Access schedule basics

Day types and calendars

Accessia uses calendar-based access schedules, with the ability to create day types.

• Day types are configurable templates for defining the site’s access schedule on any given day
• The calendar allows you to apply those day types to specific days

Example

You might create a day type for how a building will be accessed on typical working days:

Day type name: Work day

Applies to: Every Monday to Friday

Accessia provides a ‘No access’ day type by default, which locks all access controlled doors. You can’t modify this day type.

Rooms and doors

Access schedules define who can enter a room. Doors inherit their access rules automatically from the room.

Example

Your break room has 2 entrances from the hallway.

Everyone in the Finance team is added to to the access schedule for the doors into the break room.

Both doors from the hallway into the break room automatically inherit access rules from the room to allow all Finance team members access.

Zones

When there are two or more rooms that can be accessed by the same users and groups, adding those rooms to a zone reduces duplicate work when setting up the access schedule.

Example

You have 5 meeting rooms that all employees can access.

These meeting rooms could be added to an ‘All employees meeting rooms' zone.

Create an access schedule

1. Create a day type

1. Go to Site setup > Day types tab
2. Create a new day type with a suitable name and icon

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You can copy access from an existing day type. This is helpful when your new day type will have a similar access schedule to an existing one. Copying the access schedule won’t link the two day types in any way

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1. When you’ve created the new day type, all the rooms and zones on the site will be listed