Below you will find the Changelog for WorkSchedule.Net Version 9. Each update is listed in descending order of release with the newest update at the top!
- Time Off
- Time Off Request: Better defaulting of date ranges when duplicating days being requested off.
- Time off approval: Ability to approve / decline / leave alone all days off in a Time Off Request at once (version 8 feature)
- Time off Ledger: Ability to bulk add / remove transactions to multiple users at once (version 8 feature)
- Mobile
- Fixed document height for mobile across all pages. Changed the header/footer of the availability grid to not be sticky. when the user scrolls, they will have more room to make selections.
- Fixed height after device orientation change for iOS.
- Fixed: Adjusted “Crew” label to read “Employee” when editing time blocks.
- Bids:
- Adjusted the bid color feature so that the special coloring to show someone has bid on a shift only appears in Manage Schedule
- Fixed: Show “Requested” in time blocks where the user submitted a bid. No longer shows “requested” if other users have submitted bids as it had in certain scenarios (when the bid color feature is being used).
- Select Column / Row (version 8 feature)
- Ability to select an entire date column or an entire row in calendar areas without drawing a rectangle.
- Fixed Time Blocks:
- Fixed: Date Times/Times category type values now show correctly for PM, Military Time, and European Dates.
- Fixed: Date/Date Time category type values no longer show a false date when no date was chosen (empty).
- Show Open Shifts: If an employee’s qualification permission is only certain departments, it will no longer show all open shifts when the option is turned on, honoring the restriction now for open time blocks as well as assigned time blocks.
- Schedule Change Requests (Sign ups and Swaps)
- Notifications: Show category items and their values inside notifications for Managers/Admins.
- Fixed: Employee schedule will now show all open shifts if bidding enabled even when signup is disabled
- Categories
- Removed access for users to change Departments and Time of Day to a custom type (non-Items)
- Various minor bug fixes and improvements
- Hours Report
- Hours report now includes the option to filter out time off hours
- Schedule Change Request (Sign up and Swap) Fixes
- False broken rules in certain views of a schedule change request corrected.
- Substantially reduced processing times when user submits change request.
- Corrected issue with notifications that a schedule change request has been processed not being sent in certain uncommon situations.
- Change requests will become invalid if the original request was changed after starting a schedule change request (earlier in the process than before).
- Automation efficiencies
- Efficiency has been significantly improved for Show Conflicts, Get Best Fit, Auto-schedule, and rule checking for schedule change requests.
- Schedule Change Request Enhancements
- Use identical time block if requested block is taken: (Sign up only) If two users sign up for the same open time block and Manager Approval is not required (option in Company Settings), the system will search for an identical open time block and, if available, will substitute that open time block for the open time block originally requested.
- The calendar page load time using view option “Show ‘Viewed’ in time blocks” has been significantly reduced by an order of magnitude.
- Fixed various bugs and improvements
- Added new option for European date format
- Added new option for military time format
- Added Bid Color Feature which highlights shifts that have been bid on with a color chosen by the admin
- When a user submits a schedule change request, the category item names on the manager approval page are now abbreviated
- Discrepancy Report is now available as a standard report
- The main billing contact can now be chosen by the administrator on the billing page
- Fixed issue showing incorrect statistics: Now shows correct statistics regarding time off given and taken on the manager time off approval page
- In Edit Roles
- Changed wording on “Accessible [Departments]” tab to “Managed [Departments]”
- Moved Employee “Attendance” options from Schedule/Attendance tab to the Employee tab
- Changed wording on “Schedule/Attendance” tab to “Schedule”
- Fixed various bugs and improvements
- User can create clickable links in Time Block Notes. Users can click links in the information tab and within time blocks in the Calendar area.
- When a user requests to sign up or swap a shift that requires manager approval, the Category Item Names are now visible in the request to the manager.
- Various bug fixes and improvements.
- Various bug fixes and improvements
- Fixed bug with Schedule Change alerts related to deleted users
- Fixed crash in monthly view
- Improvements to Migration process
- Adjusted terminology in Company Settings
- Various bug fixes and improvements
- Fixed bug with Time Off partial processing where some requests were not being marked as completed
- Added option to initialize Attendance from the Current Schedule
- Added “Notes” column to Custom Time Block Report
- “Manager Notes” text box added to Time Blocks
- Manager Notes are a special Notes type field where the text entered is only visible to specific Roles with access
- Fixed access to time clock on Mobile site based on Role settings
- Fixes to Schedule Change Alerts
- Efficiency fixes when loading schedule when Breaks are present on Time Blocks
- Added Confirm/Decline feature to Current Schedule
- Option now available to allow employees to mark a shift as “confirmed” or “declined” which is then visible to those with access to the Manager/Admin schedule view
- Added ability to assign employees via Get Best Fit feature on Mobile site
- Various bug fixes and efficiency changes
- Various bug fixes and improvements
- Added Single Sign-On (SSO) support for Mobile app
- Fixed bug with Google Maps functionality
- Fixed bug with SSO in Google Chrome Browser
- Added static error page for Mobile app
- Added dropdown to set company location in Migration UI
- Added space below total hours row in Schedule
- Added additional messaging to Login screen related to SSO
- Fixed “Remember My Login” checkbox on Login page
- Adjusted verbiage in Migration status emails
- Adjusted text in setup wizard buttons
- Various grammatical fixes
- Various bug fixes
