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Employee Self Service 2024.1.0 Release Notes
Improvements
Leave Request
Add helper text to leave request form for date time entry
Add Employee Name to Leave Request emails
Add Origin and AESOP Id properties to Leave Request form
Don’t allow multiple leave request for a day to total more than 1 day / 24 hours
Add Organization name to the application header
Emails will only be sent when the application configuration allows external notifications
New Features
Allow importing of Kiosk User Time Preferences
Allow Absence Thresholds to be set and present a warning to the user when they are met
Add a batch job view
Timesheets
Add Leave Requests as line items
Allow timesheets to be extracted to CSV
Absence Management Integration
Service methods to sync Employees and Leave Balances
Employee Self Service 2024.1.1 Release Notes
Kiosk User Loader - correct permission loading
Kiosk District Loader
Correct conditional for Leave Time Configuration to set No Restrictions when a blank value is found in the CSV file
Remove conditional for type and unit on Leave Balance configuration
Employee Self Service 2024.1.2 Release Notes
Bug Fixes
Leave Request Form - error on view when leave request includes a sub category
Leave Request total for the day not excluding Canceled and Rejected requests
Improvements
Kiosk Group Member Loader - grant Leave Request Approver role for any Approvers in the group
Kiosk Timesheet Group Member Loader - grant TImesheet Approver role for any Approvers in the group
Kiosk User Loader - grant Leave Request Approver to any user who has Leave Supervisor Staff role
Employee Self Service 2024.1.3 Release Notes
Change the size of a USPS Code column from 10 to 255 characters
Employee Self Service 2024.1.4 Release Notes
Correct lazy load exception in Kiosk Group Member loader preventing CSV load.
Employee Self Service 2024.2.0 Release Notes
Bug Fixes
Accumulations View - duplicate entries shown in ESS that do not exist in USPS
Forgot Password Configuration - was allowing invalid password lengths
Blackout Date grid was not sorting
Leave Request blackout date not checked when disallowed
Position details view including job statuses that should not be included based on configuration
Timesheet Periods should not be removed if referenced by a Timesheet
Leave Request negative balance warning not happening in all scenarios
Leave Request approved email not substituting note variable
Leave Request emails sending data prior to edits
Improvements
Ignore canceled Leave Requests when creating new leave request
Update message for Leave Balance and Position sync jobs to include last run time
Remove employee number for leave request emails
Handle '/' character in filenames when downloading
Kiosk Group Chain Importer - warn using when an Employee / Position filter is used and a code filter is omitted
Prevent workflow from firing with empty groups
Disable multi-select checkbox on leave request timesheet line items
Improve filtering of timesheet periods
Improve timesheet shift deletion process
Update components to use cached leave balances
New Features
Allow blackout dates to be entered for Timesheets
AESOP Integration Leave Balance Sync job
Employee Self Service 2024.3.0 Release Notes
Bug Fixes
Correct Leave Type Configuration import from Kiosk
Leave balance calculations and warning should not happen for all leave types
Prevent blackout date emails when Leave Request would not be affected
Leave Calendars - handle multiday request with end time of 12:00AM
Leave Request Form
Balance helper text no longer includes the leave request length being viewed
Balance helper text correctly handles partially exported multiday leave request
Handle null pointer exception in Data Change
Improvements
Leave Request - update precision to 3 for both total time and daily details
Sync employee home phone
Leave Calendar Details - format dates in a human readable format
Show confirmation dialog when blackout date would cancel leave request
Add timesheet activity to the blackout date grid
Cache compensation data at login
Position Details View - update compensation fields to show / hide based on user configuration
Add an error message when a leave request is entered with the same date and start / end times for an employee
Update time zone for USPS and AESOP sync jobs views
Update leave balance database tables to have the same column size as USPS to prevent sync issues
New Features
Timesheet
Automatic Period Generation
Create a new job to send timesheet reminders
Create a new job to close periods
Add Employee Self Service application link to Email Configuration
Employee Self Service 2024.3.1 Release Notes
Position details will now check configuration for retire hours
Prevent error when editing Leave Request that was introduced in 2024.3.0.
A new error was added to prevent duplicate leave requests. The query that was used was not correctly excluding the leave request that needs to be edited and incorrectly prevented changes.
Employee Self Service 2024.3.2 Release Notes
Leave requests would not allow creation for less than 1 hour. This has been corrected.
Employee Self Service 2024.3.3 Release Notes
Absence Management Integration
Increase the size of employee number column to 30 characters
Handle a null pointer exception when no building irn is found on a building code
Handle the approval status - Partially Approved
Elevated Create Leave Request - was checking current user instead of selected employee when creating a request
Employee Self Service 2024.4.0 Release Notes
Bug Fixes
Fix Blackout Date filter in grid
Update leave request blackout date confirmation dialog to account for partial cancelation
Correct sorting in Leave Request approval grid
Improvements
Kiosk User Import - handle blank value in AESOP column
Blackout Date Grid - improve date format
Leave Request
Show / hide menu items based on Leave request enabled / disabled in the ESS Functionality Configuration
When disabled remove Leave Request, Leave Management, Leave Request Approval, and Leave Calendar items
Check all leave sub types for a unit value. If none are found produce an error letting the users know they need to sync leave balances
Allow a start and end time to be entered on the daily details
Update the start / end times of the leave request to match the daily details on create
Clear filters after exporting leave requests
New Features
AESOP Sync Views
Add view to match Absence Reasons
Add view to match Schools
Employee Self Service 2024.4.1 Release Notes
Bug Fix
Absence Management adding employee number into the name field
Patch
Add a patch to correct the name and number fields of districts using Absence Management
Add a patch to remove duplicate entries for a specific Absence Management district
Upcoming Releases
Employee Self Service 2024.5.0
Add Leave Type code to job calendar entries
Schedule a nightly position sync
Leave Request form increments for time now by 15m
Allow District Managers, Leave Managers, and Admins to cancel approved leave requests
Sync leave balances at login
Add helper text to let users know if leave is in hours or days
Employee Self Service 2024.6.0
Staff Leave Analysis
Absence Management
Employee Sync Job
Users enable / disable
Absence Reasons Sync Data View improvements