Acquire Staff Fingerprints

Obtaining fingerprint data for the orthodontists and staff in your office allows you to log into Edge and your timeclock with the touch of a finger. Each orthodontist and staff member must have their own operator account in which to store the fingerprint data.  

Important: This feature does not store actual fingerprints. Ten data points or markers are stored that enable the fingerprint matching. Except for during the initial fingerprint acquisition process when fingerprints are shown on the screen, fingerprints cannot be viewed, printed, or reconstructed in any way from the stored data.

Get Started

• Install fingerprint sensors - Install fingerprint sensors at your workstations so that your office staff can simply touch the sensor to log into Edge, and to clock in and clock out of your timeclock. In addition, patients can use fingerprint sensors at your Patient Sign-In station. See "Install Fingerprint Sensors" for details.

How to Get Here

• Home ribbon bar > Editors > Practice> Operators. (You can also search for the editor you want to work with.)

   

  Click Editors from the Tools section of the Home ribbon bar.

  

  Select Practice in the list at the left and choose the Operators option.

  

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Setup

• Choose Record to Work With - Your list of existing records appears at the left. Click the record to work with. The details for that record appear at the right.

   

  

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• Acquire fingerprint - If no previous fingerprint file is found for this operator, click Add; if a fingerprint is already stored, click Replace.

   

  

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  A graphic of the fingerprint appears in the first section of the Acquire Fingerprint screen.  Repeat three more times: The system uses all four samples to create the file. Note the Quality notation below the fingerprint samples. Samples that are not of good quality must be redone.  

   

  

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• Register files - Click Register when four good samples have been acquired, then click Yes to verify the fingerprint data.

• Test match - Ask the user to touch the sensor once more. You should see a screen indicating that the fingerprint matched, and the fingerprint icon in the User Account should turn from red to blue.

• Confirm fingerprint registration - Before exiting, you are given the opportunity to change/overwrite the stored fingerprint if needed.  This allows you to re-register existing fingerprint samples when necessary.

• Delete fingerprint - Click Clear to erase the fingerprint file for an operator. This prevents that operator from using your fingerprint sensors to log into your system.

   

  

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Now, the operator can log into your system, and into your timeclock simply by pressing the fingerprint sensor installed at that workstation.  Anyone without registered fingerprint data attempting to log on using the sensor pad will see a No Fingerprint Found on File message.

Notice!

• How to use the fingerprint reader - Always use the right index finger to acquire fingerprints or to log into your system. Press the sensor briefly and lift. Do not roll the finger on the sensor, and do not touch the sensor while the progress bar is running. (Click below for a graphical version of these instructions.)

   

  

  A larger copy of this graphic, suitable for printing and displaying near each fingerprint reader can be found at www.ortho2.com > Support > White Papers.

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• Operator / Employee Tasks
  • Acquire Staff Fingerprints
  • Change Your Password
  • Clock In & Out of Timeclock
  • Force Password Change
  • Install Fingerprint Sensors
  • Log In / Log Out of Edge
  • Logon History
  • Operator / Employee Editor
  • Request Time Off
  • Task Reminders
  • Time Clock Records
  • Time Clock Category Editor

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