Time Clock MTS Version 5.0.9 Released

by Mark Nemtsas | Nov 2, 2014 | New Releases, News

A new release of Time Clock MTS today, taking us to version 5.0.9. Here’s a complete list of the changes made:

• Added some new functionality to the search box on the Employee List screen. If you type a full employee name followed by a ‘+’ character then that employee will be punched in or out. Additionally if you prefix the employee’s name with an ‘=’ then the search box will immediately grab the focus. This new functionality allows the employee list screen to be used with barcode or magnetic card readers with badges of the form ‘=Employee Name+’.
• ALT-A shortcut added to bring up administrator login screen or to log the administrator out.
• Internet time server lock now can affect the keypad screen.
• Optimized the search box to stop needless database access.
• Fixed the export reports to CSV or TAB formats.
• Fixed up a multiple time punch error when holding down the ENTER key on the keypad screen.
• Put some extra interlocks in place to stop users seeing an internet time server lock when they shouldn’t.
• Fixed a typo on the Edit Times screen.
• The ‘View My Information’ button now displays the correct customized label when logged in as the administrator.
• Logging put in place for main timer loop crash seen on one computer.
• Fix for accruals where manual start date is set prior to the calculated start date.

Version 5.0.5 of Time Clock MTS Released

by Mark Nemtsas | Jun 14, 2014 | New Releases, News

Despite me saying that version 5.0.4 would be the last bug fix release for a while we’ve decided to issue another minor release that addresses some rather serious issues with the system for getting the time from internet time servers. It appears that a Windows update sometime in the last few months broke something and we’ve had to come up with a fix for it in a hurry. Version 5.0.5 contains that fix plus some other things we’ve been working on in the background. Here’s details of the changes made in this new release:

• A fix to the ‘reset forgotten password’ functionality for users of the free version, those who are in the 30 day trial period, or those who have purchased and are still waiting for their permanent registration codes.
• Complete re-work of the code that selects the last employee time punch. This significantly reduces the number of database accesses during this process and should speed up performance for users with large databases.
• Made a change to the MySQL database creation script to include some new indexes on the time table. These indexes have improved the employee list refresh speed for MySQL users by about 1000% percent.
• Re-factored some code that handles employee time punches to increase performance and reliability.
• Small changes made to the licensing system to account for recent Windows environmental variable changes.
• Fixed up an issue with importing jobs with a job code longer than five digits.
• Fixed for checking time from internet time server when computer had been running a long time (30 days plus).
• Fix to startup process that gets the time from an internet time server. This was broken sometime in the last few months by a Windows update.

I strongly advise that ALL users of version 5 of Time Clock MTS upgrade to this release and have the software running seamlessly again.

Version 5.0.4 Released

by Mark Nemtsas | Apr 29, 2014 | New Releases, News

We’ve been largely happy with the release of Version 5 of the software with just a few minor issues that needed fixing up. The last of these have been cleared up in version 5.0.4 of the software which is uploading to our website as I write this. This will be the last bug fix release before we begin development of version 5.1 which will include some new features. Here’s the details of what has been done to this version:

• The Daily Hours Report now displays times correctly in hh.mm (decimal hours) or hh:mm:ss format as per the setting on the Report Settings screen.
• The Daily Hours Report no longer displays zero activity employees if the Exclude Zero Activity Employees check box is ticked on the Report Configuration screen.
• Fix to the Database Connection Wizard that was preventing connections to MySQL or SQL Server databases.
• A fix to the time period dropdown boxes on the Edit Times screen. The first day in the last 7/14/28 days periods was not being selected correctly.
• The Enter Note screen has had a 30 second timer added to it. If the employee does not enter a note within 30 seconds the Enter Note window will close and the employee punch in or out will be cancelled.