Release notes

The platform is regularly updated and improved. Below are details of planned and historical changes. Updates affecting end-users are typically carried out between 03:00 and 05:30 (Finnish time - UTC+2 / UTC+3 during DST) and, wherever possible, are communicated in advance.

The fixes, minor changes and maintenance work that took place at 1 pm daily will be carried out once a week on Thursdays starting from October 1st 2023. The release will be informed about at least 24 hours in advance. Read more here.

 

23/11/2023 release (2.13.31)

 Improvement

• Levelling periods additional work earning threshold can be configured to scale to part-time worker's worktime percentage

  Guidance [ref 13893]

 Fix

• The planning filter did not function properly when filtering tasks and persons

  [ref 13917]

16/11/2023 release (2.13.30)

 Changes

• The IP address for actions such as the IP address a work event was created from has been hidden from the UI

  [ref 13802]

• Setting "Exclude additional work from levelling period overtime calculations" has been replaced with the new setting "Additional work calculated as worked time" in the view Worktime > Settings > Work hours > Levelling period

  Change requires no action from customers

 Fixes

• Weekly rest time can now be earned when a non-rest event occupies 100% of the the full period

  [ref 11562]

• Spending half a day of work time shortening leave or annual absence was not possible when accrual was earned in days

  Guidance [ref 13876]

• Annual leave balance change event did not alter person's annual leave balance in certain situations

  [ref 13882]

• On Call could not be configured to act as non-resting time in Weekly rest calculations

  [ref 11885]

• Calculating weekly rest time earning did not always work correctly when earning period was based on week day with the least work and week start time was other than midnight in Monday

  [ref 13891]

• Employment start and end dates were not integrated correctly into Priima when their values were left empty

  [ref 13898]

• When IFS work hours export was run, the request sent to IFS and the response from IFS were not saved correctly into the service log

  [ref 13890]

09/11/2023 release (2.13.29)

 Fixes

• Event request e-mail notification was not sent to supervisors if it was added from a terminal or from the current status page.

  [ref 13839]

• Issue with payment group payment days

  When setting up payment group payment days, some days were automatically avoided as payment dates even if the days were banking days. These incorrectly avoided days were: 6.4.2023, 28.3.2024, 30.4.2024, 31.12.2024, 17.4.2025, 30.4.2025, 31.12.2025.

  Guidance [ref 13871]

02/11/2023 release (2.13.28)

 Improvements

• Usability improvements to work schedules

  • Changes to work schedule calendars needs to be now separately published

    • Before this update, changes were taking effect immediately after saving
  • It is now easier to notice that the work schedule period has unpublished changes
  • Schedule period calendar "Publish"-button now indicates the number of unpublished changes
  • Schedule period listing now indicates if unpublished changes exists
  • Shift pattern offset zero now, instead of one, means that the shift cycle starts from the first shift of the shift pattern
    • Positive shift pattern offset values now delay the start of the shift cycle (previously delaying was done by using negative numbers)
  • Publishing now tells what is being published and what publishing means
  • The work schedule period calendar setup view can now be maximized
  • Legend, print, and maximize buttons have been moved into the tools menus in views having many view-related functionalities

  Guidance [ref 13667]

• Added a setting for controlling the threshold at which rounding weekly rest compensation occurs

  Setting can be found in Worktime Administration Working community settings/Setting group settings Work hours Weekly rest period Compensation when weekly rest period is not met Additional options.

  Guidance [ref 13778]

• Fixed rounding down working unintuitively with the threshold for all rounding settings

  Rounding down will now only occur if the threshold is not set, or the remainder over the rounding interval is less than the threshold. For example, this can be used to ensure overtime is only paid once they work a particular number of minutes of overtime.

  [ref 13778]

 Fixes

• In certain situations, calendar displayed a part of a shift on the wrong day

  [ref 13814]

• Targeting several projects to an event, leaving the duration of the last project empty, could lead to a situation where the project targeting didn't fill the duration of the event.

  [ref 13877]

26/10/2023 release (2.13.27)

 Fixes

• Copying of permitted or expected work times did not work correctly

  [ref 13853]

• Events in table report did not show multiple users correctly

  [ref 13854]

19/10/2023 release (2.13.26)

 Improvements

• Worktime calendar has now a separate popup which shows week level breakdown of rest times related to weekly rest compensations.

