Release Notes

Performance - Issue fix - If the Allow Completion and Allow Reassignment check boxes are selected in the performance review workflow step settings, the Stop Review and Assign to Person options are not available to the user on this step.
Time & Attendance - Issue fix - If the Absence Percent field is visible in the absence request form and it is not filled in, the form can still be saved by the user without issues.
Time & Attendance - Improvement - The Notes field in the timesheet records can now be set up to be mandatory or optional. A new Timesheet Record Notes setting is available in the Time & Attendance settings.
Time & Attendance - Issue fix - If an invalid input is entered into a Date/Time field of the absence registration form, a standard warning message is displayed and the user can proceed to correcting the input.
Core HR - Issue fix - Inactive org units are now also included into the Headcount Turnover report data.
Core HR - Improvement - In the Open Probation Reviews page, the values of the Manager and Employee fields have been replaced with the links to the employee cards of the corresponding employees.
Performance - Improvement - If a performance review form is generated for a probation review, when opening this form from the Open Probation Reviews page, the form is opened maximized.
Time & Attendance - Issue fix In the Timesheet Report, after clearing the Hide Empty Records check box, the empty records are displayed.

Time & Attendance - Issue fix - When a company holiday is created in Lanteria HR, any employee absences registered for this day are recalculated not to exclude this day from the employee allowance.
Learning - Issue fix - A learning material can now be added to a Curriculum only once.
Learning - Improvement - When exporting the Learning reports to pdf, now all the columns are included into one page. 
Recruiting - Improvement - The term "vacancy" has been renamed to "job opening" in the Recruiting module pages. The change will be effective for the new installations and old installations upon request.
Time & Attendance - Improvement - Now the timesheets can also be approved by managers and HR from the Approval Requests. 
Core HR - Issue fix - The connections in the Organizational Chart and Employee Chart are now displayed correctly.
Performance - Issue fix - If texts for the drop-down lists are long, they are now displayed without the layout issues.
Learning - Issue fix - If the same learning material is assigned to an employee twice, the development activity is not duplicated.
Learning - Improvement - In the Status filter of the Development Activities report and Learning Materials report, a separate option for the Cancelled status has been implemented. Now the cancelled development activities will not be displayed when filtering by the Active status.

Core HR - Issue fix - The Documents dashboard displays correct links to the documents so that users can open them from dashboard without issues.
Learning - Issue fix - The Trainer Availability button now displays without the typo mistakes. 
Learning - Improvement - When scheduling the classroom training, after clicking Scheduling Assistant, the page is opened maximized.
Performance - Issue fix - The Overall Score is displayed correctly in the 360 Feedbacks list and is now consistent with the Assessment 360 Result Report.
Learning - Improvement - In the Learning reports, the Learning Materials drop-down has been replaced with picker.
Core HR - Improvement - If a performance review form has been generated as a part of probation process, a link to such form will be displayed on the Open Probation Reviews page and My Team Probation Reviews page.
Performance - Issue fix - The Add Ad Hoc Review button has been hidden from the Employee role menu (My Performance Reviews).

Recruiting - Improvement - When creating a vacancy by copying, the vacancy questions will be copied into the newly created vacancy.
Report Center - Improvement - Layout of the fields displaying percent values in custom reports has been improved. 
Core HR - Improvement - The Company Figures graph in the HR Dashboard page now displays FTE not only for main assignments, but also for all assignments (main + additional).
Performance - Improvement - The order of the graphs in the Goals dashboard has been changed to make it more user friendly.
Recruiting - Issue fix - When creating an employee from candidate, the skills are now copied from candidate to employee.
Learning - Improvement - In the Employee Development Plan, the View Mandatory Trainings check box has been renamed to View Missing Mandatory Trainings, since the mandatory trainings are displayed only when they are missing. 
Recruiting - Issue fix - When creating an employee from candidate, the candidate documents are now copied with the document type.
Time & Attendance - Issue fix - The validation messages for the required fields in the absence registration forms have been brought to consistency for all the absence types.

Performance - Improvement - When launching the ad-hoc performance review, the users can now specify whether all the employee competencies are to be assessed or only those required by the job role (use the Include Job Competencies Only check box).
Core HR - Improvement - In the Approval Requests page, the name of the current responsible is displayed as a hyperlink to the employee card. 
Performance - Issue fix - When creating a new section for the performance review form, the Score Weight % field displays only after the Included in Summary Score check box is selected.

