Messages on Time Clocks

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arin
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Messages on Time Clocks

Post by arin »

A feature on other time clocks that would be nice- being able to have a message displayed on the time clock screen when an employee clocks in. Many employees do not have access to computers during the day and a message for reminders would be very useful.
shaunw
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Re: Messages on Time Clocks

Post by shaunw »

Our latest timeclock models (TTUS100) do support messages, however they are mostly just notifications of messages or exceptions pending on the TimeTrex server. Unfortunately the screen on the timeclock is quite small when it comes to text messages, its essentially like a SMS on a cell phone, only even smaller, there can only be about 40-50 characters on the screen at once.
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Because of
this it makes
sending
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messages
quite difficult.

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When you take into account losses due to word wrapping, your lucky to fit three short words on a single line so the messages look like the above, and even that short sentence would be spread across at least two screens. I'm sure we will offer this functionality sometime in the future, but as mentioned its going to be quite limited.
shaunw
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Re: Messages on Time Clocks

Post by shaunw »

Fortunately this feature will be available sooner rather than later.

I was just informed by one of the developers that this functionality will be available in the next version of TimeTrex (v3.4.2), albeit in a extremely limited form.
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