Archived release notes

09/06/2022 release (2.9.16)

 Improvement

• Event locking and approval settings validity controls

  Controls for administering validities for each Worktime setting under Work hours > Event locking and approval have been added

  [ref 11939]

01/06/2022 release (2.9.15)

 Fixes

• Event times were not saving correctly on some Apple devices

  [ref 12761]

• The use of override fields in rule sets did not always work correctly if the original field was also present

  [ref 12721]

• Permitted work times did not always work correctly when splitting overnight work into separate shifts

  [ref 12786]

• The Worktime > Work hours > Approve hours, initial balance value could be based on a different date than the chosen range

  [ref 12809]

23/05/2022 release (2.9.14)

 Fix

• Person search in setting validity control was not always working correctly

  [ref 12785]

19/05/2022 release (2.9.13)

 Fixes

• The event import was missing the option to import accrual changes or resets using decimal values

  [ref 12725]

• Several minor usability tweaks and corrections to the custom event types setting administration

  [ref 10307]

• Salary data exports using a non-UTF-8 encoding integration format, such as CGI Palkat, could be corrupted when containing specific special characters and/or emojis

  All affected customers have been informed and no further actions are needed.

  [ref 12751]

09/05/2022 release (2.9.12)

 Improvements

• Mepco salary export has possibility to include new additional columns for custom data in CustomData4 - CustomData9 fields

  Guidance [ref 12742]

• Added Excel support to the manual project import integration and improved validation handling

  [ref 12731]

 Fixes

• Visible HTML br tags have been removed from description text area

  Line breaks appear now without extra mark-up. Fix relates to description field in pages such as Person group information, Setting group information and Project details.

  [ref 12603]

• Assumed lunch was not always marked between worked hours if day only had marked work outside of planned shift time

  [ref 12750]

• In event import setting administration setting up person used to create event or additional column titles did not work correctly

  [ref 12754]

• Rule helpers [WORK-DAY-HAS-EVENTS-WITH-BASE-PART] and [WORK-DAY-HAS-EVENTS-WITH-OVERTIME-PART] did not work correctly when overtime pay targets came from event type's Exceptional overtime pay target default or defaults that weren't event type specific

  [ref 12735]

28/04/2022 release (2.9.11)

 Improvements

• Creating a work event from an individual work shift has been changed to open the Add Event window

  Guidance [ref 12631]

• The service logs for Nepton Payroll salary data synchronization have been clarified to make the log more readable and easier to investigate for possible issues in the integration

  [ref 12538]

• Setting exceptions gain new helpers that are faster and easier to understand

  • Setting exceptions make workhour calculations very flexible, but they also slow down calculations and can be difficult to understand. Setting exception helpers are human-readable terms that simplify checking for conditions, whilst also avoiding slowdowns.
  • We will migrate existing customers to use these new helpers over the coming months. No action is needed from you at this time. See the guidance page for all setting exception helpers and their use.
  • More helpers will be added in future releases.

  Guidance [ref 12561]

 Fixes

• When not using the retired levelling period configuration method, summary in events in calendar and events in table views displayed levelling period hours incorrectly

  [ref 12687]

• Description texts for some work shift related settings did not work correctly

  Default hour span and default accuracy settings now also applied for Work shift list per hour -page

  [ref 12177]

• Balance caches were not re-calculated when creating events from work shifts

  [ref 12715]

• Day total hours were not shown correctly in project hours by person report

  [ref 12661]

• Event report did not load correctly if users who have inactive work conract were selected for the report

  [ref 11764]

• Microsoft Excel file download issue has been resolved

  [ref 12691]

• Project hours by person report gave an error if the report had annual holiday events

  [ref 12153], [ref 12738]

• Approve hours -view errored in certain situations

  [ref 12727]

• Approve hours view now correctly displays the event codes

  [ref 12615]

• Using the same project multiple times on the same event will now no longer lead to the incorrect duration being shown in certain situations

  [ref 12700]

13/04/2022 release (2.9.10)

 Fixes

• After the initial Microsoft or SSO logins, users would be redirected automatically to the identity providers' login page until users log out by clicking the logout link

  [ref 12531]

• Impossible to select a user in external services settings

  [ref 12676]

11/04/2022 release (2.9.9)

 Fixes

• Work events created from planned shifts could be missing the project, even if projects are mandatory

  Projects are now correctly added and mandatory project checks are respected.

  Guidance [ref 12631]

• Terminal offline records were sometimes not being processed correctly and could impact device performance

  A processing loop could cause processing of offline events to fail, which in turn could degrade performance of terminal hardware over time.

  [ref 12645]

• Visma Nova work hours export file headers were incorrect, which prevented the file being processed correctly by Visma.

  [ref 12690]

04/04/2022 release (2.9.8)

 Improvements

• Default start and end times can now be configured per event type via Worktime > Administration > Setting group/Working community settings > Work hours > Rendering options

  This can be a great time saver when employees record the same event times most days

  Guidance [ref 11899]

 Fixes

• Multiple minor event request related tweaks to make everyday use more comfortable

  [ref 12314]

31/03/2022 release (2.9.6+2.9.7)

 Improvements

• Request Approvals quality of life improvements

  User interface, workflow, and performance improvements, to the event request approval tools

  Guidance [ref 12652]

• Setting exceptions gain new helpers that are faster and easier to understand

  • Setting exceptions make workhour calculations very flexible, but they also slow down calculations and can be difficult to understand. Setting exception helpers are human-readable terms that simplify checking for conditions, whilst also avoiding slowdowns.
  • We will migrate existing customers to use these new helpers over the coming months. No action is needed from you at this time. See the guidance page for all setting exception helpers and their use.
  • More helpers will be added in future releases.

  Guidance [ref 12561]

 Fixes

• Permitted and expected work times displayed in the Worktime > Workhours > Calendar view > 'Info' button for each day, could be incorrect if they were affected by setting exceptions

  [ref 12267]

• Having multiple Microsoft login configurations per customer is now possible

  • It is now possible to have multiple different Microsoft login buttons for the same customer environment
  • Customers who wanted this in the past but had to use a workaround instead will be contacted in the near future

  Guidance [ref 12549]

• Annual leave reports could trigger the synchronisation of salary data to external systems

  In some cases, this resulted in an error making users unable to run any annual leave reports. This only occurred if real-time synchronisation of salary data was configured in the working community.

