Release Notes

Performance - Improvement - The certificates and education levels are now sorted alphabetically on the Competency Search page.

Performance - Improvement - The objective Description, Key Result Activities, KPIs and Final evaluation are now hidden by default in the performance review form and can be displayed by clicking Details.

Core HR - Improvement - If the approval process has multiple steps, HR can stop the it at any step. The approval request status will be set to Approved and all the remaining steps will be skipped.

Core HR - Issue fix - Fixed an issue with duplicated description of the employee card Account field.

Recruiting - Issue fix - Fixed an issue with hiding the Due Date column on the Job Openings page. 

Performance - Issue fix - Fixed layout of the employee competency assessment Edit form.

Learning - Improvement - On the Learning dashboard, the terminated and inactive employees are  not taken into account when calculating number of requests in waiting lists by course and total course requests pending. Also, only active employees are considered for the as of today Missing/Expired Certificates and Missing Required Training.

Time and Attendance, Performance - Improvement - Performance has been improved for My Absences and My Performance Reviews.

Other - New Functionality - Chart Builder has been implemented enabling users to create their own charts.

Other - Improvement - The Full Page URL field has been added to the Audit Log Report for the users  to easily navigate to the page where the changes have been made.

Recruiting - Issue fix - Fixed an issue with displaying interviews in the Interview Schedule in case there were several interviews for the same candidate.

Learning - Issue fix - Fixed an issue with incorrect messages displayed to the user when scheduling training events and submitting training requests.

Recruiting - Improvement - After saving changes to the candidate on the Applicant Tracking page, the page will not be reset to the page 1.

Integrations - Issue fix - Fixed an issue with displaying employee photo uploaded by the Azure AD Photo integration job if the account name contained brackets.

Chat Bot - Improvement - Welcome message has been added for the Chat Bot.

Compensation - Improvement - The display order can now be defined for the job grades.

Core HR - Improvement - The display only fields will be hidden when filling in the form assigned by the Multiple Records HR process action.

Core HR - Issue fix - Fixed the performance issue with loading dashboards.

Time and Attendance - Improvement - A new setting was added to set up absence types for which the company holidays will not be considered as days off and will be subtracted from allowance. Applies only if the absence plan section for the corresponding absence type has Period Calculation Type set to Calendar Days.

Other - Issue fix - Fixed issue with saving changes to settings under Settings and Configuration.

Time and Attendance - Improvement - The users can now work with the company holidays on the Company Holidays page, where holidays for a specific year only can be displayed.

Core HR - Issue fix - Fixed an issue with the Employee Chart not displaying the employees when filtering it with the Hide Employees set to No. The chart layout for the subordinate org units has been optimized.

Core HR - Issue fix - Fixed an issue with displaying broken links in the HR process notifications.

Core HR - Improvement - For the Process Template Designer, a new action type Multiple Records is available. It is similar to Fill Form, but is not limited to a single record. If the HR process is assigned to a candidate, the link to a form will be available from Candidate Self-Service.

Learning - Improvement - Practicum documents will be available through the Practicum link on the Discussion Board.

Performance - Improvement - Fixed the typo issue in the performance review generation rules.

Other - Issue fix - Fixed an issue with incorrect sorting by date. 

Recruiting - Improvement - Usability of the Time to Hire report has been improved.

Time and Attendance - Issue fix - Fixed an issue with validating the allowance overbooking in case the absence request begins in one absence allowance period and ends in another.  

Core HR - Issue fix - Fixed an issue with displaying employees on the Position Chart before the employee start date.

Core HR - Issue fix - Fixed an issue with displaying the employee photos with special symbols in title in the Congratulations pane.

Core HR - Issue fix - Fixed an issue with displaying employees on the Position Chart before the employee start date.

Other - Improvement - Some styles have been changed to better fit WSAG.

Recruiting - Issue fix - Fixed the spelling issues.

Recruiting - Improvement - Thank you message added after the employee submits the Recommend a Friend form.

Core HR - Issue fix - Fixed an issue which caused displaying the first working day as anniversary in the Congratulations section of the employee dashboard.

