The Time and Attendance (TAA) Portal is a website (https://portal.synovia.com) where employees can obtain their time card data, clock in and out, approve their time cards, and request time off, depending on which options your TAA administrator has turned on. On the Portal/MDT Settings screen's IP Filtering tab, you can limit where your employees can access the portal by IP address — for example, if you have two kiosks set up in a vehicle yard and want to allow only those portal access. You specify the range of IP addresses that are acceptable to use by setting the starting and ending IPs.


To limit where the portal can be used by IP address, follow these steps:


Note: Before you begin, make sure that you have the IP address(es) you want to allow readily available.


  1. Click  >> Portal/MDT Settings.
     
    The Portal/MDT Settings screen will appear.
      
  2. Click the IP Filtering tab.
     
    If no IP addresses have previously been excluded, your screen will look like the following.
     
    Note: In the preceding figure, you can see a range of 0.0.0.0 to 254.254.254.254; this means that your employees are currently able to log in to the TAA Portal from any IP address.
  3. If the row with a range of 0.0.0.0 to 254.254.254.254 is there, follow these steps to remove it (so that employees will no longer be able to log in from anywhere):
     
    1. In its row, click  at the far right.
       
      A warning dialog box will appear.
        
    2. Click Yes.
       
  4. Click  at the bottom of the list.
     
    An empty IP address range row will appear.
      
  5. Type the lowest IP address you want to allow in the Starting IP field.
     
  6. In the Ending IP field, type the highest IP address you want to allow.
    Note: If you want only one computer to be able to access the portal, enter its IP address as both the starting and ending IPs. You may also want to do this if your IP addresses are not close in number, in which case you can add multiple entries.
  7. Select the Allow Clock In? check box to enable portal punch-ins from the IP address range.
     

  8. If you want employees to be able to view their account information, current time card, and past time cards, select the Allow Employee Info? check box.
     
  9. At the far right of the row, click  to save your changes.
    Note: Clicking  will cancel the IP range addition (effectively deleting the range before you've added it).
    A success message will appear at the top right of the screen.
     
  10. Repeat steps 4 through 9 for all the computer IP addresses you are granting access.