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AssignmentPro v23.2 released 30th Mar. 2023

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Highlights

Enhanced Pay Register Support

Increased flexibility for your reporting processes which now support primary and secondary pay registers. The pay register data import, batch approval process, and shadow payroll reporting also now support a secondary payroll

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Updated Theming Options

Customize your site theme further by updating the navigation menu with a background image in-line with the new look of AssignmentPro

Theme Builder

Merge Document Password Creation

Enhance security by password-protecting merge documents sent via Notes/Communications according to an Assignment or Employee level field

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Webinar

Features

Advanced Automation

  • Corrected a scenario where a Advanced Automations would fail when triggered multiple times in
    a row

Assignment Details

  • Validation has been added to the Tax Social Insurance table, where only one instance can be
    imported per assignment

  • Resolved the following issues with election sets:
    o Review section not being updated per the choices being selected
    o Elections cannot be saved after editing
    o Submit & lock button not being enabled after elections are made

Checklists

  • Resolved an instance where the name of employees assigned to assignment-level checklists
    would not appear next to the ‘Assigned To’ field

  • Resolved an issue where the sequence of the checklist items of a copied checklist template do
    not match the sequence of the original template

  • Resolved a scenario where checklist items with multiple predecessors would not start if some
    predecessors were completed and others were marked as not applicable

Ecosystem

  • In this release we have added the following vendors:
    o Interconex – One-way connection (milestone updates for relocation services)
    o Paramount – One-way connection (milestone updates for relocation services)

Imports

  • The Move Management Household Goods import now has no limit as to the number of rows
    that it can process

Integrations

  • Integration Events have been enhanced to adopt refined triggering criteria

  • Resolved an instance where incorrect options are presented to users for Send Lookup Values
    when a trigger field is changed from a country-specific field

Landing Experience

  • Corrected a scenario where the Make a Request widget was not being displayed properly once
    a document had been uploaded by a user

  • Corrected an instance where browsers would encounter issues when the icon picker is used
    while editing a Function widget

  • Resolved a scenario where incorrect values were displayed when expanding a widget and
    displaying hidden fields

  • Resolved a scenario where users would be redirected to an error page when navigating through
    the Mobile Employee Experience and Landing Experience

  • Updated an instance where links leading to Landing Experience dashboards were broken

Merge Documents

  • A new system preference & company system preference called the ‘Merge Document Password
    Source’ has been added to include password protection for documents sent via
    Notes/Communications

    • The system and company level preference allows users to select the applicable field to
      use as the document password

    • If a value is not specified on the preference, the Employee System Number will be used

  • Trailing and leading spaces in merge fields will now be displayed correctly in merge documents

Mobile Employee Experience

  • Corrected a scenario where Help Videos on the Mobile Employee Experience would not play
    when the MEE is disabled and re-enabled

  • Resolved a scenario where users in MEE aren’t able to sign DocuSign documents, and are
    redirected back to the sign-in page

Multi-Factor Authentication

  • Fixed an instance where users would sometimes receive device authorization emails when app-based multi-factor authentication was enabled

New User Interface

  • Clicking on the primary logo in the top of the left-side menu will now redirect users to the
    homepage

  • Enhancements have been made to both the system and company theme builder pages

    • The ‘Navigation Bars’ section will now configure the theme of the left-side menu

    • Base color field will determine the background color of the left-side menu if there is no
      uploaded background image

    • Link color will determine the color of the menu item links

    • Header color will determine the color of the collapsible fields and header

    • Left-side menu hover color has also been included in this section

    • A background image can be uploaded in the system and company theme builder, which
      will appear on the left-side menu

    • In the case of no theme being configured at the company level, the system level
      theme will be applied

    • A secondary logo can be configured in the company theme builder, which will appear on
      the top of the left-side menu

  • Landing Experience Dashboard customization has been simplified to align with the new look of
    AssignmentPro

    • Logo Image has now been removed. The Logo set in the theme builder will be applied
      instead

    • Logo Alternative Text has been removed

    • Enable Menu option has been removed

    • Navigation items will remain in the left-side menu

  • Corrected a scenario where color themes in the system and company theme builders were not
    being applied to certain fields

  • Corrected an instance where clicking on the home button redirected users to the legacy
    dashboard instead of the home page

  • Corrected an instance where navigation links in the header and bottom of the left-side menu
    would be duplicated when navigating to user pages

  • Resolved an issue where the logo and background image configured at the system level theme
    builder was being displayed instead of the items defined at the company level

  • Resolved a scenario with the Menu Item Overrides where the caption for navigation menu items
    were not displaying correctly in the left-side menu

  • Updated an instance where the footer text was not displayed on pages

Pay Registers

  • A new ‘Primary and Secondary Pay Register’ import has been added to support importing pay
    register details for both payroll systems with validation for wage codes

  • Pay Register and Pay Register line tables have been updated to support secondary Pay
    Register details and exchange rates

  • Pay Register approval batches now allow users to approve primary and secondary Pay
    Registers in bulk

  • Pay Registers can now be associated with a primary or secondary payroll system

  • The Pay Register data container has new columns for ‘Payroll System’ and ‘Country’ to support
    primary and secondary payroll system details

  • The Pay Register details page now supports entering information related to a secondary payroll
    system

  • The Pay Register screen now allow users to add pay register details for a secondary payroll
    system

  • The Shadow payroll production report now supports sending primary and secondary Pay
    Register data to the shadow payroll location

  • The Shadow payroll reporting view has been updated to support econdary Pay Register details

  • The Total Compensation reporting view has been enhanced to include the following fields:

    • ‘Is Primary’

    • ‘Secondary Wage Code’

    • ‘Primary Shadow Wage Code’

    • ‘Secondary To Primary Exchange Rate’

  • Vendor integrations now support sending secondary Pay Register details from the vendor to the
    client

Payroll Portal

  • A new column for the Assignment ID is now displayed on the documents grid of the Payroll
    Portal

  • The Company Name and Payroll System Name is now appended to the documents grid header

  • An update has been made to which assignments display documents in the Payroll Portal

    • If the Assignment Type is Permanent TransferPayroll System – Home documents will
      not be visible

    • If the Assignment Type is Business Traveler, no documents are visible

People API

  • Enhanced the People API to prevent users from creating duplicate new records

Quick Workflows

  • Resolved a scenario where the ‘Last Update Date’ and ‘Last Update By’ fields were not always
    updated when the Resource Coordinator field was changed by an import, which led to Quick
    Workflows not triggering as expected

Service/Stability Enhancements

  • The Expense Service has been enhanced to improve performance

  • Enhanced the performance of the search when using ‘Employee ID’

  • Improved the performance of the Checklist Template and Quick Workflow pages

User Reports

  • To improve the performance of User Reports a new ‘Max Dataset Size To Convert’ field has been
    added to User Report configuration to set the maximum size of a User Report

  • A new system preference called User Report Size Max (KB) has also been added, which has a
    default value of 5,000 KB. Default maximum user report sizes for all user reports can be specified
    in this system preference

  • Corrected a scenario where the data field and filters of a publication-locked user report could be
    edited

Vendor Integration

  • Removed the validation of integration event definitions to provide flexibility to conditionally
    trigger updates for an event definition

  • Vendor integration push scripts now support sending e-signature, assignment package, and
    assignment extension documents to vendors

  • Vendor integrations now support filtering by the Document Note Communication table when
    sending service order details to vendors

What-If Cost Estimates

  • Corrected an instance where What If Cost Estimates would fail if the template had the “Prevent
    Report Output for Errors and Warnings” option set

  • Updated the prompt for when a What-If Cost Estimate report is being generated

Resources

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