TimeControl 7 sports a fancy new interactive feature called the Calendar View. It is one of the features that is generating the most excitement for certain TimeControl users. 
When we first designed the Calendar View we expected that it would be popular among users who wanted a graphical representation of their upcoming vacations and holidays as well as any assigned tasks. We thought of it primarily as a personal view.
But, once we’d created the new view and started using it, the advantages of the view for Supervisors and Administrators overshadowed our original expectations.
Supervisors who have to approve future vacation have been able to do so for some time with TimeControl’s TimeRequest™ functionality. Users can request time off, the supervisors can accept or reject the request and administrators can even push holiday time for banked holidays to any selection or to all users. So far that all sounds fine and TimeControl supervisor users have reported how happy they are with the function since it was first released years ago.
Now with the introduction of the Calendar View we are seeing a missing link in the approval process that we didn’t think about in the past.
The Calendar View allows a supervisor to visualize all the TimeRequests from their team simultaneously. They can color code the view to show approved vacations, pending requests and even rejected requests on the same page. Now, at a glance, a supervisor can determine if the new request for time off will conflict with other requests. They can see the impact on how many team members might be absent at the same time and making the right decision about whether to accept or cancel the new request for time off is so much easier.
In some organizations it is key to also see if accepting time-off requests will conflict with tasks that are scheduled so the supervisor can also display tasks assigned to each of their team members at the same time.
The View is flexible with numerous options for the display as you can see here. The Calendar View is accessed from the reporting menu or directly from inside the TimeRequest screen.
The availability of the new Calendar View will make the process of time-off approvals much more effective and gives all users a new way to visualize their own personal TimeControl data.
For more information about what else is new with TimeControl, visit www.timecontrol.com/features/latest.
This gives users an easier perspective into data they have access to and to highlight potential assignment challenges in the coming days. The view is highly configurable and is accessed from either the Reporting tab or the MyAssignments tab of each user’s Options page.
If only the TimeControl timesheet had multi-line edit…
Not every organization expects all their staff to fill in a timesheet every single week. Instead, theses salaried staff are instructed to fill in a timesheet only “by exception” meaning only if they were not at their intended post for the entire pay period. If the employee has an exception such as a sick day, vacation, a day when they left early, etc. they must then enter only the exception.
Using the Drill Down Analyzer presents a selected amount of data which can be a small selection or a massive selection into a simple list. But, just like an Excel Pivot table, you can then drag a column header to the top of the screen and the data instantly reorganizes into sub-groups and sub-totals by that column. Drag another column and another level of sub-grouping and sub-totaling appears. It has to be seen to be fully appreciated (which you can do on the 
For users of TimeControl prior to version 6, they will be familiar with the spreadsheet-like reporting tool based on a FormulaOne component that was automatically installed by TimeControl. Using this ActiveX control, you can organize your selection of TimeControl data into groupings, sub-totals and totals and then either print it directly or save the result into Excel for further reporting. The Legacy Report Writer is not viewed by default in new TimeControl systems. It is visible in the Legacy menu area as it will be most attractive for clients who have created many reporting views in that report writer and wish to keep using them while they create new reports in the TimeControl Report Interface.
This is a great question and one faced by any organization that is shifting from paper-based timesheets to an automated system. Signature approvals are designed to have evidence that the person who signed the document actually saw the document they signed and their signature signifies their approval of the content. There are two main areas of reluctance for auditors to accept an automated version of a signature in a computer-based timesheet:
tab to tab or add a new entry. Imagine that you’ve created an internal project management tracking process manual and you’d like to make sure that all of your TimeControl users can access it from right inside TimeControl. You can click Add in the Menu Entry module and add the URL and an icon for that selection. Once you’ve added the new entry, it will immediately become visible in the User Profiles module in case you want to make sure it is secured for one user or another.
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