Since the very first version of TimeControl, we have believed that no users should have to confront features in the product that aren’t for them. For a timesheet, you might think that’s silly. After all, how many features can there be?
Lots.
But in TimeControl’s User Profiles, Administrators and system designers can decide what elements of TimeControl to display to which users.
So long as some super-Administrator has access to the User Profiles, you can hide many of the features that you might not be interested in deploying at this time. This is a common practice for almost all TimeControl deployments over the last 30 years.
The result is that an end-user who perhaps just does their timesheet and nothing else can have everything else hidden. They won’t see the Tables or the Reports or the Tools or even the documentation unless that has been made available to them. This makes TimeControl incredibly easy to adopt for the end user.
But… This same ease of use can present a challenge over the long term.
On a regular basis an experience TimeControl user emails a request asking if we can help find a tool that would attach itself to TimeControl for some function only to reply that the very feature they are looking for is already in TimeControl.
Some clients have been using TimeControl for over 25 years and like any enterprise system, once it’s in place and doing what was originally intended, there is little effort expended on seeing how the use of the product can be extended or if the organization is using all that the system provides.
Not that we expect every user to read all our documentation but just to make this point, our reference guide has over 600 pages. The user guide, over 100. Our report designer guide is another 400+ pages and our BI Guide another 180+. The TimeControl Project Guide is another 100+ pages.
There are a lot of features that could be used in TimeControl, and no one deploys them all.
So, if you are a TimeControl client, we encourage you to keep an eye on what’s new in each TimeControl version and from time to time ask our staff to do a generic catch up training session as we might do for any new client. You can also look at the many video courses or sessions on the website or just keep up with this blog.
TimeControl may have the answers you’re looking for already in your hands.