New features and improvements

New integrations

• Suprema 2 Biometric ACS. New Suprema 2nd generation controllers are integrated, including: BioStation 2, BioEntry W, FaceStation, BSA2-OEPW. Hardware monitoring and control supported.
• HikVision ACS. HikVision access control DS-K26хх (up to 8 readers) and DS-K28хх (up to 4 readers) are integrated. Hardware monitoring, control, configuration and auto configuration (reading configuration from the device) are supported.
• Paxton Net2 I/O Board. Receiving events from the I/O board is supported.

Software modules

• Access Manager. The following functions added:
  • When searching for users, the ability to ignore the fields with the card number and facility code is added, if no values are specified in them.
  • Added the ability to edit the visibility of all fields for the predefined Main department type, including Name, Surname, Patronymic, etc.
  • In the user search form, a department ID was added next to the user ID to simplify navigation by list.
  • The function of fast transition to users search from the context menu opened by the right click on the "Users" tab is added.
  • The dialog for printing passes improved: control buttons added, printing of all passes supported.
  • Added option to forbid removing access levels assigned to users and the time zones used in access levels.
  • Added option to forbid deletion of non-empty departments.
  • The function of saving search conditions for a specific user is added. After the Access Manager module restarts, the previously set conditions remain on the search tab.
  • Added the ability to disable inheritance of the access level of the department during the creation of the user.
  • Added the ability to select the number of users displayed in search results: 100, 250, 500, 1000, 5000, no limit.
  • Other minor improvements have been made and bugs have been fixed.

• Template Editor. The following features added:
  • Ability to rotate text in a template at an arbitrary angle.
  • Opening a template in the Template Editor by double-clicking the file.
  • Ability to save the template under a new name (Save as ...).
  • Ability to set the dimensions of the canvas in millimeters.

General-purpose Protocols

• SNMR Wparrer. GET requests are supported to perform the device polling. Minor bugs fixed.

ACS and ACS/FSA

• Apollo SDK v.2 ACS/FSA. The function of checking the active zones in the group and checking the masking level of the group is added. Supported the mode of emulation of CZ in readers. The masking of the inputs of the AIO-168 panel is supported. Minor bugs fixed.
• Castle/Sphinx ACS. The algorithm for writing users to controllers is improved. Now, with dynamic recording of users, access levels and/or time zones, the configuration is written only to the controller to which the changes apply. Due to this, recording became faster. Other minor bugs have also been fixed.

Fixes

Minor bugs fixed in: the Event Manager software module, modules for the Paradox ACS/FSA, Galaxy Dimension v.2 FSA, Forteza PID, Soyal ACS and ZK Teco ACS integrations.

Release features

ACFA 6.5 is compatible with Intellect 4.10.4. Read more about version compatibility here.

To view the documentation, please visit the product documentation portal.

Download the ACFA 6.5 installer here.