by kathryn@timeclockmts.com | Sep 15, 2009 | New Releases, News
A fairly major release today fixing up some minor problems and adding a major new feature, job tracking. I’ll do a detailed blog entry and static web site page on job tracking so I won’t cover it in too much detail here. Stay tuned for more details on how this exciting new feature works. A brief list of the changes can be found below.
- Added job tracking. This included a new job tracking screen on the Tools->Options screen, two new reports (the active job and job time reports), a new employee setting (job tracking requirements), and two new data entry screens, the job code screen and the switch jobs screen.
- Various changes to stop Time Clock MTS grabbing the windows focus when it is not the active window.
- Fix to web cam image capturing when using the keypad interface.
- Moved the error text box on the keypad interface, it was partially hidden by another text field.
- When you’re logged in as the administrator you can double click on an employee in the employee list and be shown the edit employee details screen for that employee.
In the next few hours I’ll have some more information posted about the new job tracking features.
by kathryn@timeclockmts.com | Jul 8, 2009 | New Releases, News
I finally rolled over to version 2.3.0 of Time Clock MTS today. There’s been a large number of improvements and new features since Version 2.2.0 so I guess the time had arrived! There were several changes from the last release (2.2.16) and it’s worth discussing them in some detail here.
- Added optional data logging to the software. This logging records all changes made to clock in and out times and stores them in an encrypted table for security reasons. You can view the log for any time on via the Edit Times screen. Take a look at the online help file to read more about the view time log screen.
- Re-ordered the internet time server list to move a problem server to the bottom of the list. You can read more about the problem server here.
- Fixed up a couple of problems with the software that I’d been trying to sort out for a while. The first is a fix to spontaneously re-setting administrator passwords and the second is a fix to overtime calculations when using the ‘no double up’ setting.
You might be interested to know that the new time data logging feature and the Departmental Wages Report added in the last version were added at the request of existing Time Clock MTS users. Is there a report you’d like to see added to the software? A feature that is missing that you simply cannot do without? Well just go ahead and contact me and I’ll see how your request can be accommodated.
by kathryn@timeclockmts.com | Jun 30, 2009 | New Releases, News
A new release of Time Clock MTS today that adds a new report and a new report printing setting.
- The new report setting can be found on the Tools->Options->Report Settings screen. Called New Employee Page Break when set reports will print out with a single page per employee. When not set reports will be printed continuously with no page breaks.
This report breaks down hours worked by employee and department.
- The new report is called the Departmental Wages Report and is shown above. This report shows a simple break down of hours worked by employee, employees are sorted into departments and a departmental subtotal of hours worked is shown for each department. As usual you can access this report from the Tools->Payroll Reports menu.
by kathryn@timeclockmts.com | Jun 15, 2009 | New Releases, News
A minor release today fixing up two small bugs and adding an extra screen to catch database file permissions errors. Changes are detailed below.
- Fixed up a situation where the ‘Generate MySQL Script’ menu item would be hidden despite the software being licensed for enhanced database support.
- Fixed up a problem with automatic employee ID incrementing. This only occurred when the
Copy Selected Employee’ menu item was used.
- Added some new checks on startup to determine if database connection failure is due to insufficient file or folder permissions. If this is determined to be the case a new explanatory pop up window is displayed rather than the (not very helpful) ‘Cannot Connect to Database’ message.
by kathryn@timeclockmts.com | May 25, 2009 | New Releases, News
A minor release today with just one fix. I’ve finally tracked down and fixed a bug that caused the last clock in/out details for the selected employee to not display properly. There was a reasonably complex sequence of steps you had to make to actually get the bug to show up and it’s taken me a while to figure out what those steps were. Finally pinned them down and fixed up the problem. It was a display only problem and didn’t effect the data being recorded, despite what the screen said!
by kathryn@timeclockmts.com | May 3, 2009 | New Releases, News
I’ve just released version 2.2.12 of the software. This version contains some new logging and a new report. When an employee clocks in or out Time Clock MTS now records the Network Name and the Network Card MAC address of the computer along with the time data. There’s also a new payroll report (the Time Location Report) that displays this information along with each time. The idea behind this report is to allow administrators to detect any odd clocking behavior among employees. For example, if your employees are supposed to clock in and out from their own computers and one employee consistently clocks in an out from another PC then there may be some buddy punching happening.
For more detailed information covering the application of this new feature please read this how-to article.
