Release Notes

Learning - Improvement - Email appointment for a training event will be sent to the employee only if the event start date is today or later (time is not considered). This will prevent sending appointments for the past events in case a training request for such event has been approved.

Core HR - Improvement - Now the users can set up the approval process display order on the Approval Requests page.

Time and Attendance - Issue fix - Fixed an issue which prevented the filter display in case of pending requests on the My Team Absences page.

Performance - Issue fix - Fixed an issue with processing the inactive org units in the Org Unit Goal picker.

Time and Attendance - Improvement - The following new accrual methods are now available: Monthly Start (12 Periods), Monthly End (12 Periods). With these accrual methods, for each month, 1/12 of the allowance amount will be granted.

Performance - Improvement - The competencies  in the job description are now displayed by the competency group.

Time and Attendance - Improvement - If the accrual method is Employment date, the absence requests on the My absences page will be displayed for the employee personal accrual year.

Other - Issue fix - Fixed an issue that caused employees with several assignments to be displayed to the manager as different employees.

Performance - Improvement - The Competency Search Results can now be exported to Word, Excel or PDF. 

Core HR - Improvement - The HR process templates can be created by copying an existing template.

Core HR - Improvement - Now it is possible to configure announcements based on custom list.

Integrations - Improvement - For the ADP integration, the warnings will not be displayed in the event viewer. 

Learning - Improvement - Lanteria HR is integrated with the Go1 learning catalog.

Performance - Improvement - Skill filtering on the Skill Search page has been improved.

Performance - Issue fix - Fixed an issue with the incorrect end dates automatically set for the future objectives in the performance review form.

Core HR - Issue fix - Fixed an issue with the HR process link, which has been broken in the notification email. 

Learning - Issue fix - Fixed an issue which occurred when adding an event-based training to the development plan. When requesting a new date, the user is not redirected to the full Training Request form now.

Core HR - Improvement - When creating an HR process template and selecting which roles can start the process, the choice is limited to relevant roles only (HR, Local HR, Manager).

Learning - Issue fix - Fixed an issue which allowed entering negative values into the Available Seats field of the Training Schedule form.

Core HR - Improvement - The Service Date field has been added to the Employee Dates report.

Core HR - Improvement - Improved performance of the Approval Requests form, when filtering by approval process.

Performance - Improvement - The Copy option is now available for the performance review forms and workflows.

Learning - Issue fix - Fixed an issue with creating a training event without the training schedule.

Compensation - Issue fix - Fixed an issue with the Salary Reviews page.

Time and Attendance - Improvement - In case of employee rehire, the absences booked before the latest employment date will be disregarded for all the absence allowance accrual rule types.

Performance - Improvement - The Assign to field in the performance review form has been replaced with a picker.

Time and Attendance - Improvement - The Copy option is now available for the absence plans.

Performance - Improvement - For the 360 Feedback, it is now possible to request a list of reviewers not only from employees, but also from managers.

Core HR  - Improvement - The Edit button on the Sensitive Data page will be visible for the users with HR role only.

Learning - Improvement  - The Comments field on the HR's/Local HR's Training Requests page will display all comments (both employee's comment, left when sending a request, and manager's comment, left when accepting/rejecting the request) if any instead of showing only the latest comment as it was before.

Core HR - Issue fix - Fixed an issue which prevented users with the Local HR or Manager role from viewing the approval requests for their employees in case the request initiator didn't belong to their area of responsibility.

Performance - Issue fix - Fixed an issue with incorrect date displayed in the Check-in Report, due to the difference between regional local zone and UTC zone .

Core HR - Improvement - For the approval processes on the Approval Requests page, additionally the item ID and item title will be displayed.

Data Export - Improvement - A new setting SQL Export Job Command Timeout has been added.

Compensation - Improvement - The number of decimals defined in the Salary Details and Salary History lists will be displayed in the salary reports and forms.

Learning - Improvement - Now it is possible to search the learning catalog by the learning material type.

Core HR - Improvement - The Local HR and Manager roles can start the HR processes.