Data Export - Issue fix - Fixed an issue which caused duplicating employees in the country .csv file when exporting data.

Integrations - Improvement - In the Exchange Integration settings, the Exchange Authentication Mode can be set to Basic (login and password used before) or Modern (OAuth authentication: TenantId, ClientId, ClientSecret, UserEmail).
For details please refer to: Exchange Integration

Recruiting - Improvement - The applicant search performance has been optimized.

Recruiting - Issue fix - Fixed an issue with displaying the Insert Field button on the Candidate Email Templates page.

Core HR - Issue fix - Fixed the layout issue with the Employee Chart filter. 

Other - Issue fix - Fixed the security issue valid for the SharePoint Server.

Other - Issue fix - Fixed an issue with the SpUtility.SendMail utility, which wasn't working when run under fake httpcontext.

Other - Issue fix - Fixed the security issue valid for the SharePoint Server.

Other - Issue fix - Fixed an issue with the SpUtility.SendMail utility, which wasn't working when run under fake httpcontext.

Integration - Improvement - In the Exchange Integration settings, the Exchange Authentication Mode can be set to Basic (login and password used before) or Modern (OAuth authentication: TenantId, ClientId, ClientSecret, UserEmail).

Data Export - Issue fix - Fixed an issue which caused duplicating employees in the country .csv file when exporting data.

Recruiting - Issue fix - Fixed an issue which prevented the user from creating the candidates.

Data Import - Issue fix - Fixed an issue with generating the data import results file in case the file name being generated exceeded 128 characters. 

Core HR - Issue fix - Fixed an issue with displaying the announcement attachments.

Recruiting - Improvement - The candidate card can be now displayed in the alternative view additionally displaying:

                 a) Application History

                 b) Candidate Documents

                 c) Candidate Education

                 d) Candidate Work History 

Recruiting - Improvement - In Candidate Self-Service, the groups in the Skills section will be ordered alphabetically. Within the groups, the items will be ordered alphabetically by skill name.

Recruiting, Learning - Improvement - "Candidate Letters" have been renamed to "Candidate Emails". "Trainings" changed to "Training Courses".

Core HR - Issue fix - Fixed an issue with viewing the Employee Chart on SharePoint 2019.

Core HR - Issue fix - Fixed an issue with displaying links in the announcements.

Recruiting - the outdated fields in the Job Openings list have been removed.

Recruiting - Issue fix - Fixed an issue which prevented the user from creating the  candidates.

Performance - Improvement - The KPIs in the KPI Library are now sorted by name instead of ID.  

Recruiting - Improvement - The employees can recommend their friends for the company job openings. 
For details refer to: Candidate Referrals

Recruiting - Issue fix - Fixed an issue which caused closing the job opening published to SEEK after this job opening was copied.

Recruiting - Improvement - The Copy Job Opening option is now available from the Job Opening Details page.

Data Import - Issue fix - Fixed an issue with generating the data import results file in case the file name being generated exceeded 128 characters.

Other - Improvement - Layout of the pages related to the document processing has been improved.

Integrations - New Functionality - The employee documents can be sent for signing through Adobe Sign. The employees can see notification on the Employee Dashboard and sign from Employee Documents.
For details refer to: Signing Employee Documents

Performance - Issue fix - Fixed an issue with the outdated naming of the Org Unit KPI.

Time and Attendance - Issue fix - Fixed an issue with selecting the Use Time Period check box in the Time and Attendance settings.

Learning – Improvement - The Scheduling Assistant will display only information about the selected trainer if the trainer is selected.

Compensation - Issue fix - Fixed an issue with copying the recommended salary to the Recommended Annual Base Salary field of the salary review.

Other - Improvement - The JavaScript plug-ins and scripts were updated to the latest versions.

Time and Attendance - Improvement - If the Clock In mode is on and the employee is trying to send the hours for approval, a warning message will display prompting about the hour calculation in process.

Learning - Improvement - The first day of the week in the Scheduling Assistant will be displayed according to the user regional settings, if not specified, from web.regionalsettings.

