Absence Management Module and Time Card Update Release Notes

We just released a new version with significant updates to the absence management module and a brand new time card solution, as well as several small bug fixes.

Timecard feature has been added

Availability toggle shows visual of when employees can work directly on schedule

Subscription details tab found under Settings – can now enter billing information right from your account

Managers can request absences on behalf of employees on their profile

Managers can approve/decline/revoke absences on employee profiles

Managers can approve/decline absences directly from Home tab

Add new employee now has smart drop downs (state/country now take additional entries)

Employee profile now has smart drop downs (state/country now take additional entries)

Stores dropdowns now use smart drop downs

Trial accounts will revert to FREE accounts after 15 days — no access to scheduling module

View 2 has been renamed to NEW View and View 1 has been renamed to OLD View

Employee profiles now organize widgets (absences, assignments, availability, schedule, timecards) in columns, ordered alphabetically

Absence requests can be added and revoked for past dates

Shift notes now included on the eScheduleICAL feed

Add new employee state/country now loads as data instead on inline (faster)

Employee profile state/country now loads as data instead on inline (faster)

Addition of a super user

Holidays are renamed to Closures

When checking availability sometimes we were using the wrong date

Employee maximum hours per week was sometimes NULL

SMS messages now are not truncated – instead we send an optimized message with shift counts via SMS

Optimized the way we retrieve new shift assignments from data layer (faster)

http://www.eschedule.ca/login.asp in email signatures now links to https://www.eschedule.ca/login

Time-off references in emails now read absence

Time-off items on schedules now read absence

AddShift2 now properly logs instead of only logging new shifts when APPR and in FUTURE

getDeclinedShifts now does orderby in class vs service (faster)

Shift alarm now sends optimized SMS

Normalized employee fields between different views (add/view/profile)

Height on add new template shift modal is fixed so you can see the whole button

Shift approved/denied/revoked flags are now explicitly set