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Last updated: Apr 22, 2020 by Frank Gambino

9.x versions

Updates

Major changes from version 8.x to 9.x

  • Labor Standards Setup Redesign
    • Standards are no longer configured in one tab in System Setup > Labor Structure. A new menu item has been added, System Setup > Labor Standards, with several tabs that need to be configured. 
    • Labor Standards: Terms & Definitions
    • Standard Sets are no longer global. You can creeate Standard Sets but have different criteria for that Standard Set for different jobs. The criteria for the Standard Set is determined at each level. When you select a Standard Set that you wish to associate with a Job, any changes you make on any of the tabs, will be saved with that Job and with that Standard Set. For example, you can use a Standard Set calledTest for a Main Room Attendant job, as well as for the Tower Room Attendant job, but they may have different criteria depending on the setting you chose for each the tabs in each of those jobs. You simply create a Name for the Standard Set then actually configure the criteria for each job.
  • Work content drill down
    • Now able to see the standard hours components based on individual configuration elements. This feature allows you to understand the contribution of each part of the labor standard to resulting standard hours.
    • Can see the effect and expense of certain pay rules on resulting standard hours (i.e. minimum shift).


Version 9.04.01

RMS

release 9.04.01 includes:
  • New requirements for the Taxes tab in Employee Maintenance.
  • A security improvement for reopening a pay period.
  • An improvement to the Enter Actual Hours screen.
  • Improvements to how the Mobile App displays benefit balances.
  • Variable point tip pool enhancements in

    Time & Attendance

    .
  • Improvements to Time Clock functionality and usability.

Version 9.04.02

RMS

 version 9.04.02 includes the following improvements and new features:
  • Regular and premium earning types in

    Time & Attendance

    and reports.
  • Wage accrual and payout in

    Time & Attendance

    .

Version 9.05

RMS

version 9.05 includes the following improvements and new features:
  • The new Attendance Dashboard, which is a graphical reporting tool that helps users monitor and evaluate attendance patterns for their employees.
  • Improvements to service standard configuration.
  • Alternate Employee ID for logging in to the Mobile App.
  • Employee Mobile App acknowledgements of manager edits to time cards.
  • Modifications to

    Time & Attendance

    work rules.
  • New Can View Salaried Exempt Costs security sub-permission for users to view:
    • Hours and costs for hourly employees. 
    • Only hours for salaried employees.
  • References to "fingerprint" changed to "finger scan" on Time Clock screens.
  • New Timeline Scheduling screen, which enables more efficient planning and scheduling by offering an intuitive user interface with various timeline views, color-coded shift bars, and drag-and-drop functionality.

Version 9.06

RMS

version 9.06 includes the following improvements and new features:
  • Automatic enabling of Manager Portal and Timeline Scheduling
  • Renaming and redesign of

    Budgeting

    module.
  • Enhancements to the reconcile process in Employee Maintenance.
  • Ability to lock a standard set with a password.
  • Ability to use job-level data in standard dollars.
  • New Manage Event Orders screen, which is used for importing and managing all event orders in

    RMS

    .
  • Reporting of nonproductive hours in the

    LMS Dashboard

    .
  • Updates to the Mobile App:
    • Updating contact information in manager accounts
    • Viewing assignments
    • Forwarding messages and schedules to text messages.
  • Improved handling of shift lengths.
  • Enhancements to reports:
  • New Labor Standards report
  • Improvement the End of Pay Period report.
  • Enhancements to hours and rate earning in Time & Attendance.
  • Progressive Discipline functionality.
  • Modifications to existing work rules
  • New work rules.
  • Significant enhancement to Timeline Scheduling.

Version 9.06.01

RMS

version 9.06.01 includes the following improvements and new features:
  • KBI sets
  • Dynamic spread standards
  • Budget Labor Summary by Day report
  • Updates to Timeline Scheduling

Version 9.06.02

RMS

version 9.06.02 includes improvements and new features that address hours calculation and distribution.

Version 9.06.03

RMS

version 9.06.03 includes the following improvements and new features: 
  • Functionality and user interface changes that allow users to copy up to 12 datasets into one dataset.
  • Separate payroll files for closing and exporting pay periods
  • A set of new features and improvements address premium pay that is paid to employees if they work on on their required days off or on their designated days off, that is, days for which employees were not scheduled to work but were available to work.
  • New and modified work rules that automatically pay specified premiums when employees work on their required days off or on their designated days off, that is, days for which employees were not scheduled to work but were available to work.
  • Improvements to the Earnings Details and Hours and Earnings Recap reports.
  • User-configured labels that appear on the Scheduling and Timeline Scheduling screens. These customizable labels are important to managers and administrative users because they indicate the required and designated days off for employees—days on which, if worked, employees will receive premium pay.
  • User interface changes that address earning approvals and approval authorization levels for both users and earnings types:

    • Approval levels for groups and users—The Security screen now features an Authorization Levels tab, from which users can define earning approval levels for user groups and individual users.

