Wavelength Release Notes

Release notes for – 4.20.0

General

New and improved dashboard with a new set of Cards & Widgets to help customize your user experience and provide all your relevant company information on one page.

Several UI enhancements have been made to the Applicant Portal including increased styling and responsiveness.

Release notes for – 4.16.1

General

Increased usability of searching for roles that contains a permission and then managing the assignment of permissions to roles.

Streamlined the ability for managers to access the calendar of an employee in managed department

Improved instructions for rescheduling a training event

Release notes for – 4.12

General

Improvement: Advance Tracker Integration
Component: Core
Permission Changes: None
Release Notes: In partnership with Advance Tracker an integration has been completed to send employees from Wavelength directly to the Advance Tracker platform, including Personal Details, Payment Details, and Attendance Details. This allows for a complete integration from the Wavelength Platform to Advance Tracker Punch Clocks and Payment.

Improvement: New Employee Dashboard Widget - Tasks
Component: Core
Permission Changes: None
Release Notes: A new widget has been added that can be added to the Employee Dashboard. This will display any Tasks that have been assigned to the specific individual or yourself, including the Progress, Due Date, and Task Details.

Workforce Manager

Improvement: Payment Details New Fields
Component: Workforce Manager
Permission Changes: Employee Payment Type Create, Employee Payment Type Delete, Employee Payment Type Edit, Employee Payment Type Read, Employee Payment Status Create, Employee Payment Status Delete, Employee Payment Status Edit, Employee Payment Status Read
Release Notes: To increase the options available to clients we have added two additional fields that can be used within the Payment Details section. The new fields titled Payment Type and Payment Status are optional but can be used to track payments in greater detail. Both options are configurable by client from the administration look-up lists section to give you complete control over the options.
Additionally, the Payment Manager Import has also been updated to reflect the two additional fields.

Talent Manager

Improvement: Applicant Portal Branding
Component: Talent Manager
Permission Changes: None
Release Notes: The applicant portal will now display the same image uploaded within the Corporate Admin Site Branding section (Small Banner Logo).

Release notes for version Sprint – 4.11

General

Bug - General Bug Fixes
Component: Core
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: This release includes various spelling and other small bug fixes.

Workforce Scheduler

Improvement –Scheduling Task Review.
Component: Schedule Builder
Permissions Changes: New Permission – Department -Scheduling Shift Change Approval
Release Notes: Added a new section which displays all outstanding Shift Changes requiring approval within a single page– including: Posts, Drops, Swaps, and Pick-Ups.

Release notes for version Sprint – 4.10.5

General

Bug - General Bug Fixes
Component: Core
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: This release includes various spelling and other small bug fixes.

Dashboard

Improvement – Employee Documents Widget
Component: Employee Dashboard
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: A new widget has been created in the employee dashboard which allows you to see the different documents associated with the employee being impersonated. Clicking a document name will automatically download the file to your computer.

Workforce Manager

Issue – Employee Emergency Contacts Can’t Be Managed
Component: Emergency Contacts
Permissions Changes: Employee Contacts Read & Edit (Department
Release Notes: We have fixed an issue where managers could see the star in the navigation bar for the employee emergency contacts. You can now set the Employee Contacts Read & Edit at a department level in order to obtain permissions to manage the employees’ emergency contacts when managing a user’s details.

Release notes for version Sprint – 4.10

General

Bug - General Bug Fixes
Component: Core
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: This release includes various spelling and other small bug fixes.

Improvement – Payroll and LMS services open in new tabs
Component: Payroll Manager & Training Manager
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: Payroll & LMS third party systems now opens in new tabs allowing you to rapidly switch back to the Wavelength tab.

Improvement – Show Navigation List Items that use Impersonation Permissions
Component: Navigation List
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: We have increased the functionality of the navigation bar, it now differentiate sections when a user is being impersonated.

Communications

Bug – General Days Not Displaying Properly in the Calendar
Component: Calendar
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: We have fixed a bug that made the General Days show up in the calendar with a different label.

Payroll

Integration – NEBS Payroll Integration
Component: Payroll Manager
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: We have integrated with NEBS payroll systems to streamline your payroll experience. Please contact us if you require additional information or you require this service.

Improvement – Total Hours on Payroll Review Notification
Component: Payroll Manager
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: We have created a new system notification that provides the total regular and overtime hours through a Payroll Review Wavemail.

Policy Manager

Improvement – Digital Signature for Policy Acceptance Tracking
Component: Policy Manager
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: Users will now have to type in their names as they are stored in the system to withstand the legal compliance and regulations of policy acceptance. This digital signature will display in the policies accepted sections.

Schedule Manager

Bug – Date Formats Issues in Scheduling Module
Component: Schedule Manager
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: We have fixed the issue with short date formats not displaying as expected across the schedule manager module.

Bug – Copy Schedule Rotation
Component: Schedule Manager
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: When copying schedules with multiple rotations, each rotations starting week will now be displayed.

Workforce Manager

Improvement – Add Multi department Selection for On/Off Boarding Tasks
Component: On/Off Boarding tasks
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: You can now select multiple departments when setting up your on/off boarding tasks lists, allowing you to define a group of tasks for specific departments instead of having to create multiple lists.

Release notes for version Sprint – 4.9.2.0

General

Bug - General Bug Fixes
Component: Core
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: This release includes various spelling and other small bug fixes.

Documents

Improvement – Uploading a file with the same name
Component: Documents
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: The system will now display an error if a file is uploaded with the exact same name as an existing file in the document repository.

Workforce Management

Improvement – Pay Rate Cards for Salaried Employees
Component: Employment / Positions
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: The system will now allow a user to attach a pay rate card to salaried employees. This does not allow calculation of additional overtime or shift premiums for these employees.

Improvement – Absent Requests
Component: Absent Requests
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: The system will now allow employees to book absent requests on Holidays, Scheduled Working Days, and Overnight Shifts. To enable absent requests on Holidays enable: Do holiday’s count against vacation from within the Global Attendance Settings.

Improvement – Absent Requests by Hours
Component: Absent Requests
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: The system now gives your organization the ability to require employees to enter the number of hours used per absent request. To utilize this feature enable Do employees need to enter hours for absence requests in Global Attendance Settings.

Improvement – Performance Appraisal Date Adjustments
Component: Performance Appraisal
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: The system was updated to utilize the employee seniority to generate PA reminders. This will lead to all Performance Reviews generating on the same date for each individual position the employee holds.

Bug – Reports To Update
Component: Employment
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: Corrected an issue that was resulting in mangers of terminated employee records receiving approval tasks and notification.

Improvement – Add / Use Lieu Scheduling Option
Component: Schedule Builder
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: You now have the ability to change the user for on Add Lieu as well as see the end time of the Lieu shift. Additionally, if a user does not have enough banked lieu time additional time banks can now be deducted with the use lieu option.

Improvement – Pay Rate Cards for Salaried Employees
Component: Employment / Positions
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: The system will now allow a user to attach a pay rate card to salaried employees. This does not allow calculation of additional overtime or shift premiums for these employees.

Release notes for version Sprint – 4.9

General

Bug - General Bug Fixes
Component: Core
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: This release includes various
spelling and other small bug fixes.

Communications

Feature – Task approval delegates
Component: Tasks
Permissions Changes: Added ‘COMM Approval Task Delegation’
Release Notes: Users can now define a delegate to approve the user tasks. Users with the right set of permissions can define a user to delegate tasks for specific time frames, allowing the defined user to receive tasks assigned to the previous user and approve them on their behalf.

