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Acquire Staff Fingerprints

Obtaining fingerprint data for the orthodontists and staff in your office allows you to log into ViewPoint and your timeclock with the touch of a finger. Each orthodontist and staff member must have their own user 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 ViewPoint, and to clock in and clock out of your timeclock. In addition, patients can use fingerprint sensors at your Patient Sign-In station, and to open a specific area of their own patient folder. See "Install Fingerprint Sensors" for details.

How to Get Here

ViewPoint main menu > Tools & Utilities > Edit User Accounts > Enter credentials. (To add fingerprint recognition to an account, you must log in with full administrative rights.)

Choose Your Settings

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. (You might need to click the Users tab at the top of the window first.) Note that a red fingerprint icon in the user account window indicates no fingerprint on file; a blue icon indicates a valid fingerprint is already stored for this user.
Acquire fingerprint - Click Get Fingerprint, then following the instructions on your screen, place the user's right index finger on the sensor to acquire the first fingerprint sample.
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.
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.

Now, the user 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.