  [ref 12673]

• Person import from Sympa API was not always saving Employment end date changes, leaving the field empty instead

  [ref 12646]

22/03/2022 release (2.9.5)

 Fixes

• Creating a new service request in Employees > Service requests, could result in an error

  [ref 12650]

• Spelling corrections in Worktime settings

  [ref 12651]

17/03/2022 release (2.9.4)

 Fixes

• Trying to edit an event or view its details in Worktime > Workhours > Events in calendar, did not always work if the related events' comment or details contained special characters

  [ref 12619]

• Worktime UpdateActivities web service function could not remove event approvals as it should be able to

  [ref 12639]

16/03/2022 release (2.9.3)

 Improvements

• It is now possible to set the assumed event type for empty workdays of individuals from their Worktime > Administration > Persons > Person settings. Previously this was only possible for setting groups and the entire working community.

  [ref 11901]

 Fixes

• Gaps in a persons' Payment group assignment caused that person's information page to crash.

  [ref 12616]

• A mistake in RFID code comparisons meant that the person import could create new entries for the same RFID and person with each import. The problem did not affect end users.

  [ref 12623]

• The Planning > Planning view, could fail to load and inform that there was an error with loading data, with an error id for contacting customer service. This was caused by a problem in the "Maximum consecutive workdays" settings behaviour.

  [ref 12633]

• Worktime integrations could finish very long after they were scheduled to start

  [ref 11702]

10/03/2022 release (2.9.2)

 Fixes

• Work contract files can no longer be viewed after the page has been refreshed

  [ref 12514]

• Events in table - report had wrong text in the page title

  [ref 12545]

• Fixed an issue which caused the person selection in the calendar view to be reverted into a past selection.

  [ref 12607]

• External services settings were not always opening in setting group settings due to caching issues.

  [ref 12610]

• Weekly rest time compensation settings were not visible in setting group settings.

  [ref 12614]

• Minus selection button for negative values was not showing in planned event type permitted work time settings.

  [ref 12618]

09/03/2022 release (2.9.1)

 Fixes

• Fix for terminal login problems

  Login with RFID tag or PIN code was not possible with many of the terminals after some incorrect settings saved during last Saturday. This update will fix these settings and login is possible at 15:00 at the latest or after the Terminal has been restarted.

  [ref 12597]

• Approve hours-view did not work correctly, but was for example not showing some of the persons in the view in certain cases.

  [ref 12594]

05/03/2022 release (2.9.0) - Performance improvements

 Improvements

• Performance improvements

  A large collection of changes that will improve performance of most features. Work will continue on this topic in future releases.

  [ref 9027]

• Work time shortening leave settings are more flexible (Support for Energiateollisuuden TES)

  Work time shortening leave can now be configured to have month-long or year-long earning periods, and to only be earned after employment has lasted a number of months, with the option to backpay those months.

  These new capabilities directly support configurations needed for the Energiateollisuuden TES and alike.

  Guidance [ref 12496]

• Worktime event edits and deletions can be undone

  Worktime events can now be restored to an earlier state via the event history controls.

  Deleted events can be restored by first taking the event report and then clicking through to the desired event's history.

  Guidance [ref 12266]

• Event request approvals loading

  Users are now offered a chance to change filtering options before the view loads. This avoids waiting for data loading that possibly wasn't needed.

  [ref 9027]

 Fixes

• The person import could fail when processing names which are very long or accidentally included double white space characters

  [ref 12503]

• For customers with SSO or Microsoft Login configured, using the direct login URL could sometimes drop users at the select deployment page instead of logging them in

  [ref 12544]

28/02/2022 release (2.8.33)

 Improvement

• Activity related APIs now support more of their related data and are therefore more useful

  • Identification by event type codes
  • Details about absences and sick leaves

  [ref 12571]

24/02/2022 release (2.8.32)

 Improvement

• Rulesets for Visma Nova work hours export can now target all supported columns with data

  An earlier limitation meant some columns were always empty.

  [ref 12400]

18/02/2022 release (2.8.31)

 Fixes

• A previous change for performance improvement caused problems with setting exceptions for customers who had duplicate event codes configured

  This fix addresses the problem and requires no actions from customers.

  [ref 12553]

• In some situations events recorded via the mobile view could result in unintended overlapping entries.

  [ref 8825]

• Project hours by person report with salary type breakdown did not group work rises correctly if multiple work rises earned the same compensation

  [ref 12469]

• Maximum compensation settings did not work correctly when work week calculations were set to calculate regular time for whole week before calculating additional work and overtime

  [ref 12535]

• Approving hours showed the wrong year in the table headline

  Wrong year was shown when the selected date range end date was the last date of the year.

  [ref 12506]

10/02/2022 release (2.8.29)

 Improvements

• Added support for using API-key authentication with IFS integration

  Guidance [ref 11525]

 Fix

• Fix for an issue where work rises and setting exceptions did not work together correctly with events that span multiple days

  The previous fix did not fix all use cases.

  [ref 12524]

09/02/2022 release (2.8.28)

 Fix

• Fixed an issue where setting exceptions based on event categories could cause an error

  [ref 12537]

08/02/2022 release (2.8.27)

 Fix

• Fix for issues where validity rule did not work correctly

  [ref 12529]

03/02/2022 release (2.8.26)

 Improvement

• Performance & setting exceptions

  The performance of many features has been improved by handling common setting exceptions differently. The improvement includes a new approach for creating setting exception rules based on event types on the day, and many existing exceptions have been updated to this approach where possible. This will lead to better performance for customers using the setting exceptions.

  Added a tool that helps in adding setting exceptions based on common use cases such as public holidays, and based on events on the day.

  Guidance [ref 12470]

 Fixes

• Fix for an issue where work rises and setting exceptions did not work together correctly with events that span multiple days

  [ref 12498]

• Travel invoice exceptional entry did not show missing trip locations if no trip data was saved for the travel invoice

  [ref 12352]

• Fix for an issue in editing travel invoice start and end dates

  [ref 12520]

02/02/2022 release (2.8.25)

 Improvements

• Added support for configuring "Energiateollisuuden TES" work time shortening leave earning

  Earning can be configured to happen on monthly basis and from the beginning of employment when the employment has lasted for 3 months or more.

