Identifying Individual Users Using Employee Numbers

This Tech Note explains how to configure NoahFace when you want a small number of users to identify themselves using their employee number (or other user number, such as a member number) each time the clock in or out, while the majority of users are identified using facial recognition. This is usually used when:

• There are individuals who do not want to consent to the use of facial recognition.
• There are individuals that are difficult to differentiate using facial recognition, such as twins or close siblings.

If you want to identify all of your users using their employee number, see: Identifying All Users Using Employee Numbers instead.

All of the interactive features of NoahFace behave exactly the same regardless of whether users are identified using facial recognition or employee numbers. For example you can:

• Use any type of screen (eg: Clock In/Out, Task Tracking, Job Tracking, Compliance).
• Collect data on clock in (eg: Projects, Customers, Work Types) or clock out (eg: Comments, Tips, Sentiment).
• Use manual or no touch clocking.

When a user is identified using a employee number, and you have chosen "No Photo", you will see there is no event photo recorded:

If users have previously consented to the use of facial recognition their face may still be recognised as they are attempting to enter their employee number. To stop this from happening see: Removing a User's Consent to use Facial Recognition.

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Configuration

To enable employee number identification on your NoahFace kiosks, edit your Access Point Type and set Manual Use to either:

• "Photo" to require users to have their photo taken when they clock in/out.
• "No Photo" to allow users to clock in/out without having their photo taken.

Then include the configuration option "manuse=number" in your Screen Details (if you don't specify this configuration option, the identification method required will be derived from your Registration Method).

See below:

When the users present at the NoahFace kiosk, they just press the "Use Employee Number" button (not the "Register" button) and enter their employee number to identify themselves. If you have chosen "No Photo", the identification screen displayed will be as follows:

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Variable Length Employee Numbers

If you have variable length numeric employee numbers that do not have unique prefixes (eg: 100, 1005, 10054), you can add the following option to the Screen Details in your Access Point Type:

        forceok=true

Users with short employee numbers will be required to press an OK button to submit their employee numbers.

Alternatively, you can force the use of the native iPadOS keyboard by specifying the following option to the Screen Details in your Access Point Type:

        forcekb=true

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Non-Numeric Employee Numbers

If your employee numbers contain non-numeric characters (eg: A5001, A5002, B3007), NoahFace will automatically switch to using the native iPadOS keyboard.

If you prefer, you can strip out the non-numeric characters so that users only have to enter the numeric part of their employee number.

This will work, provided the numeric part of the employee numbers is unique.

To do this, add the following option to the Screen Details in your Access Point Type:

        stripnum=true

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