  Guidance [ref 13711]

• Planning view now lets the user to change view filters if it detects that loading the view might take a long

  [ref 13728]

• Naming of scheduled tasks of trusted services is now unified. They are renamed as:

  • Henkilöiden vienti Kiva Work -palveluun to Synchronization with Nepton trusted service Kiva Work
  • Export Person to Priima to Synchronization with Nepton trusted service Priima
  • Nepton Palkat - Maksuryhmien vienti on jatkossa Payment group synchronization for Nepton Payroll
  • Nepton Palkat - Henkilövienti (päivittäinen) on jatkossa Daily person synchronization for Nepton Payroll
  • Nepton Palkat - Henkilövienti (reaaliaikainen) on jatkossa Real-time person synchronization for Nepton Payroll

  [ref 13763]

• Events in table view has now weekly rest column and separate popup which shows week level breakdown of rest times related to weekly rest compensations.

  [ref 13783]

• Changes to worktime setting Work Rises > Force time earned during work rise to overtime > Force overlapping regular time to percentage, if work week calculation mode "KVTES" is in use.

  Regular time is not automatically forced to overtime on weekend if there are weekly leave events on weekdays.

  Guidance [ref 13836]

 Fixes

• Visma LTR integrations in the ruleset testing tool now display the result generated after running the queries and allow the result to be downloadable.

  [ref 13770]

• Work time shortening leave exceptions for both paid and unpaid event types did not work. The issue has now been fixed.

  [ref 13799]

• The support page was not accessible from the Nepton top menu. The issue has been fixed.

  [ref 13821]

• Weekly patches, fixes, minor changes and maintenance jobs only occur on Thursdays as of 1.10.2023. However Nepton still prevented scheduled jobs from running at 13:00-13:30 from Monday to Friday instead of just Thursdays. This issue has now been fixed.

  See Platform status-page for further information on maintenance windows.

  Guidance [ref 13835]

• If the scheduled worktime event import had a problem in some of the import rows, marking in the service log was shown faultily as successful. The problem has been fixed and the marking in these situations is shown as a warning in the future.

  [ref 13837]

11/10/2023 release (2.13.25)

 Fix

• Project search in event editing did not work correctly in Android mobile devices

  [ref 13832]

09/10/2023 release (2.13.24)

 Fix

• Worktime help tips temporarily disabled

  Help tips have temporarily been disabled whilst we address usability issues

  [ref 13822]

07/10/2023 release (2.13.23)

 New

• Kiva Work is added to Nepton as a trusted service

  • Kiva Work is an easy-to-use personnel survey and analytics platform that makes it possible to develop personnel experience in Nepton.
  • You can easily access Kiva Work from the Kiva Work button in Nepton's top menu.
  • A free Lite version is available to all Nepton customers.
  • Campaign! A 3-month trial period of the Premium version is offered free of charge to Nepton customers. Please contact Kiva Work sales to activate. Campaign valid until October 31st, 2023.

  Guidance [ref 13755]

 Improvements

• Improvements to Worktime > Work hours > Events in calendar view

  • The week tables are no longer getting unnecessarily wide when viewing long periods.
  • View now fills the whole browser window horizontally, making the content aligned to the left side.
  • When a long view is scrolled down, a floating "Back to top" button appears.
  • Legend toggle button moved under tools menu.
  • Help embedded to the page added to explain how to add events, view info of a day and what is under tools menu.

  [ref 13795] [ref 13800]

• Two new columns added to Visma Fivald CSV salary export

  • Vacation start date
  • Vacation end date

  New columns are used for reporting absences to the Incomes Register.

  Guidance [ref 13807]

 Fixes

• The permissions to record "Hour to hour" and "Overtime" is now applied more strictly to the current status page/legacy web terminal, and the InsertActivities+UpdateActivities web services

  If the overtime and balance MAX buttons incorrectly disappear from the current status page, please ensure the permission to set overtime and hour to hour is correctly set for each worktime role:

  

  [ref 13797]

• Worktime calendar's date range picker did not work if it was used on mobile devices

  [ref 13796]

• Fixed bug where the "Maximum balance that can be earned per day" setting did not always work correctly with the min/max allowed balance at the beginning of the day

  [ref 12226]

• Overtime rounding did not affect calculated on call time

  Applies only to overtime rounding, no issues seen with event rounding.

  Guidance [ref 13787]

• Absence type list on worktime event editing view was incorrect in some cases

  [ref 13809]

• In some specific cases, Sympa API user import failed without reporting about the problem properly

  [ref 13810]

• When permitted work hours came from work shift planning, they were set only based on the first event of the day, even though there were more events planned on the day

  [ref 13813]

27/09/2023 release (2.13.22)

 Fixes

• Sign-in with Google works now with the latest version of the Google Chrome browser

  [ref 13785]

• Project invoicing report "Paid time off" column was missing in some cases

  [ref 11583]

26/09/2023 release (2.13.21)

 New

• Support for paying weekly rest time compensation into balance/accrual

  Support for paying weekly rest compensation into a balance/accrual that can be spent later as weekly rest leave.