Core HR/Compensation - Improvement - Now you can configure how many digits after the decimal point (up to 5) you want to be displayed for the Full Time Equivalent field, displayed on the Employee Salary Details, Employee Salary History, and Employment History lists as well as in the Current Assignments section on the employee card when the value is not a whole number (such as 1, 2, etc.), but a number with fractions (such as 0.1, 0.32, 0.355, etc.).

Core HR - Issue Fix - Fixed an issue with actions on some pages that would overlap with the employee search box as well as Change Role, Quick Links, and Chat Bot buttons if the browser window was too small.

Performance - Issue Fix - Fixed an issue that prevented creation of a goal if the org unit goal was set to "-1". 

Core HR - Improvement - Announcements can be added only by users with HR role.

Data Import - Improvement - A new setting SQL Data Import Exceptions has been added. Use it to specify the lists to be excluded from processing by the SQL Data Import job.

Time and attendance - Issue fix - Fixed an issue with the mismatching hour calculations in different modes.

Learning - Issue fix - Fixed an issue with downloading the practicum documents for the users with no HR permissions.

Time and Attendance - Issue fix - Fixed an issue which caused incorrect calculation of the absence allowance.

Other - Improvement - If the ribbon doesn't have any tabs, it will be hidden.

Recruiting - Issue fix - Fixed an issue with printing the Job Requirements section on the Interview Form.

Other - Improvement - The users with custom roles are now able to download files if they have at least Read permission level for the target list.

Performance - Improvement - When creating a goal from the performance review form, the start date and due date of the goal are by default set to the start and end date of the review period. 

Core HR - Improvement - Now it is possible to share news and announcements through Lanteria HR. The employees will see them on the Lanteria HR homepage.

Core HR - Issue fix - Fixed an issue that prevented the emergency contacts from displaying.

Performance - Issue fix - Fixed an issue in the Gap Analysis Chart which caused displaying one of the competencies without title.

Other - Improvement - When changing the salary history, as well as employment history, the Modified by field contains the names of the users who made changes, instead of the System Account user name.

Compensation - Improvement - The link to the outdated functionality is removed from the Job Grades page.

Learning - Improvement - The training request comment will be now visible on the Training Event Details page.

Learning - Improvement - The due date for the external trainings will not be set automatically.

Recruiting - Improvement - When scheduling an interview, it is now possible to select the Online check box. Online will be displayed in the calendar and other related pages instead of the meeting room.

Performance - Improvement - When creating a goal, an employee will be only org unit goals related to his or her org unit.

Compensation - Improvement - The Minimum Annual Base Salary, Midpoint Annual Base Salary and Maximum Annual Base Salary fields are synchronized between the following lists: Salary Range and Job Grades.

Core HR - Issue fix - Fixed an issue with the Get Local HR emails custom action, which caused sending mails to users without HR role.

Core HR - Issue fix - Fixed an issue that prevented creating emergency contacts for employees.

Time and Attendance - Improvement - If an acting person has Manager role, he or she will be able to view the information on the absent manager's team members in the Absence Schedule.

Other – Improvement - The possibility to upload documents to the root site collection has been disabled to avoid the security issues. The users will be redirected from the root site collection to Lanteria HR system.

Core HR - Issue fix - Fixed an issue with difference in calculations in the Headcount turnover report and Dashboard. Now all the information will be taken from the employment history.

Recruiting - Issue Fix - Fixed an issue that could cause an error when you opened the Scheduling Assistant from the Training Schedule page.

Recruiting - Issue Fix - Fixed an issue with the Scheduling Assistant that in certain scenarios showed availability of interviewers only for the past week, and not for the current or future weeks.

Learning - Improvement - Permissions for the Certificates library were granted to the Local Training Manager role so that employees in this role could generate certificates or download them as a ZIP archive.

Performance - Issue Fix - Fixed an issue with check-ins where the comment time stamp on the Check-in page and within the opened check-in topic was shown in different time zones.

Performance - Issue Fix - Fixed an issue with the Check-in Update Overview email report that could contain redundant information when new comments were added to a check-in topic. If only new comments(s) were added to a topic, only entries about the new comments will be included into the report, and entries about the changed topic will not be added to the overview. 

