Rock U - Check-In - Check-in - Devices

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Okay. So let's look at devices and how we configure that for check-in. Devices are configured under admin tools check-in and devices. Now, there's really gonna be two types of devices that you're configuring, the kiosks and the printers. Now, you don't always have to define your printers and we'll talk about how, you can get away with just printing locally. But, in general, those are the two types of devices that you'll be configuring in this area. So let's first look at a check-in printer. So if we wanted to define a networked, printer, we would go ahead and come in here, give it a name, a description, and then we have to put in its IP address. Okay? So that's the network, address for that printer. So now when, Rock goes out to print, it can this printer can be selected as a printer to print to. Now, this is again for network printers, and it assumes that the Rock server and the the printer are actually gonna be in the same network so that they could actually talk through this IP address. Okay. So there might be some networking configuration that you have to do if you're running, Rock at, a site off your campus or off your, organization's, network. So typically in those cases, you're gonna wanna, print from the actual kiosk device and we'll talk about that a little bit more. Okay. So now if you are doing a kiosk device, setting that up, you have, some different options. So here you're actually gonna determine how should printing work. Now, how printing work is is a little bit complex. It it you have a lot of options and sometimes those options can be a little overwhelming. In the, documentation, we have a nice little flow chart of how it's determined which printer to use. But the kiosk is one of those places that you can configure that. So we're we're gonna say here, print using the device's printer. So in this case, this is the device. So we we need to define what printer this device is gonna print to. Other options would be, hey, go go look at the location and use a printer that the location is telling you to print to. But this case, said device, so we need to tell it which printer we're gonna print to and it happens to be the printer we just set up before. And then we're gonna determine where we want to print from, the server or the client. Okay. So if we pick the server, that means the Rock server is gonna send the print request down to this IP address that we set up before on the printer. If we do it from the client, then the the client's gonna take care of that. Now, depending on what type of kiosk, what hardware you're using will determine what your printing options are. So if you're using an iPad, you can either print from the server because it never touches the iPad or you can print from the client. So in that case, the iPad's gonna handle printing to that IP address. If you're using just a a web browser, so you just maybe any kind of computer with just a web browser, then you really can't print from the client at that point. Okay? So you're only gonna be able to print from the server. Your third option, this is actually a very popular option, to use the Windows client that we provide you. So you can download that under power tools. It's a Windows app that you install on a Windows device and it basically hosts this whole check-in process. If you use that, you can choose a course to print from the server because you can do that anywhere. But you can also print from the client. And even there you have two options. You can have your client print, via the the IP address. But another option that people use is you can actually print via printer connected straight to that that computer via USB. Okay. So at that point, you don't have to worry about networking your your printers at all. It's just gonna use the USB port to print to that printer. So when you set these kiosks to, you can determine which locations this kiosk is gonna service. So down here at the bottom, just keep adding the locations. If you add a campus, it'll get all the locations underneath it. And that's setting up devices for check-in.