  Guidance [ref 13695]

 Improvements

• Worktime TES section's setting Work week calculation mode has new setting option "KVTES"

  Calculation mode interprets overtime and accruals according to TES Kunta-alan yleinen virka- ja työehtosopimus (KVTES).

  Guidance [ref 13732]

• IFS work hours export now supports exporting assumed events salary data to IFS

  Assumed events are synchronised to IFS when they are approved

  Guidance [ref 13777]

• Improvements have been made to the Estonian translations

  [ref 13747]

 Fixes

• Integration history panel and service log did not display a warning about an export with empty rows in some manual imports

  [ref 13609]

• When setting multiple permitted work times or expected work times on a single day, only one of them would be displayed in the calendar pop up menu. This issue has now been fixed.

  [ref 13789]

• Visma L7/LTR project import integration via REST API was not functional

  • It was not possible to schedule the integration as the schedule tried to run the import via SFTP
  • All sub numbers from Visma L7/LTR were not imported as projects

  Guidance [ref 13769]

• Levelling period hours were not calculated accurately in planning view, as it only displayed hours for the visible period in the planning calendar

  [ref 13781]

• If travel invoice had mandatory fields, they were not clearly indicated when creating new travel invoices

  Mandatory comment fields, like daily allowance comment fields, were not properly indicated and highlighted when trying to save travel invoice. Fields were hidden behind collapsed menu item which gave an impression that Save-button didn't work.

  [ref 11784]

18/09/2023 release (2.13.20)

 New

• The default language for terminals can also be Swedish or Norwegian.

  If necessary, contact Saarni Nepton to get the default languages changed for your working community terminals.

  [ref 13684]

 Fix

• Permitted work times issue

  Permitted work times based on planned work shifts were set incorrectly in some situations.

  [ref 13450]

14/09/2023 release (2.13.19)

 Improvements

• Public holiday settings now include Austrian national day.

  Guidance 1, 2 [ref 13764]

• Worktime > Work hours > Approve project hours:

  • Table outlook is modernized and functionality improved.
  • More detailed information about project related events and hours is highlighted and shown in popup window when table cell is clicked.
  • 0 duration events, such as notes, corrections and supplements, are now also shown in the view.
  • Admin users and supervisors have possibility to directly open events from the view.

  [ref 12986]

• Changes to travel invoice approvals:

  • Earlier travel invoices with unapproved projects might have caused notifications about unapproved events before reporting period. They could have been accidentally approved without seeing them. Now the view does not affect travel invoices in any way and their approval is done separately outside of this view.
  • Projects related to travel invoices can be approved only by approving the travel invoice. Approving travel invoice always approves related projects regardless of value in the setting "Approving an event approves all attached projects". Same logic is applied to unapproving.

  [ref 12986]

• Possibility to override project type in IFS work hours export.

  If a project has an external identifier, by default "Project_sequence" is used as project type in the work entry. Now this can be overridden by setting project type value in IntegrationProjectType field in integration rule

  Guidance [ref 13750]

 Fixes

• Worktime > Work hours > Reports > Event report did not calculate total duration in hours correctly when report was saved as a spreadsheet.

  [ref 13771]

• The PIN code bulk generation tool didn't work for customers who had lot of the PIN codes already in use.

  [ref 13760]

07/09/2023 release (2.13.18)

 Improvements

• On call hours are now visible in work time reports
  On call hours have been added to the following reports in Worktime > Work hours > Reports:

  • Hours by salary type
  • Hours by event type

  On call hours have been added to the following reports in Worktime > Projects > Reports:

  • Project hours by salary type
  • Project invoicing report (when reporting by salary type)
  • Project hours by person (when reporting by salary type)
  • Project hours by event type

  Worktime reports
  Project reporting
  [ref 13752]

• Allow to discard and restore jobs from the integration history panel. The panel now displays also ruleset name and export period

  [ref 13608]

 Fixes

• Various accessibility fixes to Events in calendar -view

  • The notification that appears after approving events was not accessible. It is now accessible.
  • The date picker and the date picker arrows were not accessible to screen readers. They are now accessible.
  • The "Approve" and "Unapprove" buttons have drop down menus and they were not properly accessible to screen readers. This issue has been fixed.
  • The color contrast was quite low. The contrast has been improved.
  • The "Bulk actions" button was not accessible at all, it could not be accessed via keyboard navigation. This issue has been fixed.
  • The search box for selecting a different users calendars made it difficult to navigate the site with a keyboard. This issue has been fixed.

