We’re excited to announce Humanforce Cloud Version 6.0.44! 

This release is packed with exciting enhancements to improve user experience and streamline workflows across various Workforce Management modules such as Roster Manager, Leave Approval, Timesheets and Workforce Analytics. Our new update will boost efficiency, deliver a more seamless workforce management experience for users, and also provide greater control over workforce management processes.

Finally, in this release we are now providing customers early access to a pilot integration sync via our iHR to WFM native integration. This pilot integration will ensure the role revision effective dates are accurately synchronised to ensure proper processing of the information in WFM and subsequent payroll integrations such as Humanforce Payroll, so to register your interest to gain access to this new integration capability submit a support ticket via Humanforce Help.

Release Schedule

• Staging environments were updated on Thursday, 23th January 2025.
• All Humanforce Cloud accounts and UAT environments will be automatically updated to version 6.0.44 overnight on Wednesday, 5th February 2025.

Roster Manager

Management > Rostering > Roster Manager

Shift Consent

Designed to help rostering managers quickly register employee consent for changed or newly added shifts, we have now released the ability to automatically surface a consent registration request so that employees can agree, or decline, to the terms/conditions of specific shifts. Roster managers with user permissions, can create and manage Shift Consent using Shift Consent Templates within the Admin navigation > Award Config > Shift Consent Templates, whilst employees receive and submit Shift Consent requests via the Humanforce Work App.

For more information on setting up templates, or to learn more about how they are linked when a shift is offered to an employee, find out more here.

Identifying unassigned shifts

We have updated the colour of these shifts to green so that Roster Managers can quickly and easily identify which shifts are currently left assigned.

Fixed an error showing employee as unavailable if on leave overnight

We've fixed a minor error where if an employee was on leave overnight, they were incorrectly showing as unavailable on the date the leave ended.

Fixed an error where ‘View only’ shifts were disappearing after refreshing roster pages

We've fixed a minor error where ‘View only' shifts were disappearing after roster pages were refreshed when shift grouping 'Group by Location’ has been selected. Shifts will now appear as intended and no longer disappear after refreshing roster pages.

Timesheets

Management > Timesheets > Timesheets

Multi-level sorting in timesheet ‘No Grouping’ view

We have enabled multi-level sorting in the No Grouping view, with the ‘Employee Name’ column. This means you can now quickly sort employee timesheets first by Employee Name, and then by Start Date (oldest-newest), and finally by Pay Start date (oldest-newest).

Locked Timesheets of finalised payruns

We have ensured Timesheets of finalised payruns remain locked for organisations. Timesheets that are part of a finalised payrun will be prevented from being unlocked from the Timesheet Admin screen unless that payrun is reverted.

Timesheet length warning windows when editing and authorising timesheets

When editing a timesheet using the Edit Timesheet window, organisations will now receive a helpful warning timesheet managers that the Timesheet's length exceeds the Timesheet Length setting configured in the user's Access Levels>General tab. This warning notification will allow users to  either confirm or cancel the timesheet edit.

A warning window will also now appear for users authorising a single timesheet or authorising in bulk, when the Timesheet length exceeds the Timesheet Length setting configured in the user's Access Levels>General tab. This warning notification will also allow the user to choose to confirm or cancel the Authorisation(s).

Workforce Analytics

Management > Advanced > Workforce Analytics

Report Employee 'Created By' Identification in Employee Data Reports

To help with audit trail reporting, the 'Employee Data Report' within Workforce Analytics has been improved to now allow the ‘CreatedById’ column to be made available in the report datasource. This field can then be toggled to include the user who created each employee within the report. 

Leave Approvals

Management > Availability > Leave Approvals  

Automatic un-assigning employees from rostered shifts overlapping with leave request

When permissions enabled managers are approving employee leave requests in the Leave Approvals screen, they can automatically un-assign employees from any rostered shifts that overlap with the leave request. This update ensures that the auto-un-assign functionality is applied accurately for an employee with back-to-back shifts; and they are NOT unassigned from both shifts if only one shift overlaps the leave.

Shift Definitions

Admin > System Config > Shift Definitions

Shift Definitions without qualification selection

We have resolved a minor error that prevented a Shift Definition being created without also selecting a qualification.

Integration Central

Management > Advanced> Integration Central  

Ensuring Employee Role Revision Effective Dates in WFM is sourced from intelliHR when transferring updates to Humanforce Workforce Management

To help with automatically updating employee primary role information across Humanforce intelliHR (iHR) and Workforce Management suites (WFM), we are now providing early access to a pilot integration sync via our iHR to WFM native integration. This pilot integration will ensure the role revision effective dates are accurately synchronised to ensure proper processing of the information in WFM and subsequent payroll integrations such as Humanforce Payroll. 

To opt in for early access to test this feature, simply submit a support ticket via Humanforce Help and you will have the feature enabled in Production for your organisation. For more information on using this feature or more information on our native iHR and WFM integration, visit this Help article.