We’re excited to announce the latest updates to Humanforce Cloud! This release continues to increase support for transitioning from BackOffice to web, introduces usability enhancements in Timesheets and Roster Manager and more. Read on for all the details! 

Release Schedule

• All Humanforce Cloud accounts and UAT environments will be automatically updated to version 6.0.42 (inclusive of all changes in 6.0.41) overnight on Wednesday 8th January 2025. 
• Staging environments were automatically updated on 28 November 2024 (6.0.41) and 12 December 2024 (6.0.42) respectively.

Note: the sequencing of automatic updates from 6.0.40 to 6.0.42 is because of the need to align with continuing internal deployment processes. 

Back Office to Humanforce Cloud

We continue to invest in enabling you to perform key workforce management and payroll tasks faster and more efficiently in Humanforce Cloud. In this release, we’re pleased to bring the following capabilities into Humanforce Cloud.

Support for Restrictive alerts in Roster Manager

Roster Manager now fully supports the Minimum Age Check alert when configured as Restrictive.  The Restrictive option prevents saving the shift if it doesn’t meet the alert criteria, making it an error rather than a simple warning. Setup alerts via Admin > System Config > Clock-In Settings.

More roster alert configurations in Web

You can now fully configure the following roster alerts via web:

• Break Check
• Employee Working Days
• Employees Role Qualification

Setup alerts via Admin > System Config > Clock-In Settings. 

Shift Types

Web now supports adjusting the order of Shift Types in the configuration area. This helps ensure that Managers and Employees see the most common or typical shift types towards the top of any dropdown fields throughout Humanforce Cloud (such as when requesting leave). Less common types can be ordered toward the end of the list.

In Humanforce Web, when creating or updating an existing Shift Type Setting, the Accrual Rate was saved with just 2 decimal places. This was in contrast to the Back Office, where 6 decimal places are supported. We have updated the Humanforce Web to have the same flexibility as Back Office.

Shift Confirmation

Sending shift confirmation requests is now available to all web customers. Shift confirmation allows you to easily send a request to your employees via SMS, Push notification (or both) and have them confirm their acceptance and availability for working the shift. For details on how to set up notification methods and send confirmation requests, visit Using Roster Manager - Shift Confirmation on Humanforce Help.

Roster Manager

Management > Rostering > Roster Manager  

General availability release of Event Rostering

All web customers can now access our initial general availability release of Event Rostering -  our intelligent event management solution within Roster Manager. Further updates to Event Rostering will continue to be added in later releases.

For more details on how to use Event Rostering, visit Event Rostering in Roster Manager in Humanforce Help.

Enhanced display in Role View

Role View now shows the role colouring down the left had side of each role, making it easy to distinguish between your different roles.

Roster/Template Manager

Management > Rostering > Roster/Template Manager

Improved filtering usability

Just like recent improvements to Timesheets, pressing the Enter key on your keyboard now applies all selected filters, making filtering faster and more intuitive.

Template Manager

Management > Rostering > Template Manager

You are now able to sort your templates by Cost or Hours making it easier to find the template you need.

Timesheets

Management > Timesheets > Timesheets 

Improved sorting, date picker and usability enhancements

The Employee Name column now supports multi-level sorting: first by Employee Name, then by Start Date (oldest-newest), and finally by Pay Start date (oldest-newest). 

Any single dates or date ranges selected when using the Timesheet Admin screen will now be retained when refreshing or navigating away from the page. Logging out/in will apply the standard defaults to the date picker as per current behaviour. This fix also resolves an issue where users without the Allow date range navigation permission active could still access and select the date range list for specific Pay Companies.

Adjustments have been made to the split timesheet functionality to ensure proper handling of split durations, preventing unintended behaviour when splitting timesheets.

We resolved an issue in the Grouped views so that sorting will now behave as expected, and the expanded tables remain visible and fixed to their parent record.

The Confirm icon in the Actions column will no longer become disabled when changing the date/date range.

Rest API

We're making more employee details available via the public API, so you can query and interrogate your user data more effectively. The following fields have been added to the Get Employees summary endpoint:

• RosterMaxHours - Returns the effective Roster Max hours as of current date
• ProbationDays - Returns the probation days for an employee.

Note: This post was edited on 6th Jan 2025, to remove an item related to a warning presented on Timesheets when authorising timesheets exceeding the length setting in the user's Access Levels. This item was rolled back for further development.