  Guidance [ref 12496]

 Fixes

• Limiting for maximum compensation per event and per event type per day was done before lunch deduction

  This resulted in limiting too much if assumed lunch was generated

  Guidance [ref 12001]

• Fix for the scheduler task when the parameters are missing.

  [ref 12508]

26/01/2022 release (2.8.24)

 Improvement

• Performance optimisation when fetching work rise settings

  [ref 11450]

 Fixes

• Fixed an issue with event report when travel invoice trip was missing trip timezone data

  [ref 12495]

• Fixed an issue with fetching payslips for Nepton Payroll

  [ref 12464]

• Fixes for issue where setting exceptions were not fetched correctly

  [ref 11450, ref 12498]

20/01/2022 release (2.8.23)

 Improvements

• Working contract improvement

  Now all the person info types are supported.

  [ref 12429]

• Planning view page performance improvement

  [ref 12467]

• Exceptional entry performance improvement

  Exceptional entry warnings will no longer be shown on approved days except for in the dedicated Exceptional Entry report (when enabled with the report filters). This improves the performance of multiple features and also makes it quicker and easier to identify important information in the calendar and approval views.

  [ref 12489]

 Fixes

• Fix in workshift planning

  In case of an error updating the annual holidays and other absences shown in workshift planning according to worktime data, the information is automatically updated again when opening the planning view or clicking the Update View button.

  [ref 8069]

18/01/2022 release (2.8.22)

 New

• GetActivities and GetActivitiesV2 APIs changed to return events for deactivated persons as well

  [ref 10782]

 Improvements

• Performance improvements

  [ref 9209]

 Fixes

• Fix in splitting salary data into multiple files

  The value by which the salary data is divided into several files is no longer converted to lowercase in the file name.

  [ref 12319]

• Fix for an issue with running Heeros integration when there is no salary code set for an integration row

  [ref 12480]

13/01/2022 release (2.8.21)

 New

• The old EU/ELY-centre report returned with a new name

  The new report name is "Invoicing report"

  [ref 12468]

 Improvements

• Performance of hours approval improved

  [ref 11450]

 Fixes

• Fixed bug preventing removal of planned shifts

  [ref 12458]

• When Heeros integration was renamed, integration ruleset queries were not updated accordingly

  [ref 12463]

04/01/2022 release (2.8.20)

 Improvements

• EU/ELY project report updated to conform to the requirements

  An additional worktime role permission has been added for granting permission to use the report for managed project.

  Guidance [ref 7645]

• Service log improvement

  In case of errors in person import via Sympa API there might be additional error information in the data that can be downloaded in the service log view. Now this is also pointed out in the service log error message.

  Guidance [ref 12442]

 Fixes

• Fix in workshift planning

  Events ending at midnight do not show in workshift planning view for the next day or as reserved time for the next day for the person when a workshift is planned.

  [ref 9496]

• Fix in person export for Nepton Payroll

  An error has been fixed that prevented exporting person data for Nepton Payroll service.

  [ref 12447]

• Fix in worktime calculations

  Fixed calculation issue when work and sick leave were earned on a day with expected working times.

  [ref 12451]

29/12/2021 release (2.8.19)

 New

• Travel invoice foreign allowances added for 2022

  [ref 11498]

 Improvement

• Aboa integration in work time has been renamed to Heeros and export data can be fully overridden by ruleset rules

  Guidance [ref 12344]

 Fixes

• Changes in selected tasks for a workshift or shift need can be published in work shift planning.

  [ref 11575]

• Fix for error in annual leave, earned days report

  [ref 12337]

• Fix for checkbox value not saved in working contract

  [ref 12425]

16/12/2021 release (2.8.18)

 Fix

• Fixes to lunch break calculations

  [ref 12405]

15/12/2021 release (2.8.17)

 Improvements

• All deputies are included in person export to Excel

  We are now exporting all deputies for a person when exporting person data using "Export to Excel" button. Note that the Deputy field is not exported when exporting data using the "Export importable Excel" button.

  Guidance [ref 12058]

• Generic working contract template

  Generic working contract template, to be use as a base for making custom working contracts, is now available on the guidance.

  Guidance [ref 12348, ref 12406]

 Fixes

• Persons' EventsLockedDate-field is now available in integration rulesets UserInfoData table.

  Guidance [ref 11904]

• If a dropdown value is deleted from an custom info type, it is shown in the UI, only on the person who has that value already saved.

  [ref 11987]

• Fix for persons additional fields dropdown list item selection when two items have the same value.

  [ref 12396]

• Location selection demanded when trying to access locations management

  When customers were trying to access the locations management from the "Locations"-tab, they were shown a location selection page, even if location selection was not needed. Now clicking the "Locations"-tab leads to location management listing.

  [ref 12412]

• Fixes in setting primary task on person form

  Setting a primary task doesn't cause any more error when saving the person. It is now also possible to save a task without a unit set for persons belonging to a unit.

13/12/2021 release (2.8.16)

 Improvement

• Presentation of service log entries from person imports have been improved

  All imported person data is now presented in a table row by row. If there were problems with some of the data, the details are presented in another table.

  [ref 12390]

 Fixes

• Fixes for person information form validity editing

  Person information selectable by on/off checkboxes had some problems in the validity edit view to show the correct checkbox value after edit and save if validity information was added or removed. In addition, it was not shown after saving if two consecutive same values were automatically combined into one value. These errors have been fixed.

  Guidance [ref 11369]

• Fields to import can be defined for person imports in Excel format

  The fields filtered in person imports can be defined in Fields to import setting instead of previous Header row setting.

  Guidance

• Login fixes

  Fixed some problems related to our previous security fix.

  [ref 12009]

09/12/2021 release (2.8.15)

 Improvements

• The use of annual leave can now be reported two years into the future

  [ref 12349]

• Bulk deletion of related events from multiple persons is now possible when work time is exported to an external system in real time

  [ref 12402]

• Service login disabled after too many failed login attempts

  Service login cannot be retried for a while if there have been multiple invalid login attempts.

  [ref 12009]

 Fixes

• Work time setting history view didn't have correct scrollbars in some cases

  [ref 12389]

• Fix for person import error message about validity field format

  If the valid from date is in incorrect format, the error message shown in the service log clarifies it is an error in the date format.

