19th April 2023 Release Notes

(i117.1)

New Features

New Look for RotaMaster

We have been working on improving the look of RotaMaster and have released a new skin, which will soon become the default. To enable the skin now in a beta version, go to Menu > User Settings > Change Skin and select WXI.

Staff Hub

NetMaster, also known as the staff portal and the web portal, will now be referred to as the Staff Hub. References to ‘NetMaster’ in the system have been updated to  ‘Staff Hub’ for example ‘Staff Hub Settings'

 

Provisional Leave

We have introduced the concept of Provisional Leave for when staff members who don't work regular hours submit Leave requests for periods without a rota rolled out. Requests can be provisionally approved, so that the time off is approved but the duration is subject to change once the rota is rolled out. For more information on this feature, please click here.

 

Character Count on News and Announcements

We have added a character count on the News/Announcements form so that you can easily monitor how close to the character limit your message is.

 

Other Changes

 

1. We have added the following columns to Shift Pattern Manager: Session Fee, Shift Category, Skills and Contract Code. The 'Finish' column has also been renamed to 'End' so that it matches View Rota.

2. When filtering on day columns in rota views, they are now in day order, and start on the first day of the week that is set up in Default Settings. 

3. The following information has been added to Report '[637]: Leavers Report - Primary Post': Start Date, Length of Service, Primary Rota Group.

4. Attendance+ only We have created a new report which shows each staff member's Attendance+ pin. The report can be found in Reports > Time and Attendance > Staff Pin Listings. There is a permission to run this report, which is switched off by default and can be enabled in the Rota Permissions section of User Settings.

 

Bug Fixes

1. We have fixed an issue where zones were not being taken into account when calculating pay rates on adjustments. 

2. Some customers experienced an issue with tiered holiday allowance being incorrectly calculated. It has now been updated to only trigger on the first full qualifying leave year.

3. In some of the rota views, weekdays were displayed out of order. This has now been rectified and they now show in the correct order, starting with the default start of the week that has been specified in Default Settings.

4. Leave request emails that were sent to admins were not displaying the name of the staff member who requested the leave. This has now been resolved and the staff member's name now shows in the email.

5. The payroll detailed and summary view no longer shows the red warning banner if the totals match.