Approvals, integrated leave management and 47 more updates
Approvals, integrated leave management and 47 more updates

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Approvals, integrated leave management and 47 more updates
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30/01/2023
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While you were working on the Christmas left overs, we working on creating an incredible HR platform for 2023 – and shipping a record amount of updates this month.

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Highlight 1 – The Papercut blitz

January is known as a bit of a slow down period, from Christmas through to Australia day. Our development team wanted to take advantage of this, so while our competitors were taking time off, we doubled down and created a 2 week project called the “Papercut blitz” designed to ship high impact updates that can be engineered quickly.

What is it?

The word blitz captures the idea of a short and focused period of intense work. Within this period, we focus on software development items that are quick to resolve while also having a high impact on user experience and developer experience.

How did we name it?

We used software, ofcourse! We asked an AI platform ChatGPT to name it for us. Check out the conversation below;

Highlight 2 – Keep on top of compliance with document approval

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What else do our smart documents do?

Worknice has a suite of powerful document features already available.

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Highlight 3 – Time off requests and tracking – spend less time on time off

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Announcement

What else changed in January?

Worknice put’s a ton of energy into creating a great product for growing businesses.

We believe anyone who is responsible for managing HR deserves a smarter way to manage people, employment and engagement. Our goal is to deliver new features that offer a best-in-class product without the bloat.

That’s why more businesses are choosing Worknice.

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January 3 2023

  • Replaced “Short Name” and “Long Name” fields with a “Display Name” field on people profiles.
  • Made all requests using withStorage automatically have a transaction.
  • Removed “Workplace Adjustment” forms and migrated old “Workplace Adjustment” forms to “Pre-Employment” forms.
  • Fixed broken seed scripts.

January 4 2023

  • Made the email address used in the “Invite Person” modal automatically pull from their summary.
  • Made the personal email address in a person’s summary use their login email address as a fallback if no other personal email addresses are available.
  • Made it so an assignment’s “update at” is bumped when its approvals are modified, requested or approved.
  • Added the “Responsible” person on a task’s page.
  • Renamed the submitTaskreassignTask and reassignCertificate mutations in the API.
  • Added a database-level constraint to enforce valid TFNs on KeyPay employee forms.
  • Added experimental “Airplane” project for managing accounts.

January 5 2023

  • Improved error handling to show specific error messages instead of just “Error handling API response.“.
  • Improved reliability of logging.
  • Removed PersonSummary from API and instead embedded those fields in the Person type.
  • Made the StringField component handle null/undefined values.

January 9 2023

  • Fixed bug which prevented employees updating their own details.
  • Fixed missing “Open Document” button for submitted and processed documents.
  • API: Added a currentViewer: Viewer field to the Query type to provide access to the current viewer’s UserPerson and Account.

January 10 2023

  • Added leave balances for Xero and KeyPay integrations.
  • Fixed bug causing employees to see permission errors when viewing and assignment with approvals attached.
  • Cleaned-up latent logging statements.

January 12 2023

  • Added specific notifications for leave requests (includes new user setting to toggle leave request email notifications).
  • Removed leave requests from the “Assignment” type. This means they’ll no longer appear on the overview page etc.
  • Fixed bug preventing KeyPay leave balances showing that was caused the KeyPay API token being stale.
  • Fixed a permission error that prevented employees seeing the manager/position of other employees.
  • Fixed migrations that were broken in the development environment.

January 16 2023

  • Added ability to create KeyPay leave requests from within Worknice.
  • Fixed bug preventing bank accounts from syncing with KeyPay if the account number contains spaces.
  • Improved logging when HTTP or GraphQL errors are raised.

January 17 2023

  • Fixed problem that would cause employees to see an error when viewing “My Info” if they had assignments with a “draft” status.
  • Made back links to from documents, forms and certificates go to the relevant page for the owner instead of the owner’s “Overview” page.
  • Improved logging of errors in data loaders.

January 20 2023

  • Added an “Assign Immediately” checkbox to the “Add Person” page.
  • Hid archived documents, certificates and forms on people pages.
  • Fixed a bug that prevented editing due dates on tasks.
  • Implemented new permission system.
  • Improved error handling.
  • Improved logging.

January 23 2023

  • Prevented KeyPay leave categories that are marked as “Hide balances from pay slips and in employee portal” from showing in Worknice.
  • Made KeyPay employee details update in KeyPay when a sync is run if a new KeyPay employee forms has been submitted in Worknice.

January 24 2023

  • Added an “Employment Basis” field to jobs.
  • Added “Employment Basis” to a person’s overview. This will first try to use the person’s current job, but if that does not have an employment basis set, it will fall back the most recent form or record synced from a payroll system that contains an employment basis value.
  • Added position codes to the TechOne export.
  • Added pay basis to the TechOne export.
  • Improved the error message that displays if a file that’s too large is uploaded.
  • Added limits to date picker to prevent dates before the year 1000 or after the year 3000.

January 30 2023

  • Added configurable export fields to the TechnologyOne integrations settings.

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