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Q. Does our Vetro’s USB Drive erase information after its data is imported into TimePilot Central? And once I transfer employee IDs onto the timeclock, is the information deleted from the USB Drive? A. Yes to both questions. All the data is removed from the USB drive after it is imported into TimePilot Central on your computer or imported into the clock. Vetro users will see one file remain on the drive. It’s called “V4520” and identifies the drive as a TimePilot drive to the Vetro clock.
By the way, if you lose the drive on the way back to the PC, you’re not out of luck: both the Extreme and Vetro clocks hold the last 12,000 transactions in their memory, so you can re-load them onto your replacement USB drive.
Contact our tech support specialists at Support@TimePilot.com or 630-879-6400 for instructions. Q. I have imported my data from my Vetro clock and the dates are off by a day. There are close to 100 entries with incorrect dates. Is there a way to do a mass change on the dates or will I have to change every entry? A. You can correct all those transactions at once. Highlight all the affected transactions in TimePilot Central (click the first transaction in the group to highlight it, then scroll to the last transaction you want to change, hold down the "Control" key on your keyboard and click the last transaction in the group. The entire group should be highlighted.). Now that they're highlighted, click the Edit menu and choose "Adjust Transaction Dates and Times." The next screen will give you the ability add or subtract minutes or days from the highlighted transactions. Q. Is there any quick way to tell whether TimePilot Central is showing me my Current Transactions or my Extracted Pay Periods? A. Yes there is: In TimePilot Central, look at the top of the list of transactions, where the column headers appear. You’ll see either a green bar or a yellow bar. The green bar indicates you’re looking at Current Transactions; if the bar is yellow, that means you’re seeing a Past Pay Period. Q. I keep hearing that RFID technology, where you wave a card at a reader, is the technology of the future. Why doesn’t TimePilot build an RFID timeclock? A. RFID readers, which are also known as proximity card readers and use radio signals from the clock to the card, are definitely popular. But we think iButton-based clocks are a much better choice for a couple of reasons:
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This month's special offer Tap TryoutAdd a Tap timeclock to your existing TimePilot System (Extreme, Vetro, Just $119!(save $20 over list price) For a limited time, we're offering our newsletter readers a $20 discount on the price of a TimePilot Tap timeclock. If you're using TimePilot Vetro, Extreme, Tap or TimePilot PC, you can add a Tap to your system. If you like it, you can add more. This is the perfect time to try out TimePilot's newest, most portable timeclock! To learn more about the deal, click here, visit www.TimePilot.com/newsletter/newsletter4.htm or call us at 1-630-879-6400. Go long, not short: Researchers have found that if you overestimate how long a task will take, you'll enjoy the task more. For instance, if it takes 20 minutes to repair a mailbox, you'll enjoy the experience more if you thought it would take you 30 minutes than if you thought it would take 10. This principle is used by amusement parks when the wait times for rides are posted: By overestimating the wait time by a bit, the customers are happier when they get to the front of the line. Walking is better than waiting: Years ago, officials at a Houston airport were receiving lots of complaints from travelers about long waits at baggage claim. They added more baggage handlers and got the average wait time down to 8 minutes, but the complaints persisted. Then they discovered that the travelers had a one-minute walk from the airplane to baggage claim, where they then stood around for 7 minutes. What stopped the complaints? They moved the gates farther away and sent the bags to the carousel farthest from the gate, making people walk for most of the 8 minutes. When they arrived at the carousel, they had a short wait (if any) for their bags. |
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