Improvement – Select multiple departments in questionnaires
Component: Questionnaires
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: You can now select multiple departments when creating performance appraisals questionnaires, therefore
removing the need of creating individuals ones for each department.

Improvement – Attachments in announcements
Component: Announcements
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: You can now attach files to corporate announcements, allowing you to broadcast any file at any time to your workforce.

Workforce Management

Feature – Salary and Hourly Payment View and Adjustments
Component: Positions
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: We have added a new feature that allows you to make payment adjustments to specific employees as time moves forward. You’ll be able to do a search by department and positions and define a payment adjustment value for individual users and make these effective at specific dates.

Release notes for version Sprint – 4.7 & 4.8

General

Bug - General Bug Fixes
Component: Core
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: This release includes various spelling and other small bug fixes.

Administration

Improvement - Multi-regional Holidays and Blackouts
Component: Administration
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: Holidays and blackouts can now be tied to specific Provinces/States/Countries, this allows your organization to effectively utilize different Holidays and Blackouts across distributed regions.

Communications

New Feature - Store Letters in Employee Document Repository
Component: Document Repository / Letters
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: We have enhanced the functionality of the letters generated by the system by adding a flag under administration to define if you want to auto save the letters in the employee’s document repository and if so in which folder.

Reports

New Report - Active User Report
Component: Reports
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: We have created a new report that provides a list of Active Users in a defined set of departments. The report displays the department name, the department identity and the counts of pre, active, on-leave and terminated.

Workforce Manager

Improvement - Access Terminated Employee Documents
Component: Employee Documents
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: We have improved the Employee Document Repository by allowing users with the right set of permissions to access, upload, move, copy and delete files from the terminated employee documents.

Release notes for version Sprint – 4.6.5

General

Bug - General Bug Fixes
Component: Core
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: This release includes various spelling and other small bug fixes.

Dashboard

New Feature - New Employee Dashboard
Component: Core
Permissions Changes: Added Employee Dashboard permission
Release Notes: This new dashboard provides a set of widgets that compile information on the employee login in or being impersonated. Enhanced functionality has been added to rapidly access specific sections of the system, or, filter and arrange information in a single display view.

Workforce Manager

Improvement - Training Manager
Component: Workforce Manager
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: We have enhanced the functionality of the training manager module by: Adding new widgets in the standard dashboard that provides a calendar with upcoming expiring training, mandatory training, certifications and training events quick links; the power to make announcement uniquely to class attendants; request for approval for meetings registration, training records being created and training attendance; broken down the meetings / training section into training events set up, training events and training events attendance ;types of training such as classroom training and online training.

Release notes for version Sprint – 4.6

General

Bug - General Bug Fixes
Component: Core
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: This release includes various spelling and other small bug fixes.

UI - Cosmetic Fixes
Component: Core
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: This release includes various spelling and other small bug fixes.

Release notes for version Sprint – 4.5

General

Bug - General Bug Fixes
Component: Core
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: This release includes various spelling and other small bug fixes.

Workforce Manager & Talent Engagement Manager

Improvement – Assign Worker Step Update
Component: Hiring Workflow
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: We have enhanced the functionality of the assign worker step in the Hiring Workflow; now you’ll be able to edit the user address and see in real time a map which pinpoints the address of the employee and the different locations with live schedules, this way you can select the location of their preference and assign the employee to work on an empty shift.

Release notes for version Sprint – 4.4

General

Bug - General Bug Fixes
Component: Core
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: This release includes various spelling and other small bug fixes.

Workforce Manager

Improvement – New RFH Steps Education & Assets / Supplies
Component: Hiring Workflow
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: We have added two new steps to the hiring workflow, these are Assign Education and Assign Assets. These steps can be added to your RFH workflow to allow you to create education records and assign assets to the employees as part of the onboarding process.

Improvement – Reason for Employee Termination
Component: Employment Records
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: You can now record a reason for employee termination during the termination process. You are able to create your own reasons in a list, and select from that list during termination, if the configuration is set. When performing a mass termination please be aware that only one reason can be selected for the entire group of employees being terminated.
Improvement – Display user related to on/off boarding task
Component: Tasks
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: On/Off boarding tasks in the active task list now displays the user they are related to, making it easier to identify which tasks belongs to which users.

Reports

New Report – Employee Status Report
Component: Reports
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: A new report has been created, allowing you to track the desired employee statuses in selected departments in a user defined time frame, giving you all the users that match the report criteria with information on their department and positions. Also it provides information for the on-leave and terminated reasons.

New Report – Employee Status Changes Report
Component: Reports
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: A new report has been created, allowing you to track the changes in the employment records of your employees in a defined time frame. This report provides you with department information, change of status and date of the change for all the employees that match the search criteria.

Release notes for version Sprint – 4.3

General

Bug - General Bug Fixes
Component: Core
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: This release includes various spelling and other small bug fixes.

Workforce Manager

Improvement – Create Employment Step Order
Component: Hiring Workflow
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: The approval RFH step now displays the most recent employment first. Now managers don’t have to traverse all the employments to review the most recent employment records.

Bug – Employee Documents Update
Component: Employee Documents
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: We have updated the employee documents section to show better messaging when a manager changes the user being impersonated. You can now change an employee in this section and Wavelength provides additional information about the impersonation to notify you.

Improvement – Employment Record / Employee Details Changes Notification
Component: Employment Record / Employee Details
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: We have augmented the notification functionality for employment records / employee details modifications. You can now define unique users to be notified based on the department, giving you more options for managing notifications.

Bug – Reset RFH Functionality
Component: Hiring Workflow
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: The reset multiple RFHs functionality has been enabled in the latest UI update. Managers will now be able to reset multiple unfinished RFHs by clicking one button in the RFH process.

Workforce Scheduler

Improvement – Broadcast Schedules
Component: Schedule Builder
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: We have added functionality to schedule templates allowing managers to broadcast a schedule template to multiple locations at once. This means that schedule templates are even more useful, since they can be easily associated with multiple locations, making it simpler and easier to manage repeating schedules at many locations.

Release notes for version Sprint – 4.2.0.1

General

Bug - General Bug Fixes
Component: Core
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: This release includes various spelling and other small bug fixes.

Improvement – Change employee impersonation
Component: Employee
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: When you are impersonating an employee, you can now click on the Change link to immediately switch between employees that you are impersonating. This improvement will allow managers to move between employees more quickly and easily.

Workforce Manager

Improvement – Employee notes flags and export capabilities
Component: Employee Notes
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: Managing employee information has been made more robust to include acknowledgement from users of notes in the Notes export feature. This will allow for more detailed information of user activities and interactions to be managed inside and outside of Wavelength.

Release notes for version Sprint – 4.2.0

General

Bug - General Bug Fixes
Component: Core
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: This release includes various spelling and other small bug fixes.

Administration

Improvement – New Sections
Component: Administration
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: The administration section has been improved to display admin sections by groups; as well multiple labels have been changed to a simpler language to avoid confusions.

Dashboard

Improvement – Added Surveys to My Stuff
Component: Dashboard
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: Outstanding surveys now are displayed under the “My Stuff” section of your dashboard. Survey names and due date of the surveys are shown, and if the survey name is clicked the user will be taken to the submit results section of the survey. Previously surveys were only accessed through emails sent out to users.

