Biometric Exempt Employee

This feature pertains to legacy terminals. These terminals are no longer supported in Shop Floor Time although they are still available in the application for use by customers upgrading from AutoTime 6 or AutoTime 7.

The application currently supports fingerprint module-based biometric terminals (B-Net 9540/9520), which prompts employees to use a fingerprint reader in order to get authenticated and post punches. The Biometric Exempt Employee feature allows a person to use a hand-held CCD scanner or keypad instead of the fingerprint reader. For example, a person might not  have sufficient minutiae on their finger for the fingerprint reader to authenticate the user with 100% accuracy. Only employees that have the Biometric Exempt Setting Type set to Yes will be able to use a hand-held CCD scanner or keypad where biometric authentication is enforced. 

Biometric exemption will only work if the login event and terminal profile are configured to enforce biometric validation. See Biometric Authentication for more information. Once you have the events and terminal profiles properly configured for biometric authentication, then you can specify which employees should be biometric exempt.

See Also:

Enable a Biometric Exempt Person

Disable a Biometric Exempt Person

 

Enable a Biometric Exempt Person

A specific person can be configured to be biometric exempt.

  1. Click Main Menu > Employee Management > Employee.

  2. Find the person record you want to configure as biometric exempt.

  3. Click the Employee Setting tab.

  4. Click Add.

  5. Select Biometric Exempt as the Setting Type.

  6. For the Setting Value, select Yes

  7. Enter a Start and End Date for the setting.

  8. Click Save.

    This person can now log into a terminal without using a fingerprint reader, even if that terminal enforces biometric authorization. 

 

Disable a Biometric Exempt Person

To disable a person from being biometric exempt, perform the following steps:

  1. Click Main Menu > Employee Management > Employee.

  2. Find the person record you want to disable (as biometric exempt).

  3. Click the Employee Setting tab.

  4. Select the row with Setting Type Biometric Exempt and click Delete.

  5. When asked if you want to delete the row, click OK.

After the row is deleted, the person is no longer biometric exempt.