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Introduction

About the Creators of Tock

Internet Media Services (IMS) designs and builds database applications for the Internet and corporate Intranet. The Tock time tracking system demonstrates IMS's commitment to creating robust web applications with intuitive, easy to use interfaces.

If you would like IMS to customize Tock for your organization or consult with you to create other Internet/Intranet applications, please contact at sales@imservice.com or (415) 617-0701.

Other IMS web-based solutions include an employee directory / "expert" locator, project management system, computer-based training, operations monitoring, data collection, newsfeed displays, and research and reporting applications.

About the Application

Tock is an application for logging time spent on projects, and generating reports which can be used for payroll, billing, and project management. This is an essential application for anyone whose business relies on managing and reporting time spent on projects.

Technical Support & Contact Information

Tock is distributed free of charge as an unsupported application. However, IMS provides a Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) forum for Tock users, and welcomes your comments and suggestions.


How to Use this Application

Entering Your Hours

Once you log in you will automatically go to the Hours Entry section.

You should see a graph displaying the days of the week and the hours entered for each day just above the "You must click Save..." message. If you do not, enable Java for your browser and reload the page. If you do not enable Java, you will get a Java Script error when you change a date or number of hours as the application attempts to update the graph.

To enter hours do the following:

Date: Enter date information in mm/dd/yy form. You may enter different dates for each seperate task line.

Project: Use the pop up menu, select the desired project. If a project is not listed, check the Preferences page. Add the project you want to your active projects and update your user information. If the project is not listed in the active project select list contact your administrator.

Type of Work: Using the pop up menu select the desired type of work. If a type of work category is not available, contact your administrator.

Hours: Use the pop up menu select the number of hours in quarterly hour increments.

Description: Type in comments that are associated with the hours you entered (250 character maximum).

When you are finished entering hours you must click

SAVE: This will save your hours to the database and put you back to the same screen ready to enter more hours.

*IMPORTANT* IF YOU HAVE A JAVA ENABLED BROWSER: Even though the hours you enter are reflected by the applet immediately, your hours will not be saved to the database until you click the SAVE button.

View or Edit Your Entries

To view or edit hours that you have entered:

You can also edit your hours entries from the report section.

Running Reports

Step One: Enter the Date

The first step for all reports is to select a date range. If you do not select a date range your report will default to the last 7 days (including today).

To select a date range click on the radio button associated with either a set amount of time (last 7 days, last 14 days or month to date) or input your own date range in mm/dd/yy format.

Last 7 days, 14 days and month to date all include date from today.

Step Two: Choose either a summary or detail report

To run a summary report select how you want the report broken down from the pop up menu and click on the Create Summary Report button.