  [ref 13716]

• In the planning view of shift planning, it was not possible to display all locations using the filter. When "-" is selected from the dropdown menu, all locations are now displayed.

  [ref 13761]

31/08/2023 release (2.13.17)

 Improvements

• Login with Nepton username/email and password can now be disallowed to ensure centralized access management, e.g. if all users are using single sign on.

  Guidance [ref 12714]

• Login settings have been separated into their own section on the Employees-section administration page.

  Guidance [ref 12714]

• Weekly rest time support added for KVTES: Earning based on the week day with the least amount of work.

  Can be defined by settings in "Worktime" > "Settings" > "Weekly rest period" > "Compensation when weekly rest period is not met" - section by setting "How compensation is earned" to "Earned based on worked time" and "If compensation based on worked time" > "Earning period based on" to "Week day with the least work".

  [ref 13699]

• New Worktime Projects API method EnsureProjectsExistV3 added which allows projects project managers to be updated for a project.

  EnsureProjectsExistV3 also supports all capabilities of EnsureProjectsExistV2 API method.

  EnsureProjectsExistV3-method
  API-examples
  [ref 13706]

• The projects and notes that appear in the calendar view do not have good visual separation after the 2.13.0 release.

  This has been improved by making the project headlines bold.

  [ref 13749]

 Fixes

• Overnight work events in some situations were not correctly picked up by on call calculations.

  [ref 13727]

• The assumed lunch break used to show both the time and duration, but after the work schedules release it only shows the duration if no specific start time was set for assumed lunch.

  This has now been fixed such that both the time and duration is shown.

  [ref 13741]

28/08/2023 release (2.13.16)

 Improvements

• New setting option "Earned based on rest deficit" added for weekly rest period in Worktime > Settings > Weekly rest period > Compensation when weekly rest time is not met > How compensation is earned

  • With this option selected weekly rest periods can be compensated based on the weekly rest period deficit.

• Some terms and setting for weekly rest period improved.

  [ref 13697]

• Weekly rest periods can be configured as number of weeks in Worktime > Settings > Weekly rest period > Weekly rest period calculations > Number of weeks to check

  • Number of weeks defaults to 1 if not set.
  • If multiple weeks are checked, "Starting date if multiple weeks checked" needs to have a date set.
  • Change requires no action from customers for existing weekly rest calculations.

  [ref 13696]

 Fixes

• An issue that caused some users to see an error in the Current Status view was fixed.

  [ref 13737]

• Long expected work times could cause issues with calculating long year leaves and absences.

  [ref 13725]

24/08/2023 release (2.13.14)

 Fixes

• Work hours Events in calendar / Events in table. Day or event specific menu popup could sometimes open outside browser's visible area.

  [ref 13729]

• In the planning view, the dropdown menu for filtering work schedule locations was not working as expected.

  [ref 13734]

23/08/2023 release (2.13.13)

 Improvements

• A new setting in 'supplements' and 'work rises' has been added that makes it easy to enable/disable them. The new setting can be used for example to easily prevent the settings from being inherited from a higher level.

  Existing supplements and work rises that were in use before this change are enabled by default and this needs no action from customers

  Guidance: Supplements, Work rises [ref 13357]

• Work schedules fixes and improvements

  • The missing translation that occurred when removing shifts in shift planning has been added.
  • The brief appearance of a Purple "Deviation" cell during the creation of a new shift in planning, even when filtered for a "normal" planning location, has been addressed.
  • While in bulk actions mode, menus and drop-downs for Alias shifts no longer remain open, because bulk tools cannot interact with alias shifts. Interaction with Alias shifts is now suspended during bulk mode.
  • The issue where selecting a non-work schedule location offered the option to create template shifts has been fixed.
  • Alias and Template shifts added from the planning view will now only be displayed on the day they start.
  • Fine planning now accurately displays shifts. The problem of displaying shifts as overlapping when they are not has been fixed.
  • Work schedule aliases are no longer available for selection in planning if the schema is not published for that period.
  • The error caused by selecting "-" in the planning view, which sometimes created an unusual 00:00 - 00:00 shift, has been fixed. This option has been removed from the planning dropdown.
  • When removing a deviation from shift planning, an empty shift was generated incorrectly. Issue has been fixed and removal now results the shift reverting to the original work schedule shift.
  • Changing an alias back and forth (e.g., A - Y - A) lead to the alias becoming unpublished, even if it was originally published from the schema without changes. Issue has been fixed.
  • Both day and shift level notes from the schema are now correctly displayed in the shift details.
  • Clicking on a date period outside the schema period will no longer result in a pink background and a visible alias dropdown before the general shift template opens.
  • Alias duplication within the same scheduling period is now properly prohibited.

