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Release Notes May 15, 2024

Release Notes May 15, 2024

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My Portal

🚀  Improvements 

  • Improved the message displayed when attempting to clock in after reaching the weekly overtime limit:
    • "It looks like you have reached your maximum hours for the week! Please contact your manager for further instructions."
    • Applies to the web app, mobile app, and Kiosk

 

Time & Attendance

🚀  Improvements 

  • Improved the UI when adding Duration (hrs) on the Employee Timesheets.
    • Updated the date selector to unify the Time Entry and Duration (hrs) experience.
  • Improved the UI of the Bulk Add Time modal in the Pay Period Overview
  • Added the ability to bulk add Duration (hrs) to the Employee Timesheets.
  • The Who’s In Map View summary bubbles now display the total number of employees with geolocation-based punches.
  • Time Codes with the “Base rate” Rate Type are now compatible with Compensatory Time calculations.
  • The Timesheet Approval WorkFlow modal now displays a “Total Paid Hours” column as well as rows for Time Off.
  • When adding/editing time in a timesheet, clicking outside of the Time Control modal now acts as a cancel action.
    • Changes are no longer saved.

🔥  Hotfixes

  • Managers with the “Timesheet Administrator” privilege and a limited Security Groups “Groups” scope are now able to close pay periods.
    • A Timesheet Approval workflow must be added for administrator approval.

🔧  Fixes

  • Fixed a Timesheet Approval Workflow issue where the Pay Period end date displayed in the approval modal was the following day.
  • Fixed an Employee Timesheets issue when editing Duration (hrs) where time amounts under 1 hour could not be entered.

 

Scheduling

⭐ New Features

🚀  Improvements 

  • Scheduled shifts can now be edited and deleted up to 2 months in the past.
    • Increased the limit from 15 days to 2 months

🔧  Fixes

  • Fixed a Weekly Patterns issue where, after editing shifts in a Weekly Patterns rule applied to 1 employee, all employees were notified of the update.
  • Fixed a Weekly Patterns issue when editing a Weekly Pattern where adding an overnight shift resulted in an error.
  • Fixed a Scheduler issue when bulk editing shifts where the incorrect “Is Critical” status was saved to the shifts.
  • Fixed a Scheduler issue when copying scheduled shifts from the previous week where shifts on the last day of the week were omitted from the copy.

 

Time Off

🚀  Improvements 

  • When adding/editing a Time Off Policy, added the “Require time off cancellation comments” setting to the Request Validations options.
  • Added the Employee Info Workflow Activity to the Time Off Request workflow.
  • When viewing the Time Off Request Details, the “Requested by” and “Reviewed by” times now default to the Time and Language Default time zone.
  • Improved the message displayed when attempting to approve an overlapping Time Off request:
    • “Overlapping is not allowed. You have another request overlapped with this one.”
  • Improved the message displayed when viewing the list of Time Off Types in the Global Settings and nothing is selected.
  • Fixed a Holidays issue where attempting to add a Holiday with the same name as a preexisting Holiday resulted in the duplication of the preexisting holiday.

 

Human Resources

🔥  Hotfixes

  • Fixed an E-sign Document Requests issue where the “In Progress” status would persist after a document was successfully signed and sent.

 

Employee Management

🔁  Updates

  • Changed the Employee List Profile Settings "Add configurations" button color to dark blue.

🔧  Fixes

  • Fixed an Employee List Profile issue where attempting to approve or deny a time off request resulted in an operation error.

 

Platform 

🚀  Improvements 

  • Improved the user invitation email template
  • Dynamic Group Custom Expressions now support conditional date requirements.
  • When uploading an Import Punches template file, the Punch Type column now requires IN, OUT, or empty values.
  • The Reset Password screen is now centered when using a mobile device on the Safari web browser.

🔥  Hotfixes

  • When adding Security Groups with a limited Groups scope, selecting a sub-group now also selects the parent Group(s).

🔧  Fixes

  • Fixed a Security Groups issue where Employee Portal Users with the "All Security Groups" scope enabled could not view the Security Groups assigned to other users.
  • Fixed an issue where Frozen Punches from the current day could not be recovered.

 

Time Clocks & Kiosk

🔧  Fixes

  • Fixed a time clock device where Clocking Permission rules with the Group assignment scope were applied as Company assignment scope rules.

 

Reports/Exports

🚀  Improvements 

  • Renamed the Timesheet Manual Entries Report to the Timesheet Manual Changes Report
    • Deleted and edited actions are now displayed
  • The Time Off “Types Detailed” report now displays the total hours listed per employee.
  • Added the “Exceptions Details” Export Data Provider
  • Added the “Avg. Weekly Expected Hrs” export column to the following export Data Providers:
    • Timesheet Summary (Per Pay Period)
    • Timesheet Summary
    • Timesheet Detailed (Per Pay Period)
    • Timesheet Daily Summary (Per Pay Period)
  • The Timesheet Shift Detailed Export Data Provider now displays Job Costing information.

🔁  Updates

  • The “Employee Totals” section has been removed from the Time Off Types Detailed report.

🔥  Hotfixes

  • Fixed a Scheduled Reports issue where reports arrived later than scheduled.

🔧  Fixes

  • Fixed an Employee List Report issue where grouping the results by custom Groups resulted in the duplication of listed employees.
  • Fixed a Weekly by Employee Schedules report issue where, after filtering the results by Schedule Criteria, employees with time off scheduled were displayed that did not fit into the selected Schedule Criteria.
  • Fixed a Weekly by Employee Schedules report issue where employee’s scheduled shifts were combined if they had the exact same name and different Employee IDs.
  • Fixed a Location Timesheet Summary report issue when running a multi-page report where the Break Taken (BT) total was displayed on the first page.
  • Fixed an Actual Vs Planned Time & Attendance report issue where an error would occur when attempting to run the report for multiple or all employees.
  • Fixed a Job Tracking Time Activity Summary export issue where results were not displayed.

 

Job Costing

🚀  Improvements 

  • Added the “Project Tags” and “Job Tags” report columns to the following Job Costing reports:
    • Daily Summary
    • Detailed
    • Summary
  • When using an existing Reporting Hours rule to add a new rule, the assigned Default Job is now displayed in the Job Costing section of the configuration panel.

🔥  Hotfixes

  • Added Job Costing filters to the execution panel of the Job Costing Detailed report.

 

Dashboard (Widgets)

🔧  Fixes

  • Fixed an Approaching Overtime widget issue where information from the previous pay period was displayed for the current pay period.