Learning - New functionality - If an employee has any required trainings and no development activities assigned to complete these trainings, the development activities can be assigned automatically. For automatic generation of development activities, under Settings > Settings and Configuration > Learning, click Learning Catalog and select the Automatically Assign Required Training Activities check box.
Time & Attendance - Issue fix - When booking a business trip, the approval requests are sent without issues, if approval workflow for business trips is set up.
Performance - Issue fix - Markup of the table for evaluating job responsibilities during the performance review has been improved so that the users could clearly see which note belongs to which responsibility.
Core HR - Issue fix - When uploading an employee document, the Created By and Modified By fields are now filled with the name of the user who uploaded a document.
Core HR - Issue fix - If the system cannot identify an employee responsible for some HR process steps, such steps will be assigned to HR.
Performance - Issue fix - If a field in the Review Data section of the performance review form contains special symbols, the data is saved and review is submitted without issues.
Other - Issue fix - The employees can now download documents from the custom document libraries without issues.
Other - Improvement When the users are uploading files with the same names, the warning message is displayed.

Recruiting - New functionality - Integration with Exchange/365 Office calendars was implemented. When scheduling the interviews and classroom trainings, the users can now check the trainers’ and interviewers’ calendars to find out their availability.  The integration can be set up under Settings > Settings and Configuration > General > Exchange Integration by specifying the exchange version, exchange integration link and login and password for the user who will be able to view the calendars.
Performance - Issue fix - After submitting the review, an employee cannot use the Back button in the Internet browser to modify and submit review on the step he or she is not responsible for.
Time & Attendance - Improvement - The Acting Persons field type has been changed from lookup to picker. When scheduling absences, vacations, sicknesses, business trips or absences of the custom types, the users can select an acting person in a more convenient way.
Time & Attendance - Issue fix - When extra time off is added to the employee allowance based on the calculation rule with the Occurrence set to Incremental, the calculation formula (range used) is not displayed in the Employee Absence Summary.
Recruiting - Issue fix - The Interview Form is displayed to the external candidates without the layout issues.
Learning - Issue fix - Cancelled development activities cannot be marked as completed.
Recruiting - Issue fix - If a completed interview form with the Summary Score section exists, the candidate ranking is calculated according to the following formula: (Average score) / Max Score * 100 * Weight
Core HR - Issue fix - Additional Filter now works correctly in the Organizational Tree.
Other - Issue fix - After changing from one locale to another, the date and time fields are now displayed n without errors.

Core HR - Issue fix - When assigning an employee to job position, the Organizational Unit picker works correctly.
Performance - Issue fix - When filling in the 360 feedback form, the user is prevented from submitting the form until all the mandatory sections are filled in.
Recruiting - New functionality - Now users can specify the time zone for each location in the Locations list. When the interview appointment is sent to the interviewers, the interview time is set based on the interviewer’s time zone.
Time & Attendance - New functionality - In the My Absences page, for all the absence types, including dynamic absences, an employee can now select a future report date and view the expected Total Leave, Booked and Leave Balance. The calculation will be based on the employee's current work pattern with the assumption that employee will not take any leave during that period.
Recruiting - Issue fix - After scheduling the first interview, the user doesn’t see the No interviews are scheduled message.
Learning - Issue fix - The user can perform group assignment for the scheduled training from the Learning Material Details page.
Learning - Improvement - An additional header was added to the Learning Statistics report of the Learning dashboard to clarify that the number of missing/expired certificates and missing required trainings are displayed as of today, disregarding the selected period.
Core HR - Improvement - When assigning an employee to job position, the user can see the org units list based on his/her permissions.

Performance - Improvement - In performance review form, for the sections of the Objectives Plan type, the Total Score will not be displayed.
Learning - Issue fix - In the Development Activities report, the cancelled development activities are not displayed when the user selects to filter by the Active status.
Learning - Issue fix - When scheduling the training through the Schedule Training quick link, only the Event Required learning materials are available for selection.
Recruiting - Improvement - When creating the templates for the job offer generation, the users can now include the Vacancy_Title field that will be replaced by the vacancy name in the generated offer.
Recruiting - Improvement - The users can edit the skills of the internal candidates when working with the section of the Skills type in the interview form generated based on the interview form template.

