Release Notes January 5, 2024
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My Portal
🔧 Fixes
- Fixed a My Portal issue where employees could not add an availability.
- Fixed a My Portal Time Off issue in the mobile app where attempting to view balance details for a previous year resulted in an error.
Time & Attendance
🚀 Improvements
- Added the “Time Codes” section to the Preferences options in the Pay Period Overview.
- Managers can now select which Time Codes are displayed and their order.
- When adding time entries or durations to the Employee Timesheets, changed the “Save” button to “Add”.
🔥 Hotfixes
- Fixed a "Forgot to Start Break" alert issue where employees were alerted after ending their break within the Worked Hours break window.
🔧 Fixes
- Fixed “Forgot to end worked hours break” alert issue where the alert was not sent as configured for Worked Hours breaks.
- Fixed an issue where newly migrated accounts did not contain the preconfigured Time Off Time Codes.
Scheduling
🚀 Improvements
- Improved the error message displayed when submitting a “Cash Out” time off request from the Scheduler and there is an insufficient balance:
- Time Off: Request could not be processed due to insufficient balance
🔧 Fixes
- Fixed a Shift Patterns issue where an error would occur if the listed Shift Patterns exceeded 100.
- When adding an open shift in the web app, the textbox placeholder for the "Save as Shift Template" option is no longer overlapped by the Publish/Save/Cancel options.
- Fixed a Shift Templates issue when viewing the Shift Templates details where the start time and end time displayed extra zeros.
Time Off
🚀 Improvements
- When adding/editing a Time Off Policy, added the “Require time off request comments” setting for "Balance is not tracked“ Time Off Types.
- When adjusting time off balances in the Time Taken & Balances feature, numbers greater than 999 can now be entered.
🔧 Fixes
- Fixed a My Portal Time Off issue in the mobile app where employees could not view the details of time off requests added by managers in the “Upcoming” and “History” tabs.
- Fixed a Time Off Requests issue where the cancel option was unavailable in the Upcoming Time Off and Time Off History tabs.
- When a time off request is canceled, the in-app and email notifications now display “Time Off Cancelled” instead of “Time Off Denied”.
- Fixed a Time Taken & Balances issue in the mobile app where time off requests could not be added.
- Fixed a Time Off issue when adding a new time off request where the total hours were not displayed if the request was “Pooled Time Off” for the “Full Day” duration.
Employee Management
🔧 Fixes
- Fixed an Employee List Profile issue where attempting to access the “Notes” tab resulted in an error.
Platform
🚀 Improvements
- Improved spelling and grammar across the platform.
🔥 Hotfixes
- Fixed a Selfie Enrollment issue where selfies could not be enrolled via mobile app.
🔧 Fixes
- Fixed an Initial Setup Wizard issue when editing the Double Overtime settings where changes were not saved if the “On the 6th Consecutive Days” option was enabled and later disabled.
Time Clocks & Kiosk
🚀 Improvements
- Punch-restricted time entries are now displayed as Frozen Punches on the Employee Timesheets.
- The time clock device must be online to send the Frozen Punches.
🔥 Hotfixes
- Fixed a Clock In/Out notification issue where the wrong time zone was displayed for time clock device users outside of the EST time zone.
Reports/Exports
🚀 Improvements
- Improved the Types Detailed Report Type
- Added a “Status” column that displays “Approved” and “Deleted” time off request statuses.
- Displays the user who approved or denied the request and the date & time.
- When viewing Timesheet Detailed reports with the “Employee Per Page” Signature/Disclaimer filter, the Pay Period/Date Range is now displayed on each page.
- Renamed “Schedule Reports” to “Scheduled Reports” in the Global Settings.
- The “List of Punches” export Data Provider now displays the following Punch Types:
- In
- Out
- Start Break
- End Break
🔧 Fixes
- Fixed a Timesheet detailed report issue where the pay rate of payables was the same as the unit amount.
- Fixed an issue when running reports with the “Pay Rate” column where miscalculations occurred if an employee’s Pay Rate was changed in the middle of the pay period/date range.
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- When the pay rate column is added, the system uses the pay rate currently assigned to employees the moment the report is run.
- Fixed a Timesheet Detailed report issue when running the report where the color shading alternated line-by-line instead of highlighting individual shifts.
- Fixed an Employee List Report issue when ordering by “Hire Date (asc)” where the results were not ordered by hire date.
- Fixed a Missing Punch Detailed report issue where an error occurred when running the report for employees with overnight punches.
- Fixed a “Weekly by employee” and “Weekly by criteria” report issue when printing the reports where the first page was blank.
- Fixed an "Actual vs Planned“ report issue where incorrect “Hour (Plan)” and “Amount (Plan)” totals were displayed for employees who clocked in and out multiple times on the same day.
- Fixed a “Timesheet weekly summary” export Data Provider issue where employees without a pay rate were omitted from the results.
- Fixed a “Timesheet weekly summary” export Data Provider issue where the Employee ID column displayed no results.
Dashboard (Widgets)
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🔧 Fixes
- Fixed an Employee Status widget issue when filtering by the "On Break" status, where the results included “Scheduled” employees.
Knowledge Base Updates
⭐ New Articles
- Added: Time Clocks FAQ
- Added: Pay Period Overview FAQ
- Added: Employee Management FAQ
- Added: How to Add a Time Clock Device
- Added: Face Liveness Detection
- Added: How to Access Frozen Punches
- Added: How to Run a Time Off Overview Report
- Added: How to Modify the Pay Period Overview
- Added: How to Change Location on Timesheets
🔁 Updates
- Updated: How to Add Time Off from the Timesheet
- Updated: How to Add an Employee
- Updated: How to Add a Rounding Rule
- Updated: How to Update Password Policies