Workforce Manager

Improvement – Independent Notifications Configurations for Profile and Employment Records
Component: Notifications
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: Notifications for new employee profiles and employment records have been setup in their own configuration settings to allow users to manage notification preferences for each type separately. Now users can subscribe to either profile notifications, employment notifications or both notification types, where previously this was managed through a single configuration setting.

Workforce Manager / Talent Engagement Manager

Improvement –Address Field Required/Optional Configuration
Component: Employee Wizard / Applicants
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: The Address field can now be configured to be a required field or an optional field, like email and phone number. Previously the system administrator was not able to set the address field to optional.

Release notes for version Sprint – 4.1.0.4 & 4.1.1.0

General

Bug - General Bug Fixes
Component: Core
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: This release includes various spelling and other small bug fixes.

Communications

Improvement – Improvement for e-mail notifications
Component: Notifications
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: The language used in emails has been updated to provide additional details in the title and body content to give users better context regarding the reason for the notification and the actions to be taken.

OLE Integration

Improvement – Automatic Course De-assignation
Component: Online Training
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: New functionality has been added, allowing users to be automatically de-assigned from online training if the mandatory training is removed from the position template.

Reports

Improvement – Add Score Column to Training by Department Report
Component: Reports
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: A new column with the score has been added to the Training by Department report.

Workforce Manager

Improvement – Corporate Emergency Contacts Information
Component: Corporate Emergency Contacts
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: Users with the right set of permissions can now access all the emergency contact information of employees by clicking on Details button in the corporate emergency contacts component.

Workforce Manager / Talent Engagement Manager

Improvement – Delete Outstanding Hires
Component: Employee Wizard
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: New functionality has been added to delete outstanding hires in the employee wizard.

Release notes for version Sprint – 4.1.0.0

General

Bug - General Bug Fixes
Component: Core
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: This release includes various spelling and other small bug fixes.

Workforce Manager / Talent Engagement Manager

Improvement – Hiring Workflow Step Notification
Component: Talent Manager
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: New functionality has been added to send a notification to notify the employees who are required to complete a Hiring Workflow step. This button will send a WaveMail stating the action required for the applicant, who invoked the action and provides a link to complete the required task.

Release notes for version Sprint – 4.0.0.0

General

Bug - General Bug Fixes
Component: Core
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: This release includes various spelling and other small bug fixes.

User Interface

Improvement – UI change
Component: Core
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: We have changed the way you interact with Wavelength; the user interface has been re-invented to speed up and streamline your Wavelength experience. Please see below the changes made:
      The navigation bar has been moved to the left hand side and specific system sections can be accessed by their individual links.
      User impersonation can be done on the top left bar, the banner will turn red when a user is being impersonated.
      Admin sections have their unique section in the navigation bar.
      Color themes can be changed at the discretion of the user.
      Announcements, tasks and WaveMail now have individual widgets in the right hand side of the top bar.
      Directories have their own section in the navigation bar.
      Reports have their own section in the navigation bar.
      A new “Take me to the top” button has been added in pages with display and edits views; this will scroll the page up rapidly.
      Policy grouping has been moved under the administration section in the navigation bar.
      The talent engagement manager has its own section in the navigation bar.
      The actions and views drop-downs have now been moved to the top right corner of the body content.

Workforce Manager

Improvement – Primary phone number required flag
Component: Employee Details
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: A new system configuration has been added allowing system admins to define if the primary phone number is a required field or not.

Workforce Scheduler

Improvement – History on shift.
Component: Shifts
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: A new tab has been created on the shifts inside the schedule builder that displays the complete history of that shift.

Release notes for version Sprint - 3.3.22.0

General

Bug - General Bug Fixes
Component: Core
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: This release includes various spelling and other small bug fixes.

Workforce Manager

Improvement – Notification on Employment Record Changes
Component: Employee Employment
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: A new system notification is sent to defined users when employment records have any changes made to them by other users in the system. A WaveMail is sent to the user displaying the information. In case the information is sensitive, a closed e-mail stating that private information was sent is sent to the user external e-mail.

Improvement – OLE Integration
Component: Integration OLE
Permissions Changes: Added permission “Access Online Learning Ontario”
Release Notes: We have integrated our platform with OLE’s Learning Management System, allowing automatic account creation, and course assignation based on Wavelength mandatory trainings; the integration also creates training records to ensure your employees are in compliance.

Improvement – Notification of Return from On-Leave
Component: Employee Employment
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: A new system notification is sent to defined users when an employment record is switched from on-leave to active again.

Talent Engagement Manager

Improvement – Cover Letter and References can be Required
Component: Applicant Portal
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: A new configuration variable has been added to postings allowing you to define if the cover letter and the references must be required documents for applying.

Workforce Scheduler

Improvement – Add ‘Earn Lieu’ option to the schedule builder.
Component: Schedule Builder
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: Added functionality through a new option to add lieu time to schedule has been added on all 3 schedule views. The time can be assigned by employees and the pay rate card can be displayed for active employment records.

Improvement – Split post and drop shift rules
Component: Scheduling Rules
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: You can now define individual scheduling rules for employees to post and drop shifts in the system.

Improvement – Tie positions on schedule builder – employee view
Component: Schedule builder
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: Positions must now be selected before adding or moving shifts in the schedule builder – employee view. Also when a shift is created in the available shifts area it becomes available for searching in the pickup and in the available shifts section.

Improvement – Seniority Hours List – Add union members only and max per year
Component: Hourly Seniority List
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: A new system configuration has been added to show only union members in the seniority tab. Also you can now define the maximum amount of hours than a user can earn up towards its seniority per year.

Release notes for version Sprint - 3.3.21.0

General

Bug - General Bug Fixes
Component: Core
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: This release includes various spelling and other small bug fixes.

Communications Manager

Improvement – Letters Archive
Component: Letter Template
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: Letters can now be set as Archived and be found under a new tab called Archived Letter Template. This avoids the letter from displaying in any letter dropdown across the system. Archived letters can be reactivated easily through a new dropdown action.

Workforce Manager

Improvement – Soft Employment Delete
Component: Employee Employment
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: Deleted employment records will be flagged by the system and will not display in the UI, they still remain in the system for reporting purposes; also a record mark is added specifying where it was deleted. Improvement – Interview Waitlist
Component: Talent Engagement Manager
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: We have added new functionality for applicant interviews in the TEM, if there is no interviews available applicants will now be able to add themselves to a waitlist; recruiters will be able to make searches based on this status and choose to proceed with the hiring workflow as required.

Improvement – Multi Hiring Workflow
Component: Talent Engagement Manager – Employee Employment
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: New functionality has been added allowing applicants to be taken through multiple Hiring Workflows; this is achieved at the end of each Hiring Workflow where a new button (New Start HW) has to be selected.

Workforce Scheduler

Improvement – Predictive Staffing Audit
Component: Predictive Staffing
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: New audit functionality has been added for predictive staffing, allowing you to see the changes that occur between within the tool. This audit will also display historical data and the staffing number results. Improvement – Available Slots
Component: Scheduling
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: New functionality has been added allowing managers to do quick searches on the information for shifts with available slots.

Improvement – New Schedule Builder View
Component: Scheduling
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: The following has been added to the existing views: a new tab called Approved Vacation now displays and changes color if there is employees with approved vacation during the shift, this tab displays the employee name, date and time of the vacation / Also a new question has been added on the schedule create in order to show or not the vacation. The following was added only for the employee view: In the employee view there is a new section called unassigned, this labels the shift as available for any employee to pick it up if the shift requirements are reached.

