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Setting Your Alert Preferences
Select
Settings
|
Preferences
and click on the
Alert
tab to setup
the alert notices displayed on the Home page. The Home page
updates based on your time setting for the
Check Alerts Every
field described below.
Type the least amount of hours an employee can
1.
work per punch in the
Alert Low Hours at
field. If
an employee works fewer hours in a shift than is
specified, an alert generates. To disable this alert,
set the alert value to
0.
Type the maximum amount of hours an employee
2.
can work per shift in the
Alert High Hours at
field. If an employee works a shift more than the hours specified, an alert
generates. To disable this alert, set the alert value to
99.
Type the number of hours an employee can work before daily overtime goes into effect in the
Alert Day Overtime OT
3.
at
field. This option triggers an alert before employees reach daily overtime by using the daily overtime value that you
set under Overtime Preferences.
Example:
If you have Day OT1 set to 8 hours and Alert Day Overtime OT set to 2 hours, an alert posts to the
Home page when the employee reaches 6 hours worked for the day.
Type the number of hours an employee can work before weekly overtime goes into effect in the
Alert Week Overtime
4.
OT at
field. This option triggers an alert before employees reach weekly overtime by using the weekly overtime value
that you set under Overtime Preferences.
Example:
If you have Week OT1 set to 40 hours and Alert Week Overtime OT set to 8 hours, an alert posts
to the Home page when the employee reaches 32 hours worked for the week.
Type the number of minutes to check alerts in the
Check Alerts Every
field. New alerts are checked and posted to the
5.
Home page based on the time entered here. To maximize system speed and performance, we recommend setting this
value to 10 minutes or more.
Click
Submit
to save your settings and return to the Home page.
6.
For additional Alert configuration, select
Settings | Alert Setup
.
Alert Setup
Using the Alert Preferences set earlier, select
Settings | Alerts Setup
, and follow the
instructions below to set up Home page and email alerts (with Email Alerts Upgrade).
Enabling/Disabling Alerts
: To disable an alert, deselect the checkbox in the
far left column. This prevents the alert from being posted on the Home page
Lifetime
: Use the drop-down menus under the
Lifetime
column to select the
amount of time the alert remains on the Home page. After that time, the
alert is automatically removed.
: If you have purchased the Email Alerts upgrade, select how often you
would like an e-mail alert sent from this drop-down menu. See
Email Alerts Upgrade
for more information.