  [ref 12398]

• When modifying an event type, its behavior was not displayed in all cases

• Fix for viewing payslips in Employees

  Viewing payslips led to an error in some cases.

30/11/2021 release (2.8.14)

 Improvements

• Integration ruleset improvements

  It is now possible to add API user and API business ID for web service export in integration rulesets.

  Guidance [ref 12371]

• Rule based setting exceptions

  Added support for rule based setting exceptions to the default event start/end times and default event type settings.

  [ref 12372]

 Fixes

• Fix for unit manager permissions

  Fixed unit manager permissions to view and edit information of their own subordinates according to the supervisor permissions.

  [ref 11848]

• Fix for Netvisor integration ruleset

  Calling RunIntegrationRulesetV2 did not include response data when running a ruleset in Netvisor format. It is now included.

  [ref 12109]

• Fix for person import type selections

  When importing persons manually, there were two Default options for person import type. The duplicate option has been removed.

  [ref 12322]

25/11/2021 release (2.8.13)

 Fix

• Customer specific maintenance job to remove incorrect data

  [ref 12225]

23/11/2021 release (2.8.12)

 Improvements

• Usability improvement on ruleset definition tool

  When using current time (now) on rulesets, tool warns if UTC time might be used unintentionally instead of local time.

  Guidance [ref 12370]

• Added French public holidays (Victory day, National day and All Saint's day)

  [ref 12185]

• Improved browser support for the Nepton Payroll-service information dialog

  [ref 12284]

• Added ordering by last name for person list type user info fields on person information form

  Also now the persons are listed last name first, to make it ordering more obvious.

  [ref 12361]

• Added support for importing custom user info fields with validities using Sympa HR API

  Guidance [ref 12339]

• Security improvement

  Contact details about security issues added to the site (standardized security.txt).

  [ref 12330]

 Fixes

• Work shift planning didn't respect person weekly worktimes correctly in some cases.

  [ref 11576]

• Fix for issues with payment groups where payment group description was not set.

  [ref 12302, 12311]

• Some Inoptics terminals did not take daylight saving into account when recording events.

  [ref 12333]

• In some cases work shifts not belonging on selected locations were showing on work shift publishing.

  [ref 12345]

• Users could create unsuitable type of working contract documents.

  [ref 12345]

• Running scheduled task manually did not properly tell if it failed due to wrongly defined folder paths.

  [ref 12356]

• Balance reset, balance change and balance lock can be set as hidden separately.

  [ref 12373]

• Fix for Aboa salary export issue.

  [ref 12377]

• Work rise "maximum amount compensated" as zero does not work.

  After this fix, no work rise is earned if maximum amount compensated is 0.

  [ref 12356]

11/11/2021 release (2.8.11)

 Fixes

• Customer specific bug fixes

  [ref 12350]

09/11/2021 release (2.8.10)

 Fixes

• Fix for the user export :  Integration failure

  [ref 12324]

08/11/2021 release (2.8.9)

 Improvements

• Improved scheduled event import to allow importing events with no end time

  Guidance [ref 12336]

 Fixes

• Work rise salary codes were automatically overridden in integration ruleset rules

  [ref 12338]

04/11/2021 release (2.8.8)

 Fixes

• More versatile lunch break settings

  Now it is possible to limit assumed lunches, lunch hour duration and if lunch is paid by paid worktime.

  Guidance [ref 12198]

03/11/2021 release (2.8.7)

 New

• Update to Nepton Payroll-service introduction

  Recording of the Nepton Payroll-service introduction webinar has been added to the Nepton Payroll introductory popup.

  [ref 12326]

 Improvements

• Security improvement: Clear browsing data on logout

  On logout, Nepton service will ask the browser to clear all locally stored browsing data related to Nepton-service.

  [ref 11973]

 Fixes

• Fix for connection issue between Inoptics-terminals and Nepton service

  [ref 12317]

• Nepton Touch terminal device update

  Nepton Touch terminals are updated to latest version to prevent switch between normal time and daylight saving time occurring a few days before or after the correct night.

  [ref 12323]

• Fixed an issue with viewing certain service log entries with attached files

  [ref 12320]

• Fix for issue with sending text messages

  [ref 12133]

01/11/2021 release (2.8.6)

 New

• Delete multiple workshifts at once

  There is a new tool in workshift planning that makes it possible to delete all workshifts in the visible planning view at once.

  Guidance [ref 11611]

 Improvements

• Worktime login disabled after too many failed login attempts

  Worktime login cannot be retried for a while if there have been multiple invalid login attempts

  [ref 12009]

 Fixes

• Fixed an issue in opening supervisor's own salary slips in Own info > Documents

  [ref 12075]

• Using the same event type abbreviations everywhere

  Same event type abbreviations are used in all event approval views.

  [ref 12310]

• Fixed an issue with integration rule

  Rule workriseearnedatcompensationtype produced an incorrect value for some overtime types.

  [ref 12313]

28/10/2021 release (2.8.5)

 Fixes

• Fixed issue with scheduled imports not running.

  [ref 12294]

28/10/2021 release (2.8.3)

 Fixes

• Fixed Elisa Ring integration not running.

  [ref 12301]

• Fixed error with insertActivities web service with real-time salary export.

  [ref 12303]

• Fixed out of date caches that might have resulted in the event editing page popup from still not opening in older browsers.

26/10/2021 release (2.8.2)

 Fixes

• Deleting event attachments did not work correctly.

  [ref 12163]

• Pop-up windows did not open correctly in Internet Explorer 11 or Edge in IE compatibility mode.

  [ref 12285]

25/10/2021 release (2.8.1)

 Improvements

• Enhancements to Nepton Payroll - video

  [ref 11811], [ref 12284]

 Fixes

• Fix for user interface issue when weekly rest time compensation was set to be earned based on worked time but the earning period based on - setting was not set.

  [ref 12224]

23/10/2021 release (2.8.0) - Nepton Payroll

 New

• Nepton can now pay salaries as a service

  With the launch of our new product Nepton Payroll, salary calculation and payment are handled as a service based on the data within Nepton. Customers can achieve fast, reliable, and transparent payroll, in real-time, based directly on their HR and Worktime data.

