A location is some sort of geographical delimitation. It should be seen as an obvious grouping of terminals with an obvious closest printer or group of printers.

Enter the locations module by clicking its icon. You will be presented with a list of currently existing locations. This could be something like the example in Figure 16.5

Figure 16.5.  Locations

To edit a location, click on its name in the list.

To add a new location to the list you press the Add location button. This will bring up an empty location edit form. See Figure 16.6 for an example.

Figure 16.6.  New location form

Fill the Name and Description fields with relevant information. Check the checkbox if this location is to be used for unknown terminals when using the printer access control feature (see Section 5.5, “ Printer Access Control ” for details).

To save changes, press the Add button. When you have pressed the Add button you will see that the Name field will change from being an editable field to become a static text label. To assure data integrity between the modules you aren't allowed to change the name of an item after it's added.

After the addition or when you click on an existing location in the locations list the interface will look like Figure 16.7.

Figure 16.7.  Edit location

The Apply button is used to save changes made to the location. The Delete Location button deletes the currently viewed location. The Add Printer button will add a new field to the form, a pop-up menu with all possible printers. An example of this can be as in Figure 16.8.

Figure 16.8.  Location details with printer

The Printer field above has the printer europa selected. Remember to apply the changes if you change printer! You can assign more printers to this location by clicking Add printer again to bring up another printer line. To remove a printer you select the empty entry in the pop-up menu (the first in the list) and then apply the changes. The printer will disappear.