RE: DataFusion Time Clocks

[Steve Culver]

Scott,



This is a very interesting development. I have to believe that
timeClock

data will be of great interest to the management of any laundry.



We have already established <personnelCode>, which should contain the

identification of the employee selected by the laundry (not the value
used

internally by the clock vendor) as well as <personnelFirstName> and

<personnelLastName>. I suppose that what will also be required are

tags along the lines of <personnelClockInDateTime> and

<personnelClockOutDateTime>, but this is just off the top of my head.

Are there other data typically supplied by Kronos?



Thanks for the heads up!



Steve



-----Original Message-----
From: LinenMaster [mailto:scot...@hotmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2008 14:33
To: DataFusion
Subject: DataFusion Time Clocks



During the JCAM DataFusion session, some one mentioned about

interfacing with time clocks.



I've been speaking with Kronos on and off since.



Kronos has a specific time keeping unit which is tied into a desktop

software application called "WorkForce".



The "WorkForce" application was designed as a tool to allow for 3rd

party data access.



In effect the "WorkForce" application allows the creation of data

translation maps, which can be used to create flat files, or direct

access for applications such as Crystal Reports.



The rep at Kronos stated that direct connections can be made; but did

not understand the concept of calling services, which suggests to me

that they do not have that capability yet.



However, this does not mean you cannot access time clock data. A

business integration specialist / programmer would need to be hired

by the end user to develop a service. But DataFusion can supply the

required tags which need to be returned.



The essence would be to create some type of data map in Kronos and

then use the development platform of choice to access the data and

create a service which would extract Kronos data and then serve it up

in XML format.



As my time permits, I will reach out to Simplex.



I think after that, other time keep units which are less expensive (of

the shelf type systems) will most likely not offer any services; but

just ODBC type database connections.



Scott.