Performance - Improvement - The layout and wording for the KPI related buttons and filters have been improved. The colors in the KPI library charts representing Failed and Warning statuses were changed to red and yellow, accordingly. 

Core HR - Improvement - Now after going from OnBoarding to the Process Actions page bread crumbs will show path to onboarding for easier navigation.

Recruiting - Improvement - The org unit managers can now schedule interviews for the job openings they have access for.

Recruiting - Improvement - The criteria for candidate information deletion as per the Auto Delete Candidates setting changed. Now the number of months after which the candidate information is deleted is counted from the candidate last modified date. The candidate records with employee or starter created from them will not be deleted.

Core HR - Improvement - When terminating an employee and selecting a termination reason, the options will be sorted alphabetically.

Other - Improvement - Lanteria chat bot will display the clickable help topic name instead of the link address.

Performance - Issue fix - Fixed an issue with duplicating the selected skills on the Competency Search page.

Core HR - Improvement - When we create an employee from starter, the Employment Date field on the employee card will be prepopulated with the Start Date of the starter and the Manager field with the starter's Manager field.

Core HR - Improvement - When rehiring an employee, the user can specify a new Employment Date and Service Date.

Recruiting - Improvement - When using the Interview Schedule for letting the candidate select one of the available time slots for the interview, it is now possible to set up the MS Teams meeting generation.

Recruiting - Issue fix - Fixed an issue with the date format on the Interviewer Availability page, which was not based on the format defined in the Company Settings.

Performance - Improvement - Added instructions to be displayed when selecting assessors for the 360 review. 

Recruiting - Issue fix - Fixed an issue with the org unit managers not being able to view the job openings for their org unit.

Learning - Improvement - When creating a learning material, the certificate names in the Certificate lookup are now sorted alphabetically. 

Performance - Improvement - The layout of the performance review preview form and the Employee filter on the Performance Review Rounds page has been improved.

Time and Attendance - Improvement - Descriptions for the fields used for setting up the automatic timesheet fill out have been added.

Performance - Issue fix - Fixed the formatting issues for the 360 Feedback Result Report.

Report Center - Issue fix - Fixed an issue which caused the custom report fields of the check box type (Yes/No) to be displayed as the True/False type.

Core HR - Improvement - The Headcount Turnover Report layout has been improved.

Integrations - Issue fix - Fixed an issue which prevented the users from using the Recording option for the Microsoft Teams meeting created through the Training Schedule page or the Interview Schedule page.

Performance - Improvement - The users can set up the job role KPIs to be automatically made inactive when changing the job role.

Integrations - Improvement - The cognitive assessments can be now enabled for the Predictive Index Integration.

Learning - Issue fix - Fixed an issue with incorrect display of the subcategories in the Learning Catalog.

Time and Attendance - Improvement - The company holidays can be automatically generated based on the current year's holiday for the number of years defined in the new Years for Company Holiday Generation setting.

Performance - Issue fix - Fixed an issue which prevented the users from autocompleting the performance review if there were steps with the required summary rating.

Core HR - Issue fix - Fixed an issue with the employee photo upload. After uploading the relative path instead of the full path will be displayed.

Recruiting - Improvement - The Candidate Tracking page performance has been improved due to getting only the last note instead of the notes history. 

Other - Improvement - The data reading has been optimized to improve performance, especially the job performance.

Other - Improvement - The Lanteria HR jobs will have their own cache version for better performance.

Other - Improvement - Queries have been modified for improving performance when fetching big amounts of data.

Time and Attendance - Issue fix  - Fixed an issue which made it impossible for the employees with negative allowance and Allow overbooking set to No to book days off based on special rules.

Data Import - Improvement - The users can upload templates for the data import sections.

Learning - Issue fix - Fixed an issue which prevented the user from adding a course with a semicolon in title to the personal development plan.

Core HR - Issue fix - Fixed an issue with the employee photo upload. After uploading the relative path instead of the full path will be displayed.

Recruiting - Improvement - The Candidate Tracking page performance has been improved due to getting only the last note instead of the notes history. 