Core HR- Issue Fix - Fixed an issue that caused org unit goals of a parent org unit to be visible from the employee card.

Recruiting - Issue Fix - Fixed an issue that prevented the user from creating a job opening in case the Job Openings list had a field with enhanced rich text.

Performance - Issue Fix - The tooltip for the Competency Level Descriptions setting (Settings > Settings and Configuration > Performance > Competencies > Advanced tab) was updated.

Core HR - Improvement - Added a Disable Automatic Step Approval check box to the advanced settings on the Approval Process Settings form. When selected, after approving a process step, other process steps you are responsible for will not be automatically approved.

Core HR - Issue fix - Fixed an issue that caused incorrect date and time in approval requests and applicant letters due to incorrect time zone.

Learning - Issue fix - Fixed an issue with displaying the cancelled development activities as overdue. 

Core HR - Issue fix - Fixed an issue which caused endless displaying the "Working on it" message when applying the filter on the HR Help Desk page.

Compensation - Improvement - The Include inactive employees check box is added to the Start Salary Review Round page.

Learning - Issue fix - Fixed an issue that prevented setting the completion date for the development activity after completing the SCORM course.

Core HR - Improvement In addition to Content Approval and Status Approval, a new No Action workflow result type is available in the Approval Process Settings.

Performance - Improvement - A description is added for the Display form for employee managers check box in the performance review workflow settings.

Performance - Improvement - If someone creates a new topic for a check-in, everybody, except the creator will see the Unread tag near the topic name on the employee Check-in page, same as for the unread comment.

Compensation - Improvement - The org unit salary review is locked for the org unit manager after changing the status from Draft to Pending. 

Core HR - Issue fix - Fixed an issue which prevented generating the approval request for a new job after the New Job Request check box is selected on the Job Description Request page.

Core HR - Issue fix - Fixed an issue with not displaying the employees for whom the current employee is additional manager. Now such employees are displayed after setting the Whole Team filter on the My Team page.

Recruiting - Issue fix - Fixed an issue that allowed scheduling a job interview for the same time in the same meeting room.

Core HR - Improvement - A new Audit Log Report is now available in the Report Center, the Core HR group.

Data Import - Issue fix - Fixed an issue with the not user-friendly error descriptions for the data import process.

Time and Attendance - Issue fix - Fixed an issue which prevented the direct and additional managers from viewing the subordinates' absence records.

Recruiting - Improvement - Now it is possible to set up template for the letter sent to the applicant when during the interview self-schedule.

Core HR - Issue fix - Fixed the layout issue in the .pdf file exported for the job description. All the fields are displayed as separate lines now.

Learning - Issue fix - Fixed an issue with displaying the Approve/Reject button for the registered training requests.

Performance  - Improvement - Employee receives a notification about started check-in.

Other - Issue fix - Fixed an issue with the progress bar that prevented the Reminders Job from running.

Core HR - Improvement - The Location lookup has been changed to the Location picker in the employee related data.

Recruiting - Improvement - The interviews in the Interview Calendar are now formatted with different colors for better visibility of multiple interviews planned for the same day.

Recruiting - Improvement - The Batch Schedule option is also available from the Interview Stage Details page.

Integrations - Improvement - The AD Integration settings are moved from the General section to the Integrations section.

Recruiting - Improvement - The users can now define the Candidate Document Types from Settings.

Recruiting - Improvement - The Hire button has been hidden from the Candidate Tracking page for the Manager and Recruiting Manager roles, since only HR can hire the candidates.

