Employee Authentication

This form is displayed when a user logs into Factory Track with a user account that is not linked to an employee. The employee can use this form to sign in as a generic user. As a generic user the employee is able to perform transactions using the Work Center Navigation Home and Work Center UI forms. When performing a discrete transaction as a generic user, the employee will be signed out automatically and must sign in again using the Employee Authentication form before performing another transaction. Transactions that have the Discrete Transaction parameter set to true are considered discrete transactions and will automatically log the employee out when the transaction is complete for this purpose. When a transaction’s Discrete Transaction parameter is false the generic employee will not be logged out automatically. The PIN number is an additional security precaution for employees signing into Factory Track using the employee authentication screen. The PIN is a string that can be the employee’s badge or any other string used by the employee to uniquely identify the employees.

Factory Track only displays the PIN on the employee authentication screen when the global parameter PIN Required is set to true. Any administrator or user that has access to the Employees transaction can set an employee’s PIN. If the employee is added through the data synch (downloading information from the ERP), then the PIN can be set to a blank value or a specific default. The PIN is stored in the database encrypted much like a password.

The field PIN Change Required on the employee record indicates that the employee must change the PIN number the next time the employee access the Employee Authentication form.

When the Employee Authentication transaction is displayed and the PIN Required parameter is true, then the Change PIN button is displayed. When the employee is required to change the pin or if the employee wants to change the pin, the employee can use the Change PIN button. Clicking the Change PIN button to display the New PIN field for updating the PIN. When the employee has an existing pin, the employee must enter the existing PIN in the PIN field before the entering the new PIN.

Note: When the employee data synch first creates an employee record, a default PIN can be created, for security purposes, the user must change the Pin the first time the employee logs into the system.