The Multiple Employee Timecard Manager

To access the Timecard Manager, click theTimecard Manager icon on the Manager Home page, then click the Timecard Manager link.

The Timecard Manager will open in either Single Employee View or Multiple Employee View, depending upon your personal Timecard Manager preferences. The Multiple Employee Timecard Manager allows you to view in one glance the time that has been reported on a single day by your regular and on-loan employees. You can use the Multiple Employee Timecard Manager to quickly enter, edit, and approve up to 300 time pairs at a time.

Notes:
You can only create or edit time pairs that fall within the current or next pay period. You cannot edit the timecard records of hours-based employees from the Multiple Employee Timecard Manager, although you can view hours that have already been recorded. To edit an hours-based timecard, you must switch to the Single Employee Timecard Manager.

The table below describes the features of the Multiple Employee Timecard Manager.

Employee Filter

Displays the name of the currently selected filter, which controls which employees' records are displayed in the Timecard Manager. Depending upon how your system is configured, an employee may have more than one Employee ID. Use the filter button () to change which employees are included in the selected filter, or to switch to a different filter (see Finding Employee Records).

Notes: You can only view timecard information for employees who are assigned to security groups to which you have access. These are normally employees whom you supervise or who are on loan to you.

The Multiple Employee Timecard Manager display is limited to 300 rows. If you supervise a very large number of employees, or if you have a large number of employees who regularly have multiple time pairs per day, you may need to use employee filters to create subsets of your employees that will result in fewer than 300 rows of time pairs per day.

Pay Date selection tools

Indicate the date for which information is currently being displayed and allow you to select a different date. You can use the navigation buttons ( and ) to move one day forward or backward, or you can select a specific date by entering it in the text box or using the button.

Note: If you use the navigation buttons to change the date, the Timecard Manager will refresh immediately when you click or . If you enter a specific date or select one using the button, you must click Find to update the page.

Preferences menu and link

Allow you to set preferences that control the appearance of the Timecard Manager. The most commonly accessed preferences are listed on the drop-down menu. To view and set these preferences, click the button. To access more advanced settings, click the Preferences link. For more information, see Setting Your Timecard Manager Preferences.

Single Employee View link

Changes the view of the Timecard Manager

Select column

Allows you to perform an action, such as marking entries for deletion, on multiple rows at once. Simply click in the Select check box for each row on which you wish to perform the action and then click the appropriate action button. To select every row of the Timecard Manager, click the Select box in the header row.

Status column

Contains icons that indicate the processing status of each timecard entry. You can click a status icon to open a pop-up Time Pair Detail window containing more detailed information about the status of the entry. (This is particularly useful if an entry has a warning or error status). The most common status icons are described below.

	The data on this line cannot be saved because it contains a validation error. Click the icon for more information.
	The data on this line has not yet been processed by ezLaborManager.
	The data on this line has been successfully processed by ezLaborManager.
	One or more warnings resulted when the data on this line was processed by ezLaborManager. Click the icon to view more information. (Warnings are less severe than errors. They do not have to be resolved before payroll is processed.)
	One or more errors resulted when the data on this line was processed by ezLaborManager. Click the icon to view more information. (Errors are more severe than warnings and must be resolved before payroll is processed.)
	This entry is a payroll adjustment made by an administrator.

Supervisor and Loan Approval columns

Allow you to approve employees' time pairs. The Supervisor Approval check box is editable for employees who belong to security groups to which you have access. The Loan Approval check box is available for employees who have been loaned to you and have charged time to a labor category for which you are responsible.

Notes:
The Supervisor Approval column is not displayed if all of your employees have the Supervisor Approval feature disabled. If some of your employees have the feature enabled and some have the feature disabled, then the Supervisor Approval column is always displayed on the Multiple Employees Timecard Manager page. However, for employees who have the feature disabled, the approval check boxes are unavailable.

Only time pairs that have already been successfully processed can be approved. If a time pair has not yet been processed, or has been processed with errors, the approval check boxes are unavailable.

Employee ID

Displays the Employee ID of the employee whose time or hours is recorded on a given row.

Name

Displays the name of the employee whose time or hours is recorded on a given row. This column is optional and is only displayed if you have set your Timecard Manager preferences to "Show Employee Names."

Tip: To view or print basic employee information, click the employee name in this column.

button

Opens the Single Employee Timecard Manager for the employee listed on the row from which the button was clicked.

Date In columns

Indicates the date of record for each time pair being viewed. This is a read-only column. To change the date associated with a time pair, click the to open the Single Employee Timecard Manager on the record.

Main data columns

Display/accept information about each employee's worked time. The specific columns that appear will vary depending upon the employee's time-entry type, your Timecard Manager preferences, and your company's time recording policies. For more information about entering or editing data in these columns, see Creating a New Time Pair for an Employee and Editing an Employee Time Pair.

Note: You cannot edit the timecard records of hours-based employees from the Multiple Employee Timecard Manager, although you can view hours that have already been recorded.

Time In and Time Out columns - Display/accept clock in and lunch out or clock out times. If an employee has been assigned a schedule, the scheduled in and out times will be displayed in light gray text in these columns for scheduled days for which no actual hours have yet been recorded. For hours-based employees, the time in column will display a default start time and the time out value will be calculated using the default start time and the reported (or scheduled) number of hours. The time in and time out columns will never contain actual time in and time out data for hours-based employees, since they do not report this information.