Improvement – Broadcast posted shifts to department
Component: Shifts
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: New functionality has been added around the employees published shifts, every time an employee posts a shift a WaveMail is broadcasted to specific users in the department that meet the shift criteria; this WaveMail contains detailed information on the posted shift stating that the employee can pick it up if he wanted to. The criteria is based on position, levels and existing shifts.

Improvement – Re-assignment of Staff
Component: Scheduling
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: Functionality has been added to the employee transfers between shifts.

Release notes for version Sprint - 3.3.20.0

General

Bug - General Bug Fixes
Component: Core
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: This release includes various spelling and other small bug fixes.

Bug – Exclude Special Characters
Component: Core
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: A new system configuration variable has been added in the Corporate Admin allowing the system admin to limit the employee name and address and applicant name and address to alpha numeric only values.

Communications Manager

Improvement – Notify Employee Profile Changes
Component: Notifications
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: A new configuration variable can be found under the Corporate Admin section, adding notification functionality to defined users on the changes made to employee profiles.

Policy Manager

Improvement – Policy Renewal
Component: Policy Manager
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: We have improved Policies by adding a new section titled Policy Renewal. Instead of Expiry Date, Policy Renewal has been added for policies that do not create training.

Workforce Manager

Improvement – Emergency Contacts – Create
Component: Employee Details
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: The contacts tile has been moved from Communications to WFM and renamed to Emergency Contacts. Contacts added here will be flagged as emergency automatically. Tile has been relabeled to Corporate Emergency Contacts, this displays: Employee personal details – only Read only under the emergency contacts tab in Personal Details & Corporate Emergency Contacts display all emergency contacts for the individual.

Improvement – Employee Directory Department Access
Component: Employee Details
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: A new configuration has been created in the WFM admin section that enhances functionality by allowing department access only to the employee directory.

Improvement – Address Improvements
Component: Employee Details
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: Country and Province are lookup lists now. Provinces are now tied to countries. Corporate admin can define active countries.

Improvement – Define Cities
Component: Employee Details
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: Cities can now be defined under the corporate admin section, also the admin can define valid cities. Users can define cities as “not listed” which flags them as “Not Listed”. Cities can be found under Applicant, create employee, TM and personal details, department locations.

Improvement – E-mail Validation
Component: Employee Details – Applicant Portal
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: e-mail fields have been improved, now two fields are required to validate that these are the same; also e-mail address format is validated by the system.

Improvement – Require Primary Phone Number
Component: Employee Details
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: The first phone number has been set to “Primary Number” and is now required, also a dropdown can define this phone as cell, work, or home. There are two additional phone number fields. Primary numbers are now displayed in the emergency contacts section. System admins can now define if they want the primary number to display in the employee directory.

Improvement – Position Historical
Component: Positions
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: Positions & Positions template can now be marked as “Archived”, if so, they don’t appear anymore under the employee create in the WFM and TM modules, postings. Archived positions can be marked as active to re-enable them. A new filter has been added to switch between the active and archived position display.

Improvement – License and Birthday Report
Component: Reports
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: A new report has been created displaying employee number, first name, last name, birth-date, license type, province/state, licence number, licence expiry date. Can be selected for one or multiple departments.

Workforce Scheduler

Improvement – Upcoming Shit e-mail
Component: Shifts
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: Employees that have an upcoming shift on the schedule will now receive notifications through the system. The message will now include date, location and position.

Release notes for version Sprint - 3.3.19.0

General

Bug - General Bug Fixes
Component: Core
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: This release includes various spelling and other small bug fixes.

Improvement – Help Centre Access Button
Component: Core
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: A new button has been added to the header where users can now easily navigate to our help centre to obtain information on how to use the system, request information and learn more about Wavelength.

Workforce Manager

Improvement – Wage Steps Increases
Component: Positions
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: Position levels now have added functionality; you can now define the level label and add a minimum and maximum pay for the level. Employment records will display the pay grid information notifying the user if they are going under/over the defined pay for the employment contract level.

Improvement – Generate Welcome e-mail Step
Component: Hiring Workflow
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: A new step has been added to the hiring workflow, allowing managers to: activate now, activate later and activate now and send e-mail, this last option generates a welcome letter ready for printing instead of sending it to the new hire’s e-mail.

Improvement – Add Comments When Creating Assets
Component: Asset Manager
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: Comments can now be added to assets when these are created.

Release notes for version Sprint - 3.3.18.0

General

Bug - General Bug Fixes
Component: Core
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: This release includes various spelling and other small bug fixes.

Workforce Manager

Improvement – Add questionnaires to performance appraisals
Component: Employee performance appraisal
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: We have added the ability to create performance appraisal questionnaires and attach them to them.

Improvement – PA Approval and HR Sign Off
Component: Employee performance appraisal
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: Performance Appraisals can be approved and then tracked by the Human Resource Department.

Improvement – PA reminder based on worked hours.
Component: Employee performance appraisal
Permissions Changes: added Employee PA Reminders Read, Employee PA Reminders Edit, Employee PA Reminders Delete, Employee PA Reminders Create, and Employee Performance Appraisal Hard Copy Delivered.
Release Notes: The system now automatically create Performance Appraisal’s based on a user defined schedule which includes an initial date and recurring date. It will also send notifications when before or when the PA was created.

Improvement – Adjusted date of hire
Component: Personal Details
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: A new field has been added below the seniority date which defines the date to be used to calculate employee vacations.

Improvement – Yearly step pay increase
Component: Pay rate cards
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: Pay rate cards now include a pay increase by yearly steps, allowing the system to automatically update the pay information of the employment records as employee’s seniority increases over time, increases can be defined as monetary value or percentage increases.

Improvement – Vacation Multi approval
Component: Employee Attendance
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: If enabled the vacation review page has been added to support a secondary approval for vacation. An approval task will still be generated to the manager as normal but after the manager approves the request it is still pending for the employee and a user can use the vacation review page to find and approve this requests.

Improvement – New Start of Day Option
Component: WFM Admin
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: The functionality to define when a day starts has been added, allowing the system to consider a specific time of the day as the start of it, allowing scheduled shifts before this time to be taken into account as previous day’s shifts.

Improvement – Position and employment records updates
Component: Positions
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: Existing employment records reports to field can now be automatically updated through the employee positions. A new flag called “Update reports to” can now be checked before saving to update all the existing employment records report to field match the users attached to the said position.

Improvement – Add History on Training
Component: Employee Training
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: A history log of employee trainings can now be accessed with the Training Edit Permission; this log contains data on date changes.

Improvement – User Defined Employment Type
Component: Positions
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: Users with the right permissions can now create employment types to match the organizational needs. This can be accessed both through lookup lists or positions.

Scheduling

Improvement – Seniority list
Component: Hourly seniority
Permissions Changes: Added Scheduling Hourly Seniority List Publish & Scheduling Hourly Seniority List View permissions
Release Notes: Live hours displays current number of hours employees have worked up to the last system access (based on punches). Published hours display the published hourly seniority list.

Improvement – Max number of hours per day rule
Component: Scheduling
Permissions Changes: none
Release Notes: New functionality has been added to limit the maximum amount of work hours per day than an employee is allowed to work.

