Mobile 2.0 Release Notes

Main menu

The redesign of the main menu includes the following features and improvements:

• The home screen now contains a hamburger menu (

  

   ), from which users can navigate to different screens.
• In previous releases, after signing in to the UniFocus Mobile App, users had to specify whether they were employees or managers. In this release, when users sign in, they automatically see the relevant manager or employee screens.
• Certain items display badges that indicate specific information. For example, badges on the Call Ins menu option indicate if users have call-ins with pending responses.

Time off requests

From the Time Off screens, users can add a new time off request or open the detail screens of individual requests. From the details screen, users can view, edit, and cancel the time off requests.

For all team members (My Time Off Requests screen)

• The Balances section displays the number of vacation and sick/personal time the team member has accrued.
• The Requests section displays requests for future time off requests.
• From the floating add button (  ), team members can open a new time off request.
• Team members can now cancel pending requests.
  

For managers (Approve Time Off Requests screen)

For pending requests, managers can:

• Swipe left to quickly approve or deny a request.
• View available paid time off for employees.
• Approve or deny with comments.

Messages and notifications

With the new Messages screen, users can view and manage messages from managers and colleagues. The default view of the screen is the Inbox.

All team members can:

• See a list of their sent and deleted messages.
• Mark individual messages as read/unread by swiping a message.
• Mark multiple messages as read/unread by tapping the Edit button and selecting messages.
• Compose new messages by tapping the floating compose button (  ).

Scheduling

New scheduling improvements enable team members to view their own schedules and those of their peers through calendars. Features include:

• My Schedule – This screen displays a list of currently published shifts. Team members see their next shift at the top of the screen. From this screen, they can request to drop a shift .

• Peer Schedules – This screen displays a grid view of the team member's schedule, as well as the names of other team members who have the selected job.

  Note: Peers who have shifts in other jobs will appear as gray if it is a shift that is not for the selected job.

  On this screen, team members can:

  • Change the job selection based on the jobs to which they have access.
  • Select to give away or swap a shift with another employee or peer.
  • Request to drop a shift.
• Open shifts – This screen displays a grid view of users' schedules, as well as any open shifts that are available for the selected job. On this screen, team members can:
  • Change job selection based on jobs to which they have access.
  • Request pickup of an open shift by selecting it.
  • Request to drop a shift.

Shift requests

On the Shift Requests screen, managers can now create urgent pickup requests, enabling them to blast an open shift to employees to request coverage.

Employee availability requests

In this release, team members can now add availability, which will be reflected in the Employee Maintenance component of

LMS

. With this functionality, they can do the following:

• View current and pending availability.
• Edit current availability and submit for manager approval.
• Cancel pending availability.

Time cards