Setting Your Alert Preferences; Alert Setup - ICON SB-100 pro 2.5 User Manual

Setting Your Alert Preferences

Select Settings | Preferences and click on the Alert tab to setup
the alert notices displayed on the Home page. The Home page
updates based on your time setting for the Check Alerts Every
field described below.
1. Type the least amount of hours an employee can
work per punch in the Alert Low Hours at field. If
an employee works fewer hours in a shift than is
specified, an alert generates. To disable this alert,
set the alert value to 0.
2. Type the maximum amount of hours an employee
can work per shift in the Alert High Hours at field. If an employee works a shift more than the hours specified, an alert
generates. To disable this alert, set the alert value to 99.
3. Type the number of hours an employee can work before daily overtime goes into effect in the Alert Day Overtime OT
at field. This option triggers an alert before employees reach daily overtime by using the daily overtime value that you
set under Overtime Preferences.
Example:
4. Type the number of hours an employee can work before weekly overtime goes into effect in the Alert Week Overtime
OT at field. This option triggers an alert before employees reach weekly overtime by using the weekly overtime value
that you set under Overtime Preferences.
Example:
5. Type the number of minutes to check alerts in the Check Alerts Every field. New alerts are checked and posted to the
Home page based on the time entered here. To maximize system speed and performance, we recommend setting this
value to 10 minutes or more.
Click Submit to save your settings and return to the Home page.
6.
For additional Alert configuration, select Settings | Alert Setup.

Alert Setup

Using the Alert Preferences set earlier, select Settings | Alerts Setup, and follow the
instructions below to set up Home page and email alerts (with Email Alerts Upgrade).

Enabling/Disabling Alerts: To disable an alert, deselect the checkbox in the
far left column. This prevents the alert from being posted on the Home page

Lifetime: Use the drop-down menus under the Lifetime column to select the
amount of time the alert remains on the Home page. After that time, the
alert is automatically removed.

E-mail: If you have purchased the Email Alerts upgrade, select how often you
would like an e-mail alert sent from this drop-down menu. See
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If you have Day OT1 set to 8 hours and Alert Day Overtime OT set to 2 hours, an alert posts to the
Home page when the employee reaches 6 hours worked for the day.
If you have Week OT1 set to 40 hours and Alert Week Overtime OT set to 8 hours, an alert posts
to the Home page when the employee reaches 32 hours worked for the week.
Email Alerts Upgrade for more information.
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