OS 1.4.1 upgrade and the Simple Badge Parser

With the release of OS 1.4.1, the 8000 Series clock will read the badge number along with the site ID information. If you are upgrading to this OS, you should note the following information as it pertains to this particular upgrade:

  1. You can utilize the badge including the site ID as long as the badge number in WFM includes this information.
  2. You can also choose to NOT use the site ID which means you must configure the clocks to only send to WFM the badge portion of the number read. You can accomplish this by using the Simple Badge Parser. Upgrading clients who previously only used the badge portion of the number will need to configure the Simple Badge Parser after an upgrade to OS 1.4.1.
  3. Upgrading to OS 1.4.1 may also lead to a situation where the Simple Badge Parser is used to exclude the site ID but now must include preceding zeroes because the badges in WFM were already set up this way. In this scenario, you must also specify the badge length via the server.badge.length configuration which will ensure that number read is padded with the appropriate number of zeroes to satisfy the WFM badge number requirement. For example, the simple badge parser reads the badge number 8, and server.badge.length is specified as 6, so the clock will add 5 leading zeroes (000008) and specify that as the badge number to WFM.

For more information on the Simple Badge Parser, see Using the Simple Badge Parser.