Version 9.18 includes the following improvements and new features:

• A new Hours Distribution work rule.
• Attendance point tracking for the Mobile App.
• Scheduled costs now appear in Labor-only licenses.
• Schedules are now published in the Schedule Approvals screen
• Improved and customized warning messages in the Punch Validation work rule.

Updates and hotfixes

See Updates and hotfixes for 9.x releases.

Build 9.18.155

Leave of Absence update

• The Import Earnings feature imports earnings to the Time Card for all employees, including those with a status of Leave of Absence (21774).
• Managers can view accrual balances for employees who are on leave of absence on the Benefits screen, on the Time Card screen, and in the Benefit Balances report (21734).
• The Time Off Requests screen displays all employees, including those on leave of absence (21744).

Mobile update

• Mobile broadcasts—Partner Administrators can now submit requests for UniFocus to send broadcast messages to all employees who are registered for the UniFocus Mobile App (21660). For more information, see Update: Mobile broadcasts.

Build 9.18.120 (Coming soon)

• The Hours Distribution Accrual Benefit Accrual work rule has been updated with a Max Running Accrued parameter for specifying a limit to the number of hours that an employee can accrue within a year (19924).
• The Anniversary Year Benefits Expiration work rule has been updated with new parameters that enable both the expiration and rollover of accrued hours (21096).
• Scheduling now features validation checks for earnings associated with multiple accrual balances (21099).
• When a manager reviews time off requests in the Mobile App, if an earning is included in multiple accruals, a validation check is made against all accruals to which that earning is associated (21097).
• Time & Attendance software now features validation checks for earnings associated with multiple accrual balances (21098, 21101, 21102).
• Partners using the generic Reconcile Employees interface now receive notification emails that list all reconcile errors (19853).
• The Break Period Penalty work rule now includes a Pay FLSA Regular Rate option for automatically factoring in all additional earnings that are included in the FLSA regular rate (21032).
• In the Mobile App, the Paid Hours row of the Time Off Requests details screen now displays the number of hours requested by the employee (18857).
• In the UniFocus Mobile App, the Approve Time Off Requests screen now displays the correct number of days for multiple-day requests (20431).
• Improved and customized warning messages in the Punch Validation work rule (20670).
• The Employee Master report correctly abides by Security permission settings that determine whether users can view pay rates (20437).
• The Timeline Scheduling screen now correctly displays the business event order (BEO) detail note (20671).
• Users no longer receive error messages when editing or assigning a valid shift in the Schedule section of the Timeline Scheduling screen (20672).
• When performing the Generate Projected Hours task on the Labor Planning screen, hours are now being successfully generated for 02/29 of a leap year (20353).
• Users can now import an Import Hours and Rates Adjustment CSV file that does not have information in the Notes column (19852).
• Task Scheduler now correctly adheres to permissions that users configured in the Security screen (19921).
• Scheduled costs now appear in Labor-only licenses (19789).

Build 9.18.86

• Emails containing employee schedules are now correctly formatted (20239).
• Improved and customized warning messages in the Punch Validation work rule (20347).