Frequently Asked Questions and Help
Change Password (expires every 90 days)
Supervisors – Adding/Deleting Employees
Q: Is Leave required to be entered into FAMRS?
Q: If I do enter leave why does the Cost Center become
disabled?
Q: Why can’t I find tractors or boats on the equipment
lookup screen?
Q: I have dial up and my computer throws and error when I
try to add a cost center. Why?
PAWS
Information
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The Portal Access to
Wildlife Systems (PAWS) site creates a single point of access to WRC
applications. PAWS provides standard
graphics, navigation, and user
authentication and security.
PAWS is available to all WRC staff (including contractors and temporary employees) via the Internet regardless of their physical location.
Use
the left side menu to navigate to different applications and functionality
within PAWS.
All
employees have access to Employee Search, FAMRSNET, and Administration. Administration allows you to administer your
account by changing your password and/or updating your security questions. FAMRSNET allows you to track time and mileage
against specific cost centers. You only
need to use FAMRSNET if directed to do so by your supervisor.
You will only see links to applications and functionality assigned to you. If you feel you are missing an application or do not have the appropriate access level to an application, please have your supervisor submit an issue for assistance..
Please complete the issue submission form for technical issues.
Your PAWS password expires
every 90 days.
You
will receive an email ten days and five days prior to your password expiring if
you have an email address on file. When
you log into PAWS, you will start receiving a notice of password expiration
starting 5 days prior to expiration. If
you try to log in after your password has expired, PAWS will require you to
create a new password.
When
it is time to change your password, click on the Administration link in
the left navigational side menu. Then
click on the change password link under the Administration
link.
You
will enter your current password, your new password, and your new password a
second time for confirmation.
Your
new password must be
·
at least eight
characters in length,
·
use both upper
and lower case letters, and
·
use at least two
numbers or special characters.
Valid
special characters are
~ ! @ $ % ^ * ( ) - _ + = [ { ] } \ | ; : , / ?
Tabs
and spaces are not allowed.
PAWS
requires you to create four security question/answer pairs when you first log
into the system. You may change these at
any time. These question/answer pairs
are used to identify you if you use the Forgot Password functionality.
To
change your security questions, click on the Administration link in the
left navigational side menu. Then click
on the security questions link under the Administration link.
You
will change the question and/or answer for any of the question/answer pairs you
want. You must have four question/answer
pairs.
If
you forget your password, click on the Forgot Password link on the login
page.
You
must enter your login name and click the Get
Security Questions button. PAWS will
prompt you to answer two of your four security questions. After successfully answering the questions,
PAWS will send a randomly generated password to the email address on file in
PAWS. If you do not have an email address
on file in PAWS, please follow the same procedure for contacting WRC IT to
reset your NCID password. If you wish to
add an email to PAWS, please contact your Roster Admin. They are listed on the Employee Search page.
Once
your password has been reset, PAWS will require you to change it when you log
in.
FAMRS Information
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To
access FAMRS you will login into the Portal Access to Wildlife Systems (PAWS)
website. This website allows you access
to all web-based applications developed by WRC.
At this time, we can not integrate with applications not developed by
WRC. For more information about PAWS
please see the PAWS Overview
documentation located on the Intranet at http://www.insidewrc.org/div08_IT/div08_PAWS.asp.
Beacon is several years away from having the capability to handle
the level of detailed required for federal aid tracking and auditing. Until that time WRC employees will be
required to use two systems – Beacon for timekeeping purposes and FAMRS for both
federal and state project time and expenditures.
To
add or delete an employee to your supervisory list you must
Enforcement personnel will
have 2 additional screens available for activity and expenses. Enforcement personnel can also enter time on
either a daily basis or weekly where the final Sunday of the week can contain
all entries for that week.
FAMRS is NOT the official
mechanism for reporting or tracking leave types. That responsibility will fall under the
BEACON guidelines. FAMRS does allow
employees to record leave entries for reference purposes only and does NOT
calculate leave types such as Annual Leave or Comp Time earned. Non-Enforcement personnel have the option of
entering time on a week that starts with Monday or a week that starts with
Sunday.
When employees first log in
to FAMRS, the calendar will automatically go to the last week the employee has
entered activity.
A: No, it is
optional.
A: Leave is not
tracked at a cost center level so none are recorded when adding any record type
other than regular hours.
A: Currently,
only vehicles have assigned rates which allow us to determine a cost associated
with that equipment. If reimbursement needs to occur for equipment or
boats then an hourly rate of operating expense must be determined and entered
in the system. They will not show on screen until this rate is assigned.
A: The
Enforcement week runs from Monday thru Saturday and since the entire agency is
using the same screens for hours entered it was necessary to provide the option
of using either start day. Once you select the preference you
desire click the “Check to Always keep as my 1st day” option to have the
preference recorded permanently.
A: The newer
technology does use a larger Footprint than the previous application. The
response time on dial up can be very frustrating and if you are in a large
agency like Wildlife Management then you are attempting to pull back many, many
cost center codes and the page will time out before receiving all of those cost
centers. We are currently researching some alternatives such as air cards
for dial up users or high speed alternatives where available. In the mean
time, you can either email, or mail your timesheet to our DP folks at the
Centennial Office or, if you are a dial up user and you need to add cost
centers to your Frequently Used List you can contact us by submitting an issue to IT
and we can add that cost center for you. The division wide cost centers
are only pulled back when you click the “Add Cost Centers” button.
Glossary
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Beacon
Payroll
and Personnel application used by the state to track employee information (time
worked, leave, benefits, personal information, etc.) and payroll information.
FAMRS
Federal Aid Management and Reporting System.
System
used to track time and money at detail levels for federal and state grants.
FAMRSNET
New
version of FAMRS application.
NCID
Login
and password used as a means of authentication and authorization into several
other state applications including Beacon.
PAWS
Portal Access to Wildlife Systems.
System
used as a means of authentication and authorization into several WRC
applications including FAMRS. Also used
as a clearing house to allow access to WRC applications from one location.