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      Release Notes January 12, 2023

      Release Notes January 12, 2023

      Table of Contents

       

      My Portal

      🚀  Improvements 

      • Open shifts are now displayed in conjunction with Holidays in My Portal Schedules.

        • Note: Open shifts are not displayed if the employee has Time Off.

      🔧  Fixes

      • Fixed a My Portal Clock In/Out issue where Questionnaires could not be submitted.

       

      Time & Attendance

      🚀  Improvements 

      • Renamed “Total Hours” to “Total Paid Hours” on the Employee Timesheets.
      • Compensatory Time entries now display a Time Code breakdown when hovered in the Employee Timesheets.
      • Time Off Balance error details are now displayed on employee timesheets when negative balances are not allowed, and the number of hours added exceeds the available balance.
      • Added the “Move to next pay period” option to applicable punches on employee timesheets.
        • Once enabled, the “Enforce Max Rest at the end of the pay period” option will appear when adding/editing a Reporting Hours rule.Added the following option to the EasyClocking Advanced Settings: “Enable the option to enforce the max rest at the end of the pay period”.

      🔥  Hotfixes

      • Fixed an Employee Timesheets issue where archived shifts still affected punch calculations.

      🔧  Fixes

      • Fixed an Overtime issue when adding/editing a Time of Day Overtime rule where the “After” time selector would automatically close after any input.
      • Fixed a Breaks issue where the Break Window fields were not aligned for Time of Day and Worked Hours breaks.
      • Fixed a Reporting Hours issue where updated Reporting Hours rules did not go into effect on the Effective Date.
      • Searches in the Exceptions Feature no longer update the displayed totals.

       

      Scheduling

      ⭐ New Features

      • Added “Undo Auto Schedule” to the ellipsis options in the Scheduler.

      🚀  Improvements 

      • The Ellipsis options in the Scheduler now display the filtered results after applying Advanced Filter(s).
      • Inactive/terminated employees are no longer listed in the results when using the Ellipsis options in the Scheduler and Shift Planner.
      • Time Off Balance error details are now displayed on the Scheduler when negative balances are not allowed, and the number of hours added exceeds the available balance.
      • Added “Publish with Workflow” and “Publish Without Workflow” to the Publish Behavior options when adding Weekly Patterns to the Scheduler and Shift Planner.
      • Added a “select all” checkbox when adding shifts in the Criteria View of the Scheduler.
      • Improved the UI of the view selector in the Scheduler.

      🔧  Fixes

      • Fixed a Shift Patterns issue when adding/editing a Shift Pattern rule where the “Start time” time selector would automatically close after any input.
      • Fixed a Scheduler issue in the "Weekly by Criteria“ view where not all of the shifts would load into view.
      • Fixed a Compliances issue when the “Maximum hours allowed in the week” Rule was enforced where the number of hours displayed in the rule details was different than the number of hours saved.

       

      Human Resources

      🚀  Improvements 

      • An error message is now displayed when attempting to delete a shared document as a manager: “Deleting Invalid Documents”
      • Company Documents file previews in the mobile app now close after navigating away.

      🔥  Hotfixes

      • The Profile Designer now displays up to 250 Custom Fields to be selected.
      • Fixed an eSign Document Request issue where employees did not receive the request via email.

      🔧  Fixes

      • Fixed an Employee Profile issue when viewing the “File info” of a shared document where an operation error would occur.

       

      Time Off

      🚀  Improvements 

      • When viewing time off requests as a manager, the Time Off Request Details now display the starting time and hours requested per day when the request is in “Hours”.
      • Updated the UI of the "New Time Off" modal displayed within Time Taken & Balances.

      🔥  Hotfixes

      • The Holiday Time Off Type can no longer be archived.

      🔧  Fixes

      • Fixed a Policy Plan issue where employees did not receive starting balances for applicable Time Off Types.
      • Fixed a Time Taken & Balances issue on the mobile app where managers could not access the feature.
      • Fixed a My Portal Time Off issue where Cash Out request hours could be greater than the actual balance.