  [ref 13668]

 Fixes

• "Special Node 0" is not displayed as user group for users with no user group. Column is now empty in these cases.

  [ref 2404]

• When editing the Integration Scheduling setting "Schedule Type" with the validity controls, the dropdown would always contain all possible settings, even if the particular integration did not support that setting. This issue has been fixed.

  [ref 13636]

• Start-button is now hidden for assumed lunch breaks in mobile view if lunch break event is not in use in the worktime calendar.

  Previously in this scenario Start-button was visible but didn't start the event.

  [ref 13724]

15/08/2023 release (2.13.11)

 Improvements

• Improved handling of long continuous shifts in work time calculations.

  Long shifts lasting more than two days were treated as one continuous shift. This caused a situation where work hours from the third date of the shift were not calculated at all.

  [ref 13622]

• The number of configurable work rises have been increased from 30 to 50.

  [ref 13712]

 Fixes

• In the planning view of shift planning, the hours were not calculated correctly if the person had overnight shifts. The bug has been fixed.

  [ref 13717]

• "Work hours > TES > Earning percentages by event types" calculation for 0-minute events caused an error.

  [ref 13707]

• Work time role access right "Can edit all users dining events" did not give permission to view and edit every person's dining events in Work time Events in calendar view. Viewing and editing dining events in Events in table view worked normally.

  [ref 13710]

• Opening calendar from the "Work hours > Approve hours" view and removing an event from the calendar redirected to your own calendar instead of staying in the opened calendar.

  [ref 13708]

• Opening "Work hours > Events in calendar" when viewing someone else's calendar opened your own calendar. This concerned situations when the calendar was opened to a new tab.

  [ref 13708]

09/08/2023 release (2.13.10)

 Improvements

• In worktime persons can be now searched by employee number.

  Employee number is also included in search results. This helps to differentiate employees with the same name.

  [ref 13688]

 Fix

• In some cases, when attempting to view another user's calendar in the calendar view (not table view though), the content may fail to load, resulting in a loading spinner that never stops. The issue has been fixed.

  [ref 13685]

31/07/2023 release (2.13.9)

 Improvements

• The right to edit own event requests has been split to its own permission, separate from allowing edits to all own personal entries. This enables more restrictive Worktime roles to be configured.

  • New Worktime role permission "Can edit own requests" introduced.
  • All roles with "Can edit own personal entries" permission have been automatically granted the new "Can edit own requests" permission. This is so that there is no change to behaviour unless permissions are edited by customers.

  Worktime roles [ref 13462]

• Messaging via event requests is no longer considered an event edit. Therefore messaging is always possible, even after approval and locking.

  • This better reflects real-world situations where discussion is needed about past events.
  • It is planned that all event types will get the messaging feature eventually.
  • The "Can edit own request message" permission is respected and as such, the user must have this permission to add a request message.

  Event requests [ref 13462]

 Fix

• Employee number "0" was not correctly showing in worktime calendar.

  [ref 13687]

27/07/2023 release (2.13.8)

 New

• Service can be now used also in Norwegian language, excluding terminals.

  [ref 13591]

 Fixes

• "Filter to supervisor's subordinates" was missing in work time calendar person selection.

  [ref 13674]

• Improved the wording of the last two options for the "Increase accrual in accordance with rate of increase" -work rise setting to better match what the action does.

  [ref 12695]

• Opening the editing page for a unapproved multi-day event requests in the past caused excessive notifications by showing the same message for all of the days.

  [ref 12684]

27/07/2023 release (2.13.7)

 Fixes

• Employee number of the selected user is now correctly displayed in the calendar view.

  [ref 13682]

• Events that span 20+ years can now be deleted without any errors.

  [ref 13678]

• Event context menu gave the option to edit the event in some cases when the person did not have rights to edit the event

  [ref 13673]

• If a person did not have the rights to edit any data in an event request, opening its details gave an error

  [ref 13673]

• Some setting labels for worktime role permission where changed to better reflect what they do.

  [ref 10603]

25/07/2023 release (2.13.6)

 Fixes

• Deleting an event in the event editing view now properly shows a loading indicator.

  [ref 13107]

• Employee number has been added back to the top of the events in calendar view.

  [ref 13675]

• Quick start event could include incorrect project duration in some cases.

  [ref 13639]

21/07/2023 release (2.13.5)

 Fixes

• The locations management view was not working for some of our customers.

