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On Track is a publication for users of Advanced Tracker solutions. Its goal is to provide news, tips, and information to help you be more productive.

In this issue:

• Spring Ahead ...
• Too Many Masters
• Tracker U
• Software Updates

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Spring Ahead ...

For most of Canada and the USA, on Sunday April 2nd at 2:00 AM local time the clock will "spring ahead" by an hour into Daylight Saving Time.

Your timeclocks may need adjustment. See the FAQ on this topic at http://headoffice.advancedtracker.com/faq/TimeSync.pdf.

For the SYnel timeclock you use the SYncomm software to set the time manually. After the time has sprung forward, go to the Activities section, and press the 'Set date and time' button.

Special case: if you have employees actually working overnight during the time change, you may manually need to adjust their calculated times by an hour. You can do this per-employee in Edit T&A or Time Approval Center, or you can do it for a batch of employees using the Batch Edits feature of Edit T&A.

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Too Many Masters

Do you find that sometimes as you are working in Employee Tracker, your selection of employees changes by itself? Or that other settings that are usually remembered, suddenly get lost? You may be suffering from TMMS, Too Many Masters Syndrome.

Employee Tracker remembers various settings, including the list of currently selected employees, date ranges, and Edit T&A View settings, on a per-user basis. Per-user meaning that as long as every user signs on using a different user name, the settings will remain set the way each person intends. But if you have more than one person logging into Employee Tracker using the same user name, then those people will be sharing settings, and will be stepping on each other's settings as they work.

The worst case of TMMS is when everybody uses Master to sign on, and multiple people are signed in at the same time.

Luckily modern science has come up with a cure for TMMS. Using the Utilities> Security option, you can create a separate signon for each person who uses Employee Tracker. Yes, even you. Stop using Master entirely, and have each individual person, including yourself, sign on with their personal ID. Settings will always be remembered.

Contact the support desk if you need help with Utilities> Security.

With your help we can stamp out TMMS forever.

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Tracker U

Use your Advanced Tracker solutions more effectively. Be a hero. Impress your boss.

The 2006 classes are filling up. Contact Jamie Smith to reserve a seat.

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The Software Update Corner

Almost all products have been updated in the last few months. See the Updates web page for details.

http://www.advancedtracker.com/download/updates.html

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