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Setting up buttons and automatic clocking on a time clock

How to set the clocking buttons and the default event for automatic clocking on each time clock.

Written by Marko Klopčič

If your company uses several time clocks, you can set which buttons each of them shows and which event it records automatically.

Setting the buttons on a time clock

1. Go to Settings (1) › Clocking Points › Settings (2) and select the clocking point with the time clock (3).

2. Next to the time clock you want to customize, click the edit icon.

3. Open the Clocking buttons tab and click Edit.

4. For each button (Button 1 to Button 4), select up to four clockings. If a button has several clockings, employees switch between them by pressing the button repeatedly. Click Save.

Automatic clocking with a default event

In the Default event field, you set the event that the time clock records when an employee simply holds a card to it, without selecting a button. For example, a time clock at the entrance can always record arrivals and one at the exit can record departures. If one time clock should alternately record arrivals and departures, create a calculated event:

1. Go to Settings › Event Definitions and add a new event.

2. Name the event, for example Automatic clocking, and select the type calculated. In the in event field, select Arrival, and in the out event field, select Departure. Click Save.

3. Open the time clock settings as described above, click Edit on the Clocking buttons tab and, in the Default event field, select the event you created. Click Save.

Employees no longer need to select a button to clock their arrival or departure – they simply hold their card or chip to the time clock. They can still use the buttons for other events, such as breaks or business departures.

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