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- Screenfile ADD_NEW.SCN Screen# 01
-
- The employee update program has a menu choice for adding a new employee. If you
- take that choice then you are presented with the first of a series of blank
- screens for you to fill in.
-
- The screens are not completely blank, certain defaults will be filled in for
- you to prevent possible problems with the program logic if you left them blank.
- In this screen we see that a dummy date of birth is filled in. This is because
- the program will try to calculate the employee's age from his birthdate, and it
- will have problems if birthdate is not entered. We put the date of birth and
- age on the screen because we thought it might be useful for you to have them,
- but some clients have telephoned to say they do not have birthdates on file and
- they feel they may be accused of age discrimination if they ask their employees
- for it to fill in the screen, so we have defaulted it to 1st Jan. 1965 . We
- can offer no legal opinions as to whether you should complete it or not, but if
- you decide to do so you may change our default to the employee's true date of
- birth. The review dates have also been defaulted to the current date and
- current date plus one year.
-
- If you are setting up your own employees for the FIRST time after testing
- PAYROLL USA with our test employee file then you need to get rid of our test
- employees, be sure though it is our test employees that are on the file, not
- your own people. It should only be necessary to do this once before starting
- your own file, this procedure will delete ALL employees. To delete our test
- employees enter the following instructions from the DOS prompt
-
- C: { OR WHICHEVER HARD DISK DRIVE YOU INSTALLED ON TO }
- ERASE \PAYIN
- ERASE \PAYOUT
-
- It is vitally important there are no spaces after the backslash, example DO NOT
- "ERASE \ PAYIN" with a space between the \ and PAYIN, else you will erase your
- root directory by mistake. Reason, the first space after the backslash
- terminates the command from DOS's point of view so it sees ERASE \ PAYIN as
- just plain ERASE \ and does just that. Be careful and you will be O.K.
-
- Screenfile ADD_NEW.SCN Screen# 02
-
- As you are entering employee information the fields are checked as the cursor
- passes over them. If it is a field that must be completed and it is left blank
- then an error message will be displayed, as in the above window, and you will
- be unable to continue until you have corrected the error.
-
- Screenfile ADD_NEW.SCN Screen# 03
-
- When each screen is completed the above window will appear. Reason is we want
- to have a complete employee record on the file, not a partial record, so we
- want all screens that comprise the employee to be completed as far as possible
- before we add him to the file. To do this we present the screens one after the
- other. If part way through one of the screens you realise you are adding this
- person in error you can abort the add at any point and throw away whatever you
- have already entered. During an add the screens progress in the forward
- direction only. Do not abort the add if the only reason is you realise you made
- an error on an earlier entry screen for this employee and seem not to be able
- to move backwards to fix it, instead complete the add by filling in as much as
- is applicable on the remaining screens then access the newly added employee in
- update mode to fix any errors.
-
- Our apologies, in the version this screen was taken from we seem to have made a
- typo in the window. "Any N to Abort New Employee Entry" sounds strange, it was
- originally "Any Other Key to ..." then it was changed to a more positive "N to
- ..." but the "Any " seems to have been left in.
-
- Screenfile ADD_NEW.SCN Screen# 04
-
- We decided to abort the add at this point so pressed N from the previous
- screen. PAYROLL USA flashes the above message in the window to double check we
- are sure we want out, if N is pressed again at this point then the add is
- aborted, any information you entered for this employee is thrown away and you
- will be back at the menu.
-
-