by Mark Nemtsas | Jun 17, 2016 | User Testimonials
Geoffrey Keitel, Assistant Camp Director for The Gifted Child Society who are based in New Jersey reached out to us recently asking about how he might best use Time Clock MTS to track attendance at their Summer Super Stars Camp. His particular areas of concern were with the sheer number of campers, instructors, and counselors they have to track and his need for real time data. Time Clock MTS excels in these areas. I’ll let Geoffrey take it from here: The Gifted Child Society is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization from New Jersey, USA. Our vision is to become the Center of Excellence for the overall well-being of gifted children and the essential resource for the families, educators and other support groups who inspire them. Our mission is to encourage and further the overall well-being of gifted children, through each stage of their development, and to provide them with the inspiration and means by which they will achieve their full potential. In support of the above, we provide specialty enrichment programs to our gifted learners, including our Saturday Workshops and Summer Super Stars Camp STEAM program, among others. Our organization has been working with gifted children since our incorporation in 1957. Summer Super Stars Camp STEAM begins on June 27th and we are currently ramping up for our opening day. Our camp offers both academic and recreational activities for gifted students during the summer holiday from school. At this time, most of our work is manual and extremely time-intensive. We have stepped up our efforts significantly this year to streamline and redesign our operational infrastructure to create an effective and... read more
by Mark Nemtsas | Jun 2, 2016 | New Releases, News
Today we uploaded version 6.0.3 of Time Clock MTS. Changes made to this version are detailed below. Enhancements The Employee Enter Note screen has been updated to the modern UI standards used elsewhere in the software. New settings added to allow customization of labels on the front screen of the software. Labels added Enter, Refresh, Clear, Tips, and Go. These labels can be adjusted on the Display Settings screen. Changes made to about 20 screens to allow entry of non-English (such as cyrillic, Greek, Japanese and so on) characters allowing customization of the front screen of the software for non-English speaking countries. Spent some time re-ordering the draw sequences on the front screen to stop flickering. The column widths have been adjusted on the Daily Job Time Report so that the report prints on fewer pages. Fixes The vertical scroll bar now displays correctly on the Edit Times screen if you have a long employee list. The employee comments report now actually generates when you want it to. Some of the tooltip popups on the Report Configuration and Data Export screens were wrong. This has now been fixed. Cleaned up the initial values on the Sick Time and Vacation Accrual screens that were causing issues with some regional versions of Windows. Fixed an issue with the data type of the dblApplyAutomaticBreakAfter column in the settings table. For some reason it was set to a text value rather than numeric. This was causing a type conversion error in some regional versions of Windows (in particular Norwegian). Fixed the backend database data type of the dblApplyAutomaticBreakAfter column in the settings... read more
by Mark Nemtsas | May 24, 2016 | New Releases, News
The release of Version 6 of Time Clock MTS has gone reasonably smoothly but our users have thrown up a few problems that we’ve had to resolve with the release of Version 6.0.2 today. This minor release addresses these issues: The first run routine of the Time Clock MTS Client software threw an error for our users. This has been fixed and it now asks you to connect to a data file as expected the first time it is run (see image below). On the Edit Time screen an error was thrown if no Time Note was selected and the Edit Time Note button was clicked. Fixed up some bad SQL that was being passed to SQL Server or MySQL. Only affected users of the Network PLUS Edition of the software. Added some debugging to the Load Settings code to try to debug a regional issue for users of the software in... read more
by Mark Nemtsas | May 18, 2016 | New Features, New Releases, News
Today sees the release of Version 6 of Time Clock MTS, the culmination of what has been 6 months of work. You’ll only have to take a quick look at the new release of the software to understand how much has changed, the biggest areas being the user interface and the reporting engine. User Interface Every form and screen in Time Clock MTS has been upgraded to reflect the latest look and feel that you’re used to seeing in Windows 10 and Windows 8. I won’t bore you with the details but we’re talking about nearly 100 screens and nearly 10,000 screen components that have been improved. Additionally we’ve made just about every button, list, check box, drop down box and label bigger and easier to read, as well as using a clearer font. This makes the software much more pleasant to use on large, high resolution monitors. It’s also much easier for employees to use on touch screens, whether they have big 24” touch screens or are using a 10” screen on a Surface Pro tablet. You’ll probably also notice that a lot more elements on Time Clock MTS screens provide more instant feedback to your actions. That’s because we’ve upgraded many components with more modern versions that provide you with more responsive interface. Reporting We bit the bullet here and tossed out the old report display and printing engine in Time Clock MTS and re-built it from scratch. The reports you’re used to are still there, but they are now all displayed in an attractive print preview screen which allows you to customize the look and feel... read more
by Mark Nemtsas | May 18, 2016 | Tips and Tricks
This is an upgrade guide for users of older versions of Time Clock MTS wanting to upgrade to Version 6. To perform the upgrade please follow these steps: 1. Gather Required Information Note down the following information: The current version of Time Clock MTS you’re using, that information can be found on the Help->About menu. Your current registration details. You will need your registration name, key, employees and clients. All this information can be found on the Help->Registration menu within Time Clock MTS. You will need to know where your current Time Clock MTS data file is. This location can be found on the Tools->Options->System Options menu in Time Clock MTS. 2. Backup the Time Clock MTS Data File While Time Clock MTS is running you can backup your time clock data file using the Tools->Backup Database menu. Alternatively you can make a manual back using Windows Explorer and the location of the database you noted down in step 1. You’ll need to close down Time Clock MTS before you do a manual backup using Windows Explorer. 3. Download the Upgrade Installer Download the Version 6 upgrade installer from here: Version 6 Upgrade Installer and save it somewhere you can find it later. 4. Install the Upgrade Once the upgrade installer is downloaded it needs to be run. When the upgrade installation is complete choose to run Time Clock MTS. 5. Complete the Upgrade Process This section does not apply if you are upgrading from Version 5 of Time Clock MTS If you are upgrading from Version 4 or earlier of Time Clock MTS then you’ll see the above... read more
by Mark Nemtsas | May 16, 2016 | News
After more than 6 months of work we’re ready to release version 6 of Time Clock MTS this Wednesday, 18 May. During the day we’ll be uploading the new version and updating our website to reflect the look and feel of the new software. On Thursday we’ll be emailing all existing users of Time Clock MTS explaining how they can upgrade and obtain a registration key for the new version. As usual, those users with a current support contract will be eligible for a free upgrade, while those who do not have a current support contract will get a discounted upgrade price. We’ve got a blog post ready to go explaining all of the changes in the new version, the biggest of which is a complete overhaul of the reporting system. Here’s a video showing some of the changes you’re going to see in the time clock reporting areas of the... read more
