RISCO Group ACWS - Manual (Page 7)

User Manual for ACWS
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About ACWS
Access Control Web Station (ACWS) is a Web-based application (a part of the Risco Access Control System).
The application is used for two purposes:
• Visitor Management
• Automation Execution
1.1 Users and Prerequisite
A person can log on to ACWS application if Can Host Visitors and/or Can Execute Automation option is
enabled for that Person in the Access Control User Station (ACUS). Even if any one of them is enabled, you
will be able to access that particular feature in ACWS. For example, if only Can Host Visitors is enabled, then
you may add visits and visitors only. The Trigger Automation option will not be visible.
1.2 Features of ACWS
ACWS currently offers the following features:
• Using ACWS, you (who is an employee of the organization where RAC system is deployed) can add
visits and visitors in the system.
• The visits and the visitor details that are created in ACWS are reflected in ACUS and can be viewed
and monitored by the administrative office of any organization.
• You can only view those visits that are hosted by the current logged on user. However the person
can view all the visitors currently present in the section data.
• Apart from visitor management, you can execute automations from ACWS. The automations that
are marked to be executed from any Web page are visible in ACWS. You may execute the
automation as configured in ACUS. There are three scenario’s which are discussed in detail in
Section
4 Executing Automation .
• ACWS is a multilingual application that supports five languages – English, French, Italian, Dutch and
Hebrew.