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 My TimeControl Home Page
The new My TimeControl Home Page brings the collaborative aspect of TimeControl to a new level. When a user logs into TimeControl, the first thing they will see on the right hand side of the screen will be a customizable Home Page with information that has been selected. Multiple templates of display can be chosen and an Administrator can elect to make this page user-changeable or not. Inside each template will be multiple blocks where the Administrator or user can select the type of information to display. Some of the choices will include a Timesheet Status Report, a Vacation, Sick, Personal days Status Report, a Timesheet Approval Report, an Administrator Messages area, a Customized HTML block view and more.
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Timesheet Status Report
This report appears in a TimeControl Home Page block and shows a count and the status of any missing timesheets you are responsible for in a user-definable period.
Vacation/Sick/Personal Days Status Report
This report appears in a TimeControl Home Page block and shows the total number of days allotted, available and taken for each of these 3 days-off category. The totals can be customized to show different colors to represent how much time is left. For example whenever you have 2 days or less left of Vacation time, a red flag could be displayed.
Timesheet Approval report
This report appears in a TimeControl Home Page block and shows the status of timesheets which you are responsible to approve. A red-yellow-green traffic light view brings attention immediately to approvals which require attention
Administrator Messages
Administrator Messages is a dynamic database-based view which shows a list of Administrator messages in a My TimeControl Home Page Block. The list shows a message title and short abstract of the message. Clicking on the message displays the longer text of the message which can include Rich HTML text. This function allows for the first time, the Administrator to use TimeControl for communications.
Customized HTML
A Customized HTML view can be displayed in a My TimeControl Home Page block and may contain any HTML coding that the Administrator allows. Possible uses of this function are endless but it allows the block to become a source of additional links, information or even images as the Administrator determines.
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Resource Pre-load filter
When loading charges in the pre-load tab, TimeControl used to load 100% of charges from the charge table. For organizations with tens of thousands of charges, this could result in a performance issue when using this function. Now TimeControl loads only the top level charges from the hierarchical structure. When the user clicks on the "+" sign, only the next level of that charge is loaded. This incremental filtering makes for big gains in performance of this function.
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XML Export
TimeControl's extensive linking functionality has now been enhanced to include the ability to generate XML structured exports. Virtually all of TimeControl's standard tables are available for export. In addition to the ability to create XML structured files, the export can now also embed a link to an XML Style sheet. This effectively allows XML reporting to be generated directly from TimeControl.
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Import / Export a report
TimeControl will now allow a user to export or import a report definition. This new import/export format will allow a user to exchange reports with other users and for HMS to distribute new reports that have been defined to any current users. This import/export will include any dependent information such as filters. No allowance will be made, however, for field definitions of user-defined fields.
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Import / Export a filter
TimeControl will now allow a user to export or import a filter definition. This new import/export format will allow a user to exchange filters with other users and for HMS to distribute new filters that have been defined to any current users.
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Import / Export a validation rule
TimeControl will now allow a user to export or import a validation rule. This new import/export format will allow a user to exchange validation rules with other users and for HMS to distribute new validation rules that have been created to any current users. This import/export will include any dependent information such as filters. No allowance will be made, however, for field definitions of user-defined fields.
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My TimeControl Community Area
With the ability to exchange reports, filters and validation rules, we expect a growing amount of traffic to occur between HMS and the users and between the users themselves. With the launch of TimeControl 4.4, HMS will launch a new area of the TimeControl website called "My TimeControl". This area will include community functionality for users to upload or download filters, reports and validation rules and eventually to communicate with each other in threaded newsgroup style conversations. This type of community exchange will serve to enhance the value of every current TimeControl installation.
If you are a TimeControl user and would like access to the "My TimeControl" community area, go to www.timecontrol.com/mytimecontrol (requires login)
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Multi-charge code deletion
One of the long-missed functions from the TimeControl 3 era was the Multiple Charge Code delete function. Well, it's back! This function allows a user to delete multiple charge codes from the same dialog. For those who do table maintenance in TimeControl, it's a big time-saver.
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Enhance link to P3e / TeamPlay
TimeControl's link to Primavera's P3e and TeamPlay has been greatly enhanced to allow daily results to be placed into the appropriate daily buckets of these scheduling tools. This will allow P3e and TeamPlay users to take advantage of various cost and labor reports such as earned value curve which show the use of labor over long periods on a day-to-day basis.
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