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.

Leave of Absence updateComing Soon

• Administrative users can now convert existing users to managers in the Security screen. (17715).
• Managers can configure a threshold for shift overlap in the Mobile Setup screen (21073).

Build 9.18.162 (Coming Soon)

• When responding to a shift request, the text Enter a comment with this request now correctly appears on the screen (21039).
• The Average Hours with Worked Before and After Check work rule pays out at the configured minimum wage (21020).

Build 9.18.156

Leave of Absence updates Part 2:

• Employees and managers on leave of absence can access certain parts of the UniFocus Mobile App, including Time Off Requests, Messages, and Preferences (21696).
• Employees In this release of the UniFocus Mobile App, employees may now be granted access to schedules and shift requests while on leave of absence can view benefit accruals in the My Benefits section of the Mobile App. Managers (21714).
• Managers cannot sign in to RMS while on a leave of absence (21897). 

Build 9.18.155

Leave of Absence updates Part 1:

• 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).