  [ref 13677]

20/07/2023-release (2.13.4)

 Improvement

• Some Worktime work rise setting labels have been updated to better reflect what they do

  [ref 12419]

 Fixes

• The Nepton Payroll manual integration will no longer return a ZIP-file if the total file size of the export exceeds 0.5MB

  It will only return a ZIP-file if there are multiple export files.

  [ref 13659]

• In some cases, Nepton Payroll didn't synchronize recorded annual leave correctly

  [ref 13660]

• Custom shifts from planning are now marked as deviations in worktime calendar and mobile view if they override work schedule shift

  [ref 13662]

• Styling was missing for the buttons in the approve hours view

  [ref 13665]

• Editing of the work schedules related to locations removed from locations management

  Editing of the work schedules related to locations could cause problems in planning, and thus the editing possibilities were restricted.

  [ref 13666]

• On call hours were not calculated correctly if the hours of an overlapping work event were rounded

  [ref 13658]

13/07/2023-release (2.13.3)

 Fixes

• In planning, planning hour targets based on persons weekly hours were miscalculated as too high.

  [ref 13664]

• Missing work schedule saving validation

  Changing a code of the work schedule should have only update the projects code related to the works schedule, but it did create a new project with the new code instead.

  Check for if the work schedule code was already in use was missing.

  [ref 13663]

10/07/2023-release (2.13.1 & 2.13.2)

 Fix

• Error in the calendar view

  The calendar view gave an error when the selected person and time period contained a travel invoice

08/07/2023 release (2.13.0) - Work Schedules

 New

• New Work Schedules feature available in Planning on Complete service level

  Work Schedules make shift planning easy. Work shifts and holidays can be planned quickly for the entire year. Work schedules are based on work schedule groups with employees. The groups follow customized shift patterns.

  Shifts can be easily modified and commented. Modified shifts are shown on purple highlight color in the worktime calendar which makes them easy to notice. Employees will always have a clear picture about their upcoming shifts.

  Want to see Work Schedules in action? See recording (in Finnish) about Work Schedules.

 Improvements

• Worktime calendar appearance update

  Updated worktime calendar view is clearer and lighter. Appearance of multiple elements has been updated.

  Calendar date range is now selected by clicking the date range on upper part of the calendar. After that date range can be modified. Print and Calendar syncing can be found behind Tools-menu.

  Calendar event appearance has been updated with following colors:

  • Assumed event: Grey
  • Approved event: Green
  • Exceptional event: Yellow
  • Work schedule deviation: Purple

  Events can be created by clicking date and by selecting “Add event”. Other sections also have small changes in appearance.

• Changed how event imports set event beginning and ending times when the import data defines only the date where to import an event.

  This fix gives better support in cases where absences take place in night time.

  Guidance [ref 13426]

 Fixes

• When using a terminal to create/edit a shift, overtime target behavior was incorrect in some cases.

  Even though overtime target was correct in settings, service did not calculate the overtime correctly until the event was manually edited in desktop view.

  [ref 12187]

• When running an ’Hours by period’-project report, the service gave an error message when period selection was ’Monthly on same weekday’. The issue has been fixed.

  [ref 12006]

06/07/2023 release (2.12.18)

 Improvement

• Work rise settings are now collapsible making their controlling more user friendly.

  Guidance [ref 13623]

 Fixes

• Some Worktime projects setting labels have been updated to better reflect what they do.

  Guidance [ref 6674]

• If integration created a single file bigger than 0.5MB, file was automatically zipped in API calls that ran the integration and in service log.

  This happened after the release of version 2.12.13 but has now been reverted. In future, single files will always be provided in the intended format.

  [ref 13656]

• 'Minimum work time before lunch is assumed' setting did not work correctly in certain situations.

  [ref 13655]

05/07/2023 release (2.12.17)

 Fixes

• The Lemonsoft work hours integration incorrectly rounded work hours to a single decimal place. It now correctly rounds to two decimal places for the greater accuracy Lemonsoft supports.

  [ref 13654]

• Worktime realised work hours report could show accruals data in the incorrect column.

  [ref 13649]

03/07/2023 release (2.12.15 & 2.12.16)

 Fixes

• The Worktime validity setting calendar was sometimes off-screen.

  [ref 13635]

• Some data columns in the "Realized Work Hours" report were under the wrong headers.

  [ref 13647]

• Project hierarchy for selected projects did not display selected child projects correctly in person or person group projects when their parent level was selected.

  [ref 13645]

28/06/2023 release (2.12.14)

 Improvements

• Report names in Worktime > Projects > Reports have been clarified.

  Guidance [ref 13638]

• Employee number, person goup name and additional reporting info - columns were added in Worktime reports where they were missing.