Improvement – Seniority Adjustments
Component: Scheduling
Permissions Changes: none
Release Notes: Scheduling algorithms now include schedule by position rank by seniority date, and, schedule by position rank by seniority hours. Also Available employees now sort by seniority date and hours.

Release notes for version Sprint - 3.3.16.0

General

Bug - General Bug Fixes
Component: Core
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: This release include various spelling and other small bug fixes.

Communications

Improvement - New Reports - E-Commerce
Component: Reports
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: We have added a new report outputs the meetings the users are registered for and if they have paid or not.

Workforce Manager

Improvement - Multi Dept per position
Component: Position
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: We have added the ability to create position templates which can be linked to multiple departments. This can be useful if the company as the same position in more then one department. Positions can be unlinked from a the template after which the position can be edited independently of the template.

Scheduling

Improvement - Rotation Sync
Component: Rotation
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: We have added the ability to update the assignments and sync those changes to all schedules after a selected date. We also updated the rotation so that you can't make changes to a rotation that is linked to schedules.

Improvement - Scheduling Changes / Corrections
Component: Scheduling
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: We have normalized the different scheduling views so that options in one are available in the others. Some options where removed from the employees view has they don't apply to this view. Some of these issues include adding Copy Day, Copy Week, Transfer employee, Use Lieu. As well change all the views so you can edit a published shift.

Improvement - View employees by levels
Component: Available Employees
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: We have updated the available employees list to add filter by position and level.

Improvement - Schedule builder - expected budget vs. predicted budget
Component: Schedule Builder
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: We have added the schedule details dialog that is in department schedules to the schedule builder. This dialogue will include information about the schedule.

Improvement - Available Employees - New flag and language modification
Component: Schedule Builder & Available Employees
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: We have updated the Take Availability Into Account flag to use unlocked availability. We also added a new flag called Take Locked Availability Into Account that will only look at availability the manager has locked. This applies both to the Scheduling Auto Fill and the Available Employees List.

Release notes for version Sprint - 3.3.15.0

General

Bug - General Bug Fixes
Component: Core
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: This release includes various spelling and other small bug fixes.

Workforce Manager

Improvement - Internal Job Board
Component: Talent Manager
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: We have updated the posting to include an internal option and date to make posting live on the applicant portal. We also created an internal job posting board where these internal postings are visible to employees until the date listed in the posting.

Improvement - Notifications About New Job Postings
Component: Talent Manager
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: We have updated the applicant portal so users can select if they wish to be notified for future job postings.

Improvement - Job portal update
Component: Talent Manager
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: We have updated the applicant portal so that questionnaires will only display 10 questions at a time. We also added the ability for the applicant to upload their resume instead of using text (This can be downloaded from the applicant display page packages tab, take note that only pasted resumes can be searched). We are also restyled the applicant portal.

Improvement - On / Off boarding Tasks
Component: Talent Manager
Permissions Changes: HR On and Off Boarding Tasks Read, HR On and Off Boarding Tasks Edit, HR On and Off Boarding Tasks Delete, HR On and Off Boarding Tasks Create
To add this functionality please visit your permissions and add the On / Off Boarding Admin Role
Release Notes: We have added the ability to create a list of on or off boarding tasks for given position. These tasks can be created X days before/after/on employment start or end and can be sent to the employee, their manager, or a list of employees. In the list you can also specify users to be notified when all tasks in the list are finished for a given employee. There is also a report to that will include information on who has outstanding tasks.

Improvement - Add Spoken Written Read for Languages
Component: Employee & Applicant
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: We have updated the languages to instead of primary and secondary to have Written, Spoken, Read. We will be running a script to migrate all the existing values to the new fields.

Improvement - Applicant upload of documents for RFH step
Component: Talent Manager
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: We have updated the upload document step to include a option to allow users to upload files from the applicant portal. When this step is reach in the RFH you will have the option to upload the document as before or notify an applicant that they are required to upload files. When they do they will be placed in the folder specified in the RFH step. After the user submits the documents the original user who sent the notification to the applicant will get a WaveMail stating that the document uploads are complete.

Improvement - Multiple workflows & new RFH steps
Component: Talent Manager
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: We have added the ability to create multiple Hiring Workflows. You enter a name and are redirect to the task setup for that list, you can pick if you want the Hiring Workflow to be visible in Talent Manager or the new Employee Wizard. As well we added new steps: Edit Employee Details, Create Training / Certificates, Select On / Off Boarding Tasks, Setup Accrual / Vacation, Setup Permission, Setup Benefits, Create Employment Contract, Update Employment Payment

Improvement - New Employee Wizard
Component: Talent Manager
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: We have updated the employee wizard to use the Hiring Workflow instead of the wizard steps. This now allows the hiring process to be customized and you can even create different workflows for different types of employees (see New RFH Step). The wizard now lets you create new employees which then you are redirected to the hiring workflow or you can search for outstanding hires (employees who’s workflow has not been completed).

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Help Centre

Release notes for version Sprint - 3.3.14.0

General

Component: Core
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: This release include various spelling and other small bug fixes.

Improvement - Stand Alone Punch Clock Site
Component: Stand Alone Punch Clock Site
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: We have create a new standalone site that functions has a punch clock. This site has to be created at the clients request so if your interested please contact you account manager.

Improvement - Remove the My Actives
Component: General
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: We have updated the Create, Edit, List pages to removed the My Actives on the side. This is still available in all tile dashboards.

Workforce

Improvement - Employee Directory UI Improvements
Component: Employee Directory
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: We have updated the employee directory to have filters for location, department, and position. As well as adding the about me in a button that open the about me in a dialogue. We have also removed the employee number from the employee directory.

Bug - WFM Admin configuration attendance
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: We have added a new field in the workforce management configuration to select employees to be notified when an employee has a vacation request approved.

Scheduling

Bug - Scheduling Bugs
Component: Scheduling Builder
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: We have correct inconsistencies between the different views and updated the By Position level to support levels.

Bug - Absenteeism require approval And including position.
Component: Scheduling Absenteeism
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: We have updated the scheduling absenteeism so that when ab employee creates a request it will create one for each employment record so that if they are approved for one position and not another, they will not be removed from the declined schedules.

Release notes for version Sprint - 3.3.13.3

General

Bug - General Bug Fixes
Component: Core
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: This release include various spelling and other small bug fixes.

Workforce

Improvement - Copy Posting URL
Component: Posting
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: We have added the ability to get the URL of the applicant portal job posting from the posting list. This is the public URL to the applicant portal and can be used for Ads, Social Media, etc.

Improvement - Highlight Applicant if Previous Employee
Component: Applicants
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: We have updated the list of applicants to highlight existing employees (rehires) in a light blue colour.

Scheduling

Improvement - Vacation Remove from Schedule
Component: Scheduling Absenteeism
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: We have added the ability to remove an employee who submits and approved absenteeism from the future schedules that are not published.

Improvement - Positional Levels
Component: Scheduling
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: We have updated the positions to added positional levels. You can enable this on the position and a max level is required is enabled. When creating an employment record for that position you will be required to select a level for the position form 1 - max level of the position. We have also updated the scheduling so that when adding a shift that requires levels you will be required to select a level for that shift. We have created a new type of Algorithm for levels that cascade from highest to lowest so that a level 3 employee can be scheduled for level 1-3 shifts but will fill try and fill all levels of position before pulling on levels above. We have also updated the shift post, pick-up and swap to take levels into account.

