This activity is used to control how an employee's in-clocking or out-clocking, or the combination of the in and out clocking should retrieve which working hours (day type) to use. This feature is normally used for personnel working on shifts who often have to switch between the shifts. This feature removes the need for the supervisor to manually manage the necessary system changes.
By defining the in and out time intervals together with the day type to use, the employee gets the correct day type depending on the clocking information. For example, a clocking in at 5:57 uses the morning shift day type, a clocking in at 13:56 uses the evening shift day type. However, a clocking in at 5:57 and a clocking out at 16:04 may result in the use of the day time day type.
Investigate which schedules and day types that are most likely to be involved in the day type switch. To find the schedules and day types you can also map the employees involved and then derive the information from the schedule connections.
Note: If time has already been reported by an employee on a particular day when the automatic day type switch is defined, the attendance result is required to be recalculated in the Time Card Day window in order for the day type switch information to be effective on that day.
In order to perform this activity, the relevant day types are required to be defined in the Work Hour Schedules/Day Types tab.
The clocking information will be used by the system to retrieve the correct day type, and the calculation of the time card result will be based on the correct information.
To define automatic day type switch;