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
- Added the Calendar Sync feature
- Published shifts in WorkEasy Software can now be displayed in external calendar apps. See: https://help.workeasysoftware.com/calendar-sync
🚀 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.