In this release, we’re excited to bring you early access to Shift confirmation in Roster Manager, more shift alerts/warnings to keep you compliant, 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 26th June 2024.

Roster Manager

Management > Rostering > Roster Manager

Shift Confirmation

We are excited to announce early access to our latest Humanforce Cloud rostering and scheduling feature within Roster Manager: Shift confirmation.  

Shift confirmation allows you to easily send a request to your workers via SMS, push notification (or both) and have them confirm their acceptance and availability for working the shift. This can be done for a single shift, multiple shifts, all shifts or all shifts that fall on a public holiday.  

Shift Confirmation offers the same functionality as the ‘Roster offer’ feature found specifically in Back-office Humanforce. Back-office users are advised to use Shift Confirmation as a replacement.

To opt in for early access to Shift Confirmation for your testing purposes, simply submit a support ticket via Humanforce Help to have the feature enabled in Production for your organisation.

For more information on using this feature, visit Shift confirmation in our Using Roster Manager help article.

Location/Department qualification warning

The Employee's Location/Department qualification warning has now been implemented in Roster Manager, so you can see warnings within the roster if an employee does not have the required qualification for the location and department within the shift. To set up or edit this alert visit Admin > System Config > Clock-in Settings.

Template Manager

Management > Rostering > Template Manager

The Employee's Visa warning has now been implemented, so you can make informed decisions about who to include in a template more easily.  When configured in Admin > System Config > Clock-in Settings, you will see warnings within Template Manager if an employee has an expired visa.

Leave Approvals and Read-Only Shifts

Management > Availability > Leave Approvals

The leave approval workflow has been improved to unassign employees from read only shifts, where it clashes with approved leave. Previously, employees assigned to read only shifts were not removed on approval of their leave.

Employee Rostering

Management > Rostering > Employee Rostering

When re-assigning a shift and adding a leave timesheet for an employee, leave timesheets can be auto authorised based on a permission. To activate the new permission:

• Go to Admin > Security Config > Access Levels
• For the relevant Access Level, click Edit and then the Permissions tab.
• Find the new permission under Rostering Screens > Allow editing, called Auto-authorise when adding a leave timesheet as part of reassign workflow.
• Select the checkbox and click Apply Changes.