  As part of this update, new salary and payslip controls become visible to all customers. If you do not yet use Nepton payroll, these will advertise the new capabilities of the service.

  Sales begin on 28.10 with a product launch webinar at 09:00. Invitations and details about registration will be made public soon. Save the date!

• Payment groups

  HR data has been extended with Payment groups. These are used to group people who should be paid something on the same schedule (e.g. a salary, wage, bonus, etc). A persons' membership to a group, indicates they should be compensated according to its payment periods. In a future version, this concept will be used to make approval recommendations to supervisors, more intelligent and proactive. Payment groups can be used to select and filter people for Worktime reports and integrations.

  Guidance [ref 11156]

• Export HR data whenever it is edited

  HR data exports can now be configured to occur whenever there are edits to the data within Nepton, effectively allowing for real-time HR data integration.

  Guidance [ref 11771]

• Import & Export past and future HR data values for people, using JSON format

  All past, present, and future values of HR data fields can now be imported and exported in the action by using the newly supported JSON format.

  Using the JSON format, it is also possible to send HR data directly to a receiving REST webservice.

  [ref 11771]

 Improvements

• New HR data fields and improvements

  • Hourly wage - The ‘Hourly wage’ field has been replaced with a new and improved field of the same name, that allows decimal values only. Data that can be converted automatically, has been as part of this update. Where information could not be updated automatically, a warning will be shown in the person’s data, with instructions on how to correct and move it.
  • Monthly salary - A new ‘Monthly salary’ field has been added so more accurate salary information can be stored about an individual.
  • Classification of occupations (Ammattiluokka) - The Classification of occupations field has been added to support payment of salaries in Finland.
  • Nepton person identifier - This read-only field has been added to provide a more robust and permanent way of identifying Nepton personal data globally. This value is available in imports and exports of HR data, including salary exports via Worktime rulesets and is controlled by Nepton. Once a person has been added to Nepton, this identifier is generated and will never change.

  [ref 12060]

 Fixes

• Service logs more readable

  Multiple improvements have been made to the service logs to improve readability and usefulness.

  [ref 11399]

• Person information > Language selection, was not translated

  The selection of a persons’ preferred language, and the language shown in Nepton UI is now properly translated

  [ref NONE]

• SSO error reporting

  In some cases, SSO errors that could not be related to a specific customer were still shown to customers. These are now reported directly to Nepton, for further investigation.

  [ref NONE]

• SMS sending more reliable

  SMS messages would not be delivered reliably in all situations.

  [ref 12133]

18/10/2021 release (2.7.47)

 Improvements

• New settings for earning work rises from standalone TES overtime

  [ref 12261]

 Fixes

• Improved support for SQL based setting exceptions on permitted and planned work settings

  [ref 12252], [ref 11842]

• Fixed time being borrowed from balance before a person's work contract has started

  [ref 12260]

14/10/2021 release (2.7.46)

 Fixes

• Customer Management Portal had issues in creating a new customer

  [ref 12229]

13/10/2021 release (2.7.45)

 Improvements

• Salary export performance enhancement

  [ref 12200]

 Fixes

• Fix for event import via the user interface

  Accrual value change in +HH:MM did not work correctly in import.

  Guidance [ref 12218]

• Fix in project administration for an issue occurring while moving projects

12/10/2021 release (2.7.44)

 New

• New settings supporting real estate collective agreements

  Added settings for more options to control additional work and overtime:

  • TES > Daily additional earned over the additional rise threshold contributes to weekly additional rise threshold
  • TES > TES overtime earned separately to weekly overtime (e.g. up to 8h of TES 50% THEN up to 8h of weekly overtime 50%)
  • TES > Event types which marked for the week will cause overtime on days off to be compensated as weekly overtime following the Collective Labour Agreement for the Salaried Employees in the Real Estate Sector

  Please see guidance on Additional work and calculation of daily and weekly working hours.

  Added possibility to limit setting exception validity rules [WORK-WEEK-HAS-PUBLIC-HOLIDAY] and [CALENDAR-WEEK-HAS-PUBLIC-HOLIDAY] to only apply on a certain week day, e.g. [CALENDAR-WEEK-HAS-PUBLIC-HOLIDAY] Saturday. Please see guidance on exceptions to settings.

  [ref 11604]

 Improvements

• Stricter server rules to improve file security

  [ref 12011]

11/10/2021 release (2.7.43)

 Improvements

• Performance improvements

  The performance of handling large numbers of projects in integrations in certain situations has been improved.

  [ref 12195]

• Service log improvements

  The technical details provided in the service logs in case of problem situations are more relevant to administrators.

  [ref 11287]

27/09/2021 release (2.7.42)

 Improvements

• Limiting lunch break length

  Stamps for long lunch breaks can be reduced to the desired length with "Reduce long lunches to length" setting. In this case, the lunch break will not exceed the desired length.

  Guidance [ref 11501]

 Fixes

• Fixes to overtime rounding

  Overtime rounding caused handling of overtime not to always happen by earning priorities.

  [ref 12067]

24/09/2021 release (n/a) - Support portal update

 Improvements

• Updated support portal look and feel

  The support portal has been updated with a new look and feel, and now has dedicated news and events sections. Check out the new Home page.

  [ref 11303]

22/09/2021 release (2.7.41)

 Fixes

• There were issues opening the service request list for some customers

  [ref 12172]

20/09/2021 release (2.7.40)

 Fixes

• Inaccurate realised work hours report

  The following leave types should not have been included into this report, but were.

  • Flexible bank leave
  • Flexible work hours balance leave
  • Bank leave
  • Work time shortening leave
  • Overtime leave

  [ref 12145]

15/09/2021 release (2.7.39)

 Improvements

• Reusing names and codes of removed units

  It is now possible to reuse a name or code of a removed unit by temporarily returning a removed unit into use for renaming.

  Guidance [ref 11739]

 Fixes

• Handling large amounts of workshifts

  Fixed an issue permanently preventing the use of workshift planning if there were very large amounts of workshifts for the selected location planning period. Now it is possible to change the selections even if the loading of all the data would not be possible with the original selections.

  [ref 12136]

• Handling large amounts of projects

  Improved handling of issues when handling large amounts of projects is taking more time than expected.

