Remotely set the access mode for a door from Devices

Last modified: Friday November 18, 2022.

Normally, it is likely that you want all your doors to be accessible to authorized card holders. However, there could be situations where this might not apply, for example, during a company shutdown, or during the COVID pandemic, you might want to close an office, and have a force lock on some or all doors. On other occasions, for example if you are allowing a group of visitors to easily access a particular area, you might want a force unlock on one or more doors.

These changes to how doors are accessed are controlled from the Devices tool, and also from the Video view and Map view tools.
See Remotely set the access mode for a door from Video view and Remotely set the access mode for a door from Map view.

Task — Define the Access mode

  1. Choose Tools Tools >Devices Devices > Access Control.
  2. Select the access control point to edit.

    You can select multiple access control points and edit them simultaneously.

  3. From Access mode, select the required access mode. The options are:
    • Default provider state: Normal
    • Force Unlocked Override
    • Force Locked Override

    4. Choosing Force Unlocked Override removes access control from the selected doors.

    Choosing Force Locked Override means that the selected doors are physically locked and cannot be opened by presenting a badge or card to the card reader.

  4. Click Done.