What's new in Harmony?

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What's New in Harmony?

The release notes below contain the latest updates and changes that do not appear in the user manuals for Harmony. Changes below include updates and changes to the Time & Attendance, Human Resources, and Employee Self-Service modules.

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Date ReleasedVersion Number  Changes
2024-Nov-13v2.14.1
  • Increased character limit for Employee Number (was 8, now 12)
  • Time & Attendance
    • Fixes: 
      • Project/task/activity dropdown field is unavailable when clocking in using Harmony's built-in clock bar 
      • Adjusting time off balances does not show the correct value (data is not affected)
  • Human Resources
    • Ability to delete an onboarding record
2024-Nov-07v2.13.2(b)
  • Time & Attendance
    • Fixes
      • Shift shown in clock entry is the incorrect date 
      • Incorrect date in clock entry 
      • Overnight shift clock entry appears on the incorrect date
2024-Oct-28v2.13.2
  • Time & Attendance
    • Scheduling (additional fees apply)
    • New Employee filter added to reports 
    • Allow approver to create clock entries for those who are assigned the relevant activity/task
    • Updated validations in Overtime rule setup
    • Fixes: 
      • Newly created shifts only appear after employee configuratuion page is refreshed
  • Human Resources
    • Work Permit Expiry Date field added to reports 
2024-Sep-23v.2.12.4
  • New option to choose to which email addresses notifications will be emailed to 
  • Time & Attendance: 
    • Fixes: 
      • Unable to save shifts
2024-Sep-03v2.11.9
  • Time & Attendance
    • Fixes: 
      • Clock entries with rounding rules are incorrectly applied to the 'seconds' 
      • Applied value when reviewing a historical time off record is incorrectly displayed
2024-Aug-21v2.11.8
  • Time & Attendance
    • Allow breaks to be automatically deducted in the timesheet 
    • Fixes: 
      • Time off request does not show the 'Applied' value 
      • Incomplete error message when creating a temporary time off type with a set of policies
      • 'Requested Date' for time off requests do not show correctly according to the user's time zone
2024-Aug-08v2.10.9
  • New Approver placeholder tile for email templates 
  • Time & Attendance
    • New banked overtime feature
    • Improved validation message for employee preferences
    • Fixes: 
      • Error message when assigning a time off type from the employee preferences
      • Adjustments to balances/entitlements are not shown in the time off calendar
      • Adjustments to entitlement is shown as empty for new employees 
      • Balance pie chart in time off record is not updated after new requests
  • Human Resources
    • Fixes: 
      • "Assign" button in the employee setup does not work
2024-Aug-01v.2.9.3
  • New security permission to view employee list
  • 'Name' fields for most records are no longer unique 
  • Fixes: 
    • 'Recipient First Name' and 'Recipient Last Name' fields incorrect in email templates 
    • Unable to enter special characters in the Holiday Calendar 'Name'
    • Missing 'South Korea' in Country picklist for employees
  • Time & Attendance
    • Approval of clock entries will be saved and approved 
    • New Clock Entries report
    • Fixes: 
      • Error message when rejecting a timesheet 
      • Some time off requests could not be approved 
      • 'Default Task/Activity' in employee preferences was not saved
      • Error message when viewing employee preferences for inactive or terminated employees
  • Human Resources
    • Improved date filter for Employee Birthdays report 
    • Fixes: 
      • Error message when opening an acknowledged document
2024-Jul-11v2.8.7
  • Fixes: 
    • Backup page loads slowly
    • Members are not shown in security groups 
  • Time & Attendance
    • Allow approvers to modify automated clock entries 
    • Fixes: 
      • Ability to assign the same time off type multiple times in 'Adjust Balance' window
      • Missing validation when approving a time off request for an approved timesheet
  • Human Resources
    • Fixes:
      • Missing training date validations
  • Employee Self-Service
    • Fixes: 
      • Unable to go to 'My Onboarding' from Quick Links widget on dashboard
2024-Jun-27v2.7.8
  • Fixes: 
    • Importing user accounts displays an error message
  • Time & Attendance
    • New 'Assigned Projects' field in Employee Configuration and Preferences
    • Fixes: 
      • Editing an existing clock entry displays an error message
      • Unfinished breaks shows the incorrect exception code
