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Timing Icons with MetriQ Time Tracking Software

Typically, Timing Icons are a graphical representation of an application or file that resides on your hard disk, or are shared resource on the network, and can be added to any User Folder in MetriQ (see also Folder Overview), assuming you have the access privileges to populate the User Folder (see also Staff Administration Levels, Staff Administrator, Populating a User Folder). These icons are similar in appearance to standard Windows icons and have similar characteristics. Each icon is unique to the staff logged onto MetriQ and unique to that staff for a given computer (i.e. 2 different staff logging onto MetriQ through the same machine have their own set of icons per User Folder, and one staff logging onto 2 different computers will have their own unique set of icons on the same User Folder (see also User Folder Task Bar and Actions).

Timing Icons State Images and Text:

Active:

When a timing icon is double clicked and the application/file associated to this icon is launched, the icon will show a small clock to the right of the icon, indicating that this icon has been launched and is the active icon on the User Folder.

Idle:

When the timing icon becomes idle (when the application/file associated to this icon is no longer in use, but is still open), the icon's clock image will become dimmed.

Time:

Icon Name:	What ever you have chosen to call the timing icon. Typically this value is extracted from the executable or file disk location. It can be changed by opening the icon's property sheet (see Icon Property Sheet)
Icon Time:	You can elect to display either the Total time collected for that icon since it has been first used, OR the time collected for that icon for the current day. You can also elect to hide the time display altogether (see also Options).

Cool off:

A timing icon is within Cool-off when its elapsed time has not passed a specific, user-specified value. This allows users to delete icons from the User Folder, added and started in error,. However, when the total time exceeds the cool-off period, the icon passes cool-off and cannot be deleted. Use this as a fail-safe to protect valuable timing data (see also Folder Profiles to set the cool-off period and User Folder Properties to choose a profile.)
Note: It is possible to manually update an icon's time (see Manual Update), reset it to zero, and then delete the icon as it comes into cool-off.

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