With AccountLinx, you can export your employees' time data from ExakTime Connect into a compatible file for TimeZone. As TimeZone may be customized to fit your company's needs, the default AccountLinx export for TimeZone may not match your TimeZone setup exactly. Please read through this article before setting up AccountLinx to understand what is needed.

If you have any questions or concerns during setup and/or use, you can contact us with the "Request Support" link at the top of the page and we will try to assist as best as possible. Keep in mind, however, that we are not TimeZone support. We will try to help you as much as we can, but there are aspects of TimeZone that are out of our area of expertise and your questions may be better answered by TimeZone support or your trusted contact to answer/assist.

Selecting TimeZone as your Exporter

1. Go to Tools and click Exporter Settings.... 
2. The Exporter Settings window should open. Click Select Exporter.... 
3. A window with a list of available exporters should open. Select "TimeZone" and click OK.

AccountLinx Settings Unique to TimeZone

The TimeZone export for AccountLinx offers a variety of settings when exporting your time data to help tailor the time data to your company's needs. These settings are unique to AccountLinx and will not affect ExakTime Connect or Mobile. If any of the settings offered do not sound familiar, you may not be using the setting in TimeZone and can leave it as <None>. 

1. Go to Tools and click Exporter Settings.... 
2. The Exporter Settings window should open. Click Configure... to open the 'Settings' window.
   • Optional Settings
     
     • Clock ID - Specify the entity the clock ID should be associated with. The related mapping screen will have additional fields for you to complete.
       • • Clock ID is generally associated with Locations.
     • Badge ID - Specify the entity the badge ID should be associated with. The related mapping screen will have additional fields for you to complete.
       • Badge ID is generally associated with Employees. 
     • Process Number - Specify the entity the process number should be associated with. The related mapping screen will have additional fields for you to complete.
3. Click OK on the Configuration window and click OK on the Exporter Settings window to return to the main page of AccountLinx.
4. Click the appropriate "Map Location/Cost Code" option to see the columns from the options enabled in Step 3.

General Use of AccountLinx

After setting up the configuration of AccountLinx to better match TimeZone in the previous section, you will need to:

• Map your entities so any ExakTime entity for a time record will export with the equivalent TimeZone entity and fill in any relevant fields enabled in the previous section. Refer to the following article if you are unfamiliar with mapping your data in AccountLinx.
• After mapping your entities, you can export your time data to import into TimeZone. Refer to the following article if you are unfamiliar with exporting time data from AccountLinx.

How to Import Time Data into TimeZone

It is recommended to consult TimeZone for further assistance with importing and using the time data as they are more knowledgeable of utilizing their system.