1st December 2023 Release Notes

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New Features

1. New setting for the ordering of Firstname and Surname

There is a new setting under Default Settings > Options > Personnel for displaying staff names with surname first. When this is enabled, names will be displayed as 'Surname, Firstname' and when this setting is disabled, names will be displayed as 'Firstname Surname'. 

Other Changes

1. The Terms & Conditions button has been moved above the Sign In button on Staff Hub, to make it clearer that it needs to be confirmed before progressing. 

2. Archived or suspended members of staff no longer appear in report [846]: Previous Average Pay.

3. People+ A character count now appears on an admin comment when disputing an expense claim. This character count is set at 255 characters and will auto-update to show the current character count.

Bug Fixes

1. Secondary staff members' names now consistently show on Rota Weekly Viewer when the 'Show Secondary Rota Group' filter is ticked.

2. Staff Hub members are no longer able to use the same password when resetting an expired password.

3.  The Shift Group Name column can now be expanded on the Shift Groups page (Rota > Rota Settings), so Shift Groups with long names can be seen in full. 

4. Box D (NHS Pension Scheme tiered employee contribution rate) on Report [830]: GP SOLO Form 2021 is now populated when the report is run.  

5. When running payroll, some approved overtime adjustments were not pulling through to payroll even though the setting 'Use session approved date for payroll' was disabled. This has now been resolved.

6. When editing a shift in View Rota, the middle name of a staff member shows when the 'Remove middle names in View Rota' setting isn't enabled.

7. Overtime claim emails used to be sent to the email address set up against the Expenses field in Rota Group > Staff Hub emails. This has now been changed so overtime emails are  sent to the email address that is set up against the overtime field for thevstaff member's Primary Rota Group.

8. Shifts are no longer automatically uploaded to Staff Hub if the shift description is changed. 

9. When a shift start time is updated through Quick Edit on Shift Pattern Manager, the value of the shift now updates on the grid view of Shift Pattern Manager. 

10. People+ Line managers of historic posts no longer receive an email notification when a member of staff submits an expense claim. Only line managers of active posts will receive an email notification. 

11. People+ When the TOIL functionality is disabled, over time can no longer be requested as TOIL or approved as TOIL. 

12. People+ Staff Pay When a staff member has multiple  posts, the adjustment duration was collated for both posts and shown for both in the Staff Pay Hours Extract - Adjustment Reasons export. This has now been resolved. 

13. Attendance+ Admin users who are linked to a personnel profile can no longer process their own T&A exceptions.