      • Incorrect validation message when adjusting the balance for a 'set of policies' time off type
      • Unable to view the actual clock in/out times when hovering over rounded times
  • Human Resources
    • Fixes: 
      • "Employment Status" filter does not work correctly on reports
  • Employee Self-Service
    • Fixes: 
      • Ability to change the country and save changes without changing the province/state
2024-Jun-12v2.6.7
  • Default sorting order of Time Off calendar changed to employee number
  • New 'On Business Travel' security permission
  • Improved placeholder feature for email templates (refer to this article for instructions)
  • General Fixes: 
    • Incorrect warning message when configuring employees
    • Deleting a child department displays an error message
  • Time & Attendance 
    • Allow overtime group rules to be viewed as read-only
    • Fixes:
      • Incorrect exception code of "OBM" when all eligible breaks are taken
      • Unable to create a new break when using 'earliest time' and 'latest time' triggers
      • Breaks taken from a terminal do not appear correctly in the corresponding timesheet
      • Default start and end times do not automatically populate in the timesheet
      • Missing warning message when assigning a new overtime group to an employee who has a pending/approved timesheet
      • Unable to clone an existing overtime group
  • Human Resources
    • 'Blood Group' added to Onboarding in Personal Information
    • Fixes: 
      • Error message is displayed when printing documents
      • "Manager" filter in performance appraisals is empty
      • Offboarding status filter is working incorrectly
  • Employee Self-Service
    • Fixes: 
      • Incorrect interface in the My Tax Forms section (Canada only)
2024-May-29v2.5.5
  • New warning message when fetching holidays from different countries/provinces/states/territories
  • New 'Project/Task/Activity' approval criteria for approval paths 
  • Time & Attendance
    • Ability to import/export Project/Task Name in timesheets and clock entries
    • Fixes:
      • Incorrect validation messages for partial time off records
      • Unable to open 'On Business Travel' records
      • Ability to enter an earlier start time than end time when requesting time off
      • Error message when adding a clock entry to a new timesheet
      • Carryover values in time off type setup does not save correctly
      • Ability to view time off balances even if the user does not have permission to view time off records
  • Human Resources
    • Enhancements to Onboarding
    • Fixes:
      • Unable to preview comma delimited files in Health & Safety
      • Ability to skip required steps in Onboarding
      • Missing validation messages when importing Benefit Vendors
      • More than one Onboarding Invitation Link email sent to new employees
2024-May-15v2.4.5
  • New security permissions for Benefits 
  • All permissions for newly-created security groups will be enabled by default
  • Time & Attendance
    • New 'Default Terminals' field in employee profile 
    • Fixes: 
      • Exported files do not export in the correct columns
  • Human Resources 
    • Enhancements to onboarding, including new documents and acknowledge options
    • Fixes:
      • Inability to add a new employment history record in employee profile
      • Ability for new hire to skip required steps in onboarding process
2024-May-01v2.2.4
  • Time & Attendance 
    • Fixes: 
      • If time off type accrues zero units, it is shown as null
      • Unable to use search bar when adjusting employee time off entitlements
  • Human Resources 
    • New Health & Safety section 
    • Ability to add a user account as the final step of onboarding
    • Fixes: 
      • Error when running System Audit report for a date prior to 04/18/2024
      • 'Quebec' missing as option for Canadian Tax Forms in onboarding (Canada only)
2024-Apr-18v2.1.5
  • New "Other ID" field in employee profile
  • "Ethnic Origin" and "Ethnicity" are merged and moved to employee profile
  • New permission to hide colors and labels in time off calendar
  • Fixes:
    • New employees missing from custom groups 
    • Unable to sort holiday calendar by name and date
    • New email templates cannot be used for notifications immediately
  • Time & Attendance
    • Enhancements to overtime calculations 
    • Fixes: 
      • Unable to edit and save an existing shift
      • Incorrectly shows employee details in time off calendar
  • Human Resources 
    • Fixes: 
      • Restrict onboarding to be initiated for existing employees
      • Error when approving submitted onboarding records
      • Error when generating Employee Detailed Information report
