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Time Clock MTS Changelog

What's new in Time Clock MTS 6.1.7

Aug 13, 2019
  • NEW - Added Employee Daily Time Report
  • ENHANCEMENT - Changed the way cleaning up old captures images worked, only tries once per day, and uses a different non-blocking method
  • ENHANCEMENT - Added 7.5 minute increment for clocking in too early to a shift
  • ENHANCEMENT - Added Supervisor Login flag and password for departments
  • ENHANCEMENT - Added new Supervisor Login form accessible from the Client software. When logged in a department supervisor can only run reports on employees in their own department.
  • ENHANCEMENT - Added keep images for 3 months option for image capture
  • ENHANCEMENT - Added 7.5 minute rounding interval
  • ENHANCEMENT - Added Seven Eight rounding for 15 minute interval
  • FIX - Maximized window setting for client software
  • FIX - Work around for situations where registration details are not be recorded to ini file.
  • FIX - Extra logging put in place to work out where overflow error was happening on keypad.
  • FIX - Get tick count wrap check put in place in database connection test
  • FIX - OT2 earnings amount display in 7 reports
  • FIX - Time Breakdown Report now displaying rounded time values correctly.

New in Time Clock MTS 6.1.6 (Feb 14, 2018)

  • FIX - to employee status query if there is more than one note per time punch
  • FIX - Time note query for employee status is now grouped by time id
  • FIX - fix to updating employee status properly on departmental list view
  • FIX - tie breaker sort criteria added for employee status check that returns more than one record
  • ENHANCEMENT - stopped checking deleted employees status during employee status check for employee list
  • ENHANCEMENT - employee count now combined with employee status query to remove one move required query when filling employee list

New in Time Clock MTS 6.1.5 (Feb 7, 2018)

  • Enhancement filling employee list now done via a single query rather than a query per employee. Should greatly improve refresh speed.
  • Enhancement removal of needless database access queries while filling employee list.
  • Enhancement employee status report now generated via atwo queries rather than query per employee. Should improve generation speed.
  • Enhancement database access when checking compliance with license conditions greatly streamlined
  • Enhancement When viewing releaee notes on check for updates screen you are not redirected to the release notes page on our website
  • Enhancement The database keep alive check is only carried out if it's been more than 10 seconds since the last check
  • Enhancement Removed needless second duplicate time check when punching someone in or out.
  • Enhancement Removed parameterized MySQL Date queries. The paramterized queries were making three round trips to the server. Non parameterized queries appear to only take one.
  • Enhancement Added "Click for More Help" link to popup message when Stand Alone Edition running on more than one computer.
  • Enhancement Added HHNNSS and HHNNSS AMPM time format for event based Data Exports
  • Enhancement Changed first time punch PIN prompt to proper styled window
  • Enhancement Changed first admin login prompt to proper styled window
  • Fix replaced all instances of http://www.timeclockmts.com with https://www.timeclockmts.com
  • Fix To crosstab query when loading times to account for multiple time notes recorded against one time punch
  • Fix Status icons on Edit Times now displayed correctly for employees who were in collapsed treeview nodes

New in Time Clock MTS 6.1.4 (Nov 20, 2017)

  • Fix - Tightened up the routine that checks if there is activity in a report period to stop zero activity employees being reported on.
  • Fix - To available sick time / vacation balance when overrided anniversary date was used.
  • Fix - Windows version detection code replaced with .NET equivalent that actually works
  • ENHANCEMENT - Deactivated employees no longer shown on Missing Days Report
  • ENHANCEMENT - Employment type now cached with employee upon first access
  • ENHANCEMENT - Employment type now no longer loaded when passed an ID of zero
  • ENHANCEMENT - Bulletins assignments now no longer loaded when passed an ID of zero
  • ENHANCEMENT - Time Punch Cache created to speed up report creation. Currently is experimental and only turned on for Punchcard, Payroll Summary, Job Punchcard and Working Hours Reports. Cache works for selection of normal time punches, classification punches, and job code punches. It also adds a new crosstab query to check if there are any notes associated with a time to prevent the database being checked for each time punch. Can expect a 70-80% reduction in queries to database during report generation. Speed increases on generation reports seem to vary from between reducing time by 50% to 90%.
  • ENHANCEMENT - Time Punch Cache enabled for data export (aggregate and event based).
  • ENHANCEMENT - Crosstab query for time notes included in employee selection routine on employee list-ENHANCEMENT - Crosstab query for time notes included in edit times population routine
  • ENHANCEMENT - Holiday collection is now cached for faster access, to stop repeated database accesses, and for much simpler checking for existence of a holiday on a given date.
  • ENHANCEMENT - Heading for Total column on Daily Job Time Report changed to Total Cost
  • ENHANCEMENT - No more attempts to load Zero ID / Zero Code jobs from the database
  • ENHANCEMENT - No more NextJobCode loading for Event Based database exports

