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Auto Break - Additional Preferences Added

We are very exited to announce a new preference to our Auto Break feature.

 

We now allow the Auto Break to be created "WITHIN" or "AFTER", please see below for a few scenarios and a view of the preference:

 

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Scenarios:

 

***NOTE***

These scenarios follow on each other to help with understanding each part of this feature.

 

Scenario 1:

  • Login as any client
  • Navigate (Preferences > General Account Info)
  • Create 3 auto-break rules
  • Add a Fixed Time Auto-Break (overrides the 3 auto-break rules)
  • Deselect manual break & manual breaks override
  • Disable Auto-Breaks
    • Create new time entries within the last two weeks
    • CronJob runs daily.
    • Ensure no Auto-Breaks added

 

Scenario 2:

  • Navigate (Preferences > General Account Info)
  • Enable Auto-Breaks
    • Add a manual break to one of your time entries
    • CronJob runs daily.
    • Ensure Fixed Auto-Breaks are added via the fixed times (manual break should have been removed - based on preferences set above)

 

Scenario 3:

  • Navigate (Preferences > General Account Info)
  • Enable manual breaks (manual breaks override remains deselected)
    • Delete or create new time entries within the last 2 weeks (include a few manual breaks)
    • CronJob runs daily.
    • Ensure Fixed Auto-Breaks were added, BUT not where a manual break existed. (manual break is not removed either)

 

Scenario 4:

  • Navigate (Preferences > General Account Info)
  • Enable manual breaks override
    • Create new time entries within the last 2 weeks (include manuals breaks, duration less than auto and some that are longer than the auto-break).
    • CronJob runs daily.
    • Ensure Fixed Auto-Breaks were added, (manual break exists, only add auto-break when the manual break is less than the auto-break)
      • Where auto-break could be 30 minutes
      • AND Manual break is less than 30 minutes (eg. 10 minutes)
      • Auto-Break added will equal the difference (eg. 20 minutes)

Scenario 5:

  • Navigate (Preferences > General Account Info)
  • Disable Fixed Auto-Break times (setting them to "00:00")
    • Create new time entries within the last 2 weeks (include a few manual breaks). 
    • Use employees with Department associations.
    • Navigate (Preferences > Personnel > Associations) of employees used in time entries
    • Edit the departments used in the time entries to use one of the three Auto-Break rules (make sure to test all three).

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    • CronJob runs daily.
    • Ensure Auto-Breaks were added based on the 3 rules
    • Ensure manual break rules are met based on override settings as explained in previous scenario.

 

Scenario 6:

  • Navigate (Preferences > General Account Info)
  • Disable manual break override
    • Create new time entries within the last 2 weeks (include a few manual breaks). 
    • Use employees with Department associations.
    • Navigate (Preferences > Personnel > Associations) of employees used in time entries
    • Edit the departments used in the time entries to use one of the three Auto-Break rules (make sure to test all three).
    • CronJob runs daily
    • Ensure Auto-Breaks were added based on the 3 rules
    • Ensure where manual breaks were added that no auto-break was added. (manual break is not removed either)

Scenario 7:

  • Navigate (Preferences > General Account Info)
  • Disable manual breaks
    • Create new time entries within the last 2 weeks (include a few manual breaks). 
    • Use employees with Department associations.Navigate (Preferences > Personnel > Associations) of employees used in time entries
    • Edit the departments used in the time entries to use one of the three Auto-Break rules (make sure to test all three).
    • CronJob runs daily
    • Ensure Auto-Breaks were added based on the 3 rules.Ensure Manual Breaks were removed and replaced with auto-breaks.

 

Scenario 8:

  • Login as any client
  • Navigate (Preferences > General Account Info)
  • Disable Fixed Break Times (by setting them to '0:0')
  • Update a Auto-Break rule to add "AFTER" the hours worked.
    • 30 minute break for 6 hours worked
      • Create a time entry, Start: 6:00 AM, END: 12:00 PM (6 hours)
      • Create a second time entry, Start 6:00 AM, END: 12:15 PM (6 hours 15 minutes)
      • CronJob runs daily
      • Both time entries should have a break added (start: 12:00 pm, end: 12:30 pm)
      • Both time entries should have their end times adjusted to 12:30 pm.

Scenario 9:

  • Navigate (Preferences > General Account Info)
  • Update a Auto-Break rule to add "WITHIN" the hours worked.
    • 30 minute break for 6 hours worked
      • 1) Create a time entry, Start: 6:00 AM, END: 12:00 PM (6 hours)
      • 2) Create a second time entry, Start 6:00 AM, END: 12:15 PM (6 hours 15 minutes)
      • CronJob runs daily
      • Time entry (1) should have a break (start: 11:30, end: 12:00)
      • Time entry (2) should have a break (start: 11:30, end: 12:00)
      • Time entries end dates should have no changes
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