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- Program Description for Attend v4.1a Employee Attendance Database
- Copyright January 1996 Robert J. Manning, author. All rights reserved.
-
- ATTEND v4.1a is a database program specifically designed for tracking
- employee attendance. Offering ease of use and versatility for even the
- mid-sized business, ATTEND helps automate and simplify the complicated
- task of tracking and updating employee vacation, sick leave, glitches,
- and other attendance chores.
-
- Main program functions:
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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.
-
- ATTEND is configurable for a variety of employee types and updates,
- manual and automatic. The Import utility in version 4.1a has been improved.
- You can now perform a query search of the import dataset for time worked
- by your employees. A handy feature for determining payroll amounts.
- Searches can be performed on one employee, status type, or all employees,
- over any period within a calendar year. Query results can be printed or
- saved to ASCII text files. Some features reserved for the Registered
- version.
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- ATTEND can track about 200 employees per working directory. Sets of
- directories can be used, to seperate employees by department, project,
- division, status type, and so forth. Individual updates can be set to
- Anniversary or Calendar year, performed manually, as well as manual
- mass updating by status type, length of employment, or both. Datasets
- for both attendance incidents and comment entries are maintained for
- each employee.
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- Features and updates in version 4.1a include:
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- - TimeClock function to enable computerization of manual timekeeping
- functions. Text based export of data, or automatic saving in the
- Import dataset. Text based and graphical clocks, password security.
- Codes included for clockin/out, two breaks and lunch. Other codes
- for special clockout exceptions include personal leave, injury, comp
- time, emergency family medical leave, company errands, more. Individual
- passwords optionally assignable to each employee.
-
- - Import utility for tracking and entering attendance incidents to the
- main database. Text based import, or automatic import from TimeClock.
- Simple structure allows small import files using three fields, with
- date of occurrence based on filename. Configures using ATTEND master
- file and timeclock punch hours, with extra information for pay data.
- Its seperate dataset can be printed and maintained externally from
- ATTEND, for holding entries while informing employees of incidents.
- ATTEND dataset employee comment files can be updated with the import
- data, even when no incident occurred.
-
- Version 4.1a adds a query feature, for totaling hours worked by your
- employees, as well as calculating unadjusted pay. Minor improvements
- have also been made.
-
- - Special Mass Update feature, to manually update available leave
- time for one or all status types. Can also be keyed on length of
- employment with company.
-
- - Master file sort, print, and search functions improved. View master
- without printing, and search on six key fields. Prints sorted file
- including key sort field. Performs sorts on whichever master file is
- in current directory path.
-
- - Status Type configuration functions improved and simplified. Updates
- based on Calendar year, Anniversary, as well as manual/group updates.
-
- - Can be run on a network (requires DOS 3+, and SHARE.EXE installed).
-
- - Master Passcode feature for system administrators - allows access
- when normal password is unknown, password forgotten, or to lock
- out normal usage. Registered version passcodes are unique, though
- the shareware version passcode is not.
-
- - Can be run on any IBM or compatible PC, XT to Pentium, using DOS 3 to
- Windows 95.
-
- - Text file (.TXT) / documentation viewer with search function.
-
- - Automatic anniversary update checking upon startup. Automatic vacation
- and sick leave updating on anniversary. Various automatic print options,
- including upon file deletion.
-
- - Extended comment files for making notes pertaining to specific dates
- or entries. Comment files can also be appended from the Import utility.
-
- - Automatic file saving. Backup and restore. Network file locking.
-
- - Statistics calculations on attendance occurrences. Keeps records of
- employee personal information.
-
- - Screen saver, automatic or manual.
-
- And many more features.
-
- The program will work with data and comment files created with
- version 3.0 and up. Please view the README.TXT file before installing
- this new version.
-
- This version includes a number of upgrades & fixes to version 4.1.
- Some features reserved for the registered version only.
-
- To run, enter: ATTEND
-
- Documentation: DESCRIPT.TXT, README.TXT and some online help.
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