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A Hardware Group contains one or more hardware products and is used as a template to assign hardware to your doors when working with the program's door and room Wizards. Hardware Groups that are also referred to as Hardware Sets are commonly used in construction documents and are included on Hardware Schedules.
This topic includes:
Field Descriptions of the Hardware Group Screen
Assigning Cylinder Products to Hardware Groups
Assigning Hardware Groups to Doors
To learn about products that you add to Hardware Groups, see Products.
When you create hardware groups for a site, start with the most common groups first. For example, if your site or a customer's site has the same matching hardware on a number of doors, then set up those hardware products as a single Hardware Group. Continue to set up additional hardware groups until you think that the common hardware groups have been identified and added. Like cylinders that are keyed alike and must contain identical keys in each cylinder, the doors that are assigned to a Hardware Group must have identical or matching hardware on each one of those doors.
Most sites standardize the hardware that's used on doors even though this varies from site to site. When new buildings are built the hardware used is set up into hardware groups or sets that appear on the project's Hardware Schedule. If you work with construction projects for your site or for your customers' sites, you can create hardware groups in the program that match the hardware groups (hardware sets) that are listed on the Hardware Schedules for those projects.
Sitemaster 200® can import the new construction Hardware Schedules produced from Allegion's SpecworksTM program. Doing so, loads all of the building's hardware and door information. This also creates all of the Hardware Groups that you can use later to assign to new doors that are added to the building during remodeling. Contact a Schlage Consultant to find out how SpecworksTM can be used for your new construction projects. See Help Central: Support Links.
The program comes pre-loaded with a Generic Cylinder hardware group that contains the pre-loaded Generic Cylinder. This is provided for your convenience. When assigning (keying) cylinders to doors, the program has a minimal hardware requirement of one cylinder product assigned to a door in order to key the door. If you do not plan on tracking the hardware that's on your doors, you can use the Generic Cylinder hardware group when using using the program's wizards to key up your doors.
1. Click the Hardware Groups icon on the main Button Bar..
2. The Hardware Group Screen opens with the Records List in the expanded view. All the fields in the Records List are empty in this mode.
3. The Description field is the default lookup field, but you may click on any of the other Field Column Names such as Project Name to look up records by that name.
Help with > Looking Up Records
4. Click on the Mode button on the top of the Hardware Group Screen to display record information about a selected hardware group. The record information is on the right side of the screen and the hardware groups to select from are on the Primary Record List on the left.
5. For technical specifications about the Hardware Group fields, see Technical Program Information.
1. Click the Add button on the Hardware Group Screen.
2. Type in a Description and Project Name for the Hardware Group and check the ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act) check box if all the products that you're adding to the group are ADA compliant. See field descriptions below.
3. Click the Binoculars button on the Products list box. This opens the Product Find Screen.
4. You can click Find All to display all products, or look up your products to group them the way that you want.
5. Use the Select column to multi-select the products to add to the Hardware Group by ticking the check boxes of those Products.
6. Click the Accept button. The Products are added to the Products list.
7. Click Save to store the record.
To learn how to assign the hardware products in a Hardware Group to doors, see the Create Rooms and Add Door Wizards.
Field Descriptions of the Hardware Group Screen:
Description: This is the description name of the Hardware Group. This field is not unique so you may have the same description (i.e., HW1) for more than one Hardware Group. This is because construction projects very often repeat the same hardware group descriptions for each project that is done for a site. Another name for Hardware Group is Hardware Set. When you name your Hardware Groups, you do not have to use any of the conventional naming methods like HW1, HW2, or HW3. You can use a name that best identifies the products used in the Hardware Group. You may also edit the names of existing Hardware Groups to anything you want. When you assign Hardware Groups using the program's room and door Wizards, you will want Description names that easily allow you to properly assign the Hardware Groups.
ADA (check box): You check this box if all of the hardware for this Hardware Group is considered to be generally ADA compliant.
Project Name: This may be the name of the Construction Project for the Hardware Group Description. It may also be the name of a building or the name of one of your customers.
Products: The Products list is a Secondary Record List that displays information about the Products that have been assigned to the selected Hardware Group. Information is displayed for Quantity, Manufacturer's Code, Part Number, and Product Description for each product listed.
To Edit Records:
Once you have records added, you can edit or delete the records as well as the linked information associated with those records. Editing and deleting records affect any parent-child relationships of those records. To learn about editing and deleting records: See Editing Records or Deleting Records.
To Look Up Records:
The program's interface provides you with an extremely efficient way to look up and sort records and to find linked record information. To learn how to look up records, see Looking Up Records.
To Access Reports:
Click on the pull-down Reports Menu at the top of the Main Menu. To learn about the reports for this topic, see Reports.
Assigning Cylinder Products to Hardware Groups
Important: For any doors that you want to assign a Cylinder/Core or any doors that will be keyed, you will need to assign a Cylinder Product to those doors. So, when assigning a Hardware Group to a Door that needs to be keyed, make sure that there is a Cylinder Product in the group. When using the Create Rooms Wizard, you assign hardware to rooms/doors by selecting the right Hardware Group to use. This Wizard also assigns Cylinder/Cores to those rooms/doors at the same time as the hardware. See Products.
Assigning Hardware Groups to Doors:
There is one method to mass-assign hardware Groups to Doors (Create Rooms Wizard), one method to assign the Hardware Group to a new Door (Add Door Wizard), and one method to assign a Hardware Group to an existing Door (Hardware Group Look Up field).
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