  [ref 11918]

14/09/2021 release (2.7.38)

 Improvements

• Performance of project hierarchy edits and updates

  Optimisation to the saving logic and queries, reduce the number of writes and delays from table locking. These improvements will be most noticeable on large project hierarchies, but are in use for all customers.

  [ref 8952]

 Fixes

• Incorrect button colours in Employees and Planning

  Buttons appeared disabled even when available.

  [ref 10711]

30/08/2021 release (2.7.37)

 Fixes

• Worktime > 'Presence view' permissions corrections

  Guidance [ref 11761]

• Worktime > 'Mass enter settings' were not being saved

  [ref 12045]

• Personnel numbers were not showing in Worktime > 'Events in table' view

  [ref 12100]

• Customer Management Portal allowed configuration that caused login issues

  [ref 12084]

23/08/2021 release (2.7.36)

 Improvements

• Improvements to levelling period calculations

  The settings page has been clarified and added settings to control how a public holiday shortens the maximum amount of additional work and 50% overtime during the levelling period.

  Guidance [ref 12064]

 Fixes

• Fixes to communication notifications

  In some cases it was possible to modify notifications even when person did not have the permissions to do so.

  Trying to modify or view a notification gave an error in some cases.

  [ref 12070, 12071, 12072]

• It was not possible to view person's information

  In some cases you could not open person's information in Employees section.

  [ref 11876]

• Editing integration ruleset rule fix

  Updating the rule from history control did not update the rule to the setting field.

  [ref 12046]

17/08/2021 release (2.7.35)

 New

• New setting exception validity rules

  Added two new setting exception validity rules:

  • [LEVELLING-PERIOD-WORK-DAYS-HAVE-PUBLIC-HOLIDAYS] - valid for whole levelling period if there is a public holiday on levelling period work days
  • [LEVELLING-PERIOD-CALENDAR-DATES-HAVE-PUBLIC-HOLIDAYS] - valid for whole levelling period if there is a public holiday on levelling period calendar days

  Guidance [ref 11898]

 Fixes

• Fix to displaying work time setting values

  Setting value was incorrectly shown from setting exceptions in setting pages.

  [ref 12059]

13/08/2021 release (2.7.34)

 Fixes

• Fixed invalid license in SFTP client library

12/08/2021 release (2.7.33)

 New

• Added setting field to set salary code for work rises

  Guidance [ref 11774]

 Fixes

• Fixes to Fivaldi XML billing export

  Export used the wrong character set encoding. Setting all data in the export was made available through integration ruleset rules.

  Guidance [ref 11963]

10/08/2021 release (2.7.32)

 New

• Added support for DL Prime DLWPLPT8 salary export format

  [ref 11459]

 Fixes

• Fixes to Swedish language in the user interface

  [ref 11560]

• Travel time days that earned hour to hour overtime were counted incorrectly in realized work hours report

  [ref 12033]

• Fixed "go back" link in salary data export

  [ref 12055]

• Removed merging of footer cells in travel invoice approval excel export

  [ref 11989]

02/08/2021 release (2.7.31)

 Fixes

• Fix to confirmation dialogs

  Update to Chrome and Edge browsers stopped showing confirmation dialog for actions in work time.

  [ref 12030]

29/07/2021 release (2.7.30)

 Fixes

• Fix to event removal

  It was not possible to remove events in Chrome and Edge browsers as the latest update stopped showing confirmation dialog for deletion.

  [ref 12030]

28/07/2021 release (2.7.29)

 New

• New setting exception validity rule to ease configuration of annual leave earning

  [EMPLOYMENT-LASTED-LESS-THAN-12-MONTHS-AT-END-OF-ANNUAL-HOLIDAY-YEAR] - Valid when person's employment relationship/contract does not exceed 12 months at the end of the annual holiday credit year (March 31st)

  Guidance [ref 12028]

 Improvements

• Added CAPTCHA to forgot password page

  [ref 11844]

 Fixes

• It was not possible to manually execute scheduled tasks in Employees section

  This was an issue with scheduled task that used REST API.

  [ref 12027]

20/07/2021 release (2.7.28)

 Improvements

• CSV person import improvement

  Added the possibility to import semicolons (;) and new line characters as part of person information.

  [ref 11589]

 Changes

• Changed the integration filename wildcards (e.g. <SplittingValue>, <vvvvkkpp>) to use square brackets

  [ref 12021]

 Fixes

• Salary export "Go back" link resulted in messed up values for export begin and end times

  [ref 12016]

• Fixed problem with SFTP user import

  Problem was caused by older version of SFTP client library.

  [ref 11866]

• Work time percentage was setting work week to 0 when no work week length was set

  [ref 11875]

• Absence report was displaying sick leave and absence information to supervisors who didn't have permissions to view it

• Fixed web service error when trying to insert activities without end time

13/07/2021 release (2.7.27)

 Fixes

• Multiple internal and previous release regression fixes

13/07/2021 release (2.7.26)

 Improvements

• Proper indication on work time setting pages when a setting has setting exceptions

  [ref 12004]

• Clarifications on how annual leave earning change and earning reset work

  Guidance [ref 11862]

• Sensitive information is now hidden behind eye icon

  [ref 7694]

 Fixes

• Comma separated event type code mapping creates duplicates in Sympa absence import

  Guidance [ref 11998]

• Weekly work time for part-time percentage was rounded up, corrected to follow normal rounding rules

  [ref 11149]

• Users could approve own events when imported even if they lacked permission

  [ref 11852]

05/07/2021 release (2.7.25)

 Changes

• Renewed single sign-on service provider certificate

  [ref 8037]

05/07/2021 release (2.7.24)

 Improvements

• Round agreed 100% overtime separately from normal overtime

  [ref 11871]

• Accrual resets and changes can new be imported in scheduled event import

  Guidance [ref 11606]

 Fixes

• Events with no begin and end time had started using default begin and end times in event import

  A setting was added to control that behavior, allowing to either use default times or use start time of 00:00 and end time of 24:00.

  Guidance [ref 11644]

27/06/2021 release (2.7.23)

 Fixes

• Working community level event type translations had stopped working

  [ref 11984]

• Work time calendar would not open

  This happened when work rise was earned from additional work but no pay was earned from the actual additional work itself.