Core HR - Improvement - Global employee ID is now validated for the unique value. If the user specifies a global ID that already exists when creating a new employee, an error message will be displayed.
Recruiting - Issue fix - If the interview form contains the Skills section, the skills for the internal candidate are displayed correctly. The skills can be edited in the interview form that is not based on the interview form template. Skill editing for the template-based forms will be added in the future versions.
Data Import - Improvement - Fields with boolean fields that have NULL values are not imported into the system. Errors are recorded into the Excel spreadsheet. 

Performance - Issue fix - If the Competency Storage is set to SQL, the competency assessment time is stored correctly and is the same for both score and comment.
Time & Attendance - Issue fix - The employees who return from absence today are not included into the Absence dashboard Absent Today report. The exception is employees who return today in the afternoon. 
Learning - Issue fix - The Development Activities by Status report of the Learning dashboard displays the data correctly and according to the selected period. 
Report Builder - Improvement - When creating reports based on a custom list that contains Employee Full Name lookup with multiple values allowed, employee names are now displayed as links instead of plain text.
Core HR - Issue fix - The Organizational Chart is now displayed to employees without HR permissions with correct org unit relationships.

Learning - Improvement - The performance of the Learning module has been improved so that it works without delays for the systems with big amounts of data in the Learning Materials list.
Time & Attendance - Issue fix - The Clock in button is now available for the timesheets with the current date only.
Core HR - Issue fix - If the required field of the Date and Time type in the employee card is not filled in, the card will not be saved and the error message will be displayed.
Report Builder - Issue fix - For the reports created in the Spanish local, the salary details fields are displayed correctly.
Core HR - Issue fix - When creating employee from candidate, the education records are copied to the employee card correctly, including those with the empty optional fields and special symbols.
Recruiting - Issue fix - The Candidate Card displays without the java script errors.
Performance - Issue fix - If different summary ratings are assigned to employee during the performance review, all of them are saved correctly.
Other - Issue fix - The fields of the Multiple lines of text type with Append Changes to Existing Text set to Yes (usually used for notes) now display 10 latest records.

Performance - Issue fix - After submitting the assessment, the results report is displayed without the layout issues ("tdSectionContent" is not added after the competency assessment).
Core HR - Improvement - When deleting the candidates, the candidate documents will be also deleted.
Performance - Issue fix - The Assessment 360 Result Report displays correctly even if the HR user runs the 360 review round with self-assessment and afterwards selects the Exclude Self-Assessment check box.
Other - Issue fix - Web feature is activated without issues if Intranet is selected as the first Alternate Access Mapping. The system now checks for any alternate zone settings.
Time & Attendance - Improvement - For the absent manager to be able to approve upon return the requests that were not approved by the acting person, both manager and acting person will be added to approvers if Approval Type on approval step is set to Any Approver.
Performance - Issue fix - When the goal has the same start date and due date, it is displayed in only one of the review form sections. If the date is within the current review period, the goal is displayed in the section of the Objectives type. If the date is in the future in relation to the review period, it is displayed in the Objectives Plan section.
Performance - Issue fix - The Assessment 360 Result Report displays without the layout issues in Spanish localization.
Core HR - Issue fix - The employee email in the employee search results is now restored from the cache file and displayed correctly.
Performance - Improvement - When viewing or editing the interview form section of the Form Fields type, the fields are now displayed in the same order, as they were listed in the Section Fields field of the Interview Form Sections form.
Performance - Improvement - When the user is printing the performance review form that contains the Competency section type, all the competency assessments performed within the current review round will be printed out.

