Designing Your First Badge Database
To design a badge database the ID badge software must be in either Supervisory Mode or higher, or Demo Mode.
The database contains the specific information to be put on each badge, the stored photographs if any, and general data common to all badges.
Each text and bar code field on the badge template can have data displayed from any combination of 3 different sources within the database. The sources are:
1. Specific information unique to each badge, from the database
2. User information which is the same for each badge, but is readily changeable
3. Fixed information which is the same for each badge using the same template
First we will create the User Information. This information contains the name and address of the owner of the database. Any of the fields in the User Information can be displayed on the badge, if desired, but it is not necessary to show any of them if you do not wish to.
