instruction on how to perform each task.

Search Criteria

Name	Description
Facility	The physical building the Person belongs to.
Entity	Name of the Company.
Floor	The floor or floors.
Role	A collection of permissions granted to a Person.
Search	Select the pre-selected filter to look at very specific slices of people data.
View	View will bring you to the view screen. Use this to look up information on existing entities and access Audit Info.
Search Text	This field is used to limit the number of rows listed in the list box below. To use simply type a string of characters or words. Please note you will only see those items you have the permission and access rights for. It is a good idea to search first, even when you are creating a new entry.
Search Card	Search for a Persons Card Number.
Create	Will bring you to the create screen. Use this if the entity does not exist in the BluSKY database. Be extremely careful not to create duplicates with slightly different names.
Submit	This button performs a search based on the criteria selected in the filter.
Reset	This button clears all fields in order to start a new search.

Person List

Below we have included a screenshot of the Person View List. This screen has a bunch of great features that are discussed more in the Person List View Features article.

Definitions

Name	Description
Last Name	The person's last name.
First Name	The person's first name.
M.I.	Middle initial.
Employee #	A number assigned by the employer for an employee.
Primary Card	The primary Card number of the user.
Contact Info	The preferred way to contact the user.
Primary Role	The Role assigned to the user.
System	The name of the access control system.
Facility	The name of the physical building associated with the System.
Company	Name of the Company.
Floor	The floor the person is assigned to.
Gender	The gender of the person
Start Datetime	Date and time when this access should be started. This is not to be confused with the device or access schedules.
Stop Datetime	Date and time when access should end. This is not to be confused with the device or access schedules.
Access Suspended	Whether or not the person's access rights have been suspended.
Suspension Start	When a suspension will start or has started.
Suspension End	When a suspension will end.
Login Suspended	If access to BluSky has been suspended.
Web Suspension Start	When access to BluSky was or will be suspended.
Web Suspension Stop	When access to BluSky will be or has been restored.
Date Inserted	The date this entry was added to BluSky.
Inserted By	The name of the login who created this entry in BluSKY.
Date Updated	The date this entry was last updated.
Date Deleted	The date this entry was disabled or deleted from BluSky.
Deleted By	Name of person who disabled this entry.