Task - Post shift
Component: Post Shift
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: We have updated the shift drop to rename it to Post Shift and changed it so that the employee is not removed from the shift until another employee picks-up the shift or the manager changes the slot that is up for offer.

Task - Scheduling Blackout Per Department
Component: Blackouts
Permissions Changes: Scheduling Blackouts Export, Scheduling Blackouts Delete, Scheduling Blackouts Edit, Scheduling Blackouts Read, Scheduling Blackouts Create
Release Notes: We have added the ability to create blackouts at a department levels for scheduling. If the permissions are placed at the profile level you can created blackouts for all departments, if placed at the department level you can only create blacks for your department.

Task - Scheduling Absenteeism
Component: Scheduling Absenteeism
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: We have updated the scheduling absenteeism so that it can require approval at a pre department level. Updated the scheduling algorithm so that it will only take into account approved absenteeism.

Task - Scheduling Absenteeism tile in dashboard
Component: Dashboard
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: We have added to the dashboard a tile to quickly access scheduling absenteeism. This tile will only show up the employee has access to scheduling absenteeism.

Improvement - Max Requests Per Day
Component: Scheduling Absenteeism
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: We have added the ability to create a max number of request for a given position in a department and when submitting a scheduling absenteeism request it will check if there is more then the max number of requests for the given day and reject the request if it is over the max.

Release notes for version Sprint - 3.3.13.2

General

Bug - General Bug Fixes
Component: Core
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: This release include various spelling and other small bug fixes.

Improvement - Resend Welcome to Wavelength
Component: Employee Directory
Permissions Changes: Employee Resend Welcome Mail
Release Notes: We have added a button to allow the user to add / remove a role to all departments. Instead of having to click each one individually

Workforce

Improvement - New RFH Step - Approval Snapshot
Component: Talent Manager - RFH
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: We have updated the approval step to display the following employment details: Department, Position, Job Title, Pay Type, Pay Rate, Start Date, and End Date. This can be used to review the employment entered before approving moving on to the next steps.

Improvement - Note Acknowledgment
Component: Employee Notes
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: We have added the ability for the employees Acknowledge notes created about that employee. This will appear as a task in the users task list. After the employee acknowledged the note we will notify the creator of the note.

Improvement - Need to add a number of hours to vacation, sick, general days items
Component: Attendance
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: We have added a new option to WFM Configuration "Do you use standard work hours?". If yes the system will ask for the standard work hours in the WFM Configuration. If no the employee will be ask to enter the number of hours when submitting an attendance request.

Improvement - New Employee Create Permission
Component: New Employee Wizard
Permissions Changes: Employee Create Permissions
Release Notes: We have updated the permissions section of the new employee wizard to look for a new permission Employee Create Permissions that is required to complete that step of the wizard.

Improvement - Permissions - Select all Departments
Component: Permissions
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: We have added a button to allow the user to add / remove a role to all departments. Instead of having to click each one individually

Communications

Improvement - Enable ability to pay for Past Meetings
Component: Meeting
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: We have added the ability to pay for the meeting even though it has already past.

Release notes for version Sprint - 3.3.13.1

General

Component: Core
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: This release include various spelling and other small bug fixes.

Workforce

Improvement - Add Appointed and Reappointed to Employment
Component: Employment
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: We have added 2 new employment options: Appointed and Reappointed

Communications

Improvement - Pretty Print Event Calender
Component: Calendar
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: We have added the ability to print the calendar. NOTE for best results print in colour.

Improvement - Blackouts on Calendar
Component: Employment
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: We have added blackouts to the calendar

Improvement - Add Register for Training to the Dashboard
Component: Dashboard
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: We have added a new tile to the dashboard to allow users to quick access meeting / training

Improvement - Add the ability to add individuals to a meeting in the past
Component: Meetings
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: We have added the ability add employees to meetings / training in the past.

Release notes for version Sprint - 3.3.12.3

Scheduling

Improvement - Copy Week
Component: Schedule Builder
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: We have added the ability to copy a week. This involves selects a source week and select the destination weeks you wish to copy to.

Improvement - Fill from template
Component: Schedule Builder
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: We have added the ability to fill a week of a schedule with a weekly schedule template. You can select a different template for each week of the schedule.

Release notes for version Sprint - 3.3.12.1

General

Bug - General Bug Fixes
Component: Core
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: This release includes various spelling and other small bug fixes.

Improvement - Replace the WYSIWYG editors
Component: Core
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: We updated Rich Text editors around the system with a updated version. This will bring increased formatting options in the future and fixes an issue with token insertion when creating letters.

Improvement - Add training type filter to the Training By Department report
Component: Reports
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: We added a Training Type filter to the Training By Department report.

Workforce

Improvement - Additional Questionnaire Types
Component: Talent Manager
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: We updated the questionnaires so that they can be typed to assessment or interview. We updated the posting to allow you to attach multiple questionnaires. We also added a new section to the interviews tab of the applicants for interview questionnaires which work the same way the assessment questionnaires work now.

Improvement - Add Date to the Applications List
Component: Talent Manager
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: We updated the applicant list to include the data the application was created.

Improvement - Accrue Sick Days
Component: Attendance
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: We have added the ability to accrue sick days.

Task - Accrual Edit
Component: Attendance
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: We fixed and issue with the edit on the accrual page which was showing all Attendance types and not just the ones enabled for the given user.

Communications

Bug - Shows a user is registered for a meeting when there is no one
Component: Meetings
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: We have fixed a bug where the meeting attendance list was reporting the wrong totals for the number of people attending vs. the total that can attended.

Improvement - Add the location to Meeting / Training Export
Component: Meeting
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: We have updated the meeting / training export to include the employee's location.

Scheduling

Improvement - Employee Select for Shift
Component: Schedule Builder
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: We updated the shift details dialogue so that you do not first have to add employees to the shift constrains before adding them to a slot. This is treated as an override and dose not respect the scheduling rules.

Improvement - Add the ability to copy a day on scheduling
Component: Schedule Builder
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: We added a new ability to the schedule builder to allow a user to copy a day. This allows a user to select a source and destination and it copy the source day to all the dates between the source and the destination.

Release notes for version Sprint - 3.3.10.0

General

Bug - General Bug Fixes
Component: Core
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: This release includes various spelling and other small bug fixes.

Workforce

Improvement - New Report - Expenses
Component: Reports
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: We added a new report for viewing details of One Time Payments.

Communications

Improvement - Add the option on the Meeting to turn off notification
Component: Meeting / Training
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: We added the ability for the user creating the meeting to choose if they want to send notifications to users about the meeting.

Improvement - Add signature image
Component: Letter
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: We added the ability to add a images of signatures for the Certificates.

Scheduling

Improvement - An option for Schedule Transfer to create an employment record
Component: Schedule Builder
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: We updated the Replace Employee with an option to replace an employee and to create an employment the match the position they are consuming.

Improvement - Remove / Replace Employee from Schedule
Component: Schedule Builder
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: We added the ability to automatically create attendance record of the selected type when removing or replacing an employee on the schedule. Improvement - Scheduling Constraints

Component: Scheduling Constraints
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: We have added a new field in the Scheduling Constraint that is used to pay based on scheduled time or punched time / employee. We updated the configuration variable so that it now has an option to use the scheduling constraint as well as the based on scheduled time or punched time.

Release notes for version Sprint - 3.3.9.0

General

Bug - General Bug Fixes
Component: Core
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: This release include various spelling and other small bug fixes.