  Guidance [ref 10073]

 Fixes

• Some scheduled integrations start date settings with rules like "First of January" did not work correctly.

  Issue has been fixed.

  [ref 13642]

• Project hours by event type -report did not load correctly when time allocated for projects was over the recorded event duration and event type was sick leave.

  [ref 13638]

• Unified the Project hours by event type -report to display time allocated for projects that is over the recorded event's duration in the same way for work, absences and sick leave.

  Earlier absences showed only time allocated to projects that matched the recorded event's duration.

  [ref 13638]

26/06/2023 release (2.12.13)

 Improvement

• New Worktime setting "Export files as zip" added. Setting defines whether salary data that is split to several files will export the files to SFTP server as a single zip file or unzipped individual files.

  • For existing customers the setting is on and files will be exported as a zip file.
  • For new customers the setting is off and files will be exported as unzipped individual files by default.

  Guidance [ref 13567]

 Fix

• Worktime > List projects -page generated an error when imported projects did not have a name set correctly.

  Problem has been fixed. List projects -page opens now even if one of the project names is not correct.

  [ref 13629]

19/06/2023 release (2.12.12)

 Fixes

• Assumed lunch breaks function and on call did not work correctly together in certain situations.

  [ref 13619]

• Integration rule testing and development tool did not always show results correctly when testing fetching of data from other persons than the authenticated person.

  [ref 13610]

• A supplement that was no more active was not available for editing an activity in a period when the supplement was active.

  [ref 13585]

• When a person had a travel invoice open for editing, and a supervisor approved the travel invoice at the same time, an error occurred when travel invoice was saved.

  This happened because the person didn't have access to edit an approved travel invoice anymore. In this situation a message is now shown that there is no access to edit the travel invoice.

  [ref 12906]

14/06/2023 release (2.12.11)

 Improvements

• It could take up to a minute for a manually started integration to run. The delay has been fixed and the runs now start faster.

  [ref 13605]

 Fixes

• Internal id was shown in the code column for Event types under Person settings. Now the event type code is shown like in Working community settings.

  [ref 5294]

• In some rare cases a decimal value could get rounded wrong in an Personec F integration file.

  [ref 13616]

12/06/2023 release (2.12.10)

 Improvement

• Improved the readability of Realized Work hours by moving the summary columns to the beginning of the report.

  Guidance [ref 13502]

 Change

• Changed the format of accruals for Realized Work Hours and Hours by salary type to be a decimal number.

  Guidance [ref 13502]

 Fixes

• The 'Sympa Absence import' integration setting 'Import event times' is no longer ignored.

  [ref 13611]

• Prevented users with an integration ID of "0" being synchronised to IFS and other real-time salary integrations.

  [ref 13601]

07/06/2023 release (2.12.9)

 Fix

• Nepton Payroll and IFS synchronization resulted in an error when editing an event more than a week in the future

  [ref 13600]

06/06/2023 release (2.12.8)

 New

• Added new setting for the 'Sympa Absence import' integration 'Import event times'. This enables importing of the start and end times of absences.

  Removed setting 'Import duration' from the 'Sympa Absence import' integration. This setting has been replaced by the setting mentioned previously.

  The change does not affect existing integrations.

  Guidance [ref 13501]

 Improvements

• Added support for re-running integrations that import multiple files.

  [ref 13555]

 Fixes

• Preview mode did not work correctly when running integrations manually.

  [ref 13576]

• After the release done on 13.5. setting group settings for integrations were not always saved correctly when saving the setting with validity control.

  [ref 13578]

• Setting API key on setting group level for IFS integrations did not work correctly.

  [ref 13577]

• Adding new columns in Worktime > Administration > Integration > Event import settings did not work.

  [ref 13579]

• Nepton Payroll did not always synchronize enough data when editing an event of a person who does not accrue balance.

  [ref 13594]

• Files formed by SD Worx (Työ) - integrations (previously Personec W in Nepton) were served by default with .dat file extension when the correct file extension is .csv.

  [ref 13580]

• Clicking on "Select All" was not resulting in all payment groups getting selected, issue has been fixed.

  [ref 13371]

02/06/2023 release (2.12.7)

 Changes

• Nepton SSO Service Provider certificate update

  [ref 8037]

29/05/2023 release (2.12.6)

 New

• Salary data export - Visma LTR

  Sending salary data to Visma LTR from Nepton is now possible. Export can now be configured in a ruleset where Nepton sends data to LTR via LTR REST API.

  Guidance [ref 13393]

 Improvements

• IFS Activity approval integration now supports apikey authentication.

  [ref 13519]

• The next upcoming/scheduled job is now shown in the schedule history table in Worktime > Administration > Working community settings > Integrations > Integration scheduling.