    • Earning approvals—Time Card Editors can now grant the primary approval for overtime (OT) and double-time (DT) earnings for individual employees in time card screens. Division Heads and Payroll Admins can grant the secondary approval for employees in the Earnings Approval Wizard.

  • A new search field in the Security screen that allows administration users to search for individual

    RMS

    users rather than scroll through the entire list.

Version 9.06.04

RMS

version 9.06.04 includes the following improvements and new features:
  • An improvement to

    Budgeting

    .
  • New and enhanced work rules that affect

    Time & Attendance

    .
  • Functionality that enables users to copy scheduled shifts to time cards.

Version 9.07

RMS

version 9.07 includes the following improvements and new features:
  • Improvements to Budget Datasets.
  • An improvement to the UniFocus Mobile App version 1.0.
  • The UniFocus Mobile App version 2.0.
  • Modifications to work rules.
  • A change to how schedules are exported.
  • Improvements to exported payroll files.
  • Improvements to Time Clock offline punch processes.

Version 9.08

All improvements and new features for

RMS

version 9.08 have been merged with

RMS

version 9.08.01. For more information, see Release Notes 9.08.01.

Version 9.08.01

RMS

version 9.08.01 includes the following improvements and new features:
  • A new Revenue Center Forecasting screen for both desktop and mobile.
  • An enhancement to the method by which forecast environments are applied.
  • User interface improvements to the Employee Maintenance screen.
  • Improvements to Budgeting functionality.
  • Improved performance and security for Budgeting reports.
  • Improved performance of Time & Attendance reports.
  • Ability to run End of Pay Period Reports for a specified date range.
  • Flexibility to have different flow plans based on special occurrences that affect guest demand for service. 
  • A new Punch Rounding work rule.
  • A new statistical calculation method used in forecasting business volumes.
  • Ability to add day count labels to schedules in the Scheduling screen.
  • Enhancements to the Manage Event Orders screen.
  • Improvements to the Mobile App Time Card.
  • New messages in the Time Clock.

Version 9.09

All improvements and new features for

RMS

version 9.09 have been merged with

RMS

version 9.09.01. For more information, see Release Notes 9.09.01.

Version 9.09.01

RMS

version 9.09.01 includes the following improvements and new features:
  • Password expiration notifications.
  • Ability to restrict standard sets in generating standard and projected hours.
  • Performance enhancement to Budgeting.
  • Ability to import hours and rates adjustments to streamline the budgeting process.
  • Performance enhancements to schedule generation.
  • Improvements to editing labor standards.
  • Notifications for invalid labor standard configurations.
  • Access to a public API.
  • Mobile v.2 new features:
    • Push notifications.
    • Property selector.
    • Time Off Requests calendar view.
    • Terms and conditions notification.
    • Black out period notifications.
  • Ability to re-invite existing employees to the Mobile App.
  • Updated date selector for the Earnings Wizard.
  • New Benefits Accrual, Daily Differential, and Shift Differential work rules.
  • A modification that adds flexibility to the Split Shift Differential Rate work rule.

Version 9.10

RMS

 version 9.10 includes the following improvements and new features:
  • Improved functionality of standard sets linked with budget datasets.
  • Improvement to the Adjustment Wizard user interface.
  • Ability to hide the User Name field in Employee Maintenance.
  • Ability to publish schedules that match your company's planning period.
  • New features in the UniFocus Mobile App:
    • Language selector.
    • Manager alerts for time off requests.
    • Printed invitations to the Mobile App.
    • Configurable format for employee names.
    • New notification emails for Swap Requests and Give Aways.
    • Invitations sent to employees who were added through the employee reconcile process.
  • Improved weather service.
  • New Schedule Approvals screen for desktop and mobile applications.
  • Improved labels on the Excel Schedule report.
  • UniFocus Quick Reference Videos library.

