AUTOMATED BANKING MACHINE SYSTEM AND DEVELOPMENT METHOD

A method for visual programming an automated transaction machine (12). The method includes the creation of terminal directors (225) that generally correspond to transactions performed by the automated transaction machine. T he terminal directors are programmed byvisually creating associations (238) between a plurality of ATM objects (230, 232) in a workspace (224). Exemplar y ATM objects include an authorization object (260), a back stage control obje ct (262), a card reader object (264), a customer profile object (266), a depositor object (268), a dispenser object (270), keypad object (272), a log ic object (274), an OCS object (276), a presenter object (278), a PIN entry object (280), a printer object (282), a sync object (284), and a transaction data object (286). The customer profile object is operative to retrieve customer profile information responsive to a determined customer of a person using the ATM. A portion of the exemplary ATM objects are operative to interface with a device interface layer (728) for communicating with physica l hardware devices (724, 726). The device interface layer is operative to retrieve rules (721) and capability features from a data store (720) for automatically switching between two or more different devices of similar typ e when one of the devices becomes inoperative.