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Defining Equipment as Kiosks

As discussed in Using Archibus Workplace on a Kiosk, your site may wish to running Archibus Workplace in kiosk mode on a centrally-located machine in the lobby or conference rooms, as well as on tablets. Once you decide the locations for your kiosks, follow these procedures to set up Archibus Workplace in kiosk mode on these machines.

Prerequisite

For centrally-located machines and tablets that you want to uses as kiosks, set the Equipment Standard to KIOSK-LOBBY or KIOSK-CONFERENCE. Additionally, an item whose equipment standard is set to KIOSK-CONFERENCE must be located in a room whose Reservable Meeting Space field is set to Yes.

Procedure

1. Physically go to the machine or tablet that you want to set up as a kiosk.
2. Load the Building Operations / On Demand Work/ Inventory Manager / Define Equipment task (or other task that loads the ab-eq-edit.axvw view).
3. Use the Smart Search console in the Equipment pane on the left to restrict the list of equipment items to those with an Equipment Standard value of KIOSK-LOBBY or KIOSK-CONFERENCE.
4. Click on an equipment item to display its details in the right pane.
   
5. Click Register Device, in the upper right corner of the right pane.
6. Using the same browser, in the browser address bar enter the Archibus Workplace URL (such as, http:/<server name>/archibus/workplace).
7. Make the browser window full screen. Archibus Workplace appears on your device in kiosk mode (either as a conference room kiosk or a lobby kiosk).
8. Archibus will sign you out and sign in the GUEST user so that the kiosk is available for other users.
9. To unregister the device as a kiosk, clear the browser cookies.

Note: You might wish to check that the location fields of the equipment item that you choose as a kiosk are accurate. Archibus Workplace uses these location fields in its workflow. For example, a lobby kiosk displays the floor plan of the equipment item's floor as the default screen. Similarly, when users make maintenance requests from kiosks, the request form is automatically completed with the location of the kiosk.

Procedure (Archibus Foundations)

1. Physically go to the machine or tablet that you want to set up as a kiosk.
2. Load the Foundations Manager home page.
3. From the Foundations Manager home page, select the Business Process / Define Kiosks task.
   
   
4. The left panel lists all the equipment items that are defined as kiosks. These items have an Equipment Standard of KIOSK-LOBBY or KIOSK-CONFERENCE. The right pane lists the details of each equipment item.
5. If your current equipment item is not yet registered in Archibus, create a new equipment item and establish it as a kiosk:
   • Click Add in the Kiosks panel and complete the fields in the Define Kiosk panel.
   • Set Equipment Standard to KIOSK-LOBBY or KIOSK-CONFERENCE, depending on its location.
   • If you set the Equipment Standard to KIOSK-CONFERENCE, the item must be located in a room whose Reservable Meeting Space is set to Yes. Otherwise, you will not be able to register it as a kiosk.
   • Save the record. Proceed to step 7.
6. If your current equipment item is registered in Archibus but does not appear in the list, it does not have an Equipment Standard of KIOSK-LOBBY or KIOSK-CONFERENCE. Use the Background Data / Define Equipment task to change the standard and then proceed to step 7.
7.  f the current equipment item is registered in Archibus and has a standard of KIOSK-LOBBY or KIOSK-CONFERENCE, it will appear in the list.
   • Locate the equipment item in the list and click on it. Its properties display in the right pane.
8. Click Register Device.
9. Using the same browser, in the browser address bar enter the Archibus Workplace URL (such as, http://<server name>/archibus/workplace).
10. Make the browser window full screen. Archibus Workplace appears on your device in kiosk mode (either as a conference room kiosk or a lobby kiosk).
11. Archibus will sign you out and sign in the GUEST user so that the kiosk is available for other users.
12. To unregister the device as a kiosk, clear the browser cookies.