4 New features added, 3 problems fixed

New features added:

1. In travel expense claim, a new configurable field has been added for line items where payment mode is Company Pre-paid or Charged to Company and that is Vendor. So expenses that are to be booked to a specific vendor can be done for such expenses. The requirement of this field is configurable and if configured, is optional for requester and approver but mandatory for accounts approver to fill. The vendor is selected through a search on vendor code/name on a vendor master.
2. In travel expense claim, through a configurable option, the advance amount being settled by the accounts person can now be modified to a lesser amount.
3. In Benefits claims, the approved amount is now defaulted to claimed amount and paid amount is defaulted to approved amount. This way, approver and accounts need to enter only when they want to change the defaulted amount.
4. The Headcount dashboard in EIP module has been substantially revamped. The new dashboard includes stunning high visual graphics and on click navigation within dashboard. In layer one we have three charts having its own specification and can easily move between years. In pie chart we have an on demand data grid.

Problems fixed:

1. There was probelem in "Late at work report". If employee was on first half leave and employee was therefore late, the report was showing late mark. This has been fixed.
2. A rounding off issue in conveyance claim has been fixed.
3. Special characters in Library item description was not handled. This has been fixed.

2 New Features added, 4 Problems fixed:

New features added:

1. Similar to travel expense claim, we have also revamped the design for Conveyance claim so that now the user can make edits to an existing line item there itself wihout opening a new window.
2. Design for Others expense claim also has been similarly revamped.

Problems fixed:

1. In Travel Expense claim, for a line item of type conveyance, Rate was also editable if conveyance head was based on amount only. This has been fixed.
2. In Update leave balance interface, search based on employee code has also been added.
3. A problem with date drop down in travel claim has been fixed.
4. In Travel Request, approver was not able to approve in case of deviation requests in IE7 only.This was browser related problem and has been fixed

5 New features added, 3 Problems fixed

New Features added:

1. In the attendance integration utility, the acceptable date format for attendance data has now been made configurable, so that now can configure the format in which the customer's attendance data is stored and the integration utility can work with multiple formats.
2. The format for entry and display of numbers, specially amount figures has been made configurable in EIP module. This implies that we can define for an account what is the grouping separator (for eg - , or .) and how is the grouping to be done, whether thousands separator (as is followed in US and most western world) or thousands followed by hundereds (as is followed in India). The decimal separator characters can also be configured now (for example most of euorpe uses , to denote decimal instead of a .). The default setting is as per Indian formats currently but can be changed for an account on request. This configuration currently only works for on-screen displays not for reports.
3. The above number format configurability has also been implemented in Learning & Development module, with others to follow.
4. We have revamped the design for Travel and Expense claim so that now the user can make edits to an existing line item there itself wihout opening a new window. The layout of screen has also been made more aesthetic based on this design.
5. An option to approve multiple leave applications has been added in leave Need to Act view. The approver can select multiple leave applications and press Approve Selected button to approve all in one go. Please note that leave requests which have deviations are highlighted with a yellow warning symbol.

Problems fixed:

1. A problem in printing of travel expense claim has been fixed.
2. The field label for an applicant has been changed from Current Location to Preferred Location
3. Multiple uploads of attendance data by multiple clicks of Submit button has been disabled.

12 New features released, 6 problems fixed

New features released:

This week has seen the completion of a major initiative we have been working on, which is to release many web services in the EIP module and some in the leave module as well. We will subsequently release documentation for these web services to enable customers to programatically call these web services from their existing systems, thereby enabling seamless integration. Till then we can provide details on request.

1. Employee addition web service - this will enable addition of new employees
2. Employee data update web service-  this will enable various employee life cycle transactions like work data changes, separations, long absence start and end, rehires, and some other general data updates
3. Business Unit master web service-  this web service will enable creation and updation of business units
4. Function master web service-  this web service will enable creation and updation of functions
5. Location master web service - this web service will enable creation and updation of locations
6. Grade master web service - this web service will enable creation and updation of grades
7. Grade level master web service - this web service will enable creation and updation of grade levels
8. Role group master web service - this web service will enable creation and updation of role groups
9. Role master web service - this web service will enable creation and updation of organization roles
10. Leave transactions web service- this web service will enable creation of leave transactions for users.
11. Leave upload utility - This is an excel based upload utility which will enable HR users to do bulk upload of HR leaves through and Excel data upload
12. Attendance Integration utility can now run on Windows 7, apart from Windows XP

Problems fixed:

1. A problem with displaying error message due to incorrect excel format, in the employee upload, has been fixed.
2. A problem with displaying details in Visa tab of employee profile has been fixed.
3. A problem with leave accrual based on tenure of employee has been fixed.
4. A problem with roster search in case of an employee having middle name, has been fixed.
5. Accrual of short leave if having a negative balance had a problem. This has been fixed,
6. Display of Long absence data in EIP profile had a problem which has been fixed.