Release Notes June 10, 2022
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My Portal
⭐ New Features
- Breaks can now be automatically taken by employees without having to select the specific break on the web clock, mobile app, and Kiosk.
🚀 Improvements
- Employees are now able to set Timesheet Preferences
- The following message now displays when an employee is attempting to clock in/out on the mobile app and their timesheet already includes punches in the future: “Cannot record time when punch entries exist in the future”.
🔥 Hotfixes
- Fixed a My Portal Clock In/Out issue on the mobile app where Android users were unable to clock in if "Photo Required" was enabled in the assigned Reporting Hours rule.
Time & Attendance
🚀 Improvements
- Improved the date picker when adding time to an Employee Timesheet.
- Time Off Request Notes and Reviewer’s Comments can now be viewed from the Employee Timesheet.
- Added the authentication method icon next to the “Entry” time on the Timesheet Request Approval notification on the web and mobile apps.
- Improved flexibility for Overtime rules.
- Added the “Enable the option to choose the Overtime Period” option to the EasyClocking Advanced Settings.
- Added the “Overtime Period” options to the Weekly section of the Overtime rule settings.
- Added the “Use Overtime Calculation Behavior” setting to the EasyClocking Advanced Settings.
- Added the “Perform the overtime calculations before the hours are allocated” setting to the Type section of the Overtime rule settings.
- The “Forgot to start worked hours” alert can now be sent to specified managers.
- Added the "Who to notify“ section to the "Forgot to start worked hours break" Alerts settings for the Manager Audience.
- The “Forgot to end worked hours” alert can now be sent to specified managers.
- Added the "Who to notify“ section to the "Forgot to end worked hours break" Alerts settings for the Manager Audience.
🔥 Hotfixes
- Fixed an Employee Timesheet issue on the mobile app where a single break would register as multiple breaks.
- Fixed an Employee Timesheet issue where employees hired in the middle of a pay period did not have an active timesheet.
🔧 Fixes
- Fixed an Employee Timesheet issue where, after adding a Duration (hours) to the timesheet, the Duration could be edited to be more than 24 hours.
- Fixed an Employee Timesheet issue when a Rounding rule with manual rounding was assigned where the Employee Timesheet did not display the Round Punches option.
- Fixed a Pay Period Overview issue where listed employees could not be filtered by Employee ID.
- Fixed a Who’s In issue when assigning a new Pay Period Frequency to employees where Who’s In displayed punches from the previously assigned Pay Period Frequency.
Scheduling
🔧 Fixes
- Fixed an issue when adding shifts to the Scheduler where the “TimeOff: Employee is not eligible for this time off type” error would occur.
Time Off
🚀 Improvements
- Added a link to see “Employees covered by this policy” under the number of employees assigned to a Time Off Policy.
- The “Added” date and employee initials have been added to the “Employees covered by this policy” details.
- Added the “Created By” field to the General section of the Time Off Policies details.
- Added the “Archived Time Off Policies” section to the Time Off Policies page.
- Added the “Require time off request comments” to the Time Off Policies options.
🔥 Hotfixes
- Fixed a Time Taken & Balances issue where, after creating a new Time Off Policy, previously accrued balances were recalculated incorrectly.
🔧 Fixes
- Fixed an issue when submitting a new Time Off Request on the mobile app where the decimal button could not be utilized.
- Fixed a “Request Approval” notification issue in the mobile app where Time Off Requests with Tags could not be approved.
- Fixed a Holidays issue when attempting to view the details of Holidays assigned to employees where an operation error would occur.
Employee Management
🚀 Improvements
- The Fingerprint Quality Score is now displayed for enrolled fingerprints in the Employee List Profile of the web app.
🔧 Fixes
- Fixed an Employee List Profile issue when editing the Employment Tab where switching an Employee’s Position from one to another resulted in both the old and new Positions being displayed.
Human Resources
🚀 Improvements
- The Security Group Privileges have been updated.
🔥 Hotfixes
- Fixed the “View Timesheets” Privilege.
🔧 Fixes
- Fixed an issue where Assets could not be assigned through the mobile app.
- Fixed a Document Explorer issue in the web app when pressing the “Level Up” button where a warning sign was displayed inside the folders before the previous file-level had loaded.
Platform
🚀 Improvements
- Improved the UI of the Rules History in the Global Settings.
- Improved the UI of the Quickbooks Online employee selection page.
- Improved spelling and grammar across the platform.
🔥 Hotfixes
- Fixed a Questionnaire issue in the mobile app where some questions required employees to scroll up/down to enable the Next button.
- Fixed a Geofence issue when the “Enforce Geofence” setting was set to “Yes” where punches outside of an assigned Geofence were permitted.
🔧 Fixes
- Fixed an issue where, after changing the Language on the mobile app, the menu items were duplicated, and the menu options were unresponsive.
- Fixed an issue where the Exceptions feature did not display all missing punches.
- Fixed an Exceptions issue when attempting to view the listed employees for an Exception with over 100 employees where no results were found.
Reports/Exports
⭐ New Features
- Added the Timesheet Report Type to the Time & Attendance reports.
🚀 Improvements
- Added the “Pay Type” filter to the Employee General section of the Employee Filters in the Execution options for the following Export Data Providers:
- Employee schedules
- Employee basic data
- Job Tracking Time Activity Detailed (Per Pay Period)
- Job Tracking Time Activity Summary
- Job Tracking Time Activity Summary (Per Pay Period)
List of Punches - List of Punches (Pay Period)
- Time Activity Detailed (Per Pay Period)
- Time Activity Summary
- Time Activity Summary (Per Pay Period)
- Timesheet Detailed (Per Pay Period)
- Timesheet Summary
- Timesheet Summary (Per Pay Period)
🔥 Hotfixes
- Fixed a Time & Attendance Reports issue where reports could not be copied.
- Fixed a Schedules Reports issue where the Baseline Summary by Criteria and Baseline Summary by Employee reports displayed inconsistent data.
- Fixed an Exceptions issue where the "Missing Punches" Exception did display the number of missing punches in the Pay Period view.
Time Clocks & Kiosk
⭐ New Features
- Time clock devices can now be hooked up to a bell and set to ring at specified times.
- Added the Bell Schedules section to the Time Clock Settings.
🚀 Improvements
- Time clock devices can now be connected to Wi-Fi via static IP address and to hidden Wi-Fi networks.
Job Costing
⭐ New Features
- Added the Detailed Report Type to the Job Costing reports.
- Added the Job filter to the Advanced Filter(s) for the following Schedules Reports View Types:
- Daily by Employee
- 2 Weeks by Criteria
- 2 Weeks by Employee
🔧 Fixes
- Fixed a Project List issue in the Job Costing Global Settings where the Clients section did not display saved changes.
- Fixed the "Setting Up Job Costing" button in the Job Costing section of the Reporting Hours options.
Dashboard (Widgets)
🔧 Fixes
- Fixed the “Time log location” filter in the Employee Status Widget.
- Fixed an issue where the Exceptions Widget displayed the previous day’s Exceptions by default.