With CardExchange® Visitor we use the same powerful designer interface that we developed for CardExchange® Producer. This card designer follows the latest Windows technology and is completely developed under the Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) platform. For printing graphically, XPS printing technology is used.
The interface look and feel follows the latest Windows and Office look and feel. For the setup of the functionality we have chosen to follow flow of Microsoft PowerPoint which will make it very easy to find your way inside of CardExchange® Producer Designer.
CardExchange® Producer Designer is integrated in all editions of CardExchange® Visitor. When clicking on Card Designer, the CardExchange® Producer Designer will open mentioning the edition used, showing in Configuration Mode.
As the edition of CardExchange® Visitor increases it will include a higher edition of CardExchange® Producer Designer, it is also possible to have a higher edition of CardExchange® Producer Designer with lower editions of CardExchange® Visitor with a valid license.
So for example you could have CardExchange® Visitor Standard edition along with a CardExchange® Producer Professional license, this would allow you to use conditional layouts in the Standard edition of CardExchange® Visitor. Or you could have a CardExchange® Visitor Standard edition with a CardExchange® Producer Ultimate license to allow you to use contactless encoding.
In this "Using the Card Designer" section of the manual we will refer to the editions of CardExchange® Producer.
The following is a guide to the CardExchange® Producer Designer functionality that is available as default in each edition of CardExchange Visitor®.
CardExchange® Visitor Edition |
CardExchange® Producer Designer Features |
Enter |
Go |
Standard |
Premium |
Business |
Professional |
Enterprise |
Ultimate |
All configuration is done in the Card Designer via easy drag and drop functionality (click functionality and drag it to the card design, the need for creating variables is limited to only very specific functionality like scripting (Available only in the Ultimate Edition).
Talking about scripting, the Card Designer (Ultimate Edition) contains full Python scripting language. General information about Python can be found by CLICKING HERE. For more detailed information about Python please CLICK HERE.
