Learn Troubleshooting for Missing Attendance in Ingress & TCMS v3

Introduction 
New users always encounter problem with missing attendance data and transaction data. Fret not! There are steps to troubleshoot these errors. Data enters the Attendance Listing & Attendance Analysis Reports based on the attendance sheet generated in the software. Therefore, in case of any data missing from the reports, the first step to do is to check the data and information in the Attendance sheet.

Benefits
Now, you can troubleshoot the missing data on your own!

Process
First of all, you  need to download all the transactions from device by going to the Attendance tab > Download > select device > OK.

The transactions downloaded from the devices into Ingress will be listed in the Data Audit List. You could also check your transaction data from the Attendance tab > Data Audit List. Please make sure to select the correct date range when doing the troubleshooting. Check whether the data is already exist in the data audit list of the software.

If the data did not appear in the Data Audit List, try another possible solution, try download the transaction data using Automatic Download Time. To set the download run time, go to System Settings > System Parameter Setting > Attendance > Specify 2 Daily Download Intervals…> Set the times accordingly > save and let the Ingress server run within the set times.

It is important to check the Issuance Date of the user. The user attendance sheet will not appear if the issuance date is set before the current date.

The Attendance sheet is generated based on the data audit list and the clocking schedule setup. Hence, after you have confirmed that the Data Audit List contains the transaction data of the user, check the Group Duty Roster and the Clocking Schedule settings.
 

If there are any changes made in the Clocking Schedule or the Group Duty Roster for the user and to make sure that the data enters attendance sheet accordingly, you need to generate the attendance at the Ingress > Attendance > Attendance Sheet > Generate > Select User ID and Date range> Ok.

This tip will come handy when you have your attendance data missing. Give this tip to your technical personnel to practise on. They will catch up in no time at all.

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