Hours column - Displays the total hours worked (for hours-based employees) or indicates the total calculated hours for the time pair (for clocking and time-based employees). If an hours-based employee has been assigned a schedule, the scheduled hours will be displayed in light gray text in the hours column for scheduled days for which no actual hours have yet been recorded.

Note: There are only two instances in which the hours column can be used to enter data for time-based employees: when using hours-based earnings codes (as when recording non-worked time) or when recording a 24-hour shift. (To record a 24-hour shift, enter the same time in the Time In and Time Out columns and enter "24" in the Hours column.)

Out Type column - Indicates whether the Time Out represents a "Lunch Punch" or a regular out punch (column is blank). For clocking or time-based employees whose companies use automatic lunch deductions, the "No Lunch" setting indicates that no deduction should be assessed to the time pair. This column will never contain data for hours-based employees.

Earnings Code column - Allows you to charge employees' time to a specific earnings code (e.g., Jury Duty or Vacation) as necessary. If an employee has been assigned a default earnings code, it will be displayed in this column in light gray text on any lines for which actual data has not yet been recorded.

Labor Charge columns - Allow you to charge employees' time to specific labor categories. The number and names of the labor charge columns will vary according to your company's usage and your Timecard Manager preferences. If an employee has been assigned default labor charge codes, they will be displayed in these columns in light gray text on any lines for which actual data has not yet been recorded.

Rate Modifier column - Allows you to override or adjust an employee's pay rate. This column will only be visible if you have enabled it in your Timecard Manager preferences. To override an employee's pay rate, you must enter a valid code in this column or use the button to select one.

Shift Override column - Allows you to override or adjust an employee's calculated shift rule for the time pair. This column will only be visible if you have enabled it in your Timecard Manager preferences. To override an employee's shift rule, you must enter a valid code in this column or use the button to select one.

Edit Reason column - Displays/accepts the edit reason code associated with each time pair. Although this column will only be visible if you have enabled it in your Timecard Manager preferences, every timecard edit must be associated with an edit reason. If you have specified a default edit reason code in your user options, it will automatically be assigned to any changes you make to an employee's timecard (unless you manually enter another valid edit reason in this column). If you have not specified a default edit reason code in your user options and you do not manually enter an edit reason, your company's default edit reason code will be used.

Notes button

Appears in the far right column for each row in the Timecard Manager. Allows you to add, view, or edit notes for a row. When you click the button, the Notes window opens above the row and the row is highlighted so that you can see which row you are adding, viewing, or editing notes for. Depending on whether a note has been added and submitted, the following buttons are displayed:

Note Button	Meaning of Button
	A note exists for a row and the page has been submitted since the note was added or edited.
	A note exists for a row, but the page has not yet been submitted since the note was added or edited.
	A note does not exist for a row and the page has been submitted. This is also the default note icon which is displayed before any notes have been added to a row.
	All text has been deleted from a note window, but the page has not been submitted since the text was deleted.

Save button

Runs basic validity tests on any new or changed data and, if the data is valid, saves it and displays an "Operational Successful" message. If the validity tests fail, an error message will provide troubleshooting information.

Note: Clicking the Save button does not cause the timecard processor to run. Entries that are saved successfully with the Save button will display the icon until the timecard processor runs.

Insert button

Inserts one or more new row(s) in the timecard being viewed. New rows that are created using the Insert button are based on rows you have selected or, if no rows are selected, on the row in which your cursor is currently located.

To insert one or more new row(s), click the check box in the Select column for each row for which you want to create a new row and then click the Insert button. A new row will appear immediately under each selected row.

Note: If you have set the "Do not clear on insert" Timecard Manager preference, each new row you create with the Insert button will contain all of the same data (except for any associated notes) as the row on which the newly inserted row was based. To insert a new blank row that contains only the date of a selected row, change your preference to "Clear on insert" before using the Insert button.

Copy and Paste buttons

Allow you to copy and paste time pairs to different days or employees. See Using the Timecard Manager Editing Buttons.

Clear button

Removes data from the Time In, Time Out, Hours, Out Type, and Earnings Code fields. This is most useful if you need to correct or remove data that you have begun entering but have not yet saved.

Notes:
The Clear button does not remove data from the Day, Date, Labor Charge, Rate Modifier, Shift Override, or Edit Reason columns and does not remove any Notes associated with the selected row or rows.

The Clear button is intended to clear records that you are editing but have not yet saved. To remove a time pair that has already been saved, use the Delete button instead.

Delete button

Marks selected rows for deletion.

Note: The icon will appear in the status column of any rows you have marked for deletion and the data in the rows will be displayed in red, but they will not be deleted until you click the Save button. If you decide not to delete a row that has been marked for deletion, click the select check box for the row and click Delete.

Tips:
If you have set your Timecard Manager preferences to display a large number of the optional columns, the Timecard Manager may exceed the width of your screen. Use the scroll bar to scroll left and right. The Notes column is always the right-most column.

If your Timecard Manager view is crowded, you can set your preferences to hide the lookup button () that appears next to many of the columns. You can use the Preferences pull-down menu to show the buttons when you need them.