This setting determines whether or not the presence indicator on the Login form is controlled by Shop Floor Control. If the presence is registered by an external system, this setting should be set to inactive.

If SFC registers presence (the setting is active), SFC creates an hour registration line for presence in Isah when a user logs in to SFC. When accounting for time in SFC, users will see the time they were present and need to account for.

If SFC does not register presence, the hour registration lines in your time registration will reflect this. There won't be any presence information available, only lines accounting for the work that has been done and the time spent on them. When accounting for time in SFC, users will not see any presence information either.

Managing presence in an external system

If you want to manage presence hours via an external application, several issues are important:

• Time registration lines your external application sends to or creates in Isah should have an end time that is the same as the start time. The end time will be changed into the real end time when the employee leaves for the day.
• The database field TimeRegInputType of the time registration lines that register presence has to be set to 8. Only then, SFC will recognize them as presence lines.
• The database field ProcessInd of the time registration lines that register presence have to be set to 0 (false). If you also log absence in an external application, this indicator needs to be set to 1 (true) when the end time of the presence line is changed to the actual end time.

  It is possible to log presence in an external application (for instance with a magnetic key upon entrance), but to let SFC log the time the employee leaves work. In this case, SFC will change the end time as well as the indicator when the employee leaves.

This setting determines if users need a PIN code. If it is active, the users need a four-digit PIN code that they have to enter every time they log on. The user can change the PIN code in the Shop Floor Control Settings window.

If users need to be able to log in from an external system or tool, such as a magnetic key, activate this setting. Once it has been activated, a new field will appear in the SFC Settings window on the terminal(s). With this setting in SFC, it is possible to switch the external login option off or on for specific terminals.

Note: To create a bridge between your external login system (for instance magnetic keys) and SFC, you will need to add code. For instructions, see Appendix A: Configuring An External Login Option.

If a timetable or timetables for working hours (divided by a semicolon) are set in this field, users will be automatically logged out (and their running operation stopped) at a specific time. The time is set per hour code. You can configure this time in the Isah window for hour codes.

When the user ends a shift, Shop Floor Control checks if the presence registered by the application is in accordance with the schedule for that day. If the setting is active, the application will force the user to add time registrations for absence periods.

This value is used for the Compare time registration with presence field and determines the time margin allowed for working hours. A difference in hours is only considered a mismatch if it is larger than the margin configured here.

When a user ends a working day, Shop Floor Control checks whether the working hours registered by the application are in accordance with the time the user was present. This setting determines if the application will force the user to add time registrations if there is a mismatch between presence hours and registered hours:

• No Action: The application does not perform any action when hours do not match.
• Signal: The application will notify the user when hours do not match, but does not block ending the working day.
• Block: The application will block ending the working day when hours do not match.

This value is used for the Compare time registration with presence field and determines the time margin allowed for working hours. A difference in hours is only considered a mismatch if it is larger than the margin configured here.

This setting contains the hour groups from Isah. Hour groups are categories of hour codes. Only hour codes belonging to the groups you have selected here will be visible in SFC. If you want all hour codes to be visible in SFC, leave this setting empty.