       

      Integrations

      🚀  Improvements 

      • The Pay Period Overview Advanced Filter(s) can now be used to filter employees when sending pay data to QuickPay.
      • Renamed the "BambooHR Integration" setting to "BambooHR“ in the Integrations Global Settings.

      🔧  Fixes

      • Fixed a PrismHR issue where the Employment Status of rehired employees was not updated in EasyWorkforce.

       

      Employee Management

      🚀  Improvements 

      • Added the “Created By" field to the Personal Tab in the Employee Profile.
      • The selfie enrollment status indicator now displays the number of enrolled faces in the Credentials tab of the Employee List Profile.
      • The Historic Data panels in the Employment tab of the Employee List Profile now support long lists of assignments.

       

      Platform 

      🚀  Improvements 

      • Improved spelling and grammar across the platform.

      🔥  Hotfixes

      • The “Manage Employees” privilege now provides access to the Work Hours Definition settings in the Global Settings.
        • The Manage Employees privilege provides access to the Full Day/Half Day options when submitting time off requests as a manager.

      🔧  Fixes

      • Fixed a Security Groups issue in the mobile app where employee timesheets could not be viewed by Employee Portal Users with the View Timesheets privilege assigned.
      • Fixed a Questionnaire issue when adding/editing Questions in the web app where the text of long answers exceeded the width of the display container.
      • Fixed an Initial Setup Wizard issue when configuring Floating Breaks where the “Time to deduct" value could be greater than the “Deduct after working" value.

       

      Reports/Exports

      ⭐ New Features

      • Added the “Employee Notes” Report Type to the Employee Reports.

      🚀  Improvements 

      • The "Amount" column now includes Payable Types amounts in the following export Data Providers:
        • Timesheet detailed (Per Pay Period)
        • Timesheet summary (Per Pay Period)
        • Timesheet summary
      • The Balance column in the Time Off Balance export Data Provider now factors carry-overs and adjustments into the balance.
      • Added an Employee List filter to the Employee section when running reports.
      • Added the "Include Start Cross Day Hours" and "Include End Cross Day Hours" report options to the following Schedules reports:
        • Schedules
        • Weekly By Employee
        • Weekly By Criteria
        • 2 Weeks By Employee
        • 2 Weeks By Criteria
        • Weekly Summary
        • Open Shifts
        • Weekly By Criteria
        • Weekly Summary
      • The Location Timesheet Summary report now displays the total count of employees per location.
      • The Location column has been added to the Employee Location Timesheet Detailed report by default.

      🔥  Hotfixes

      • Updated the transformation functions for the following out-of-the-box exports:
        • Paychex Flex v2
        • Sage 50
      • Fixed an “Employees basic data” export Data Provider issue where the incorrect location was displayed.

      🔧  Fixes

      • Fixed an Employee reports issue when adding a Credentials report where some report columns were unavailable until the report was saved and edited.
      • Fixed a Reports issue where triple-clicking a report resulted in an operation error.

       

      Time Clocks & Kiosk

      🚀  Improvements 

      • The Employee ID is now displayed on the clock in/out confirmation screen of time clock devices.
      • The verification timeout in the Kiosk has been increased from 10 to 15 seconds.
        • Improved the modal shown when the timeout is about to expire.
      • The “Consecutive Punch Window (seconds)” Time Clock Setting is now validated by all applicable time clock devices.

       

      Job Costing

      🔧  Fixes

      • Fixed a Job Costing issue when adding/editing a Project where Tags were displayed in brackets in the details upon saving.
      • Fixed an Employee Timesheets issue where assigned Tasks could not be selected.
      • Fixed a Xenio F1000 Time Clock device issue when ending a break with Job Costing where the “CHANGE” and “CONTINUE” buttons were misaligned.
      • Fixed a Xenio F1000 Time Clock device issue when ending a break with Job Costing where the “x” overlapped the Project.
      • Fixed a Job Costing reports issue when viewing a Detailed report where employee names were misaligned and the daily total rows were duplicated.

       

      Dashboard (Widgets)

      🚀  Improvements 

      • The “Time” column in the Employee Status Widget now additionally displays the local time of the employee.

      • Fixed a Pay Period Summary widget issue where the Time Codes were duplicated, and the totals were displayed per day instead of per pay period.