Polling Settings

Selecting the Polling Settings function from the Global menu allows an administrator to specify how often Valiant servers poll the customer’s time collection devices and update the customer database.  

Polling Interval

This setting determines how often Valiant servers poll the customer’s time collection devices for new punch transactions.

Clock Rules Grace

This rule relates to the delay (in minutes) before a new or revised Clock Rule takes effect.  In this way, employees already clocked in (or about to clock in/out during the specified grace period) remain on the previous rule until they clock out.  Otherwise, depending on the new settings, they might be prevented from clocking in or out.  

• Start determines the delay before the start of a shift.

• End determines the delay after the end of a shift.

Note

This is not the same as the ”Grace” at Shift Start/End in the Range Setup function.

Data Acquisition Method

Select either Events (vPod family only) or Schedules from the drop-down box.

• If Events are selected, the Scheduling menu tab will only contain Clock Rules because events have no Polling Schedules.

• If Schedules are selected, the Scheduling menu tab will display Clock Rules and Polling Schedules.  

Connection Validation

This is the time interval at which the application determines whether or not data collection devices are still available and on line. (Specify a time interval if using Events as the Data Acquisition Method.)

• If no connection validation interval is set, the Connection Validation Off message is displayed in red.

• If an hour and minute connection validation interval is set, the Connection Validation On message is displayed in green.

Instant Requests

The Company Administrator has the option of circumventing the normal polling settings in situations where punch and template data is needed to update the database prior to the normal interval.  

This is often the case with new employees so that they can ”punch” as soon as they enroll.

For the Device type and Division(s) selected from the drop-down boxes, a list of device names is displayed.

Synchronize Selected Clocks

Click to retrieve employee punches from the selected device(s), update the clock time, and update the database.

Pull Templates

Click to retrieve employee templates from the selected device(s) and update the database.