Device Name
EazySetup - Device Name
Every device on the network (EazyTouch, EazyScan and Android) has to have a unique name. The names configured here must match the names set up on the actual scanning devices. This defines the scanners/touch screen terminals/ tablets and not the users of the software.
It is important for TransLution to know the names of all the devices on the network because when permissions are defined, they are defined for devices and for users. The device maintenance form is shown below.
The fields on this form are described below:
Description: This is the unique name of the device
Long Description: This is simply a text field used for additional information
Device Type: Select if the device is EazyTouch or Android
Licence Type: Choose fixed or concurrent as described above. Generally Andriod scanners should be defined as fixed.
If there are occasional users of devices (such as an EazyTouch grid) then multiple users can 'share' a single license by defining the devices as concurrent.
The key difference, is that there can be as many concurrent devices defined as you like but the number of users will be limited by the license. Therefore you can have 10 devices defined as concurrent but if there are only 3 concurrent licenses, then only 3 can be used at a time. The first three logons will succeed and any other attempts to log on after that will fail. There is a form to manage users and log them off remotely. With a fixed device, the device has its own fixed license and it can never be 'stolen' or used by someone else. Devices being used for business critical processes must be fixed to ensure that no-one uses their license.
Printer Name: This specifies the default printer if printing reports from this device. This is used by the TransLution Print Service.
Second Printer Name: This is a holding place to store another printer name. It is not used by core TransLution but can be used by custom applications and for things like defining the barcode label printer that is used with a specific device.
MAC/IP Address: This field is populated by TarnsLution the first time the software runs on a specific scanner. We record the address of the device where TransLution is running to ensure that people don't try to use the same device name multiple times. This would be a violation of the licence agreement ans would adversely affect all our audit trails as well. This field cannot be edited.
Unique Identifier: This is also used for licenced and cannot be edited.
Version Number: Shows the version of TransLution running on the device. Cannot be edited.
Area: This is an optional field which helps to group scanners when managing large numbers of scanners as described here
Device Mode: Only required for older versions of TransLution and please ensure the the mode is set to MANUAL for all devices
Copy to new device: This opens the same form as the Scanner Copy menu item.
Clear Identifiers: This resets the MAC/IP Address and the device identifier. There are times when say a scanner breaks. If you want to replce the broken scanner with another device, it will have a different set of identieifers and TransLution won't allow it to be used. Clearing the identifiers effectively resets the device name and means you can now use the new device. This doesn't mean you can have two active devices with the same name. This feature is to alow you to replace once device with another using the same name for the new device.