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Scheduling Employees for Windows Version 1.00
A tool for Managers
Guia International Corporation
731 Edgewater place
Kennesaw, Georgia 30144
(404)926-6085
Table of contents ~
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Introduction ............................................ 1
Equipment needed ........................................ 1
Mouse tracking .......................................... 2
Installation ............................................ 2
Using the Menus ......................................... 2
The Opening Screen ...................................... 2
The Editor .............................................. 3
Edit controls ........................................... 3
Display of totals ....................................... 3
The time bar ............................................ 4
Making a new time bar ................................... 4
Move a time bar ......................................... 4
Changing a time bar ..................................... 4
Deleting a time bar ..................................... 4
Copy an Employee's day of time bars ..................... 4
Move a time bar past midnight ........................... 5
Entering and changing Day Types ......................... 5
Dual Assignments ........................................ 5
Copy a Department Day Schedules ......................... 5
Repeat a week schedule .................................. 5
The Time and Wages distribution Graph ................... 6
Reports ................................................. 6
Schedule file names ..................................... 6
Print Schedules ......................................... 6
Departments ............................................. 7
Employees ............................................... 7
About Dates ............................................. 7
To start the Program after installation ................. 7
Technical information ................................... 8
Registration Fee ........................................ 8
Technical Support ....................................... 8
Introduction ~
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The Scheduling Employees for Windows is an application
designed for managers to schedule personnel resources
while monitoring the time and wages as the scheduling
process progresses. Daily activities may be detailed
by assigning "Day Types". Day Types are a single
characters such as V= Vacation. Ten Day Types may be
specified for the use in each Department.
A graph will display the time and wage distribution
for a 24 hours period for each hour.
The schedule function needs a Department with Employees
to begin scheduling. Schedules are for a one week period.
You may schedule up to 100 Employees in each of up to
99 Departments.
To make the application more "User friendly", the user
will not have to deal with Directories and SubDirectories.
If details of a technical nature are needed, see the
section entitled "Technical information".
The application is divided in two parts:
1 - The opening screen. It contains functions
related to the application, Departments and
Employees.
2 - The Editor performs the scheduling and
schedule printing functions.
3 - The Graph will show the Employee, time and
currency distribution for a 24 Hour period.
Equipment needed ~
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You will need an IBM or compatible PC (286 or higher)
and a combination of at least one diskette drive and one
fixed(hard) disk.
Microsoft Windows 3.0 or later must be installed.
DOS 3.1 or later.
A Mouse
A VGA Monitor.
A printer to print reports and schedules,
a laser printer is preferred.
Mouse Tracking ~
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Since almost all functions are directed through mouse action,
it is a good idea to slow the pointer movement on the screen.
To slow down the Mouse Tracking:
o - From the Window Program Manager, select the Control
Panel.
o - Click on Mouse.
o - Move the Mouse tracking speed towards Slow.
o - Move the mouse and see if the move feels comfortable.
o - Click on Ok to save the setting.
Installation ~
------------
Before installing the application, make a backup
copy of the program. Since the program is not copy protected,
you may use the DOS command DISKCOPY or COPY *.*
Insert the program diskette in Drive A:
From the Windows Program manager, select "Run" and type
a:setup when asked. All the Programs and files will be
installed, you will be prompted for the Disk drive and
Directory that you want these files to be located, a
default path is offered.
Using the Menus ~
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The Scheduling Employees for Windows, uses drop-down menus.
Just point at the heading and press the left mouse button and
a further selection can then be made.
The Opening Screen ~
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The purpose of the Opening screen is to;
o - Set up new Departments with Day Types.
o - Enter, change or delete Employee records.
o - Print reports, Invoice and this manual with page numbers.
o - Set up options for file designation,time
format and day starting hour in the Editor.
o - Help if needed.
o - Exit the application.
Click on "Schedule Employees" to go to the Editor.
The Editor ~
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To become familiar with the application, some files are added
during the installation process. These files created the
"Example Department" with fictitious names for Employees and
a single Schedule-file based on the date of installation.
The Department represents a restaurant with Servers, Cashiers
and Cooks. Take a look at the screens, edit times in the
Editor, sort based on start and stop times. Note that the
Schedule file name is "Year-Month-Day.Weekday" so when you
choose a Schedule-file the oldest dates are on top.
No adjustments are made for "Overtime", the currency totals
are strictly time scheduled multiplied by the hourly rate.
Click on "Graph" at the bottom of the screen, and the
distribution for that day will be displayed.
By entering another assignment you can further break this
down.
Edit controls ~
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Note the "Scroll bars" in the Editor, from left to right you
may scroll to go from midnight to midnight on the top scroll
bar (Scrolling hours) or from day to day on the bottom
one (Scrolling days). If you point on the arrows, the
increments are one, any other place, on the top bar equals 6
Hours on the bottom bar 3 Days.
To quickly go from Midnight to Midnight, two controls on the
bottom of the screen can be used.
Twenty Employees will fit on a screen, the vertical scroll bar
will only be displayed if you have more than twenty.
To quickly go from to first to the last page, two controls use
on the bottom of the screen marked "First page" and "Last page".
Display of totals ~
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Also notice some option button that you can click. The column
next to the Employee name will change based on these option
buttons. As you progress with the scheduling process, this
column will display daily or weekly accumulated totals for time
or currency for each Employee.
Note:
The daily time and currency totals displayed, are for that day
only, in contrast to the daily totals in the Schedule Report
that are the shift totals and include time after midnight if
the shift started on the previous day.
The time bar ~
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Time is entered and changed in the Editor screen.
The representation of time is the "Time bar".
You may have up to 34 Start and Stops per week for
each Employee. Since the accumulated time is displayed
as an option, unpaid break-times such as a lunch br