New in Time Clock MTS 6.1.3 (Aug 3, 2017)

  • Fixes:
  • Time Clock MTS Client first run issues resolved.
  • Error checking and logging put in for reports to be more obvious when software fails due to malformed font installation on computer.
  • Referenced ADO 6.0 Back Compatibility library for pre Windows 7 SP1 compatibility
  • Various issues with installer that lead to DLL referencing problems

New in Time Clock MTS 6.1.1 (Jul 22, 2017)

  • NEW - Time Clock MTS Client can now override the Kiosk Mode setting locally.
  • -New - Last Person Out Message can now be shown when last person punches out. Set on Display Settings screen.
  • -NEW - Job Labor Breakdown Report added.
  • -NEW - Employee list status messages added. Messages shown on employee list.
  • -NEW - Can now set punch in / out time when manually punching employees in from the Edit Times screen.
  • -NEW - Active in Period Report added.
  • -ENHANCEMENT - Employees can now have negative starting balances for Vacation/Sick Time. Can only be set on the Employee Payroll Information screen, starting balances for the accrual schemes themselves cannot have negative starting balances.
  • -ENHANCEMENT - Warning displayed if starting up Time Clock MTS Administrator program and it's already running
  • -ENHANCEMENT - If logging in as the admin with the Time Clock MTS Administrator program and it's already running elsewhere you must now log the other computer out BEFORE being able to use the admin functions.
  • -ENHANCEMENT - Cleaned up the messages for the Stand-Alone and Network Edition when the allowable number of client connections is exceeded
  • -ENHANCEMENT - Employee list messages displayed on Current Status Report
  • -ENHANCEMENT - Job name column added to Job Detail Report and format changed to landscape.
  • -ENHANCEMENT - Replaced various message popup screens with more modern and reliable .NET alternative.
  • -ENHANCEMENT - Deactivated employees are no longer shown on edit times screen if they are hidden on the main employee list.
  • -ENHANCEMENT - Hourly rate field can now be exported to event based export formats
  • -ENHANCEMENT - Data caching system added to greatly improve speed of some reports especially the job based reports
  • -ENHANCEMENT - Job and PIN entry keypads have been made about 50% bigger.
  • -ENHANCEMENT - field now available to Employee Header and Employee Details report section templates
  • -ENHANCEMENT - field added to Payroll Information report section template
  • -ENHANCEMENT - field added to Payroll Information report section template
  • -ENHANCEMENT - Adjusted size of Data Field dropdown on Report Settings screen
  • -ENHANCEMENT - Increased size of Manage Connections screen
  • -ENHANCEMENT - Replaced Administrator Login screen with more modern and reliable .NET alternative. Also can now display a warning/error message when an admin is logging in.
  • -ENHANCEMENT - Increased width of vacation and sick time starting balances on Employee Payroll Information screen.
  • -ENHANCEMENT - Renamed all clock in / out references on Edit Times screen to Punch In / Out for better continuity.
  • -ENHANCEMENT - ALT-U while logged in as admin gives option to force database updates
  • -FIX - Deactivated employees are now sorted properly when using SQL Server
  • -FIX - Zero activity employees not shown on Daily Hours Report when report option selected
  • -FIX - Invalid Procedure call error on view bulletins screen is now fixed.
  • -FIX - When attempting to punch an employee in from Edit Times screen without a job code a message is displayed
  • -FIX - Fixes put in place to stop invalid time punches being created when manually punching employees in or out from the Edit Times screen.
  • -FIX - Changed labels on Employee Payroll Information screen from "Paid Breaks" which was wrong, to "Automatic Breaks" which is correct.

New in Time Clock MTS 6.0.3 (Jun 13, 2016)

  • ENHANCEMENT - Employee enter note screen updated to new UI standards
  • ENHANCEMENT - New screen label settings added for Enter button, Clear button, Refresh button, Tips button, and Go button on the enter PIN and job code screen. These can be changed on the Tools->Options->Display Settings screen.
  • ENHANCEMENT - Changes made to many screens to allow display of non unicode character sets on the front screen of the software. Screens adjusted include the employee list and keypad, add time punch, edit time punch, insert time punch, add multiple time punches, add/edit department, add/edit employee, export data, report configuration, administrator add/edit time off request, add/edit employee punch alert, add/edit time off request alert, employee enter note, administrator enter note, add/edit employee bulletin, view time audit log,
  • ENHANCEMENT - Re-ordered some screen re-draws to stop flickering
  • ENHANCEMENT - Adjust column widths of Daily Job Time Report to print reports on less pages
  • FIX - Fix put in place for a bad data type for dblApplyAutomaticBreakAfter. Fix only happens if the error is thrown and it seems to be limited to certain Regional versions of Windows.
  • FIX - Fixed some regional display issues on the Sick Time and Vacation Accrual Screens
  • FIX - Fixed some of the popup tooltip text on the Report Configuration and Export Data Screens
  • FIX - Employee comments report now generates correctly
  • FIX - Vertical scroll bar now displays correctly on the Edit Times screen