Performance - Issue fix - When setting up the section weights for the calculated score, the Score Weight % field now displays only after selecting a section of the relevant type (Competency, Objective or KPI) and the Included in Summary Score check box.
Time & Attendance - Issue fix - Absence allowance is generated correctly if the Accrual From field in the absence plan is set to Service Date.
Core HR - Improvement - Now the HR Dashboard charts include the number of employees with the corresponding attribute not specified (works for the country, location and company attributes). The numbers in the charts will be displayed in the descending order.
Core HR - Improvement - The Structure Dashboard report (Core HR > Reports > Structure Dashboard) now also includes the number of employees with the corresponding attribute not specified (works for the country, location and company attributes).
Report Builder - Issue fix - In the custom reports designed in Lanteria HR with the lookup fields used for filtering the report, the data is displayed correctly even if the lookup field filter is based on fields other than Title.
Core HR - Issue fix - The users can start the approval process from the Employee menu, My Approval Requests page even if the employee name contains special characters.
Recruiting - Issue fix - After creating a new vacancy by copying, the page refreshes at once displaying a newly created vacancy to the user.
Performance - Issue fix - The Overall Rating field value in the 360 Assessments list is now calculated correctly due to the self-assessment initial (zero) rating not included.
Other - Issue fix - The layout issue related to the Total Count column display was corrected in the Timesheet Report, Employee Absence Summary and Salary Budget Analysis.

Core HR - Issue fix - When editing the Approval Process Settings for the content approval process, the target list displays correctly, according to the setup made by the user before.
Core HR - Issue fix - In the process settings for the existing approval processes, the Request Approval Manually check box is now available for editing.
Core HR - Improvement - When the user is trying to assign an employee who doesn't have any main position to additional position, the error message is displayed. The text of this message has been modified to reflect the cases when the user is trying to close the main position and when an employee is not assigned to any position.
Time & Attendance - Issue fix - If there is more than one carried over record, only the latest record in a period will be taken into account. This will help to avoid incorrect absence booking in case the absence plan settings were changed and more than one carried over record was generated.
Time & Attendance - Issue fix - The reminders that are based on the Absence Reminder By Reminder Date rule are now generated without issues.
Recruiting - New functionality - The Control Answer and Change Status To fields were added to the Vacancy Questions list. For the vacancy questions of the yes/no and choice types, it will be possible to define the control answer. If the candidate's answer coincides with the control answer, his or her status will be changed to the status selected in the Change Status To field. Please note that to use this functionality for the questions of the choice type, the Display Choices as field must be set to Drop-down Menu or Radio Buttons).

Core HR - Issue fix - Local HR specific employee search was implemented. Now Local HR can search among the employees they are responsible for.
Performance - Issue fix - The Assessment 360 Result Report is working without errors.
Time & Attendance - Issue fix - The Absence Plan job doesn't fail in case employee's employment date is February 29 and Accrual From is set to Service Date in this employee's absence plan.
Performance - Issue fix - If Assign Summary Rating for the performance review workflow is set to false, the Summary Rating field doesn't contain the "0 - Not Applicable" rating after the review step is completed.
Core HR - Issue fix - The Organizational Chart now has a correct layout for the non-HR user roles.
Time & Attendance - Improvement - When the user clicks Absences Pending Approval in the HR Absences dashboard, the Absences Pending Approval report is opened instead of the Absence Records Report.
Core HR - Improvement - When a new employee is automatically created as a result of the user profiles synchronization, HR receives notification about this.
Other - Issue fix - When the SQL feature is activated during the solution deployment, all the tables are updated without errors.
Performance - Improvement - The Overall Score field was added to the 360 Assessments list to store the results of the employee competency assessment. The average score for all the competencies and all the assessors will be displayed.
Performance - Issue fix - The Overall Score field has been hidden from the 360 Assessments Edit form.

Core HR - Improvement - If the number of approval requests in the system exceeds the SharePoint list view threshold, the reports for the approval requests are still displayed correctly.
Recruiting - Issue fix - If the user leaves the Requested by field blank when creating a vacancy, the vacancy details are displayed without errors.
Core HR - New Functionality - A new Employee Access check box has been added to the Upload Document form. When uploading the employee documents, the user can now make it available to the employee the document is being uploaded for. If the check box is not selected, the employee will not be able to see the uploaded document.

