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║ ATTEND.EXE Employee Attendance Tracking Database Program ║
║ Version 4.2 ║
║ Copyright 1992, 1993, 1995, 1996 Robert J. Manning, author. ║
║ Shareware version summary documentation 5/96 ║
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║ Register your copy of ATTEND v4.2 and receive complete printed doc- ║
║ umentation, the fully functional version of ATTEND, discounts on ║
║ future upgrades, and discounts on custom versions for your business. ║
║ ║
║ Avoid future price increases! See the file REGISTER.TXT for a regist- ║
║ ration form. Print out a copy, fill it in and mail today! ║
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║ Robert Manning, PO Box 2011, Lomita, CA 90717 USA ║
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║ Email: RobertM782@aol.com or 76022.1630@compuserve.com ║
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║ Visit the SBCA Web Page (includes a link to the authors' FTP site) at: ║
║ http://members.aol.com/robertm782/private/sbcapage.htm ║
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DOCUMENTATION AND REGISTRATION
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This is not the full documentation for ATTEND!! It is only a
summary of some important functions. Full documentation for the
program is only provided to registered users. The complete document-
ation includes a program walk-through, to demonstrate all major
features of the program, as well as full details on all features.
Some features of the program reserved for the registered version.
Upon registration you will be sent a package containing your fully
functional copy of the program, and the full printed manual for
Attend, as well as a copy of the documentation in Windows Write
format, your personalized Master Passcode, and will be eligible for
full support and 50% discounts on future versions of Attend.
Register ATTEND today for just $30.00 U.S.!
ABOUT ATTEND
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The short version:
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The program keeps a running record of attendance incidents, as well
as vacation and sick leave. Excused and unexcused incidents can be recorded,
and a running total of unexcused leave time is also shown. The program keeps
a seperate dataset of imported incidents in the form of timeclock punches,
and can be used to total time worked and calculate pay, if data is entered
consistently. Time clock punches can be imported from an external program,
or from the enclosed timeclock utility. Lengthy comment files can be kept
on each employee for those really interesting excuses.
The slightly longer version:
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ATTEND is a single purpose Database program. It is designed to take
away some of the trouble involved in finding and implementing an easy method
of tracking and recording Employee attendance. It employs a combination of
database and spreadsheet functions, to help format and track attendance. It
can track approximately 200 employees per working directory, flags you when
updates are due, computes statistics on employee leave occurrence types, as
well as optionally storing employee personal information, allows use of
extended comment files for making notes, and many other useful functions.
Versions 4 and above contain two completely new additional features:
A TimeClock program, which will perform the various time clock tracking
functions for recording actual work times, and an Import function, which
can not only import and track data from the TimeClock program, but import
ASCII text timeclock data to ATTEND from an external timeclock. The Import
utility can also be used to total hours worked over time, and report the
employees unadjusted pay.
ATTEND can be run on any IBM compatible system, including the oldest
systems. It requires DOS 3 or higher, and that's about it. It can be run
in a text-window within Windows on a Pentium, or on a monochrome-screen XT.
Version 3.4 and above can be run on a network, again using at least
DOS 3.0. SHARE.EXE must be installed in order to do so.
Version 3.5 and above use a 'Master Passcode' feature, intended for
system administrators. It allows you to bypass the normal password (if
it's in use), lock out normal password usage, and also allows you to change
the normal pass-word. This feature has a hardcoded master passcode, which
is unique for each registered copy. The ShareWare copy uses one non-unique
passcode. The passcode for the ShareWare version is 4FP39QN6V. When you
register your copy of ATTEND, your new registered copy will be embedded
with a unique passcode, known only to the registrant.
The screen saver enclosed can also be used on monochrome, EGA, or VGA
screens (though the graphics routines will not work in a Window - use full
screen mode for them).
PROGRAM UPDATES
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Changes in this maintenance release include:
-More exits from update routine
-F6 Delete function checks data, comment, and master file seperately,
and even if the file fails the size check
-Moved the auto-select jump so you can find the main VIEW and UPDATE
menus, and the extra functions in them, without first selecting an
employee file
-Fixed printing for stats in view master file
-Added personal data report, all employees's, to printing menu
-Fixed create function, allows correction of personal data
-Added 3 functions to clearning menu, to clear all data/comment
files
WHY ATTEND?
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ATTEND was created to fill a niche in business management, that of
keeping an organized record of employee attendance. In todays' more
competitive work environment, it has become more critical than ever to
monitor employee work attendance habits, so that corrective measures can
be taken, ensuring an employers' profit, and the employees' continued
employment.
The cost of employee attendance is often overlooked. It is easy to
overlook those employees who arrive a few minutes late, leave a few
minutes early, and do this on a continual basis. Consider a person making
an hourly wage of $10, and suppose this person comes in just five minutes
late every day, and leaves five minutes early. They might also take five
extra minutes during their break, and another five if there's a second
break period. That's twenty minutes a day. Whether the employee realizes it
or not, they're costing both you and themselves money.
In a week, this twenty minutes per day costs the employer $16.67, in
a 4.3 week month $71.67, in a year $866.67! So, it costs the employer the
equivalent of 1 and 2/3 hours per week in missed productivity. Multiply
this by the number of employees, and the numbers can get large quickly.
ATTEND can help you reduce this needless business cost. It can pay
for itself in less than a month, by showing just one employee what their lax
attendance is costing you. Version 4.2 of ATTEND can track the cost of
employee attendance to at least one hundredth of an hour. The new TimeClock
function can also reduce your workload spent tracking attendance, and the
Import