New in Time Clock MTS 6.0.2 (Jun 13, 2016)

  • FIX - Fix to first run routine of client software
  • FIX - Fix to error thrown when clicking Edit Time Note button and no time notes are present
  • FIX - Fix to loading an employee SQL when using SQL Server or MySQL
  • DEBUG - Extra debugging put in place in load settings to fix suspected regional issue

New in Time Clock MTS 6.0.1 (Jun 13, 2016)

  • ENHANCEMENT - Checkbox next to employee names on edit times screen can be checked and those employees clocked in or out
  • ENHANCEMENT - In/Out Time on Add Time Punch screen now reset themselves
  • ENHANCEMENT - Can now add short punches on the Add/Insert Time Punches Screen
  • ENHANCEMENT - Jobs can now be entered on the bulk add time punches screen
  • ENHANCEMENT - Employee bulletin screen completely reworked. Much faster and easier to use.
  • ENHANCEMENT - Registration keys simplified greatly.
  • ENHANCEMENT - Internet time checking reworked and reliability increased greatly.
  • ENHANCEMENT - All screen user interfaces updated to Windows 10 standards.
  • ENHANCEMENT - Size of all screens increased, text sizes increased for better visibility
  • ENHANCEMENT - Label sizes modified to better account for users with different Windows DPI settings
  • ENHANCEMENT - Last status note now displayed as tooltip if hovering over that region of the screen
  • ENHANCEMENT - Changed "No Double Up" overtime calculation method to "No Pyramiding"
  • ENHANCEMENT - Badge number report changed to Employee Status Report for better continuity
  • ENHANCEMENT - Date selector boxes on Add/Edit time off request screen have added logic for easier data entry
  • ENHANCEMENT - Job dropdown on report configuration now allows you to enter the first few characters to automatch a job
  • ENHANCEMENT - Import file screens for importing jobs and employees now display all Excel file types
  • FIX - Employees with no activity are no longer shown on the Tip Summary Report if the "hide zero activity employees" checkbox is ticked
  • FIX - Fixed other periods popup not working when View Time Card or View Payroll Reports popup menus were used
  • FIX - Registration system completely re-worked to stop registration details being lost due to Windows updates.
  • FIX - Fixed bug in MySQL database creation script
  • FIX - Settings changed message when cancelling adding a new employee
  • NEW - Report display completely new. Printing format much improved.
  • NEW - Reports can be emailed in a variety of formats directly from within the software.
  • NEW - Reports can be exported to a variety of different formats directly from within the software.
  • NEW - Text size on employee list increased for better visibility. New "extra large" text size added.
  • NEW - Employee Tips now available from Keypad screen.
  • NEW - Immediate print option added for Employee Status report, useful if a list needs to be printed quickly.

New in Time Clock MTS 5.1.2 (Dec 15, 2014)

  • FIX - Fix to department targeted new time off request alerts that were not saving correctly
  • FIX - Stopped intermediate edit employee/edit times screen displaying in client software
  • FIX - Fix to slow employee bulletin popup and (vast) speed improvement in loading employee bulletins
  • FIX - return/line feeds in reports exported to TAB format

New in Time Clock MTS 5.1.1 (Dec 6, 2014)

  • NEW - Added Expenses field to jobs
  • NEW - Added Estimated Hours field to jobs
  • NEW - Added checkbox next to jobs list on Manage Jobs screen
  • NEW - Changed Delete Jobs button to a drop down to allow deleting of selected job or of all checked jobs
  • NEW - Added Deactivate Jobs button to allow deactivation of selected job or of all checked jobs
  • NEW - Added Check All, Check None, and Invert Selection links to Manage Jobs screen
  • NEW - Added estimated hours to active job report
  • NEW - Added estimated hours,expenses,job description to job cost report and job time report
  • NEW - Added kiosk mode setting. When set all menus are disabled and the application is maximized and cannot be resized or moved.
  • NEW - Added field to event based data export formats
  • NEW - added Export Name to employees. If a value is set this is used in data exports in preference to Full Name
  • NEW - Added Configure QuickBooks Export menu to Reporting menu
  • NEW - Added Configure QuickBooks Export screen
  • NEW - Added read only QuickBooks Data Export Format
  • New - QuickBooks integration added
  • NEW - Can now print the details of a single time off request from the Administrator Manage Time Off Request screen
  • NEW - Added bulletin acceptance report to Employee Bulletin Board screen
  • ENHANCEMENT - Changed "disabled" jobs to "deactivated"
  • ENHANCEMENT - Changed all links to the timeclockmts.com site to new addresses to suit site re-design
  • ENHANCEMENT - update installers now check that Time Clock MTS is installed before completing installation.
  • ENHANCEMENT - Imported employees with the display color set to zero (black) now default their color to white
  • ENHANCEMENT - Export data screen now remembers various form settings
  • ENHANCEMENT - QuickBooks export format hidden from normal export format editing screen
  • ENHANCEMENT - Reworked export format database access code to minimize database loads
  • ENHANCMENT - Add multiple times screen now changes subsequent clock in / out times to match the time of the time current time being edited. A quick way of setting a default punch in/out time.
  • ENHANCMENT - Edition of Time Clock MTS now displayed in the title bar of the main application window
  • FIX - Sick leave accrue box now allows up to 10 characters
  • FIX - Fix to reports with monthly/weekly accruals not showing correct accrual amount where the last reporting day was the last day of an accrual period
  • FIX - Fix to client SQL connection code on System Options screen.