Other - Improvement - During Lanteria HR installation, the permission groups for all the standard user roles, including ES Performance Manager, ES Recruiting Manager, ES Training Manager, are now created.
Performance - Improvement - When selecting summary rating during performance review, the users can now select the 0 (Not Applicable) rating. Such ratings will not be taken into account in the Average Summary Score by Org Unit chart available in the Performance Round Details.
Time & Attendance - Improvement - If approval workflow is not assigned to the absence list, additional managers can also approve absences on behalf of the direct manager.
Performance - Issue fix - If the review template for the 360 Feedback contains a mandatory section of the Competencies type and the user submits the form without completing this section, a warning message is displayed informing the user that the Competencies section must be filled in.
Time & Attendance - Improvement - If the employee's manager is changed and employee has an absence request pending manager's approval, the request is redirected to the new manager.
Performance - Issue fix - In the Performance dashboard, the Top / Low Scored Competencies chart is working correctly in case SQL is selected as the competence storage under Settings > Settings and Configuration > Performance, the Advanced tab.
Recruiting - Issue fix - If the interview form template contains a section of the Form Fields type, the form is generated correctly and all the fields included into the section are displayed to the interviewer.
Core HR - Issue fix - When using the Job Description Approval Workflow to change the job role description, the existing, new, edited and deleted records are now formatted with different colors, according to the legend.
Report Center - Issue fix - When exporting reports to Excel, the data is exported according to the filters set for the report.
Core HR - Issue fix - In the HR HelpDesk request comment box, the employee global ID is displayed correctly next to the employee name.
Core HR - Issue fix - When changing the employee job, after changing the organizational unit, the job position is now updated to one of the job positions in the selected unit.
Core HR - Issue fix - The Job Position field of the job assignment window now displays job positions correctly in the systems with more than 100 job positions.
Core HR - Issue fix - The Date and Time data type is now copied to the .cache backup files.

Performance - Issue fix - If the Enable Form History check box is selected in the Performance Review settings, this doesn't prevent the employee from submitting the performance review.
Time & Attendance - Issue fix - Local HR can now approve absence requests where he or she is not a current responsible.
Performance - Improvement - HR and Performance Manager can delete comments in the Objectives, Development Needs and Competencies sections of the performance review form.
Other - Improvement - Code from the data import handler was moved to BLDataImport to ensure that several data import processes can be run simultaneously.
Core HR - Improvement - Out of the box Job Description Approval workflow settings were updated for the approval process to function correctly.
Performance - Issue fix - The system now handles the competency names with special characters correctly.
Core HR - Issue fix - The Organizational Chart layout has been corrected to display the org unit relations without extra relation lines.
Core HR - Issue fix - The Job Roles list can now work in the Cash mode, if such mode is enabled.

Time & Attendance - Issue fix - In the dynamic absences mode, when the user creates an absence request, the request is created without errors in the Event Viewer.
Report Builder - New Functionality - Custom reports can now be accessed by the Manager and Local HR roles through the new Report Builder menu.
Core HR - Improvement - When data in the Employee Documents list is being loaded, the Working on it... message is now displayed.
Performance - Issue fix - The Competencies and Development Needs sections now work properly for all the locales.
Performance - Issue fix - If a section of the Job Responsibilities type is selected in the Lock Sections field of the performance review workflow step, the section is displayed as read-only during this step.
Other - Improvement - The Office 365 synchronization settings are now available from the user interface under Settings > Settings and Configuration > General, the Development tab.
Performance - Issue fix - During the performance review, if the Return to Previous Responsible function is used, a review form is now returned not to the previous step, but to the employee previously responsible for the form.
Core HR - Issue fix - When the manager creates a Job Description Approval request, the request is now available to the manager on the Created by Me tab of the Approval Requests page.
Performance - Issue fix - The Top/Low Scored Competencies chart on the Dashboard now doesn't take into account competencies that are not rated.
Performance - Issue fix - During performance review, the users can remove only their own comments in the Development Needs and Development Needs Plan types of sections.
Report Center - Improvement - If in the Report Designer, the permissions for the custom report are granted to the custom role, the employees belonging to this role can now access the report.

Performance - Issue fix - User with the Employee role cannot create ad-hoc performance reviews any more.

Core HR - Issue fix - Approval history is now available to Local HR and manager(s) of the employee for whom the approval process was initiated.

Time & Attendance - Improvement - Extra time off requests were excluded from the Out of Office calendar.

Recruiting - Issue fix - The General Notes in the Interview Details form are now saved without issues.

