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.

64-Bit Data Update - Need to convert 32-bit fingerprint data to 64-bit fingerprint data? Click here.

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.

Use This Feature

Open User Accounts Table - 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.)
Select Existing Record - Your list of existing records appears at the left. Click the record to work with, then review and edit the details at the right. (You might need to click the Users tab at the top of the window first.) 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.
Open Fingerprint Screen - 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.
Acquire Fingerprints - 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 at the bottom of the fingerprint screen 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 ViewPoint user's account should reflect the change.
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 ViewPoint system, and into your time clock 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.