8. Configure Shop Floor Employees in Shop Floor Insight

8. Configure Shop Floor Employees in Shop Floor Insight

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Ensure the user has special function permissions before you proceed with configuration documented in this section; otherwise, you may not be able to see any employees you create.

Shop Floor Employees need to exist for any:

  • worker using the Shop Floor interface
  • approver
  • user posting time

A Shop Floor Employee connects to a Business Central resource record or a Business Central employee record.

Minimum fields that need to be defined:

Field What it Does When You Need It
Name Name of the Shop Floor Employee. Always
Source Type Whether the Shop Floor Employee refers to an employee, resource, work center, machine center, or blank. Always
Source No. The employee, resource, work center, machine center, or blank. Always
Default Shift Pattern The default shift of the worker. Always
User ID A reference to the Business Central User ID for this employee. All Supervisors.
All Time Approvers.
All Shop Floor users that need special permissions such as creating QI inspections or using the drag-and-drop scheduler.
All Shop Floor users that will also be using the Business Central or Role Tailored Client.

Create a Shop Floor employee

There are three ways to create Shop Floor Employees:

  • Create Individually: useful for onboarding individuals in existing installations.
  • Create with Create From Template tool: useful for initial setup or mass on-boarding of individuals.
  • Create with Rapidstart: useful for initial setup, planning with Excel, and migrating data between companies or systems.
  1. Navigate to Shop Floor Employees in Business Central.
  2. Choose New (you may see example employees).
  3. Enter the employee number in the No. field.
  1. Define the Default Shift Pattern.
  2. Define the User ID for:
    1. Supervisors
    2. Users reviewing their time cards in Business Central
Shop Floor Insight Navigation
Shop Floor Employee List
Shop Floor Employee Card

Additional Setup for Overtime and Exporting Time to Payroll

If you are calculating overtime or exporting time to a payroll system, navigate to the Payroll section. For full configuration of calculating overtime and exporting to payroll, additional training may be required.

  1. Enable Export Time.
  2. Select an appropriate Payroll Config. Code (contact Insight Works for training on this topic).
  3. Input the appropriate Export ID and Export CO Code, if needed.
Payroll

Additional Setup for Supervisors and Approvers

All Approvers and Supervisors must have their User ID configured on their Shop Floor Employee Card. The approval hierarchy defines who is allowed to review and approve other time cards. The hierarchy can be configured from either the perspective of the supervisor or the worker.

To configure from the perspective of the supervisor, complete the following:

  1. Edit the Shop Floor Employee card for the supervisor and choose Manages.
  2. Select:
    1. Manages Type: Employee
    2. Manages No.: references the employee that the supervisor manages.
  3. Navigate to Shop Floor Function Permission and allow the individual functions for that supervisor if the supervisor is also allowed to edit comments or change times on their workers’ time cards.
  1. Navigate to Available Role Centers and select Shop Floor Insight Approver as the role center.

The Shop Floor Insight Approver role center provides optimized menus and KPIs to help with managing and approving time.

Employee Card
Time Card Approval Mapping
Shop Floor Function Permission
Settings
Available Role Centers
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One Comment

  1. Steve Mc Nicoll
    Steve Mc Nicoll August 30, 2023 at 6:49 am

    In this Knowledge you have this line “Un-blocked Shop Floor employees count towards your Insight Works license.” Does it mean Blocked Shop Floor Employees DOESN’T count toward your Insight Works License?

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