New in Time Clock MTS 5.0.9 (Nov 23, 2014)

  • Pressing the = key on the employee list screen puts the focus on the employee find box
  • Pressing the = key while the employee find box has the focus clears the contents of the find box
  • Pressing the + key while the employee key has the focus attempts to punch the selected employee in or out. Note that the name entered must match the name of the selected employee
  • ALT-A shortcut added to log in and out of administrator account
  • Stopped needless database access when typing an employee name into the search box
  • Fixed up export to CSV and export to TAB report options
  • Fix put in place for keypad screen when users hold down enter key
  • Put in an extra check for NTP time lock to prevent spurious messages some users were getting.
  • Added NTP time lock to keypad interface.
  • Fixed a typo on one of the Edit Times screen toolbar buttons
  • View information button now displays correct label when logged in as the administrator
  • Logging put in for application overflow crash in main timer loop
  • Fix for accruals where manual start date is set prior to the calculated start date.

New in Time Clock MTS 5.0.8 (Nov 23, 2014)

  • Extra logging added to file permission popup to understand cause loss of connection errors.
  • Removed 7 day trial extension

New in Time Clock MTS 5.0.7 (Oct 17, 2014)

  • Added a "extend trial by 7 days" button to the trial expiry form
  • Added a "extend trial by 7 days" menu item to the File menu when the trial is expired
  • Fixed to typo on splash screen
  • Rewording of some registration information

New in Time Clock MTS 5.0.6 (Oct 17, 2014)

  • Re-worked much of the startup code to prevent repeated screen redraws
  • Added various screen refresh calls to the positionScreenElements call
  • Removed the repaintWindow calls
  • Fix to crazy application crash that's been bothering us since 2012. Of all things it was the text labels on the front page of the application.

New in Time Clock MTS 5.0.5 (Jun 16, 2014)

  • Fix to resetting forgotten passwords for users in trial period, users of the free version, or users in their temporary registration period
  • Optimized the select last employee punch code to speed up performance.
  • Change to mysql creation script to include custom indexes on time table to increase performance
  • Refactored time class for increased performance
  • Small changes made to licensing system to account for Windows environment variable changes
  • Fixed up an issue with importing jobs
  • Fix to internet time server checking for computers that have been running a long time
  • Fix to internet time server checking on first run time check

New in Time Clock MTS 5.0.4 (Apr 29, 2014)

  • Fix to database connection wizard not saving connection details for MySQL/SQL Server databases.
  • Enter note screen now times out after 30 seconds and the punch in/out is cancelled.
  • The Daily Hours Report now displays hh.mm or hh:mm:ss formats as per the Report Settings screen rather than always displaying the hh.mm format.
  • Fix to the time period drop down on the Edit Times screen. Last 7, 14, and 28 days now selecting correctly.
  • Fix to Daily Hours Report to exclude zero activity employees if checkbox ticked on report configuration screen.

New in Time Clock MTS 5.0.3 (Mar 24, 2014)

  • Fix to email alerts when invalid XML characters were included
  • Added + buttons next to email drop downs on Email Alert screen to speed up adding new email addresses
  • Fixed reports where vacation time and sick time taken on last day of reporting period was not included in calculation for balance of sick/vacation time remaining
  • Fix to employee punch alert event type not saving

New in Time Clock MTS 5.0.2 (Mar 24, 2014)

  • Check made to stop setting of badge number to zero
  • Rebuild to fix up weird cannot create employee error one user was seeing
  • Stop deleted emails being displayed

New in Time Clock MTS 5.0.1 (Mar 24, 2014)