Recruitment - Issue Fix - Fixed an issue where after editing skills of a candidate, and then saving the changes, the Skills form would close. 
Learning - Issue Fix - Fixed an issue with the personal development plan where the view would switch back to the default view by date if you made changes in the assignment details of a development activity while the view was by development need. 
Performance - Improvement - The message that is shown when an employee tries to return a performance form to the previous responsible person was expanded with the text box where the employee must specify a reason for returning the form. Additionally, the email notification that the previous responsible employee receives in this case was updated.
Performance - Improvement - The Skills Search functionality was overhauled. The layout of skill groups was revised to make it more user-friendly. You can use the quick search field to quickly find a skill group by typing its title.
Recruiting - Improvement - The process of job opening approval was revised. If a job opening is pending approval (because of a configured approval workflow), different roles will have have different permissions/possibilities: a) the manager who created the job opening can only edit such a job opening; b) the manager responsible for approval can only approve such a job opening; c) the HR/Recruitment Manager can either approve and open the job opening or just approve it.
Recruiting - Improvement - Now when creating an interview schedule, which is used by candidates to self-schedule a job interview, Lanteria HR verifies whether selected time slots overlap within the interview schedule or with other interview schedules for at least one interviewer, and if so, an error message will be shown to prevent creation of an interview schedule with overlapping time intervals.
Recruiting - Improvement - The URL link that is generated when publishing a job opening with the JobTarget publishing option and shown on the Job Publishing tab of the Job Opening Details window now, instead of opening the job ad on the Candidate Self-Service site, opens the JobTarget dashboard page where you can manage the published job opening.
Recruiting - Issue Fix - Fixed an issue where the error that occurs when scheduling an interview that conflicts with other interviews for the selected interviewers was shown with a scrollbar.  
Core HR - Improvement - When searching for employees and setting a filter by org unit, the list of available org units available for selection now excludes inactive org units.
Time and Attendance - Issue Fix - Fixed an issue that could prevent registration of an absence in case the  specified number of absence hours consisted of a decimal fraction. 
Learning - Issue Fix - Fixed an issue where the scheduling assistant didn't show any information.
Learning - Issue Fix - Fixed an issue that could cause an error in certain scenarios on the personal development plan.
Time and Attendance - Issue Fix - Fixed an issue that could cause an error when trying to manually adjust allowance for an employee.

Core HR - Issue Fix - Fixed an issue that could cause an error when trying to use the employee quick search for the second time in a row.
Performance - Improvement - Several menu items, pages, and breadcrumb trail links, related to employee feedback and 360 feedback, were revised: Employee Feedback was renamed to My Feedback (only for the Employee role), and 360 Feedbacks was renamed to 360 Feedback in several places. 
Recruiting - Improvement - When you are scheduling an interview, Lanteria HR now verifies whether there are conflicts with other appointments for the selected interviewers, and if so, an error message will be shown preventing you from scheduling the interview.
Report Center - Improvement - In the Report Builder, the mechanism of copying from a list to SQL tables was improved.
Core HR - Improvement - For the Manager role, on the My Team page, a new additional filter was added that allows the manager to view employees filtered by: Direct and additional reports (view employees for whom you are the Manager as well as the Additional Manager), Direct reports only (view employees for whom you are the Manager), or Whole Team (view employees for whom you are the Manager as well as their direct reports if they are the Manager for someone).
Performance - Improvement - Employees in the HR role can now reopen the last completed check-in session on condition that another check-in session is not started at the moment.
Learning - Improvement - When a training event is created or cancelled, the organizer receives an email notification about it.
Recruiting - Issue Fix - Fixed an issue where the values of the Ethnicity field on the Candidate Self-Service site were not sorted alphabetically. 
Recruiting - Issue Fix - The Request Job Interview action is no longer shown on the Interview Stage Details page when it is opened by clicking Details on the Interview Stages tab of the Job Opening Details page, because in this scenario the action didn't do anything. Note that the action is still available when you batch schedule interviews.
Recruiting - Issue Fix - Fixed an issue where a manager could edit a job opening (add stages, candidates, job opening questions, and interview stages) that hadn't been created by this manager.
Core HR - Issue Fix - Fixed an issue that could cause a large empty area under the HR HelpDesk dashboard with a big number of HelpDesk requests.
Recruiting - Issue Fix - Fixed an issue that prevented a job opening from being saved if the Description field was required.
Core HR - Improvement - The Kendo framework, which is used in various charts, was updated to the latest version.