Other - Improvement - The data reading has been optimized to improve performance, especially the job performance.

Core HR - Issue fix - Fixed an issue with displaying the Description field after updating the job description approval request.

Other - Improvement - The Lanteria HR jobs will have their own cache version for better performance.

Learning - Issue fix - Fixed an issue with incorrect quiz time limit in case the user's time zone is different from the site time zone.

Learning - Issue fix - Fixed an issue which prevented the user from saving changes to the training schedule date and time.

Core HR - Issue fix - Fixed an issue with the Local HR permissions that prevented the Local HR users from changing their employees' job assignments. 

Core HR - Issue fix - Fixed an issue with the employee photo upload. After uploading the relative path instead of the full path will be displayed.

Recruiting - Improvement - The Candidate Tracking page performance has been improved due to getting only the last note instead of the notes history. 

Other - Improvement - The data reading has been optimized to improve performance, especially the job performance.

Core HR - Issue fix - Fixed an issue with displaying the Description field after updating the job description approval request.

Other - Improvement - The Lanteria HR jobs will have their own cache version for better performance.

Learning - Issue fix - Fixed an issue with incorrect quiz time limit in case the user's time zone is different from the site time zone.

Learning - Issue fix - Fixed an issue which prevented the user from saving changes to the training schedule date and time.

Core HR - Issue fix - Fixed an issue with the Local HR permissions that prevented the Local HR users from changing their employees' job assignments. 

Data Import - Issue fix - Fixed an issue with uploading files for the data import.

Learning - Improvement - The internal trainers' availability and meeting room availability can now be checked from one calendar when scheduling a training event.

Core HR - Improvement - Now managers who are set as Additional managers for any employees can filter their team by additional subordinates only.

Core HR - Improvement - If an employee has additional managers, such employee will be displayed with an asterisk in the Employee Chart.

Core HR - Improvement - The vaccination documents can be set up as separate document types. Track the document expiration and missing vaccination documents.

Recruiting - Issue fix - Fixed an issue with saving the candidate's competency assessment.

Other - Improvement - The layout of the Person or Group field has been improved.

Other - Issue fix - Fixed an issue with displaying the tab title as Untitled for some pages.

Integrations - Improvement - Now it is possible to do the field mapping for the Azure AD integration.

Data Import - Improvement - The users can upload templates for the data import sections.

Learning - Improvement - Selection for the quiz questions of the Random category type will be more random.

Data Import - Improvement - Now it is possible to import data into the multiple choice fields. Values for such fields (if more than one are being imported) should be separated with semicolon.

Time and Attendance - Issue fix - Fixed an issue which made it impossible for the employees with negative allowance and Allow overbooking set to No to book days off based on special rules.

Time and Attendance - Issue fix - Fixed an issue with the Edit button being unavailable for the HR users for their absence requests with start date in the past.

Learning - Improvement - Interviewer's availability and meeting room availability can be now checked in one calendar. 

Recruiting - Issue fix - Fixed an issue due to which the job openings with the approval status Rejected were displayed as Open on the Job Openings page.

Learning - Issue fix - Fixed an issue which prevented sending the training event appointment updates in case any of changing any of the following fields: Room, Start Date, End Date, Training, Schedule, Location.

Core HR - Improvement - Starter will not be deleted after creating an employee from such starter, but will have the Started check box set to Yes and will no longer be available from OnBoarding. Any starter processes will be transferred to the newly created employee. 

Other - Improvement - The solution performance has been improved by modifying the query methods.

Integrations - Improvement - Now it is possible to retrieve the masked security data when querying the ADP database (date of birth, SSN etc.).

Other - Issue fix - Fixed an issue which caused displaying incorrect time zone offsets, since the daylight period wasn't taken into account.

Recruiting - Issue fix - Fixed an issue with displaying incorrect time for the interview in Candidate Self-Service due to using the default time zone instead of the selected one. Now date and time will be shown correctly taking into consideration the selected timezone/location of the interview. Dates will be converted and shown in user browser timezone.