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Duplicate initials in the time recording terminal

In the settings for the time recording terminal, you can specify that the time recording terminal shows only the initials of employees instead of their full names. Especially when the tablet with the time recording terminal stands at the office entrance with a lot of customer or supplier traffic, it is advisable for data protection reasons to replace names with initials.

It is common for two or more employees to share the same initials. Usually you do not need to change anything for identical initials, for two reasons:

Tile always stays in the same place The sort order of the tiles on the time recording terminal always stays the same. Once you have figured out which of the two identical tiles is yours, you keep choosing the same one in the future. You can check whether it is the right one simply by tapping the tile and entering your PIN.

The tiles also have different colours, which makes them easy to recognise.

Initials are completed automatically In addition, Timebutler automatically appends the second letter of the first name to the initials if there are two tiles with identical initials. In most cases, this makes the initials unambiguous.