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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Follow usHighlight 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
**New feature** Keep on top of compliance with document approvals
— Worknice (@WorkniceHR) January 25, 2023
đ˘Request approval on all documents
đđââď¸Multiple approvers
đ¨Monitor approval status'
See how it works – https://t.co/MY0aUYBt3B#hris #HRsoftware #HRMS #HRmanagement #HRsolutions #documentapprovals #hrmanager
Visit the document approval article for more info
AnnouncementWhat else do our smart documents do?
Worknice has a suite of powerful document features already available.
Document Management SoftwareHighlight 3 – Time off requests and tracking â spend less time on time off
**New feature** Spend less time on time off
— Worknice (@WorkniceHR) January 22, 2023
đ´Employee leave requests
đLeave balances
đ Organisation wide leave reports
âď¸ Integrated to @xero and @keypayapphttps://t.co/2k11RGmrV8#hris #HRsoftware #HRMS #HRmanagement #HRsolutions #leavemanagement #leaveoverlaps pic.twitter.com/8X7yQDCdZ6
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AnnouncementWhat 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.
January 3 2023
- Replaced âShort Nameâ and âLong Nameâ fields with a âDisplay Nameâ field on people profiles.
- Made all requests using
withStorage
automatically have a transaction. - Removed âWorkplace Adjustmentâ forms and migrated old âWorkplace Adjustmentâ forms to âPre-Employmentâ forms.
- Fixed broken seed scripts.
January 4 2023
- Made the email address used in the âInvite Personâ modal automatically pull from their summary.
- Made the personal email address in a personâs summary use their login email address as a fallback if no other personal email addresses are available.
- Made it so an assignmentâs âupdate atâ is bumped when its approvals are modified, requested or approved.
- Added the âResponsibleâ person on a taskâs page.
- Renamed the
submitTask
,reassignTask
andreassignCertificate
mutations in the API. - Added a database-level constraint to enforce valid TFNs on KeyPay employee forms.
- Added experimental âAirplaneâ project for managing accounts.
January 5 2023
- Improved error handling to show specific error messages instead of just âError handling API response.â.
- Improved reliability of logging.
- Removed
PersonSummary
from API and instead embedded those fields in thePerson
type. - Made the
StringField
component handle null/undefined values.
January 9 2023
- Fixed bug which prevented employees updating their own details.
- Fixed missing âOpen Documentâ button for submitted and processed documents.
- API: Added a
currentViewer: Viewer
field to theQuery
type to provide access to the current viewerâsUser
,Person
andAccount
.
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 âAssignmentâ type. This means theyâll 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 âMy Infoâ if they had assignments with a âdraftâ status.
- Made back links to from documents, forms and certificates go to the relevant page for the owner instead of the ownerâs âOverviewâ page.
- Improved logging of errors in data loaders.
January 20 2023
- Added an âAssign Immediatelyâ checkbox to the âAdd Personâ 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 âHide balances from pay slips and in employee portalâ 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 âEmployment Basisâ field to jobs.
- Added âEmployment Basisâ to a personâs overview. This will first try to use the personâs 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 thatâs 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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