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 Mark Nemtsas | Jun 4, 2009 | News
I’m in the process of creating a new ‘how to’ guide for Time Clock MTS. This will be very different to the current Help File that is available online and that ships with the software. The current help file is what I’d called ‘screen based’. It describes each screen and what each element on the screen does, but it doesn’t really tell you directly how to do perform a given task in Time Clock MTS. The new ‘how to guide’ will be very task based, and any new user to the software should be able to use it to learn how to perform almost any task within the software. You’ll be able to see the how to guide here in the blog. I’ve created a master index on the site that categorizes each how to guide entry so that you can find what you need to do more easily. You can view the How to Guide Master Index here. I’ll try to add one article a week to this guide.
by Mark Nemtsas | May 26, 2009 | News
If you’ve visited the site before you’ll have noticed that last weekend the design of the Time Clock MTS site changed completely. The new design is much cleaner and removes almost all of the clutter that made the last design hard to read and navigate. The new design moves most of the clutter into the drop down menus just under the Time Clock MTS logo. Using these menus now allows you to access many more pages of the website without having to dig through several levels of pages. The key menu is the Help & Support menu, you can now access very useful resources like how to reset your administrator password, and how to retrieve your license code in just a couple of clicks! I really hope you find this new design easier to use.
If you find any broken links or odd things on the site please email me and I’ll get it all fixed up.
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.
by kathryn@timeclockmts.com | May 1, 2009 | New Releases, News
A small release today fixing up a couple of issues and adding some formatting to a couple of reports.
- Employees on a fortnightly salary period had their hours calculated incorrectly. This is now fixed up.
- If you unchecked all of the employees on the report configuration screen and then tried to run a report by department or shift an incorrect warning was displayed and you could not run the report. This is now fixed.
- The minimize button on the report display screen has been de-activated. If you clicked on this it caused a hard crash.
- The punchard and detailed punch card reports now have blocks of data separated by weeks. This is just to make for easier reading of the report.