  • New - The Clock In or Clock Out buttons are now highlighted red or green on a failed (or successful) employee punch. The badge number text field on the keypad interface is highlighted red or green to indicate employee punch status.
  • New - A View Timecard button has been added to the keypad screen. Employees must enter their badge number and then click the View Timecard button.
  • New - Email alerts can now be configured on the Tools->Email Alerts screen from the Time Clock MTS Admnistrator software.
  • New - Added the manage emails screen to the Tools->Options->Emails screen.
  • New - A set of local labels can be defined in the timesheets.ini file to have client specific labels (for example you might like one in Spanish and one in English).
  • New - Added the Simple Wages Report - Version 2. This version of the report displays holiday hours, vacation hours, weekly overtime and total wages. Not suitable if you pay your employees daily overtime or sick time (as they will not be displayed on this report).
  • New - Added the simple wages with tips report, similar to the simple wages report but includes a column showing net tips paid out to the employee (note that the wages column does not include the tips).
  • New - Added the days worked report which totals up the days and hours worked during the report period and then gives an average hours worked on those days.
  • New - Automatic breaks can now be specified at the employee level. This can be configured on each employee's Payroll information screen
  • Enhancement - No longer need to enter a PIN when clocking and employee in or out while logged as the adminstrator.
  • Enhancement - Save button on enroll fingerprints screen enabled only when a fingerprint has been enrolled or deleted.
  • Enhancement - On the bulk time entry screen the punch out date changes to match the punch in date when the punch in date is changed. When a punch in date is changed all following punch dates are changed to subsequent dates. So, for example, if you change the first punch date to 1/10/2014 then second date will be changed to 1/11/2014, the third to 1/12/2014 and so on. The dates will stop incrementing once a punch pair with a checked "add time" box is reached.
  • Enhancement - Added a clickable "What does this mean" link to the Pay Day as Overtime checkboxes that takes users to a blog entry explaining what the checkboxes do.
  • Enhancement - When logged in as the administrator you can right click on the employee list to refresh the list.
  • Enhancement - The title above the date selectors on the report configuration screen now display the selected reporting period in days.
  • Enhancement - The early clock in warning is now dismissed after five seconds.
  • Enhancement - The admnistrator can now delete multiple time off rquests at the same time. Multiple requests can be selected by holding the CTRL key while left clicking with the mouse on requests in the time off request list. The Edit Time Off Request button, the approve request button, and the deny request buttons will not work while more than one request is selected.
  • Enhancement - Added none option to department, shift, and employment type dropdowns on Employee maintenance screens
  • Enhancement - YYYY-MM-DD date export format added to Tools->Export Data->Export Data Formats screen.
  • Enhancement - The Departmental Wages report now displays a page break between departments rather than between employees.
  • Enhancement - Added "other periods" button to the report configuration screen. Includes semi monthly periods, fiscal year, and calendar year.
  • Enhancement - Various fixes to mouse clicking and double clicking code on employee list to speed up database access and prevent excessive database load
  • Enhancement - Changed default mysql driver to MySQL ODBC Driver 5.1
  • Enhancement - Removed the "Least Quantity" checkbox from the Payroll Settings screen. Added a rounding method dropdown to the payroll settings screen. Least Quantity rounding rounds up clock ins and rounds down clock outs. Maximum quantity rounding rounds down clock ins and rounds up clock outs.
  • Enhancement - Changed "Waive Paid Breaks" on Employee Payroll Information screen to "No Paid Breaks"
  • Enhancement - Job code and job name is now displayed with the classification on the edit times screen
  • Enhancement - The Edit Time screen is now resizeable.
  • Enhancement - Employee badge numbers can now be 12 characters long.
  • Enhancement - Greatly improved the speed of selecting and counting of the active number of employees.
  • Fix - Fixed a problem with program settings overwriting when changing database types.
  • Fix - Added a number of indexes to the MySQL database creation script to increase performance.
  • Fix - More verbose errors are now displayed when attempting to connect to a SQL Server or MySQL database using the database connection wizard.
  • Fix - More verbose errors are now displayed when using the Test SQL Connection or Test MySQL Connection buttons on the System Options screen.
  • Fix - Fix to adding employees with zero length fingerprint pattern
  • Fix - Fixed overflow error on job code entry screen.
  • Tech Change - Minimum requirements for Windows have increased to Windows XP SP3.
  • Tech Change - Users must now have a current support contract to automatically reset a forgotten Time Clock MTS password via the website.
  • Tech Change - The free version of Time Clock MTS can no longer reset a forgotten password via the Time Clock MTS website.

