Time Clock & Vantage 6.1

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Like Todd said, the LaborDtl is linked to the LaborHed records so you must have a LaborHed before you can add LaborDtl's. If your other form of time clock could execute an external application when an employee clocks in/out, you could use the Vantage Labor Collector/Gateway module and have an external application take the information from your other time clock and create a record in the vtran.dbf database which the Labor Collector/Gateway would import into Vantage for you. That way the one time clock would clock a user in/out of both systems.

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From: vantage@yahoogroups.com [mailto:vantage@yahoogroups.com]On Behalf Of Todd Caughey
Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2007 12:58 PM
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [Vantage] Time Clock & Vantage 6.1



Can't see how not to have to clock-in labor wise given that the job part of clocking in the labor detail records are linked to the labor header record. DB structure requirements mean it has to create the header first. Also the lunch times and such are in the header if this is deducted form the labor cost applied to the job. A combo of labor edit, to force out the people who forget, and some disciplinary actions have eliminated the problems for us from forgetting to clock out.
-Todd C.

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From: vantage@yahoogroups <mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com> .com [mailto: vantage@yahoogroups <mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com> .com] On Behalf Of sheehanam21
Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2007 12:45 PM
To: vantage@yahoogroups <mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com> .com
Subject: [Vantage] Time Clock & Vantage 6.1

I was just wondering if anyone knows of a way to use Labor Collection
without using the Time Clock feature?

We are not interested in recording employee attendance and the time
clock feature occasionally creates problems for the users if they
forget to clock out for the previous day.

Simply clocking in and out of jobs is the information we care about.

Thanks in advance,
Tony

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I was just wondering if anyone knows of a way to use Labor Collection
without using the Time Clock feature?

We are not interested in recording employee attendance and the time
clock feature occasionally creates problems for the users if they
forget to clock out for the previous day.

Simply clocking in and out of jobs is the information we care about.

Thanks in advance,
Tony
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Can't see how not to have to clock-in labor wise given that the job part of clocking in the labor detail records are linked to the labor header record. DB structure requirements mean it has to create the header first. Also the lunch times and such are in the header if this is deducted form the labor cost applied to the job. A combo of labor edit, to force out the people who forget, and some disciplinary actions have eliminated the problems for us from forgetting to clock out.
-Todd C.

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From: vantage@yahoogroups.com [mailto:vantage@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of sheehanam21
Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2007 12:45 PM
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Vantage] Time Clock & Vantage 6.1


I was just wondering if anyone knows of a way to use Labor Collection
without using the Time Clock feature?

We are not interested in recording employee attendance and the time
clock feature occasionally creates problems for the users if they
forget to clock out for the previous day.

Simply clocking in and out of jobs is the information we care about.

Thanks in advance,
Tony





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We also only care about labor collection as our payroll is under another
system. And we encountered the same problem. What I've been doing is using
a report to find all those who forgot to punch out. The report works by
first in your Data Collection Module config, check off "Calc Idle Time"
Then filter the report by showing all Indirect code = IT (Idle time) and
labor hours is say > 0.5 hours. That works if the employee logs off of a
job and forgets to log off of time and attendance. I also use another
report that shows labor details with excessive hours (say Greater than a
full shift/8 hours or so) on any job. That finds the records where an
employee forgets to log off both the job and time and attendance.

Hope this helps

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From: vantage@yahoogroups.com [mailto:vantage@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of
sheehanam21
Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2007 1:45 PM
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Vantage] Time Clock & Vantage 6.1

I was just wondering if anyone knows of a way to use Labor Collection
without using the Time Clock feature?

We are not interested in recording employee attendance and the time
clock feature occasionally creates problems for the users if they
forget to clock out for the previous day.

Simply clocking in and out of jobs is the information we care about.

Thanks in advance,
Tony



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