Improvement - Training Reports
Component: Reports
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: We have created a report that lists the employees attending a meeting and if they have completed the training, paid for the the training, and the fee for the training

Workforce

Feature - Integration to Skillsoft Learning Management System
Component: Training
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: We have completed integration with Skillsoft - LMS. This integration will allow admins to link Training Types to courses in the LMS. Assign these training types to positions as required training. When a employee completes a course in Skillsoft - LMS that user will automatically have a training record created for that training type when the user completes the course.

Communications

Improvement - Meeting Changes
Component: Meeting / Training
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: 4 new actions were added, Attended and Passed, Remove Attendance and Pass/Fail, No Call No Show and Remove No Call No Show. Attend and Passed action changes attendees' status to Attended and Passed and creates new training records automatically. Remove Attendance and Pass/Fail action changes status to Not Attended and Failed if Automatically Pass is false, and it removes the training records which were created by Attend and Passed action. No Call No Show action just highlights the selections if the selected attendees are in Not Attended status. Attendees in Attended status cannot set No Call No Show. Remove No Call No Show just removes the highlights on the selected attendees. On the attendance list Reports, the font size in them was increased from 10 to 12 and the signature column was added in one of the reports.

Improvement - Meetings Notification for Members
Component: Meeting / Training
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: We added a timer job that sends a reminder wave mail to users that are part of the meeting constraints 48 hours before the start of the meeting to remind them to register (this will only be sent if open slots are available).

Release notes for version Sprint - 3.3.8.0

General

Bug - General Bug Fixes
Component: Core
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: This release include various spelling and other small bug fixes.

Improvement - Add Calendar to the Home
Component: Core
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: We have added the Calendar to the menu main fly out

Workforce

Improvement - HF - In Lieu Time
Component: WFM
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: New several options are added in Pay Rate Card to support Lieu Time functionality. If the Lieu Time is on, you should set Weekly Overtime Rules with at least one item like 44, 1.5, which means that if someone works over 44 hours a week, then (s)he can get banked overtime according to the rule of Lieu Time. If someone works 48 hours a week, then (s)he will get 6 hours banked time on Sunday. The banked overtime could be paid or be used to work off. On Attendance tile, users can see their banked time and use the time on vacation. Each employees can be linked to the pay rate card through Union on Personal Details Tile or on Employments. if Bank Overtime Option on Pay Rate Cards is Employee Choose Whether To Bank Overtime, each employee can select whether their banked time is used to work off or to be paid out at each pay run time on Lieu Preference tab in WFM Attendance. On Timesheets Review, Total Bank Overtime Pay column is added to show banked overtime pays for employees.

Improvement - Add Reschedule Interview to the Application Section
Component: Talent Manager
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: We have change the way interviews are rescheduled instead of having to give up your current session you can look for a new session that meeting the users needed then book the new session and cancel the old in one process.

Task - Drivers licnce field on Profile
Component: Employees Details
Permissions Changes: Employee Edit Licence Field and Employee Read Licence Field
Release Notes: We add new fields to the profile to track employee's drive licences

Communications

Improvement - Add a filter to specify what type of employees get the policy
Component: Policy
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: We have updated the policy section so that a user can choose if the policy should only go to new employees or to all employees.

Bug - Add Training Plus to Policy, and Surveys
Component: Policy and Surveys
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: We have updated the Policy and Surveys training sections so that an user with the correct permissions can add new training types directly from the those sections.

Bug - Meeting Attendance Default Email should support tags
Component: Meeting
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: We have added a section to the communication configuration that will let a user modify the email message that would be sent when the employee is registered for the meeting. This is a rich text editor that supports tokens from the system.

Improvement - Schedule Letters Add the ability to override sending emails
Component: Letters
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: We have updated the scheduled letters section so that you can send the letter via email to the employees, print the letters for all employees or email the letters and print the letters.

Scheduling

Improvement - Add pay period to scheduling timesheets
Component: Time Sheets
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: We have updated the time sheet review so that instead of filtering by schedules it filters by the pay periods.

Release notes for version Sprint - 3.3.6.0

General

Bug - General Bug Fixes
Component: Core
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: This release include various spelling and other small bug fixes.

Workforce

Improvement - In Lieu Time
Component: WFM
Permission Changes: None
Release Notes: New several options are added in Pay Rate Card to support Lieu Time functionality. If the Lieu Time is on, you should set Weekly Overtime Rules with at least one item like 44, 1.5, which means that if someone works over 44 hours a week, then (s) he can get banked overtime according to the rule of Lieu Time. If someone works 48 hours a week, then (s) he will get 6 hours banked time on Sunday. The banked overtime could be paid or be used to work off. On Attendance tile, users can see their banked time and use the time on vacation. Each employees can be linked to the pay rate card through Union on Personal Details Tile or on Employments. If Bank Overtime Option on Pay Rate Cards is Employee Choose Whether to Bank Overtime, each employee can select whether their banked time is used to work off or to be paid out at each pay run time on Lieu Preference tab in WFM Attendance. On Timesheets Review, Total Bank Overtime Pay column is added to show banked overtime pays for employees.

Improvement - Certificate Generation
Component: Training
Permission Changes: None
Release Notes: We have added the ability to generate the certificate form the employee's training page. Button will only show when they are certified.

Communications

Feature - COT -Schedule Letters
Component: Communications
Permission Changes: None
Release Notes: A new feature in the communication manager is that you can now schedule letters to be sent to employees of a position of a certain employment status on a specific date. In communication, the letter template page now has three tabs. The first is the original letter list page where you can see letters that have been created, and opt to edit them or create new ones. The second tab is where you can schedule a letter, you just click the create schedule letter button and a new row will appear on the page. In that row you will be asked to choose a department, then a position in that department. After that you select the letter to you wish to be sent to those employees, and the date you wish it to be sent on. Lastly you select the employment status you wish the letters to be sent to and the employee to receive the letter for employees who do not have an email address and that need to be printed out and mailed to the employees. To select the employee to receive the letters that need printing, click the select button under the send print to header and a small window will pop up with a search field. Type in the employees name and click search and then select the correct employee from the results. After you have selected the employee click the close button and the employee should be displayed in the row. Now all you have to do is click the save button and the letter will be scheduled. If you have selected the wrong employee, you can remove the selected employee by clicking the red X beside their name. Should you want to delete a letter you need to click the red X button at the end of the row and click save. The last tab is any letter that has been sent and just there so the users can see what has been sent.

Task - Meeting Attendance Change Request
Component: Meeting
Permission Changes: None
Release Notes: This is a new view to check which user failed to show up to their registered meetings (trainings). From this page, you can send Wave Mails and keep track of how many times you have contacted the user. On the second tab, you can rebook future meetings (trainings) for a user.

Improvement - Allow Course ID on Training Type
Component: Meeting / Training
Permission Changes: None
Release Notes: We have updated the training type to allow the user to add a default Course ID to the training type. This is per-populated when you into the Course ID field in the meetings when you select that type of training.

Task - Barcode Webpage
Component: Meeting
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: There is a new button called Scan Barcodes. This takes you to a page where you can scan the barcodes that are printed on the attendance sheet. Note: You need a barcode scanner that is capable of scanning CODE 128 barcodes.

