The button tiles

The five tiles a person presses — booking check-in, check-out and extend, visitor self service, taking attendance, the door, and the screen's language — with each one's settings and where it may sit.

Updated 1 Sept 2026

One tile, one job. These are the small widgets that put a single thing to press on the screen. The codes people scan instead are in The QR code tiles, and the places themselves — plus the settings that apply to the whole design — are in Widgets and the places they go.

Booking buttons

Check in, check out and extend, as tiles. The buttons act on the bookings of the resources you point them at, and each action appears only if you turn it on.

Can go on: Action buttons

Setting	What it does	When to change it
Resources	Which resources’ bookings the buttons act on — Follow device location, All resources, By building, By floor or Specific resources. Following the device, an Auto scope row narrows it to Smart, This room, This floor or This building	Leave it following the device on a screen beside the room it serves; pick specific resources for a kiosk that fronts several
Type	Narrows the chosen resources to one resource type; empty means Any resource type	The location mixes rooms and desks and the buttons should serve only one kind
Show check-in	The tile that confirms a booking on arrival. Open door on check-in additionally releases the Door you pick at the same moment	Hide it where check-in happens at the room’s own panel or in the app
Show check-out	The tile that ends a booking and frees the resource. Open door on check-out works the same way as its check-in twin	Hide it where bookings simply run out on their own
Show extend	The tile that lengthens the booking that is running	Hide it where back-to-back bookings leave nothing to extend into

Visitor self service buttons

Reception without the receptionist: walk-in registration, check-in, check-out and re-check-in as tiles, with an optional guest Wi-Fi service. On an action tile it stays compact; on the main stage the services spread out beside a QR code, so a guest can also register from their own phone.

Its settings come in three groups — On screen, QR code and Registration — because the QR code is now an action in its own right rather than something inferred from the tiles beside it.

Visitor self service buttons on an action tile.

Can go on: Main stage · Action buttons

Setting	What it does	When to change it
Show walk-in registration	A guest without an invitation registers at the screen. Need to check-in after register keeps a separate check-in step afterwards, on this panel or at reception	Turn the second one on where reception still wants to see everyone who registered
Show check-in	The tile an invited guest checks in on	Hide it where guests check in by scanning a code instead
Show check-out	The tile a leaving guest checks out on	Hide it where nobody is expected to sign out
Show re-check-in	Lets a guest who already checked out come back in without registering again	A site guests leave and re-enter during the day
Print visitor badge label	A badge label is printed for the guest	A label printer is connected at this screen
Location	Which building’s visits the buttons serve — Follow device location, All buildings or Choose…	Leave it following the device unless one screen serves several buildings
Show guest Wi-Fi	Adds the guest network as a service. Wi-Fi source is Enter manually — with Network name (SSID), Password and Security — or Guest Wi-Fi portal, picking the WiFi login page	The lobby doubles as the place guests get online
Show QR code	“Lets a guest register from their own phone.” An explicit switch — the QR is no longer implied by the tiles	Off on a screen guests are meant to touch, or one nobody can reach with a phone
QR code route	What the scanned code does: Follow on-screen actions (the default — it does whatever the tiles do), Register only, or Register and check in	Point it straight at registration where the tiles offer more than a guest with a phone should get
Access key type	How often the code behind the QR is replaced — Daily, Hourly or Every 3 minutes, the same setting the standalone QR code widget carries. New widgets start on Every 3 minutes	Slow it down only where the screen is behind a desk. A code photographed off a lobby wall stays usable for exactly this long

Under the QR route the form says Currently followed by what the code actually resolves to, which is worth a glance when the route is left on Follow on-screen actions — that answer changes as the tiles above it change.

Open door button

One door, one press. The tile is captioned with the door’s own name — a design can carry several of these — and the press asks the person to identify themselves before the door opens. With no door picked, or nobody allowed, the tile goes quiet.

Can go on: Action buttons

Setting	What it does	When to change it
Door	The door the button releases; its name becomes the tile’s caption	Every tile needs one — add more tiles for more doors
Allow users	Lets staff identify themselves and open	Off where the button is for guests only
Allow visitors	Lets a visitor open with their visitor badge	Off where the door is staff-only
Who can open	Everyone allowed above, or only Today’s booking participants — with Participant resources naming the resources whose bookings count	The door guards meeting rooms rather than the office entrance

Take attendance

Staff sign in and out of their working day at the screen. The tile carries the enabled actions, and a press opens the sign-in sheet; with no working schedule picked it goes quiet and reads No working schedule set. The schedule itself — who is on it, and the rules a punch must pass — is Attendance’s working schedule.

Can go on: Action buttons

Setting	What it does	When to change it
Working schedule	The schedule the sign-in is recorded against; without one the tile stays quiet	Every tile needs one — pick the schedule the people at this screen are on
Sign in	Offers Sign in, to start the working day	Off at a screen people only leave by
Sign out	Offers Sign out, to end it	Off at a screen people only arrive at

With both on, the tile reads Attendance and the press asks which of the two is wanted; with one, the tile is that action and the press goes straight to it.

Language selection

The screen’s display language, changed at the screen — each language listed in its own script.

Can go on: Action buttons

Setting	What it does	When to change it
Design	List shows the languages right on the tile, one tap to apply; Button is a single tile that opens a chooser	List for two or three languages; Button where the list would outgrow the tile
Limit languages	Restricts the choice to the Language entries you pick, instead of everything the system offers	The site really uses two languages, not the whole list

What this does not control

What there is to act on. A check-in button needs a booking, the visitor tiles need the Visiting module’s records, and the door button needs a door set up in access control. None of that is created here.
Their size and colour. The design-wide font size, appearance and widget background apply to these tiles like everything else — see Widgets and the places they go.
Where the screen thinks it is. Everything set to Follow device location reads the device’s location, not the content’s.