Taking actions with the TTP Job Dashboard

The Job Dashboard Main Menu lets you report when you take these actions:

Log in to an Indirect order
Take a break
Take a lunch break
Clock out

Select Main Menu.
Select an action.
You can click a link to learn more about the action.
- Indirect
- Break
- Lunch
- Clockout
When you finish an Indirect action, select Complete from the Selection menu.
TTP records the time spent on the indirect activity and adds it to your time card.
When you finish a Break or Lunch action, log back in to TTP, and select an RO to work on.
TTP records the time spent on break or lunch and adds it to your time card.
When you log back in to TTP after a Clockout action, TTP records the date and time. It adds a clock in action to your time card.

Using Indirect actions

When you select Indirect from the Main Menu, the Indirect pop-up window opens.

Select an indirect action, such as Supervision, Clerical and Data Entry, or Fueling.
You may need to scroll down the window to find the action you want.
The Indirect Activity screen opens.
For some indirect tasks, you must complete the Indirect Activity screen.

For example, if you select an activity such as Supervision, you do not need to complete the screen. Continue to Step 3.

If you select an action that requires a part, you would complete the Indirect Activity screen by adding the part and filling out the related fields, if needed. When you are finished, click OK.
When you have finished the indirect activity, select Complete from the Selection menu.
TTP returns you to the Job Dashboard. It also records the time spent on the indirect activity and adds it to your time card.

In this illustration, the technician began an indirect activity at 2:49 P.M. and completed it at 2:57 P.M. TTP recorded the start and end dates/times and added a Job Time of eight minutes.

Never close an indirect activity as Incomplete. If you must stop during the activity, mark it as Complete. When you have time to complete the task, start a new indirect activity.

For example:

You have started the Fueling indirect activity. Someone asks for your help with a repair. You would mark the Fueling activity as Complete. When you finish the repair, you would select Fueling again. When you finish fueling, you would mark the indirect activity as Complete.
There is an indirect activity named Idle. This Idle activity is not the same as Idle time. When you select the Idle indirect activity, you are logged in to a status. Idle time means you are not logged into any other status. You should minimize idle time during the day. A daily time card could show 10 to 15 minutes of idle time for the time needed to create repairs or add sections.

Using the Break or Lunch actions

If you select the Break or Lunch actions, TTP records the time that you take the action and adds it to your time card. The screen goes back to the Job Login or Kiosk Login screen.

When you return, log back in. Once you select an RO to work on, TTP records the end of your break time. It adds the time to your time card.

This illustration shows a technician who started their break at 3 P.M. When they returned, they logged back in to TTP and started work on an RO at 3:14 P.M. TTP recorded the start date/time of the RO and used the same date/time as the end time of the technician’s break. TTP also updated the Job Time to 14 minutes.

You can also see that TTP is using the RO start time as the current end date/time. TTP will not update the end time and job time until the technician marks their work on the RO as Complete or Incomplete.

Using the Clockout action

When you select Clockout from the Main Menu, TTP records the date and time and adds a Clock-Out event to your time card. The next time you log in to TTP, it records the date and time and adds a Clock-In event to your time card. TTP also calculates the total shift time and the total paid time.

These illustrations show how Clock-In and Clock-Out events look in the Time Card screen.