4.3.2 Employees Maintenance ..................................................... 38
4.4 Attendance Management ............................................................ 41
4.4.1 Holiday List .......................................................................... 41
4.4.2 Timetable and Shift ............................................................. 42
4.4.4 Attendance Records ........................................................... 51
4.4.5 Attendance Calculating and Report .................................... 53
4.5 Deal with Exceptions ................................................................... 62
4.5.1 Away on Business/ Leave ................................................... 62
4.5.2 Append Record ................................................................... 63
4.5.3 Append Record Collectively ................................................ 63
4.5.4 Dealing with Collectively Late / Leaving ............................. 64
4.6 Data Maintenance ....................................................................... 64
4.6.1 Import Employee List .......................................................... 65
4.6.2 Import Attendance Record .................................................. 66
4.6.3 Clear Obsolete Data ............................................................ 66
4.6.4 Compress Database ........................................................... 67
4.6.5 Backup Database ................................................................ 67
4.6.6 Initialize System .................................................................. 67
4.7 External Program Management .................................................. 67
4.7.1 Connect to Time Attendance Machine ................................ 68
5 Data Communication ........................................................................... 70
5.1 Communication management software ...................................... 71
5.1.1 Add Unit .............................................................................. 71
5.1.2 Modify Unit .......................................................................... 72
5.1.3 Delete Unit .......................................................................... 72
5.1.4 Right Key Menu ................................................................... 73
5.1.5 Synchronize Time ................................................................ 77
5.1.6 Initialize Unit ........................................................................ 77