Message processing contains a number of individual functions in the Time Manager’s Workplace to assist your time administrators when processing time evaluation messages.

You can indicate already processed messages in the message list. This function is helpful if you tent to experience frequent interruptions during message processing. You can immediately see what messages were already processed.

To do so, set the message to Completed in the Status field. The message is now indicated by a green checkmark.

Many time administrators like to view the progress of their work in the message list. In the Time Manager’s Workplace, you can work through the message list and confirm the messages you have already processed. Messages then disappear from the message list. Confirmed messages are also not displayed when message processing is next accessed.

Incomplete messages appear in the message list only after time evaluation is run again.

To activate the message confirmation option, proceed as follows:

1. Set the status of the messages to Completed.
2. Choose Confirm completed messages.

Typically, time administrators want to re-check to make sure that all messages were processed successfully.

For this reason, you can start time evaluation directly from message processing. Time evaluation is run for all employees for whom messages exist in the message list.

In the Messages from Date function, you can display all notes and info messages created in the past. Here you can also display notes and info messages already confirmed.

To do so, select a message. All messages of this type from the date entered are displayed for the selected employee. Choose the Additional messages exist icon to display all of the other messages created in time evaluation from the selected date for this employee.

Some messages require that you speak directly with the employee in question. To facilitate processing for these messages, you can print out the message view or the employee view along with the message list.

In addition to the employee and day information related to a message, time evaluation messages can contain information about the message type, category of message type, message category, as well as processing status. You can display a detailed overview of the messages in the message list. Here you can determine whether a message was created during pair formation or by an operation in time evaluation.