by kathryn@timeclockmts.com | Jan 18, 2010 | New Releases, News
It’s 2010 and I’ve just made the first new release of Time Clock MTS for the new year. This new version contains a couple of new reports, some user interface tweaks, and a number of usability improvements and bug fixes. As usual the changes can be found below.
This report provides a simple line by line summary each employee’s punch in and out pairs along with the department they belong to.
- Added a new report, the Simple Attendance Report (see above).
- Added a new report, the Time Breakdown Report.
- Employees can now view their own job punchcard report as well as the punchcard report.
- If PIN entry or fingerprint security is turned on then employees must re-validate before they can view their own timecard or job punchcard.
- Changed the message shown to users when Time Clock MTS cannot connect to the database due to insufficient file permissions. Turns out the same error is returned when the directory the database is in is disconnected or if the database file is opened exclusively by someone else.
- Fixed up an error that one user reported when viewing the options screen in the Time Clock MTS Client.
- Fixed up an error that occurred when the employee bulletin screen was open and the software was closed down.
- Changed the way that restricting an employee from clocking in too early works so that limits close to midnight are handled correctly.
by kathryn@timeclockmts.com | Dec 29, 2009 | New Releases, News
I’ve released a new version of Time Clock MTS today that fixed up a small problem with the Job Time Report. Occasionally it would not show the last time from the reporting period. There’s also been some detailed debugging code added to the Internet Time Server update procedure and more debugging code added to try to determine the reason for an error that one user reported yesterday.
I’ve also included one other fix to a problem that may not even be a problem. Some of our other products (namely Timesheets Lite and Timesheets MTS have been experiencing crashes due to broken Windows Scripting installs on Windows XP Service Pack 3. I’ve put in some code to catch this error if it is happening in Time Clock MTS.
by kathryn@timeclockmts.com | Dec 28, 2009 | New Releases, News
I’ve released a new version of Time Clock MTS today that tweaks a couple of major areas of the software, the capturing of images by camera feature and the getting the time from an internet time server security option. The details of the changes can be found below:
- When Time Clock MTS contacts our web servers to check if there is a new version available it now times out the check after 5 seconds rather than 60 seconds.
- Completely re-worked the way any attached cameras are accessed by Time Clock MTS when using the options page. Now the cameras are only accessed when you’re on the Camera Settings page. Also, a warning message is displayed during the delay while the cameras are being connected to. This should significantly speed up the loading of the options page.
- Changed the tips form so it no longer prevents access to the main application screen.
- Added a button to the Welcome Screen that takes users to the employee PIN tutorial when they first run the software.
- Dropped two servers (nist1-ny.WiTime.net and nist1.uccaribe.edu) from the internet time server list that were not working any longer, and added three new ones that are working.
- Changed the internal frequency that Time Clock MTS checks the selected internet time server to just under 15 minutes. This means there must be at least 5 failed time checks before Time Clock MTS will prevent clock ins or outs.
- If at least one successful check of an internet time server has happened since Time Clock MTS started running it will no longer lock out users if the time server cannot be contacted again.
- Fixed a bug with the time server code where the previous checked time could sometimes be returned when checking the time again.
- Fixed a bug within the time checking code that could result in multiple calls to the time server.
- Made sure that the internal time server checking process timer started even when the checking process failed on starting up Time Clock MTS.
All of these changes should prevent some errors that some users have been seeing and will make running the software a much easier and smoother process.
by kathryn@timeclockmts.com | Dec 11, 2009 | New Releases, News
I’ve just released Version 2.5.2 of Time Clock MTS containing some reporting fixes and an enhancement to the job tracking system. Details of the changes can be found below.
- Added the employee job creation setting. This allows employees to create new job when they are logging times against a job. This could be useful if your employees use pre-numbered job or service sheets and only record one or two times against a job. It will help to minimize administrative overhead and the need to have jobs pre-defined.
- Fixed up the column formatting on the Simple Wages Report.
- Fixed up the Job Punchcard Report, which was dropping off the last days times from the job totals.
- Tried to fix up the invalid characters some users have been seeing when they export their reports to Excel.
- Fixed up a problem with the departmental folder display of the employee list. When an employee was selected and the list was automatically refreshed the employee was unselected.
by kathryn@timeclockmts.com | Nov 21, 2009 | New Releases, News
A very minor release today containing a couple of fixes. The first fix solved a problem where too many rows were being displayed on the employee list when there were departments defined with no employees assigned to them. This only affected users who had the show department folders on employee list feature turned on.
The second fix has loosened up some of the licensing checks in the software to stop a number of false licensing failures that users have been experiencing. Hopefully these changes will prevent properly licensed users from being inconvenienced any further.
by kathryn@timeclockmts.com | Nov 17, 2009 | New Releases, News
Version 2.5.0 of Time Clock MTS was released today. While there isn’t a large number of changes from the last release I feel that the number of new features that have been added since 2.4.0 and the large improvements in reliability justify the minor version update. Changes from the last release include:
- Added department folder view to the employee list interface along with a new setting to turn this on. More on this in a subsequent blog entry.
- Added mouseover highlights to employees on the employee list.
- A few tweaks to the way the employee list interface works to ensure it is updated correctly when editing employees or changing program settings.
- A default report is now selected on the Payroll Reports screen when first running the software.