Version 9.12

RMS

 version 9.12 includes the following improvements and new features:
  • Improvements to security assignments.
  • Improved memory management in Budgeting.
  • Security enhancement to the process of copying users.
  • Performance enhancement to the mobile Employee Schedules screen
  • Time off requests no longer time out 
  • Corrected sort order on the Employee Schedules screen
  • User interface improvement in the Budgeting module.
  • When saving changes after deleting a budget line, users no longer encounter the following error message: "Incorrect syntax near ')'."
  • Separate instances of UniFocus

    RMS

    software can now be open simultaneously.
  • Updated names for permissions and tasks related to viewing and editing volume forecasts.
  • New global configuration settings to control properties in Schedule Approval screens.
  • All calculated KBIs are now correctly calculating when users generate revenue center forecasts and then add an environment from the Edit Revenue Center Forecast screen
  • New Draft and Approve statuses on the Weekly Schedule report.
  • Contiguous shifts for one job on a single day correctly appear on one line of an employee's Time Card screen.
  • Reports run through Task Scheduler can include the two planning weeks prior to today’s planning week.
  • Security improvements to audit reports.
  • Ability to run End of Pay Period Reports for a specified date range.
  • Deactivating

    RMS

     reports as part of the Reporter migration.
  • Enhancements to the Schedule Restriction work rule type.
  • Ability to expire both hours- and cost-based accruals in the Benefit Expiration work rules.
  • UniFocus Quick Reference Videos library.

Version 9.13

All improvements, new features, and fixed issues for 

RMS

version 9.13 have been merged with 

RMS

 version 9.14. For more information, see Release Notes 9.14.

Version 9.14

RMS

version 9.14 includes the following improvements and new features:
  • Security enhancement to the process of copying users.
  • Improved CSV file and process for batch-importing hours and rates adjustments.
  • Improved overtime rate calculation of piece pay.
  • Improvements to the UniFocus Mobile App:
    • Improved published schedule messages.
    • Improved sort and filter functionality in Employee Schedules and Time Off Requests screens
    • Performance enhancement to the mobile Employee Schedules screen.

Version 9.15

RMS

version 9.15 includes the following improvements and new features:
  • Improved overtime rate calculation of piece pay.
  • A modification to the Average Hours with Worked Before and After Check work rule.
  • An improvement to the Trend-Adjusted Exponential Smoothing (TAES) modeling algorithm.
  • A new Employee Productivity screen and report.
  • Improvements to the Adjustments Template CSV file.
  • Mobile password improvement: Mobile users can change their passwords up to three times a day.
  • A prompt for providing feedback in the Mobile App.
  • A Needs assistance link on the Mobile sign-in screen.

Version 9.16

RMS

version 9.16 includes the following improvements and new features:

  • The Employee Maintenance screen accepts email addresses that contain special characters.

  • An update to the OT DT Daily, Weekly, 6th day OT, 7th Day DT Hours Distribution work rule.
  • A new Daily/Weekly Guaranteed Hours Weekly Differential work rule.
  • Improvements to the Adjustments Template CSV file.
  • A new filter on the Review Pay Period screen.

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Version 9.17

RMS

 version 9.17 includes the following improvements and new features:
  • Improved filtering in Mobile App Employee Schedules screens.
  • Updated Prompt For Fixed Hours Earning work rule.
  • Improvements to the Adjustments Template CSV file.

Version 9.18

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.

Version 9.20

Version 9.20 includes the following improvements and new features:

  • Schedules are now published in the Schedule Approvals screen. The task button is labeled Manage Schedules.
  • The mobile Weekly Availability screen can now be turned on or off in

    RMS

    .
  • 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.
  • The Anniversary Year Benefits Expiration work rule has been updated with new parameters that enable both the expiration and rollover of accrued hours.
  • Scheduling now features validation checks for earnings associated with multiple accrual balances.
  • 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.
  • Time & Attendance software now features validation checks for earnings associated with multiple accrual balances.
  • Ability to show or hide excused points in Mobile Attendance Points Tracking
  • Customization of Time Off Types display in Mobile App and Employee Requests screens.
  • Modification to the Daily Weekly Day Off Consec Days OT with Min Break work rule.
  • Update to the Break Period Penalty work rule.
  • Scheduled costs now appear in Labor-only licenses.
  • Labor Effectiveness and Weekly Labor Summary reports can now display a breakdown of actual hours.
  • Jobs are now publishable by default in the Mobile App.
  • Changes to the Pulse survey prompt in the Mobile App.
  • Improved reporting of updates and hotfixes.
  • Improved layout and descriptions in Work Rules user documentation.
  • New user documentation for the Employee User Maps screen.
  • Employees and managers on leave of absence can access certain parts of the Mobile App, including Time Off Requests, Messages, and Preferences.
  • Employees on leave of absence can view benefit accruals in the My Benefits section of the Mobile App. 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.
  • The Time Off Requests screen displays all employees, including those on leave of absence.
  • When a manager responds to an employee request through either RMS or through the Mobile App, a push notification notifies the employee of the change.

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