  [ref 13539]

 Fixes

• Parsing spreadsheets in the system did not correctly support csv-files that had .txt file extension.

  [ref 13555]

• Elisa Ring integration was not running correctly after the release done in 13.5.

  [ref 13571]

• Some salary export files downloaded from service log that should have been in .dat format were in .txt format.

  [ref 13570]

• Export files from Personec F-integration missed data that was set in Personec F settings.

  [ref 13562]

23/05/2023 release (2.12.5)

 Improvements

• If an integration would be running during a possible maintenance window, it will wait for the maintenance window to end before running, which is displayed in the integrations scheduling view

  Integration will run after maintenance window has closed. Read more about maintenance windows from Platform status - page.

  Guidance [ref 13539]

• Person's HR role can be changed without affecting person's Priima Learning Management -role. The learning management role can be defined separately. [ref 13531]

 Fixes

• Sympa absence import did not import sick leave events correctly if a sick leave with different absence code with same begin and start time existed in Nepton

  [ref 13479]

• In Administration > Integrations, CGI Sonet short interface and CGI Sonet parameterised interface buttons were mixed up

  This occurred after release done on 13.5. which resulted on short interface getting run when parameterised interface was clicked and vice versa.

  [ref 13548]

• Old Visma L7 project import integration did not support txt file format after release done on 13.5.

  Support for txt file format has been added back to the integration.

17/05/2023 release (2.12.3 & 2.12.4)

 Fix

• Saving the person's information in the user info page caused an error message if the employment end date field was left blank. Issue has been fixed.

  [ref 13546]

16/05/2023 release (2.12.2)

 Fixes

• Manually run exports did not always include data from all persons. The issue has now been fixed

  Manual exports that have potentially ran into issues have been flagged as failed runs, and should be ran again to export data correctly

  [ref 13540]

• Visma Fivaldi salary integration was not visible in the list of integrations that can be run manually in Worktime > Administration > Integrations

  [ref 13541]

• IFS Activity integration was not syncing correctly after the release of Nepton version 2.12.0 done on 13.5.

  Issue has been fixed, but any approvals done between 00:00 13.5. - 13:00 16.5. 2023 need to be done again so that they will be synchronized correctly to IFS

  [ref 13542]

15/05/2023 release (2.12.1)

 Fix

• Service provided incorrect direct login links for Microsoft login under Employees > Administration > Single sign-on (SSO) > Microsoft login > Direct login link.

  Please provide new updated links for your employees.

  [ref 13528]

13/05/2023 release (2.12.0)

 New

• It is now possible to schedule a specific time when the worktime export or import integration runs. Previously, the time was fixed. Thanks to the new ability it is possible for example to tansfer work time information to another system or via email at the desired time. After the release the old integrations will continue to function as before if changes are not made to them.

  Guidance [ref 5430, 12854]

• In the work time section you can now create custom exports where you can select the desired columns for the spreadsheet export. You can export the spreadsheet right into the desired e-mail address. Now for example work time information can be delivered easily to third parties while taking data protection into account. Only information relevant to the recipient can be selected for the spreadsheet and delivered to them by e-mail at the desired time.

  Guidance [ref 12913]

• Identification information of the terminals is now imported into Nepton. Identification information can be used with integrations and dining and event reports, which makes it possible to track which terminal a person has used. New information can also be used for example in rulesets. The identification information can also be used for creating a meal report from which you can identify which restaurant the dining took place. The report can be delivered by e-mail to the restaurant staff or other third parties.

  [ref 13454]

• A new function has been added to Nepton's Employees section and with it employer information can be added to the system. Employers can be defined for persons. This information can be used to control for example the integrations.

  Guidance [ref 13401]

 Improvements

• The on-call event now behaves more predictably and logically. Previously, the on-call event did not correspond to the actual use. Event type behavior, calculations and settings have been improved. The event now better supports collective agreements and local agreements.

  • When work is started during on-call on a terminal or in the Nepton service, the on-call now continues in the background until the predefined end time.
  • With the new settings, it can be defined whether an event made during on-call constitutes on-call compensation. This selection can be made per event type.
  • With the new settings, it is possible to define whether the amount of on-call compensation is shown in the person's worktime calendar.
  • In addition, the on-call compensation that is formed can be used in salary integration.

  Guidance [ref 12183]

• Nepton can be integrated to several different services. Outdated service names have now been updated to up-to-date ones in Nepton's user interface. The changes made are specified in the guidance.

  Guidance [ref 7209]

• The selections for the shift planning copy function have been clarified.

  Guidance [ref 13405]

Archived release notes

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