New in Time Clock MTS 4.1.7 (Nov 14, 2013)

  • Fix to employee time off request screen that could result in a request being assigned a zero employee id
  • Limited the sick time and vacation accrual rates to 1000 to stop overflow error
  • Fix to simple wages report that was not displaying the total weekly overtime hours correctly

New in Time Clock MTS 4.1.6 (Oct 7, 2013)

  • Fixed up a layout issue on the Tools->Options->Security Settings screen.
  • Fixed a display issue on the employee contact details report
  • Fixed up the title of the actual vs rounded report
  • Correctly alphabetized reports in report drop down on report configuration screen
  • Adjusted height of reset forgotten password screen
  • Removed case sensitive prompt from reset forgotten password screen
  • Changed all references to "Disabled Employees" to "De-Activated Employees"
  • Fixed up various typos in the help file
  • Updated screenshots in help file to Windows 8

New in Time Clock MTS 4.1.5 (Aug 12, 2013)

  • Fixed a problem where a clock out could spontaneously be created when an employee with no recorded times was disabled
  • Fixed a performance issue with loading large sets of jobs. Jobs sets should load about 20-30 times faster.
  • Waiting cursor now displayed when job code screen, options screen, and payroll reports screen are loading
  • Added right click option to employee list when the administrator is logged in to show or hide disabled employees.
  • Fixed a bug with the departmental list view where the last department in this list is empty and an error fires when clicking on the department
  • Fixed up some problems with the department list view when all employees were disabled
  • Added some text prompts to the employee list when there are no employees defined

New in Time Clock MTS 4.1.4 (Aug 12, 2013)

  • Fixed up a typo on the Vacation Accruals and Sick Time Accruals page.
  • Resetting password from secret questions is no longer case dependent.
  • changed the trial reminder message to a proper form and allowed the reminder to be dismissed for a period of time.
  • changed the trial expired message to a proper form.
  • Fixed problem with job details report displaying times booked against NO job showing as booked against a non-existent job.
  • Added option to clock out button on Edit Times screen to allow the administrator to clock all employees or the selected employee in.
  • Admin time off request screen now sorts properly by date for the date columns
  • When deleting a time off request form the admin time off request screen the sort order no longer changes
  • Employee time off request form now sorts properly by date for the date columns
  • The setting to create a bulletin when approving a time off request is now remembered.
  • Employee bulletin screen no longer displays if there's nothing to show.

New in Time Clock MTS 4.1.3 (Jun 27, 2013)

  • Added the Job Detail Report
  • Changed the way switching jobs works to speed up the operation, reduce database access and stop a "Already Clocked In" error message that one user was seeing
  • Fix to client software de-selecting the current employee when the employee list refreshes

New in Time Clock MTS 4.1.2 (Jun 27, 2013)

  • Fix to PIN checking for an employee who is not required to scan a fingerprint

New in Time Clock MTS 4.1.1 (Jun 27, 2013)

  • value of create note checkbox on the adpprove/deny time off request screen is now remembered
  • relaid out the employee time off request screen
  • added a time period filter the the employee time off request screen
  • added the time off request report, accessible from the employee time off request screen
  • Exporting employees now exports the display color and do not pay overtime settings
  • Importing employees now imports the display color and do not pay ovetime settings
  • Adjusted some of the captions and tool tip text on the import employees screen
  • Changed date display format on the administrator and employee manage time off requests screens to allow proper date sorting
  • Accepted employee bulletins are no longer displayed to employees
  • A new setting has been added to employees to not require them to scan a fingerprint if biometric security is enabled. This is for employees whose fingers just will not scan reliably. They'll still need to enter a PIN to confirm their actions.

New in Time Clock MTS 4.0.8 (Jun 27, 2013)

  • Fix to job cost report
  • Fix to active job report for mysql/msssql connections
  • Completely re-worked the system for matching clock ins and outs on the Edit Times screen. This has resulted in much less data access, a faster editing experience, eliminated the possibility of getting clock in/outs with mismatching job numbers, and reduced the likelihood of disrupting the time clock database through over-enthusiastic editing.
  • Fix to overtime calculations, daily and weekly for forcing a time to overtime
  • Fix to daily job time report for forced overtime and neglect overtime
  • Fix to job cost report for forced overtime and neglect overtime
  • Times in Edit Times display a (F) for forced overtime and an (I) for ignore overtime
  • The icon for a clock in / out on the edit times screen now displays an indication if there's a note associated with the time

New in Time Clock MTS 4.0.7 (Jun 27, 2013)

  • Default background color for employees is white
  • Deleted and disabled jobs can no longer be used to book time
  • Added Accrue Only for Normal Time. When checked sick/vacation/other time do not accrue time for vacation/sick time.
  • Fix to the employee background color and do not pay overtime settings which did not save correctly when creating a new employee
  • Fix to display of deleted jobs on undelete jobs screen for SQL Server and MySQL
  • Fix to display of disabled employees on the re-enable employees screen for SQL Server and MySQL

New in Time Clock MTS 4.0.5 (Jun 27, 2013)

  • Fix to various reports that could report a negative time pair duration when Least Quantity rounding was turned on.
  • Slight re-adjustment of column widths on the daily job time report

New in Time Clock MTS 4.0.4 (Jun 27, 2013)

  • Fixed up small typo on the Vacation and Sick Time Accruals screen.
  • Added View Video Demo button to first run screen.
  • Fix to job totals on daily job time report.