Scheduling

Improvement – Scheduling Rotation
Permissions Changes: Scheduling Rotation Create, Scheduling Rotation Delete, Scheduling Rotation Edit, Scheduling Rotation Read
Release Notes: We have added the ability to create a scheduling rotation. A rotation is linked to a position and will include the number of weeks for the rotation, the shift templates for those weeks and the employees assigned to each week. A schedule can have can have multiple rotations attached. The rotation is applied my selecting the Auto Fill Shift option for the schedule builder, this will create the shifts and slots and fill them with the employees for that weeks rotation.

Release notes for version Sprint - 3.3.5.0

General

Bug - General Bug Fixes
Component: Core
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: This release include various spelling and other small bug fixes.

Workforce

Bug - Rename Permission - Employee Expense
Component: Expense
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: We have rename the Employee Expense to Employee One Time Payments and Expense to Employee Expense to clarify which sections these permissions relate to.

Bug - Flexi Time Tracker Review permissions issues
Component: Employee Time-Sheets
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: We have rename the Flexi Time Tracker Review to Employee Time Sheets Review to clarify which sections these permissions relate to.

Bug - Reports to only grabbing from first parent position
Component: Employment
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: We have updated the employment so that if there are multiple parent positions attached to the position it will automatically all all the employees of all the parent positions to the Reports-To.

Improvement - Approve an absent request
Component: Absent
Permissions Changes: Employee Vacation Approve
Release Notes: We have added this permission Employee Vacation Approve to the standard Employee Admin role.

Communications

Bug - Announcements - Multiple Emails
Component: Announcements
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: We have updated the announcement so that if a wave mail is generated it will only send the wave mail when the announcement is created and not when the announcement is updated.

Improvement - My Activities - Wavemails from Tasks
Component: My Activities
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: We have updated My Activities list so that is a task has generated a wavemail, the wavemail will be filtered out of the list.

Scheduling

Bug - Flexi Time Tracker Review permissions issues
Component: Scheduling Time-Sheets
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: We have rename the Flexi Time Tracker Review to Scheduling Time Sheets Review to clarify which sections these permissions relate to.

Release notes for version Sprint - 3.3.4.0

General Improvement - Main Menu
Component: Core
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: We added more options to the main menu if the user has the correct permissions you can now navigate directly to Talent Manager, Reports, and Schedule Builder from the Home menu.

Workforce Improvement - Manage Benefits
Component: Benefits
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: We have updated the benefits section so that managers with the benefits permission at the department level can manage employees and update the benefits on the employee's behalf.

Feature - Active Directory - Employee Setup
Component: Employee Wizard
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: We have added the ability to link into your company Active Directory if Wavelength is hosted on-site. This integration has to be setup by Akira Systems but once enable it will allow admin users to create new users that consume LDAP accounts. The system can be configured so that that all users are created as Forms or Active Directory. But the system can also be configured for both letting the administrator pick.

Task - Add version History to Roles and Role assignments
Component: Permissions
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: We have version history to Roles and Permissions which Akira Systems can use for audit tracking, who change what permission when.

Bug - Vacation is throwing an error mesage with incorrect information
Component:Vacation
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: We fixed a bug that was reporting the wrong number of day/hours available.

Release notes for version Sprint - 3.3.3.0

General

Bug - Add to Home Dropdown
Component: Navigation
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: We have updated the Main Menu to include some more options. These include adding Corporate Admin and Corporate Document Repository.

Workforce

Improvement - Expenses and One Time Payments (Payroll Configuration)
Component: Expenses
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: One time payments can now be included in the vacation accrual for employees whose accrual type is hourly. When creating a onetime payment for an hourly employee, there is a drop down used to choose if it counts towards accrual. The payment will be taken into account when the next pay period or schedule that employee is on is sent to payroll.

Improvement - Hourly Vacation Accrual
Component: Vacation
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: When editing the vacation tab an employees personal details, you can now choose whether the employee is salaried or hourly. This means they accrue a percentage of the combined number of hours tracked by the scheduling time tracker and the employee time tracker. This accrual percentage is set on the vacation tab on the personal details page of the employee and is store in that employee’s accrual rule. Employees with hourly accrual type will not have their vacation earned changed when the accrual timer job is run, instead their vacation is calculated when a pay period or schedule is submitted to pay roll that includes approved time records the employee worked. The calculation uses the base pay, overtime pay, premium pay, and holiday pay the employee earns based on the rules in the pay rate card for their position. It also includes any one time payments that have been flagged to be included in the employees vacation accrual. The attendance page will has also been changed, when an hourly employee looks at the page it will display the correct rule type on the table, as well the accrual rate will not display an amount instead just a percent symbol since the employee does not have an amount they accrue regularly.

Improvement - Employment Record
Component: Employment
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: We added the ability to delete pre-employment records. We also added the ability to Terminate and Activate multiple employment records from the employment list.

Improvement - RFH - Rebooking Meeting
Component: Talent Manager
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: We have updated the Request For Hire - add to meeting step so that it can be cancelled and rebooked, which will remove the employee from the meeting and reset the step.

Improvement - PA - Review Reminder
Component: Performance Appraisal
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: We have updated the timer job so that instead of sending a Wave Mail to the manager at 1 month reminder it will instead generate a shared task for all managers that start today and is due on the next Performance Appraisal date.

Bug - Applicant Portal Issues
Component: Talent Manager
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: We have updated the applicant portal so that the gender selection is now defaulted to "select" instead of "female" and updated the My Summary section to list Ad-hoc interviews.

Scheduling

Bug - Schedule Builder - type ahead extremely slow or not working at all
Component: Schedule Builder
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: We have updated the type-a-head so that it will not bring back results until the user clicks search. We have also removed the department check.

Release notes for version Sprint - 3.3.2.0

Communications

Improvement - Surveys as Training
Component: Surveys
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: We updated surveys to offer the ability to create a training event when the survey is complete.

Task - Add Payroll Export for Scheduling Timesheet Review
Component: Scheduling
Permissions Changes: Scheduling Time Tracker Send Payroll should be added to managers to export the Time sheets in this new format.
Release Notes: We have added the ability to export the scheduling time sheets as one CSV to import into Wavelength Payroll. This export will include all members of the department for the schedule selected and will include all punches that are between the start and end date of the schedule. This process is defer and you will receive a Wave Mail once completed.

Improvement - Reminder NotificationComponent: Tasks
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: We have added a new timer job that will run once per day and create a wave mail of all tasks that is still not complete that are over X days old. A new configuration variable under WFM Admin configuration Approval Tasks Notification which is defaulted to No. If you want this feature turn it on and set the X number of days until a task is considered old and will be included in the summary email.

Improvement - Add Start and End Time to Meetings/TrainingComponent: Meetings
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: We have added the meeting start and end date of the meeting to the list of meetings.

Workforce

Improvement -
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: We have updated the applications list to include the posting name. We also added a new filter that allows users to filter by posting.

Improvement - Add Address to Link EmployeeComponent: Applications / Request for Hire
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: We have updated the Create or Link employee step so that when linking an employee it will display the address of the employees. This will allow users to determine who they are linking and that users address for accuracy in the case that there are multiple names.

Release notes for version Sprint - 4.15.0.0

Every update of Wavelength includes improvements for speed and reliability. Any new features available will be highlighted in greater detail.

Release notes for version Sprint - 4.15.1.0

Every update of Wavelength includes improvements for speed and reliability.

Training

Improvement - Online Training courses can be refreshed on demand
Component: Training
Permissions Changes: None
Release Notes: We have updated Training History and the Training History widget to allow refreshing of online training results

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