  [ref 11964]

22/06/2021 release (2.7.22)

 Fixes

• Event report crashed if there were travel invoices in it

  [ref 11948]

• It was not possible to open work time calendar

  This happened if person had additional work with additional work percentage from a setting exception.

  [ref 11949]

• Hour-to-hour overtime from travel time was included in "Realized work hours" report

  Hours earned from travel time should not be included in the report.

  [ref 11491]

• RunIntegrationRuleset web service call returned non well formed UTF-8 characters

  This happened when running salary exports that use other character set than UTF-8.

  [ref 11804]

• Fetching work events to Titania was not working

  It didn't work when fetching by user's social security number. No work events were returned in that case.

  [ref 11947]

21/06/2021 release (2.7.21)

 New

• Support for storing external identifier for work time events

  External identifier can be set or seen in:

  • Integration ruleset rules
  • Web service calls related to events, GetActivitiesV2, TerminalLoginV2, InsertActivitiesV2, UpdateActivitiesV2, BeginActivityV2, EndActivityV2
  • Event import

  Guidance Guidance [ref 11435]

17/06/2021 release (2.7.20)

 Improvements

• Multiple improvements to travel invoices

  [ref 11374]

16/06/2021 release (2.7.19)

 Fixes

• Removed person was as supervisor in person excel export

  [ref 11792]

16/06/2021 release (2.7.18)

 Fixes

• Ensured that only secure (HTTPS) cookies are used

  [ref 11846]

09/06/2021 release (2.7.17)

 Improvements

• Improvements to session cookie security

  [ref 11847]

08/06/2021 release (2.7.16)

 Improvements

• Ensured that only secure (HTTPS) cookies are used in work time

  [ref 11846]

 Fixes

• Fixed an error in travel invoice approval excel export

  [ref 11874]

01/06/2021 release (2.7.15)

 Improvements

• Time input improvements in travel invoices

  [ref 11873]

• Improvements to Titania work event export

  [ref 11375]

27/05/2021 release (2.7.14)

 Fixes

• Fixes to "Hours by salary type" report

  [ref 11841]

• Fixed a fault in salary data exports

  The occurrence of this fault was rare and required specific settings for work rises.

  [ref 11858]

26/05/2021 release (2.7.13)

 Fixes

• Fixed a fault in Visma L7 project import

  [ref 11785]

• Fixes to "Annual leave, usage follow-up" report

  [ref 11697]

• Fixes to Estonian language in the user interface

25/05/2021 release (2.7.12)

 Fixes

• Fixed a fault in Fivaldi Billing salary export

  [ref 11850]

• Fixed the presentation of decimal numbers in annual leave reports

  [ref 11843]

24/05/2021 release (2.7.11)

 New

• Added Fivaldi Billing export format to salary exports

  Guidance [ref 11423]

 Improvements

• Setting exception validity rules added for Belgian and German public holidays

  Guidance [ref 11839]

• Multiple improvements to event requests and event request approval

  Guidance [ref 11687]

 Fixes

• Person import did not display any errors when trying to import deputies

  Importing deputies is not supported in person import.

  [ref 11550]

18/05/2021 release (2.7.10)

 New

• Belgian and German public holidays added

  [ref 11544, 11574]

 Improvements

• Improvements to annual leave and annual leave balance settings

  [ref 11531]

06/05/2021 release (2.7.9)

 Fixes

• Work rise negative percentage part was displayed incorrectly in calendar

  [ref 11745]

• Fixes to overtime breakdown

  • Hours approval view didn't display breakdown of work rises earned from overtime correctly
  • The order of overtime breakdown wasn't correct in all views
  • Project hours by person report didn't display additional work breakdown by additional work percentage

  [ref 11711]

• Fixed a fault in absence types management

  [ref 11786]

05/05/2021 release (2.7.8)

 Fixes

• Fixes to event request e-mail notifications

  [ref 11780]

• Fixed several typos in the UI

04/05/2021 release (2.7.7)

 Improvements

• Event request related improvements to reports and integration ruleset rules

  Guidance [ref 11310]

 Fixes

• Fixes to event request e-mail notifications

  [ref 11780]

03/05/2021 release (2.7.6)

 Improvements

• Enhancements to starting work related to work shift in mobile view

  [ref 11763]

 Fixes

• Fixes to event request e-mail notifications

  [ref 11759, 11730]

29/04/2021 release (2.7.5)

 Fixes

• It was not possible to set accrual value to be a decimal number with accrual reset event

  [ref 11746]

• Fixes to travel invoice input view

  [ref 11741]

24/04/2021 release (2.7.4)

 Fixes

• Fixed a fault in work time event copying

  [ref 11731]

• Fixed a fault in viewing events in work time

  [ref 11745]

• It was not possible to set annual leave reset or change value in days in event import

  [ref 11728]

20/04/2021 release (2.7.3)

 Fixes

• Event request approval was not functioning properly

  [ref 11729]

17/04/2021 release (2.7.2)

 Fixes

• Fixed a fault in work time service

17/04/2021 release (2.7.1)

 Fixes

• Fixed a fault in work time service

17/04/2021 release (2.7.0)

 New

• Event requests – Smoother workflow

  Event types can be configured so they must be requested from line managers in advance. The primary supervisor and acting deputies are informed of new requests from their subordinates and can choose to approve or reject them.

  Guidance [ref 11518]

• In project targeting settings you can define if the work is targeted to planned work shift project or to the default project of the person

  With new exception methods it is possible to define exceptional values to be valid in for example international holidays, and a possibility to define an exceptional entry to be valid, if there is a bank holiday in the week.

  Guidance [ref 11508]

 Improvements

• More exceptions to settings

  With new exception methods it is possible to define exceptional values to be valid in for example international holidays, and a possibility to define an exceptional entry to be valid, if there is a bank holiday in the week.

  Guidance [ref 11455]

• Expected work times based on planned work shift can be set to enable overtime earning when working before planned shift start

  In the platform it is now possible to define the validity periods of expected work times to be based on planned work shifts.

  Guidance [ref 11275]

• Possibility to deliver data manually directly to SFTP server

  In the platform it is now possible to deliver the data based on Rulesets defined under External integrations (e.g. Salary data) to SFTP server manually, too.

