Getting started

The guards carry batons. When a guard touches a point with the baton, the baton remembers which point it was and when. This program collects that information from the batons and turns it into reports, so you can see where and when the points were clocked.

What you need is the uploader (the unit the batons are placed on) plugged into this computer.

The first time

1. Start the program. Until something has been downloaded there is nothing to report on.
2. Plug in the uploader and place a baton on it. See Downloading a baton.
3. When the download is finished the report appears by itself. The points have names like Point 01, Point 02 and so on. Give them proper names by clicking on them.
4. Choose the report you want and the dates you want to see, see The reports and Choosing the dates.

After that, all you normally do is place batons on the uploader and look at the report.

The computer's clock

The batons have their own clock. When a baton is downloaded the program compares it with the clock of this computer and corrects the times in the report, so the computer's date and time must be right. When the program starts it checks the time against the internet, see Settings.