Welcome to the Merkle's Employees Award System! We hope that this system will be able to assist you and your employees in creating a successful growing organization with the best and happiest employees.
Note: This is just Prototype 3. It has been integrated with a database, however all of the nomination and vote data is
still dummy data. Please bear with us. You will see a more advanced EA system
in future versions of the system..
Installation
Instructions:
1. Please extract the three
files/folders (images, db and JAR file) from the EA zipped file and save them
together into a folder.
2. Run the EA system by
double-clicking on the EA.JAR file.
3. Enjoy!
User Manual:
1. The EA system begins with the Welcome which offers users a selection of options. For the pilot phase, the tool starts off with 2 features:
1) Nominate Employees
2) Vote for Winners
3) Generate Reports.
The ‘Nominate Employees’ and
‘Generate Reports’ features allow all levels of employees to access and
requires no user authentication at this point.
2. To begin
with, the employees may just need to select and click on the ‘Nominate
Employees’ icon button or the text link. Similarly to ‘Generate Reports’, one
just has to click on the 'Generate Reports' button to be able to view
historical Award reports. The ‘Vote for Winners’ feature is only for selected
employees who chairs the role as voters. User authentication is required.
Similarly, to vote, the employee may just need to select and click on the ‘Vote
for Winners’ icon button or the text link.
3. All voters
can access the "Vote for Winners" page with their specific username
and password. For prototype 3, all users have been given access with a default
password of “password”. The user name is the first letter of the first name
plus the last name. Since Nino is an employee at Merkle we can use his user
name and password for this test. Please note that the user identification and
password authentication are case sensitive. If the user forgets their password
they can use the forgot password link which will
redirect them to the Merkle website.
Username: najami
Password: password
4. The
‘Nominate Employees’ page allows all employees to nominate any outstanding
employees for any available and relevant awards. The user has to first select
the "Group Name: " and then select an award. For each selected award,
there will be subsequent description at the "Award Description" text
area.
5. Once the
user has identified the award for nomination, the user can then select nominees
from the list of employees from the ‘Nominee’ comboBox.
The user will be required to fill in the “Comments” textArea
and state the rationale for nominating this person.
6. Once
completed, the employee(s) can process the submission by clicking on the "Submit"
button. Alternately, user may click the “Cancel” button to cancel the
submission and return to the “Welcome”
7. From the
“Welcome”, the user will be redirected to the “Log-in” page, if he/she selects
“Vote for Winners” from the previous “Welcome” to vote for the nominations.
Please use the log-in name and password provided in step 3 to access the
"Vote for Winners" page. The "Forgot you log-n or password” link
and the "Remember" checkbox is currently not
working. Please stay tuned for the next prototype.
8. In the
"Vote for Winners" page, similarly, for every selected group and then
the awards for that group, the text description of the award will be shown in
the non-editable “Award Description” text area. Every time a different award is
selected the list of nominated employees change. Below the JTable,
there is a drop down that shows current nominees for an award.
9. Finally,
after reviewing the entries, the user (voter) may select his/her vote by
selecting the desired employee from the “My Vote” comboBox.
The similar list of employees nominated for the specific award will be listed
in the “My Vote” comboBox. All fields are required
before submitting an entry.
10. User may
click on the “Submit” button to submit entry. Alternately, user may click the
“Cancel” button to cancel the submission and return to the “Switchboard.” The
user may log-out from the EA System by clicking the “Log-out” button.
11. In the
"Generate Reports" page, the user has to first select the filter for
searching his awards from the "Search By: " drop-down list. According
to his selection, the "Search Field: " drop-down list will show the
relevant fields which can be selected.
12. Once the
"Search Field" is selected, the user can hit the "Generate
Reports" button to see the historical reports. The reports are displayed
in the JTable below the button.
13. The user
can then print his records by hitting the "Print" button or go back
to the "Welcome Page" by hitting the "OK" button.
Thank you for using the EA system!
Project Team:
Michiko Chand [email protected]
Nazih Ajami [email protected]