		Newsletter Vol. 1 Jan. 2012



	Case study: As an example, let's assume that a Food & Beverage company ABC Foods is planning a business expansion scheme and needs to introduce a comprehensive Time & Attendance Management System to monitor Employee attendance and costs. If they install a range of Networked NITGEN Terminals at offices & factories, all Staff attendance may be securely monitored from a central source by the appropriate Departmental Administrator and the data collected may be sorted by Employee, by Group, by Department, by Terminal, by User ID etc; Prohibitive Time Zones (Public / Bank Holidays etc) can be easily set up to restrict un-authorised access by selective employees under the control of the HR Department.

"What is a Time-zone?"

A Time Zone is a pre defined period of time (which can be split up into Minutes/Hours/Days) to control or enable Access for Individuals (and Terminals). The time-zone function consists of User time-zone and Terminal time-zone.
   - User time-zone: Designates Access privileges for each individual user.
   - Terminal time-zone: Designates access privilege via each terminal and has a special time-zone which designates
                                         multi-authentication types hourly at each terminal.

Preconditions

   - ACM Professional supports a terminal time-zone function and user time-zone function to limit the access time via
    our reader (terminal).
   - "Terminal time-zone" takes priority over "User time-zone".

The Function of ACM Professional; Time-Zone (1) - Setting General Time-Zone criteria
The Function of ACM Professional; Time-Zone (2) - Setting Time-Zone for Terminal and users
The Function of ACM Professional; Time-Zone (3) - Setting Criteria of Authentication Time-Zone

Setting Time-Zone for Terminal and users

Previous letter, we introduced basic time-zone settings. In this letter, we would like to guide how you can apply the settings to users and terminals using Timezone code.

1. Terminal time-zone

1) Terminal Option
      - Select a [properties] after clicking right mouse button on the terminal management menu.
      - Select a [Terminal Option].
      - You have to check [Timezone] box for each specific Terminal to enable Time Zone features & settings.

2) Timezone Checking
      - Select a [properties] after clicking right mouse button on the terminal management menu.
      - Select a [Timezone Checking].
      - Select the number to be applied from the [Timezone Code] in the Drop Down menu.

2. User time-zone

1) User time-zone
- Select a [properties] after clicking right mouse button on the user management menu.
- Select the number to be applied from the [Timezone Code] in the Drop Down menu.

3. Group time-zone

1) Enroll Group
- Create a group after clicking [Enroll Group] image button on the [Group Management].
- Add user(s) to a created group after selecting specifying group and clicking [User List] image button.

2) Group time-zone
      - Select a [Timezone Setting] after clicking right mouse button on the specifying group.
      - Select user(s) who you want to apply a specifying time-zone. If you want to apply time-zone to all of group member
        at once, press [all] and [Check] button.
      - Select the number to be applied from the [Timezone Code] in the Drop Down menu.
      - Click [Apply] button.

4. Setting user time-zone info. for each terminal

       - Select a [Setting Time-zone info. for each terminal] after clicking right mouse button on the user management
        menu.
      - User time-zone can be applied as a different value on each terminal as illustrated above.
      - Even though it is applied, the value of the General User time-zone isn't changed.

You can manage and apply Time-zone settings to individual basis or group basis or each individual in a certain group, also you can differentiate terminal basis. This is easier & more convenient method to manage your employees' work hour.

Next news letter, we would like to introduce how you can differentiate authentication method for each time-zone. Thank you.

To be continued...