  Guidance [ref 11157] 

• Additions to Visma L7 interface

  Guidance [ref 11255]

12/12/2020 release (2.6.0)

 New

• Person import via API integration

  Allows future changes to be imported into the service in advance and the import interval to be set to a minimum of one hour

  Guidance [ref 10592]

• Rulesets gain 'Deleted events' data

  Can be used to retrieve deleted events and use them to generate various reports

  Guidance [ref 11217,11297]

• Work rises have a new setting

  Possibility to set a new earning threshold, in which case earnings will only start after a certain time

  Guidance [ref 11154]

 Improvements

• Support for Personec F export types 2 & 3 in integration

  It is now possible to export all types in Personec F integration

  Guidance [ref 10498]

• Monitoring of annual working time

  It is possible to set the annual working time monitoring with the levelling period settings

  Guidance [ref 11027]

• Project Hours by Person report improvement

  Added grouping option "By Event". In addition, internal and public notes on the event and project will be included in the report.

  Guidance [ref 11107]

• Rulesets gain 'Information on the accumulation of annual leave'

  Can retrieve information on the accumulation of annual leave for all event types

  Guidance [ref 10752]

04/11/2020 release (2.5.1)

 Improvements

• Travel invoice

  It is now more visual and easier to use. For example, we added travel method icons and route indications. Also domestic trips do not require time entries, which saves time and extra clicking.

  Guidance [ref 10929]

24/10/2020 release (2.5.0)

 New

• Rulesets gain ‘Person Group’ data

  This is so that, for example, a customer can query their event data and include the hierarchy of Person group information including names, codes, etc.

  Guidance [ref 10466]

 Improvements

• Naming standardisation and improvements for Worktime

  In UI, for example, the terms that appear in calendar and reports correspond to each other. We have changed the following terms, among others:

  • Work hours -> Worked time incl. absences
  • Basic time -> Regular time

  [ref 10935]

• Microsoft Login security & stability

  We have improved Microsoft Login, so that our customers can log in to our service on all browsers and devices.

  Guidance [ref 10755]

12/09/2020 release (2.4.0)

 New

• Digia Enterprise salary integration

  We now support exporting salary data to this salary system. The information is transferred in Digia Enterprise format and can be used by all customers.

  Guidance [ref 10075]

 Improvements

• Project report ”Hours per person”

  Report has been added an Event type column to the report to allow better filtering and pivoting of the information. For example, you can now easily determine how many project hours were related to meetings, travel, etc.

  Travel invoices and other supplements now appear in this report.

  Several data selections on the report have been clarified to make it easier to understand its capabilities.

  Guidance [ref 10041]

• Worktime rounding

  When compensated time is rounded there is now a clear distinction between work hours that were registered and time which is paid.

  This corrects issues in reports such as the Overtime and Hours by salary type report, which were earlier unable to show the correct amount of worked hours.

  It also improves the accuracy of data gathered by rulesets for exports and integrations. They can now be extended to consider whether compensation exists because of rounding or not. A good example of where this might be useful is when creating a ruleset for invoices, which should be based on actually worked hours, vs a ruleset for salary integrations, which should include rounded times.

  The change also addresses situations where work rises were being incorrectly earned due to rounding. A good example of this are evening and night compensations as these should be awarded for the actual time worked, not rounded time used for salary calculations. There is a new Work rise setting to enable this method of calculation, which can be found in the Work rise settings section.

  Guidance [ref 8841]

• Integration rulesets are extended to include project data

  We have added the ability to fetch project data as part of rulesets. With this you can create a variety of reports from recorded events.

  Guidance [ref 10465]

16/07/2020 release (2.3.0)

 New

• It is possible to add internal and public notes to each project added to an event

  Guidance [ref 9011]

• SSO identity provider encryption certificates can be installed from UI

  Guidance [ref 8088]

• Microsoft Azure AD SSO can be configured from UI

  Guidance [ref 10414]

 Improvements

• Travel invoices enhancements

  Travel invoice report can be exported into excel.

  Following travel invoices' fields are exposed in integration rule sets. Linked Guide heading 'Poimitaan matkalaskun matkan tietoja'

  • Trip start and end address
  • Trip reason

  Guidance [ref 10178]

• Enhanced options for public holiday and work week length on obligated days

  Guidance [ref 10472]

• Worktime roles can be imported and exported

  Guidance [ref 10425]

20/05/2020 release (2.2.0)

 New

• Titania integration

  Guidance [ref 9824, 9372]

• Persons additional fields can now have default values

  Guidance [ref 10189]

 Improvements

• Outdated API domain ramp-down

  The new domain for events, projects and worktime calculations API is https://time.nepton.com. Old domain https://tyoaika.tyoteho.fi is obsolete and should no longer be used. Please switch to using new domain as soon as possible.

  Guidance [ref 10211]

• Service API now supports deleting events by using the UpdateActivities method

  Guidance [ref 10211]

29/04/2020 release (2.1.0)

 New

• InTime integration

  Guidance [ref 8824]

• 'Actual worktime' report (old report Work hours daily view)

  Guidance [ref 9537]

 Improvements

• Netvisor integration guidance

  Guidance [ref 8717]

• Terminal guidance

  Guidance [ref 8567]

15/04/2020 release (2.0.0)

 New

• Travel invoice capabilities

  Use supplements to define travel invoice rows, travel expenses or daily allowances - Guidance

  Support for multiple routes per travel invoice.

  Automatically calculated allowances, including foreign allowances, based on the routes

  Guidance [ref 8831]

• Platform status page launched

  Here [ref 9283]

• It is possible to use an external system's identifier to recognize projects in the API

  In addition to the project code, projects can be recognized by identifiers used by a third party system. This permits user friendly codes and unique system identifiers to be different.

  Guidance [ref 9426]

 Improvements

• Employees person information page

  Usability and browser compatibility improved.

  [ref 8834]

• Wall terminal branding

  [ref 9908]

• Behaviour of primary and secondary supervisor data in person integrations

  If this requires actions, you have been contacted.

  Guidance [ref 5765]

• Stability and performance issues solved

  The previous version included many complicated changes, some of which did not go according to plan. We sincerely apologise for these issues! Stability and performance have now been restored, and we have made process changes to ensure this kind of situation will not reoccur.

  [ref 8834, 9217]