Introducing more improvements to Timesheets (including the return of a favourite filter), a new overtime indicator on shifts in Template Manager, stronger validation checks in Bid Manager and more!

Now available in staging environments, all Humanforce Cloud accounts will be automatically updated to bring you the items below, overnight on Wednesday 22nd of November 2023.

Product Updates within Humanforce Cloud

The information about releases and new features (as shown on this page), will be shared within your Humanforce Cloud product via a What's New button in the main menu.

We know change management requires careful planning, and Administrators may prefer that only some parts of the workforce see the extra information about upcoming new features, to avoid any confusion.

That’s why the visibility of the What’s New button will be in your hands via Access Levels > Permissions.

If you need to restrict the visibility of the What’s New button:

1. Go to Admin > Security Config > Access Levels
2. Click the relevant access level to edit, and open the Permissions tab
3. Search for Release
4. De-select the permission View Product Release Notes Page (What’s New)
5. Click Apply Changes.

Note that if you do nothing, all users will see the What’s New button from 15th November 2023.

Timesheets

Management > Timesheets > Timesheets

Save time with three improvements to Timesheets:

1. We've listened to feedback and reintroduced a view that includes all timesheets as well as No-Shows. This new All timesheets & No-Shows filter effectively provides the same results as the All timesheets view previously offered (before No-Shows were removed).
   

   
2. The selection of the Pay Date option in the date filter now accurately displays all timesheets within the date range selected based on Pay Date.
3. The View timesheets outside of user's rostered events permission, which previously was only applicable to the Daily Authorisation screen, has now been applied to Timesheets. This permission is active by default. When deactivated, it limits the user to viewing Timesheets that match the Event they are currently working at - or have worked at in the last 24 hours. This is ideal for the scenario where an employee is asked to authorise timesheets for the event they are temporarily managing, and so should not have access to any other Events.

Template Manager for Rostering

Management > Rostering > Template Manager

To help identify when overtime is being calculated within a shift, if the pay type has been set as "Treat as overtime payment" we are now showing a warning within the shift.

We've also fixed an issue where pay rates were being shown within the advanced search section for users without permissions to see costs.

Bid Manager

Management > Shift > Bid Manager

We’ve added a validation check when offers are submitted, to prevent offers being sent in response to bids that have been withdrawn (which can occur if the Bid Manager screen has not been refreshed between the bid withdrawal and the offer submission). The validation check will be applied when the user submits the offer(s). Where one or more of the bids being offered is invalid, a warning will be displayed and the user will be invited to refresh the page to view updated bids before resubmitting the offer(s).

Whispir SMS Gateway for Shift Offer

Staff Availability

Management > Availability > Staff Availability

Selecting Show Leave Block Info will now accurately display grey/black out periods for the selected start and end date across multiple months.

Employee Onboarding

Management > Employee > Employee Onboarding

When onboarding an employee, the Employee code and Payroll code can now be edited to allow for custom codes to be used. To prevent duplicates, validations have also been added for both fields to ensure codes entered are unique in the system.

Questions or comments? Let us know below!