11.11 Release notes

Scheduling Availability Enhancements

• Show Availability in Employee Schedules Grid ¹
  • New “Availability” toggle button to hide/show employee availability in the scheduling screen
    • Note: Availability will only display when the employee has explicitly set his availability and there is no schedule for that day

• “Infer” Availability Mode
  • An employee will be either available or not available for each day (defined on Scheduling Availability page)
  • When there’s no availability is defined on a day, it assumes the employee is available
  • Assumes the remaining time as the inverse of what’s defined.
  • For example:
    • Suppose an employee defines 7 – 15 as Available on Monday, he/she is assumed unavailable outside of that zone (0 – 7 and 15 – 23:59)
  • Enabled by default for new and upgraded customers

Note: “Infer” availability currently doesn’t support overnight shifts

• Improved Availability Overlap Textbox in the shift assignment window
  • Designed to make it easier to see employee availability when assigning a new shift
  • Highlights the first unavailable zone- if multiple zones are defined ¹

• Ability to Effective Date Availability ¹
  • New “Set Future Availability” option to effective date availability

• Schedule Availability Updates – Lockout Feature for ESS ¹
  • Prevents employees from updating their availability when within x days

• Can be configured via Express Implementation Portal – ESS setup

• “All Day” Availability ¹
  • Convenient way to define the full day Availability / Unavailability (instead of 0:00 – 23:59) in Schedule Availability
  • Also supported in availability overrides
  • Default to “All Day” when no start/end times are supplied

¹ Only supported in the new “Infer” availability mode

New Simplified Preferences for ESS

• Allows updating most common user preferences, removes rarely used preferences specifically for employees
• Note: The old preferences page has been renamed to “Advanced” in ESS mode and only visible if user has the “Show Preferences” permission (default = off)

New “Change Password” Option

• Available in both ESS and Supervisor Mode

FacePrint – Break too Short Feature – California Rule

• Prevents employees from clocking back earlier than expected from a break (designed for lunch breaks)
• Reduces potential compliance penalties when employee do not take full breaks

FacePrint – Schedule Lockout Feature

• In some places employers must pay employees from the time they punch in.
• Prevents employees from clocking in before their scheduled start of shift (within a certain grace period)

Retail Scheduler Page for Upgraded Non-Portal Customers

• Designed to accommodate upgraded non-portal customers who want to implement the retail scheduler

Available under Admin  –  Retail Scheduler menu

 Period Signoff – Ability to Include Premium Fixed Amounts

• New system setting “PeriodSignoff.ShowPremiumFixedAmount” (default = no)
  • When enabled shows the PremiumFixedAmount in parenthesis

TCE – Department Punch

• Show formatted department list based on user’s department preference

 Manage Visibility – Enhancements

• “Auto-Assign Employee Visibility” when assigning Department visibility (eliminates an additional step)

Portal  – Alberta Average – Defaults

• New Alberta Stat Avg Calc (aka 5 of 9) option, Set 30 day probation by default

 Windows Server 2019 / SQL Server 2019 Support

Bug Fixes:

Future Balance Calculations – The System Counts the Partial Absence Request Twice. Only Affects Timesheet Employees Requesting a Partial Absence

Timesheet – Partial Absence – Timesheet employees getting confused, when requesting a Partial absence we show the label ‘Schedule’ with Day off as status

Mobile ESS – Timesheet – Semimonthly Period – Unable to submit Timesheet from Mobile for the period which is less than a week (in case of semimonthly Pay period)

Employee Qualification – Employee who has same qualification records in past (expired) and in current, system not calculating the current premium.

Punch Errors – Can’t correct all missing badge errors in one action

Firefox – Radio buttons – Radio buttons are not visible in Firefox browser with latest version

User Management – Tooltip from the user list is lost from 11x