New in Time Clock MTS 4.0.3 (Jun 27, 2013)

  • ,, and fields added to the Employee Header and Employee Details report section templates
  • Added the Daily Job Time Report
  • Added a bunch of debugging code around a window repaint API call to try to track down a hard crash one user is seing on Windows 7

New in Time Clock MTS 4.0.2 (Jun 27, 2013)

  • Fixed job code entry error when no jobs are defined
  • Edit Times screen now displays first time in selected range if it is a clock out.
  • Added Time Clock MTS Version label to Registration screen
  • Re-arranged the add/edit shifts screen to display properly on non-standard DPI resolutions

New in Time Clock MTS 4.0.1 (Dec 4, 2012)

  • New setting to prevent department folders from being closed
  • New setting to stop last clock in information displaying when employee is selected in the employee list
  • New setting to hide the last employee action 5 seconds after they clock in or out
  • Added the Import Employees screen under the Employee Maintenance menu. Allows bulk importation of employees from an Excel spreadsheet
  • Added background color to employee display
  • Added "Do Not Pay Overtime" setting to employees. When set that employee will not get paid overtime regardless of other OT settings
  • Added a time spent on all jobs total to the Job Time Report
  • The find employee text box at the bottom of the employee list can now take a wildcard to allow you to search for employees names containing a text string. Previously you could only search for employees by leading characters of their name
  • Added Tools->Time Off Requests Screen. Allows the administrator manage and approve time off requests
  • Added system to create clock in / out pairs from an employee time off request
  • Added "enable time off requests" setting on the Tools->Options->Interface Settings screen. Turns on a menu option on the employee "View My Information" button to allow employees to add their own time off requests
  • Added employee manage time off requests screen. Available from drop down menu on "View My Information" button
  • Added undelete jobs button to the Tools->Options->Job Tracking screen
  • the edit times screen can now be used to add times into the future when the employee is clocked in given that the times are not within 24 hours of the times being added
  • Relaid out the Tools->Options->Display Options screen
  • Relaid out the Tools->OPtions->Interface Options screen
  • changed listview control on manage connections screen
  • Re-arranged the first user welcome screen and added several commonly used Time Clock MTS settings to allow for faster program setup
  • Sort order on edit times screen is now remembered
  • Week day name now displayed on edit times screen
  • Added a "Contact Time Clock MTS Support Staff" link to the help menu
  • Replaced nist1-ny.ustiming.org internet time server with the time-d.nist.gov server in maryland
  • A more useful error message is displayed if you do not enter a custom time server into the address box and then test the connection
  • Renamed the employee notes report to employee comments report for consistency
  • Renamed the detailed punchcard report with full notes to the detailed punchcard report with full comments report for consistency
  • Renamed Time Log screen to time audit log screen and renamed all associated help files and settings for consistency
  • Added line number debugging to the main form setup code
  • optimized various parts of the time validity checking code to increase speed and decrease database load
  • Help file was completely proof read by a third party. Many typo and grammar fixes plus fixes to help structure. The employee bulletin help files were orphaned (not accessible), as was the restore deleted employees screen
  • Registration code structure modified. Codes generated prior to version 4 will no longer work in the software. 14 day trial period added to users with old version codes
  • Links added to allow users to retrieve V4 registration codes (if they are eligible)
  • Much of the the licensing code re-written and optimized
  • Links on About Time clock MTS screen now change color when the mouse is over them
  • Cleaned up the dialogs shown to people who run the software for the first time
  • Stopped a needless start of a the main time checking timer when an internet time server was not selected
  • log file will now only write 5000 messages
  • Public holidays before an employees hire date are no longer credited
  • Fixed problem with edit employee/edit employee times popup for group headers
  • fixed resizing issue on main time clock screen
  • Fixed a problem where the Time Clock MTS process could keep running even though the user had exited
  • Fixed up the licenses exceeded URLs when exceeding the allowable number of employees or clients
  • Fixed a problem with OT2 rate calculations when the employee exceeded the OT2 time limit on the 7th day of a week
  • Fixed an error with the overide holidays hours, vacation accrual starting balance, and sick time accrual starting balance fields on the employee maintenance screen
  • Fixed up various labels that were not displaying correctly when windows text size was set to 125%
  • Fixed up a problem with employee comment box still asking for a comment when the comment was optional
  • Fixed up a problem with connection and action dates for connection records when using the internet time server
  • Fixed up background images on the splash screen and the About Time Clock MTS screen when running at DPI other than 100%
  • Fixed up some first run problems when the in program tutorial was run from the first run screen
  • fixed up a bug on the insert times screen with displaying the job correctly when the job had been deleted
  • fixed up a bug on the edit time screen when the job associated with a time had been deleted
  • Fixed time creation validation for SQL Server

