Hello friends,

   We have purchased CipherLab 201 door access controller. It have one peripehral to scan the magnetic card. Once it is scanned it records the time and cardnumber and date. I want to utilize this as attendance system for our company. Unfortunately it is not maintained In time or Outtime. We can set times to grant and denied. But it allows any no of times to scan in the granted time.
So i want to design my own application to maintain and IN and OUT times. How can i read the data from this controller into my VB Application and automatically Insert into database. And i dont want the my program to run and open all the time. I can do my own work and once card is scanned, it should be inserted into the database w/o my interaction. Means the application should run in the background.

Thanx in advance.

what is the output file of ur attentence system usualy such kind of system built a text file if yes then ur work will be easy

It has come with one application. That records all data(time, date, cardnumber) of each employee.
From that we can export data to text file, access 97 database, foxpro dbf. But i dont want to touch that application. coz it doesnt maintain IN or OUTTIME. I want to restrict it to certain time as IN and OUT.