The InStore_DeviceManagement module provides functionality to add, remove, and manage workstations and peripherals at a location.
InStore_DeviceManagement is a product module that acts as a modifiable wrapper for the InStore core application. To learn more about module configurability, contact the InStore support team.
Capabilities
The InStore_DeviceManagement module handles the following InStore functions:
- Connects to the device dictionary to provide users a list of currently supported devices.
- Adds a workstation, specifies whether it is mobile or fixed, and assigns peripherals to it.
- Adds a printer, specifies whether it is shared, and assigns an IP address to it.
- Adds a cash drawer, specifies whether it is shared, assigns it to a printer, and indicates whether it is eligible to use as a safe.
- Adds a PED and associates it with a printer.
- Adds a scanner.
- Adds a safe.
- Activates or deactivates devices (an inactive device may have the
Pendingstatus). - Deletes any device that does not have an active dependency to another device.
- Provides the current roster of device information for reporting in the InStore Center.
- Provides the current roster of workstations to the InStore_State module for use during login when claiming a workstation.
To check whether a peripheral is supported, see Supported hardware.
Administration parameters
You can modify the behavior of this module by setting the following administration parameters in the InStore Center:
Print parameters
Enable_Printer
Store Front parameters
Automatic_Logout_After_Financial_Transaction
User interface
This module affects the Device Management screen of the InStore colleague app UI.