Core HR - Issue fix - After an employee record is created and AD account assigned, the employee can access his or her employee card without issues.
Performance - Issue fix - During performance review, if the current responsible is changed through the Assign to Person function, the review is not reassigned to the previous responsible any more.
Recruiting - Issue fix - When the Recruiting Manager is creating a vacancy, the Recruiting Managers field is filled in automatically by his or her name.
Core HR - Improvement - In the Change Job page, the Org Unit and Job Role field types were changed from lookups to pickers.
Time & Attendance - Improvement - The maximum number of the absent employee names displayed for one day in the Out of Office Calendar was increased from 2 to 7.
Core HR - Issue fix - When a new org unit is created in the Organizational Structure page, the page is refreshed at once and the newly created org unit is displayed.
Report Builder - Improvement - In the Report Center, the user now sees reports by sections and not by modules. One section can include several modules. The sections are displayed as follows:

• Core HR (includes Org Structure and HR Administration)
• Time & Attendance (includes Absence)
• Compensation (includes Compensation)
• Recruiting (includes Recruiting)
• Performance (includes Appraisal, Competence, Goals, Talent)
• Learning (includes Learning)

Only HR can create and edit reports. Managers and Local HRs can now run the reports created by HR.

Time & Attendance - Improvement - If the Do Not Accrue Allowance During Unpaid Leave check box is selected, allowance for all the absence types (vacation, sickness, absence etc.) is not accrued. This rule works when employee is on any type of unpaid leave (vacation, sickness, absence, etc.)
Core HR - Issue fix - HR can terminate an employee without any issues.
Learning - Issue fix - When several requests are sent for the same training event at the same time, they are now processed by the system sequentially so that to avoid exceeding the maximum number of seats.
Learning - Improvement - A link to the Appointment Templates list was added to Settings > Settings and Configuration > General > Notifications and Reminders.
Time & Attendance - Issue fix - In case there are sequential absence records, the Out of Office Calendar doesn't show the redundant absence records any more.
Learning - Issue fix - When a development activity is created with a link to development need, the activity is created correctly and is associated with the selected development need.
Other - Improvement - A link to the Cost Centers list was added to Settings > Settings and Configuration > Core HR > Org Structure.
Learning - Issue fix - The training requests for the learning materials with the "&" symbol in the name are now created correctly.
Core HR - Issue fix - If the Employees list or Salary Details list is updated through the approval process, the employee Full Name field is not updated.

Performance - Issue fix - In 360 Performance Reviews, the Overall Rating now is calculated based on the selected groups of assessors. For example, if the subordinates are not included into assessment, this group is not taken into account.
Time & Attendance - Improvement - A new reminder was added notifying HR about unapproved absence requests. The notification is sent before the beginning of the new accrual period. Please note that approving past absence requests after the new allowance is generated can lead to the incorrect numbers in the carried over days.
Performance - Issue fix - When an employee is deleted from the Employee Database, any active performance reviews for this employee are also deleted.
Core HR - Issue fix - Special characters in the employee name do not prevent launching the approval process any more.
Performance - Issue fix - The redundant characters were removed from the Assessment 360 Form page.
Performance - Issue fix - Assigning performance review using the Assign to Person field in the Performance Reviews page now works without errors.
Performance - Improvement - Performance Manager can now launch an ad-hoc performance review for any of the employees he or she is responsible for.
Recruiting - Issue fix - The user can create an employee from candidate without issues, irrespective of the candidate's date of birth.

Learning - Issue fix - When an employee is enrolling for a training from Learning Catalog, he or she can select one of the scheduled training events without encountering any issues.
Recruiting - Issue fix - When using the interview form template with the Form Fields section type, the interview form now functions without errors.
Time & Attendance - Issue fix - If the Daily accrual method is used with the Working Days period calculation type and the company year start date is before the employment date, the absence allowance is now calculated properly.
Time & Attendance - Issue fix - If the absence duration is full day or more, the days/hours specified manually will be reset to the calculated value after the user clicks Save.
Core HR - Improvement - In the Equal Employment Opportunity report, the Total and Previous Year Total amounts were formatted bold.
Core HR - Improvement - The Update Manager checks if the Core HR menu already contains the EEO report manu item, and if not, such menu item will be created.
Data Import - Improvement - A custom grid view for lists mapped to data import section items has been created. When the user clicks Edit in Datasheet View in the Data Import page (Settings > Data Import), a new grid view will open. Also if the user clicks Create data mapping for custom list and creates another section item for any list, the grid view will be created as well.
Time & Attendance - Issue fix - If the requested absence duration exceeds the number of working hours for a day, an error message is displayed to the user.