In this release, we’re excited to bring you more improvements to Roster Manager, Timesheets, and more. Read on for all the details!

All Humanforce Cloud accounts and UAT environments will be automatically updated to bring you the items below, overnight on Wednesday 29th May 2024.

Reminder: call out for organisations to test and provide feedback on Editing Timesheets in Bulk

We’re keen to hear your feedback on the new Timesheet Bulk Edit feature and how it performs for the needs of your organisation, so it can be as powerful as possible. 

Interested in testing it out? 

We invite you to submit a support ticket via Humanforce Help, to have the feature enabled in Production for your organisation. Spots are limited, so be quick!

If you secure a testing spot, our support team will enable the feature for your organisation, and you will control which of your users have access to Timesheet Bulk Edit, via permissions. For testing purposes, we recommend limiting access to Timesheet Bulk Edit to a small number of experienced users. 

Once you’ve had a chance to test the new feature, send any issues or queries to our support team and/or go ahead and use it more broadly in your organisation.

To learn more about how this new feature works, visit Editing Timesheets in Bulk.

Roster Manager

Management > Rostering > Roster Manager

We've updated the Role summary modal within Shift view to provide more flexibility over the information displayed.  Some of the new improvements you will see:

• The ability to set what columns are displayed and the order they appear
• Warnings and Errors now consistent with People & Role views
• A new filter to show Unassigned shifts only
• Status icons applicable to the shifts now visible.

You can now filter by Employment type within the Roster.

The Employee's Grade warning has now been implemented.  When configured in Clock In Settings Alerts, you will see warnings within the Roster if an employee does not meed the Grade requirement.

Timesheets

Management > Timesheets > Timesheets

We've made it easier to perform quick 'inline' edits to the Start Time and End Time directly from the main Timesheet table.

For a better user experience and as part of our program to improve consistency, we've reorganised the Alerts and New buttons in the Timesheet header and updated the Screen Settings and Update Roster Times buttons.

We’ve resolved an issue where Reason was not always being populated in the main timesheets grid.

Department Rostering

Management > Rostering > Department Rostering

The workflow to clear employees on leave from rostered shifts will now clear employees only for approved leave requests.  Any employees with pending leave requests or declined leave requests will no longer be removed from the shifts.

Employee Rostering

Management > Rostering > Employee Rostering

When creating a timesheet after reassigning a shift, users with the appropriate permission to authorise the timesheet are now permitted to edit the Authorise checkbox. While the Authorise checkbox will still be automatically ticked when changing the Shift Type to a Leave type, the user will now be able to untick the checkbox to create the timesheet as Unauthorised. Previously this checkbox was disabled for all users. Note that opting to create an unauthorised Leave timesheet will not create a leave request.

Bid Manager

Management > Shift > Bid Manager

Period Hours and Period Hours + Leave data in Bid Manager now include shifts and leave with a start date within the Pay Period of the shift being bid on, regardless of the shift/leave end date. This will better assist managers in determining the correct employee to offer a shift to. Previously any such shifts/leave were being excluded from the calculation.

Workforce Analytics

Management > Advanced > Workforce Analytics

Two new datasources of Location Code and Export Code have been added to the Timesheet Data report to assist with identifying Locations in the report. This is especially useful for those who may frequently need to update the Location name.

The Shift type filter within the Leave request report now includes shift types where the Allow Staff Requests setting is enabled.

Payrun Reports

Management > Timesheets > Payroll > Payrun > Reports

Improvements have been made to all the reports available in payrun screen to view and filter the data prior to exporting to CSV. The report names have been updated to reflect this change and additional menu options are available to either view the data or export the data to CSV. 

Labour Group Allocation

Admin > System Config > Labour Group Allocation

Improvement has been made to Labour group allocation to allow for percentages to have up to 2 digit decimals.