NodeView 1.0 Documentation

Part of the OpenKiosk Project. © 2001 - 2004 by xynopsis

Administration

Setting an administrator password

To prevent the settings of NodeView from being modified and viewed by anyone, an administrator password must be set. An administrator account has the right to add/modify workstations, operator accounts,  the rates for your site, and other variables for your site that will affect the profit and performance of your establishment.

Click Settings -> Configuration or press ctrl-c to access the configuration dialog. Click change password to change the administrator password.

Creating operators

Operators are your employees that use NodeView in a limited way as watchers or support staff. If you want to track the amount of time they have been working in addition to the number of customers they have served, you need to create an account for each and every one of them in NodeView. Click add in the add/remove operators page to add an operator.

Each operator account have access rights* so you can limit an employee to a particular task. Additionally, you need to set an operator's password so that only he/she can use his/her account but not other operators .

Managing kiosk workstations

To control the kiosks or workstations in your network, you should add them in NodeView. Each kiosk must run the OpenKiosk client program.

First you need to create a workgroup. Currently, workgroups are used to organize the terminals in your network. In a future version of OpenKiosk, workgroups will be used to group your workstations according to type of use (e.g gaming/internet use, rate per hour, content delivery).

In the configuration window, select the workstations tab then click setup in the workgroups area to add workgroups. After you have created workgroups, you can start adding workstations in a particular workgroup. Select a workgroup from the drop-down combobox then add the workstations in the list below by clicking the add button. You must specify its name and correct IP address.

You can also perform auto-lookup* to automatically find workstations in you network without manually having to type every name and IP address.

Moving workstations

transfer

If you need to transfer a workstations from one workgroup to another, select a workstation or groups of workstations, right click on the selection, then transfer to your desired workgroup.

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* In version 0.8: Not yet implemented