New in Time Clock MTS 3.3.9 (Dec 4, 2012)

  • Fix to weekly overtime calculation when a holiday falls in the week and holidays not set to affect overtime

New in Time Clock MTS 3.3.8 (Dec 4, 2012)

  • When logged into the administrator software as the admin employees can be double clicked and a new form appears allowing users to decide if they want to edit the selected employee or edit their times
  • If job tracking is set to compulsory for an employee and no jobs are defined a better error message is displayed rather than just "clock in failed"
  • Cancel button added to Enter Note screen. Cancels clock in/out action
  • Fixed up a problem with the keypad interface when employee note entry and job tracking were enabled.
  • Times on Edit Times screen can now be sorted by date by clicking on the date or time column headers
  • Fixed up some formatting issues with the time breakdown report
  • Added the long punch report. Reports on all punches that are more than 16 hours during the reporting period.
  • Set the default payroll report to the Punchcard Report

New in Time Clock MTS 3.3.7 (Dec 4, 2012)

  • Disabled all form buttons when on-screen tutorial is active
  • Re-established correct interface when on-screen tutorial is cancelled
  • Added additional user activated database re-connection re-try when automatic re-connect fails
  • Added various catches on the main user form for when the window disappears by itself

New in Time Clock MTS 3.3.6 (Dec 4, 2012)

  • Fix to time off report, job time report, and job punchcard report where the last time in a period has a clock in on one day and the clock out is on the next day
  • Fix to Actual vs Rounded time report that was showing all times as clock ins
  • If the fingerprint security option is turned on and the reader is disconnected the scan will not be requested if the administrator is logged in. Only for computers with the administrator software on them.
  • If the fingerprint security option is turned on and the reader is disconnected on a computer with the administrator software on it then the administrator will be asked if they want to suppress the fingerprint scanning on that computer for all employees.
  • Fix to automatic administrator logout feature that wasn't working when the employee image capture option was selected

New in Time Clock MTS 3.3.5 (Dec 4, 2012)

  • Re-wrote much of the code associated with selecting employees from the employee list interface. This was to fix up some timing issues with switching jobs. A happy side effect of this is that the number of database accesses in this process is now much less and speed is improved.
  • Added field to export data format. Forces hours to decimal hours.
  • Added and fields to export data format. Displays the data export start and end dates.
  • Added pre-defined (and read only) data export formats. Items added are the Sure Payroll format and Union Bank Online Payroll formats.
  • Added grouping for normal and holiday time in aggregate export formats if they have the same rate code.
  • Added grouping for OT1 and OT2 time in aggregate export formats if they have the same rate code.

New in Time Clock MTS 3.3.4 (Dec 4, 2012)

  • Added "single employee entry" setting to aggregate export formats.
  • Export format header can now be multiple lines

New in Time Clock MTS 3.3.3 (Dec 4, 2012)

  • Added header setting to export formats
  • Fixed disappearing main screen when doing a data export
  • Hours on aggregate export formats are now formatted correctly
  • Employees that have been disabled are now displayed at the bottom of most lists including the time clock employee list, the edit times employee list and the report configuration list.
  • Disabling an employee now just requires a mouse click rather than having to type in DISABLE
  • The daily hours report now only runs up to the report end date rather than the end of the work week
  • Added a new button to the edit times screen. Allows administrators to clock out the selected employee or clock out all employees.
  • Changed Access database connection to ShareDenyNone and locking mode to force row locks rather than page locks. Should increase network reliability.

New in Time Clock MTS 3.3.2 (Dec 4, 2012)

  • Added job description field to the job selection screen.
  • Added the job selection field to the Tools->Options->Jobs screen.
  • Added column sorting to the Tools->Options->Jobs screen.
  • Added Missing Days report.
  • Added Daily Hours Report.

New in Time Clock MTS 2.2.0 (Feb 6, 2009)

  • Added support for DigitalPersona fingerprint scanning devices
  • Removed database refresh code as may be causing memory leaks

New in Time Clock MTS 2.1.6 (Oct 21, 2008)

  • Rounding applied to calculations of payroll data, this will help prevent rounding errors in calculations.
  • Last week option added to edit times time period drop down
  • Notes now shown on punchcard report, Clock In note shown if present, if only clock out note is present then that note is shown
  • Added two new settings to holidays, 'recurring' and year. Recurring holidays occur on the same date every year. Non recurring holidays must now be defined for each year.
  • Holidays screen will now display non latin character set characters.

New in Time Clock MTS 2.0.2 (Jun 19, 2008)

  • Camera Image Capture, bug fixes

New in Time Clock MTS 1.2.7 (Jan 9, 2007)

  • Bug fixes and security additions

New in Time Clock MTS 1.2.1 (Oct 25, 2006)

  • Network Support,
  • Various Secuirty Features,
  • Report Enhancements,
  • Bug Fixes