Login IDs/PINs

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No manual logins...

Don't show a keypad for volunteers to sign in. This requires that they use their barcode or magnetic stripe ID card to sign into the kiosk.

Hide PIN numbers with "*" when logging in

If checked, as the volunteer enters his PIN/password, it will not be shown on screen. Instead a series of asterisks will be shown.

When logging in, show this as the blank PIN

Usually the numbers 0000 will be displayed when checking in. This changes it to any value you want.

Numeric login IDs/PINs

Volunteers get numeric PINs only. When checked, and manual logins are not disabled, a numeric keyboard will be shown for them to log in with.

Automatically assign a login ID/PIN to new people

When creating a new person, VSys will determine the numerically highest PIN code already assigned and give the new person a value of that highest one +1.

Minimum new PIN to create, Maximum

When VSys creates a new PIN for someone, if the first available PIN is less than the minimum value here, it will use the value you enter.

If the maximum value here is not zero, VSys will ignore any pre-existing PINs which are greater than this number. For example, if you have PINs right now which run from 1000-4035 and one which is 10345, VSys would normally make the next PIN as 10346. The settings above will make that next PIN 4036, since all those above 6999 are ignored. If 6999 is taken, no PIN will be allocated.

No passwords required
Manually assign passwords to each person	Each person is manually given a password.
Automatically calculated password	VSys calculates a password for each volunteer and keeps it up-to-date when that volunteer's information changes.

Text to display on the [Log in] button at the main screen login keypad

A value entered here will show in place of the text "Log in" on the button near the login keypad on the main kiosk screen. (Version 3 only)

The terms ID and PIN may appear to be used interchangeably here. While they both refer to how a volunteer logs into the touchscreen/kiosk, the ID generally refers to an alphanumeric login while PIN is a numeric login.