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Q. In our TimePilot system we have 8 current employees and 17 former employees who no longer work for us. Can I delete their profiles without losing their pay information? If so, do I do it simply by deleting their profile under the profile setup menu? A. This is why extracting your pay period is important. If, as we suggest, you’ve been extracting your pay periods, and every clock-in and clock-out by the former employees is included in the extracted periods (in other words, the former employees have no clock-ins or clock-outs in Current Transactions), then you can go ahead and delete the employee profiles. You’ve got it right: You’ll delete them by starting TimePilot Central, then clicking the “Setup” menu, then “Profile Setup.” If you're using a Vetro system, you'll also need to update the clock with the changes you just made in TimePilot Central. If you r Vetro is on a network, start Vetro Data Manager and right-click the image of the first Vetro clock. Choose “Network Functions” from the pop-up menu, then “Get User Setup from Clock.” Now right-click the clock’s image again, choose “Network Functions” and click “Transfer User Setup to Clock.” Completing those two steps ensures the clock is in sync with your software. Repeat the two-step process for each Vetro clock. If you don’t have your Vetro clocks on a network—you use the USB drive to collect your data and bring it to your PC—the process is almost as easy. In Vetro Data Manager, click “Tools,” choose “USB Transfer Employee Setup to All Clocks…” and follow the on-screen instructions. By the way, if there’s a chance you’ll re-hire any of the former employees (for instance, if they are seasonal workers), instead of deleting them now and recreating their profile later, you can uncheck the “Active” box on their Employee Profile screen. That will keep the software from recognizing them as active employees and the system will not record any of their clock-ins or clock-outs until they are “reactivated.” Also, if an employee leaves your company in the middle of a pay period, setting his or her status to Inactive will prevent them from clocking in or out for the rest of the pay period but will leave their data intact. Q. Once the data is downloaded from my Extreme or Vetro clock to my USB drive, can the files be emailed? Or does the USB drive have to physically go directly from the timeclock to the computer that runs TimePilot Central? A. Yes, the files from the USB drive can be emailed. However, whoever receives the e-mail must copy the files onto to a USB drive to be able to import them into TimePilot Central. Q. We’re using our Vetro clocks on our network. We’ve hired quite a few new employees in the last few days; how do I get their names on the clocks? A. You’ll use Vetro Data Manager to transfer any changes you make in the software to the clocks in a quick two-step process. First—assuming you've already created the new employees' profiles in TimePilot Central—click the Setup menu in TimePilot Central and choose “Vetro Data Manager.” The manager will start and display an image of each clock on your network. Right-click the image of the first Vetro clock. Choose “Network Functions” from the pop-up menu, then “Get User Setup from Clock.” Now right-click the clock’s image again, choose “Network Functions” and click “Transfer User Setup to Clock.” Completing those two steps ensures the clock is in sync with your software. Repeat the two-step process for each Vetro clock you wish to add the employees to in your network. If you don’t have your Vetro clocks on a network—you use the USB drive to collect your data and bring it to your PC—the process is almost as easy. First, click the Setup menu in TimePilot Central and choose “Vetro Data Manager.” Then click “Tools,” choose “USB Transfer Employee Setup to All Clocks…” and follow the on-screen instructions. Not just for women: The wristwatch was strictly a women's item in the early 1900s. Men carried pocket watches and some said they would "sooner wear a skirt as wear a wristwatch." That changed in World War I, when soldiers found pocket watches impractical and began attaching them to their wrists with a strap. Wristwatches aren't as popular as they were 20 or 30 years ago; ask anyone under 30 for the time and chances are they'll pull out their cell phone. Speed reading: A few years ago, web site designers found that people wouldn't wait more than about four seconds for a page to appear on their screen. Since that study, people have become even more impatient: Now, thanks to broadband, if they don't see something on the screen within a quarter of a second, they tend to leave. “Two hundred fifty milliseconds, either slower or faster, is close to the magic number now for competitive advantage on the Web,” said Harry Shum, a computer scientist and speed specialist at Microsoft. |
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