by Mark Nemtsas | Nov 14, 2013 | New Releases, News
Time Clock MTS Version 4.1.7 is now available for download. This release includes three small fixes. The first fix is to the employee leave request system which resolves a problem where some requests could become orphaned from the creating employee. The second fixes up the weekly overtime total on the simple wages report. The final fix limits the accrual rate of vacation and sick time to 1000 hours per unit. This isn’t so much a fix, as more of a sanity check to the numbers that can be entered for accruals.
I should add to this that I have entered the final stages of planning for Version 5 of Time Clock MTS. That means that I’ll be limiting releases to bug fixes only until Version 5 is released (some time in January 2014). If you’ve got anything you’d like to see in Version 5 of Time Clock MTS please contact me and let me know.
by kathryn@timeclockmts.com | Aug 26, 2013 | New Releases, News
While I’m typing this Version 4.1.6 of Time Clock MTS is being uploaded to our servers. This release mostly includes minor layout fixes and corrections to the documentation. The biggest change is a change of terminology. Employees are no longer “disabled”, they are de-activated. All appropriate screen titles, button labels, and field labels have been changed accordingly. Associated documentation has also been updated as required.
by kathryn@timeclockmts.com | Aug 11, 2013 | New Releases, News
Hiding Disabled Employees in Time Clock MTS
I’m just uploading the latest release of Time Clock MTS, taking our time clock software to version 4.1.5. This new release adds one new feature, has improved job tracking performance, and fixes up a couple of minor bugs. Here’s a detailed list of the changes.
- When logged in as the timeclock administrator you can now right click on the employee list to show or hide disabled employees.
- If no employees are defined or visible (such as all employees are disabled and disabled employees are hidden) the software now provides a prompt to create employees using the Employee Maintenance menu.
- Significantly improved the loading speed of jobs. Expect a 2500-3000% speed improvement. Probably only noticeable if you’ve got a large collection of jobs that you’re tracking.
- Fixed up a display issue with displaying department folders while logged in as the Administrator.
- Fixed up an error that fired when the last employee in the employee list was deleted and departmental folders were displayed.
- Fixed a bug that created a spontaneous clock out for employees with no recorded data that were then disabled by the administrator.
Note the term re-enable and disable was (from Version 4.1.6) changed to deactivate and reactivate users.
by kathryn@timeclockmts.com | Jul 11, 2013 | New Releases, News
I’ve been working on Time Clock MTS Version 4.1.4 for a few weeks now and have uploaded it to the website today. Here’s a detailed list of the changes made to this release.
- Fixed a typo on the Vacation Accruals and Sick Time Accruals screens.
- Resetting the administrator password by answering the secret questions is no longer case dependent.
- Reworked the trial reminder to be a more attractive form rather than a simple message box. Also, the trial reminder can now be dismissed for up to seven days.
- When the trial is expired a proper form is now displayed rather than a simple message box.
- When operating in free mode there is only one reminder rather than one every time the software is started.
- There was a problem with the Job Details Report showing times booked against no job being recorded against a non existent job number. This has now been fixed.
- The “Clock All Employees Out” button on the Edit Times screen now allows the administrator to clock the selected employee (or all employees) in.
- The employee and administrator time off request screens now do proper date sorts for all date based columns.
- When a time off request is deleted from the administrator time off request screen the time off requests retain their sort order.
- Time Clock MTS now remembers the setting to automatically create a bulletin when a time off request is approved.
- The employee bulletin screen is no longer shown to employees if there are no bulletins to show the employee.
by kathryn@timeclockmts.com | May 20, 2013 | New Releases, News
On Saturday just gone I uploaded version 4.1.3 of Time Clock MTS. This new version includes a couple of bug fixes and adds a new report.
The new report is the Job Details Report. This gives a day by day and punch by punch breakdown of time spent by employees during the reporting period. If the time is spent on a job then the job code is displayed. Each punch is shown with the elapsed time in hours.
The first bug fix was to the recently added setting that allows employee list status refreshes on the Time Clock MTS Client Software. When the list refreshed the selected employee was de-selected. Now, when the list refreshes the employee remains selected. The second fix was to some of the background processing that enables employees to switch jobs rather than clocking out. One user was getting an “Already Clocked In” error. This is now fixed and the new code should result in less database accesses and will speed up the operation.
by kathryn@timeclockmts.com | Mar 28, 2013 | New Releases, News
Version 4.1.1 of our employee punch clock software has been released. The changes made in this release are primarily aimed at the employee time off requests area of Time Clock MTS but there’s a few changes made to other things too. Here’s a list of the changes made:
- No Finger Scan setting added to the employee information screen. When checked for an employee that employee will not need to scan their fingerprint to clock in and out. Useful for employees whose fingers will not scan reliably. Of course you must have the biometric time card features switched on for this setting to have any effect.
- When an employee bulletin that requires acceptance is marked as read by an employee it will no longer be displayed to that employee.
- A different icon is shown for employees that are clocked into a job on the employee list interface.
- Changed the date formats on the employee and administrator time off request screens to allow for proper date sorting when the column headers are clicked.
- Adjusted some of the text and tooltip popups on the import employees screen.
- Made several changes to the administrator manage time off requests screen. The changes include adding a time filter, relocating the time off request status filter check boxes, and adding the view time off request report button.
- Added the time off request report.
- The value of the checkbox that creates an employee bulletin on the Approve/Deny time off request screen is now remembered.
- Fixed up the import employees process to bring in employee display color and do no pay overtime settings correctly.
