Release Notes 9.14

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Last updated: Feb 12, 2020Version comment
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This release introduces a few key changes to the design, content, and categorization of UniFocus release notes. With these changes, we hope to better communicate how we’re continually improving our software and your user experience.

The release notes will have three main sections:

  • Overview—An overview of improvements, new features, and fixed issues.
  • Improvements and new features—A section dedicated to improvements and new features.
  • Fixed issues—A new section that documents how UniFocus has addressed known issues.

With this release, we have also improved our categorization of improvements, new features, and fixed issues. For more information, see Categories in release notes.

If you have any comments or questions, please contact your UniFocus Partner Relationship Manager (PRM).



Overview

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.

This release also includes several fixed issues. For more information, see Fixed issues in version 9.14.

In these release notes:

For a printable one-page version of these release notes, see Release Notes 9.14 - Printable.

Updates and hotfixes

See Updates and hotfixes for 9.x releases.

February 12, 2020

  • In the UniFocus Mobile App, the Approve Time Off Requests screen now displays the correct number of days for multiple-day requests (20431).

December 17, 2019

  • Task Scheduler now correctly adheres to permissions that users configured in the Security screen (19921).

September 6, 2019

  • The message in the UniFocus Mobile App invitation email no longer references managers' UniFocus user names  (19862).

July 1, 2019

  • Improved filter functionality in employee schedules (18597).

June 20, 2019

  • All employee punches are now correctly recorded in Time & Attendance (19038).

June 19, 2019

  • Shifts that are automatically approved by work rules now correctly appear as approved in both the employee Time Card and the Review Pay Period screens  (19153). 

April 30, 2019

  • In the UniFocus Mobile App, the Time Off Request screen header no longer disappears after a user swipes through three requests (18314). 

April 23, 2019

  • Improvements to the Adjustments Template CSV file (18376).
  • The Property field on the Task Scheduler screen now correctly defaults to the property to which the user is logged in (18650). 

March 6, 2019

  • When users with UFTC Punch to Schedule enabled for secondary jobs punch in to their secondary jobs, the punches are correctly assigned to the secondary jobs (17741). 

January 21, 2019

  • In the UniFocus Mobile App, filter option labels in the Manager Schedules screen are no longer truncated when there is sufficient space to display the complete label name on the screen (17703). 

January 14, 2019

  • RMS

     users who are not mapped to an Employee ID in Employee Maintenance can now add and view Time & Attendance tiles in the Manager Portal screen (17696).

December 18, 2018

  • Property Administration-level users with Watson Admin permission can now run Earning Details and Shift Details reports when filtered by employees (17044). 

November 27, 2018

  • The data load associated with the Manage Budget Lines screen has been reduced (17474).

November 14, 2018

  • In the UniFocus Mobile App, employees' split shifts now correctly appear in chronological order on managers' Employee Schedules screens (17735).

November 13, 2018

  • Corrected sort order on the Employee Schedules screen (17702). 
  • Administrative users can now copy users (17694). 
  • Time off requests no longer time out  (17371). 
  • When saving changes after deleting a budget line, users no longer encounter the following error message: "Incorrect syntax near ')'." (17495). 
  • Separate instances of UniFocus

    RMS

    software can now be open simultaneously (17729). 

November 12, 2018

  • Performance enhancement to the mobile Employee Schedules screen (17123). 
  • 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 (17267). 
  • Contiguous shifts for one job on a single day correctly appear on one line of an employee's Time Card screen. (17332). 

October 25, 2018

  • Enhancement to the process of copying users in the Security screen (17443).