2024-Apr-04v2.0.1
  • Seamless switching between companies 
  • Initial company configuration wizard
  • General Fixes: 
    • Incorrect error message when adding a user that already exists 
  • Time & Attendance 
    • Fixes: 
      • Unable to save newly-created breaks
  • Human Resources
    • Fixes: 
      • Employee notifications not working as expected 
      • Cannot add new designations for professional memberships in Employees section 
2024-Mar-21v1.53.5
  • Improved validation message when adding new holidays in the holiday calendar that affects records
  • Added new dynamic fields for email templates
  • Time & Attendance
    • Improved UI for time off type setup 
    • Label for entitlement year when requesting time off 
    • Superadministrative user will now be able to manually enter/change PINs for terminals
    • Ability to manually edit start & end dates for timesheet periods
    • New 'minimum' values for time off types for carryover and requests
    • Fixes:
      • Missing header for break types 
      • Unable to deactivate overtime groups if employee has approved timesheets 
  • Human Resources
    • Fixes: 
      • Number of dependents restriction in benefit plan enrollments does not restrict as expected
      • Error when approving onboarding records
2024-Mar-06v1.52.12
  • General Fixes: 
    • Criteria in approval paths does not appear in the correct order 
    • Unable to save changes if the holiday calendar name does not meet validations
  • Human Resources
    • Improved UI for benefit plan eligibility 
    • Added 'Blood Group' field to employee profile 
    • Improved benefit plan setup and enrollment
    • Fixes:
      • Previously-saved information does not load after refreshing the page 
      • Date fields in the onboarding link requiring validations does not get removed
  • Employee Self-Service
    • Fixes: 
      • Location filter for available training courses does not populate with the correct options
      • Some filter labels do not have the correct labels in change requests
2024-Feb-26v1.51.25
  • Added security options for new onboarding
  • General Fixes: 
    • Unable to save the holiday calendar if province is invalid 
    • Error is shown when saving the holiday calendar of particular countries 
    • Improved country dropdown lists
    • Error when importing employees
  • Time & Attendance
    • Ability to toggle between administrative and regular user dashboards
    • Fixes:
      • "Time off request successfully approved" showing as rejected instead 
      • Emailing terminal PINs to employees shows an email settings error 
  • Human Resources
    • Major improvements to onboarding 
    • Fixes:
      • "Something went wrong" error alert when viewing employee HR profile 
2024-Jan-11v1.50.7
  • General Fixes: 
    • 'Location' filter is missing in custom groups
    • Holiday date names in holiday calendar was incorrectly required to be unique
    • Company backup space storage was not updated
  • Time & Attendance
    • Major change to overtime
    • Adjusted spacing and resolution of time off balances 
    • Allow editing of timesheet periods & included more options for timesheet period frequencies
    • Fixes:
      • Corrected some French translations
      • Unable to same some employee changes
      • Removing the 'location' filter in Time Off > History provides an invalid message
  • Human Resources
    • Temporary blocking of onboarding
2023-Dec-12v1.49.8
  • Character limit for "City/Town" field was increased to 28 characters
  • General Fixes: 
    • Some French translations were incorrect
    • "System Language" and "Time Zone" changes were not saved 
    • Incorrect confirmation message when updating employee information
  • Time & Attendance
    • Fixes: 
      • Inability to log into some companies
      • Some time off records' distribution pie charts were displayed incorrectly
      • Error when an employee is clocking out from two separate terminals 
      • Inability to print some reports
      • Missing confirmation message when deleting a custom report 
      • Incorrect time zone in Approval History of time off records
      • Incorrect warning message when task start date is earlier than the project start date
2023-Nov-22v1.48.7
  • General Fixes: 
    • Incorrect label in approval path criteria
    • Error when creating an employee import interface with all fields
    • Missing error message when creating approval path
    • Employee import interface incorrectly labelled 
    • Users are unable to change their password
  • Time & Attendance
    • New rounding rules feature for hours worked
    • Fixes: 
      • Dashboard and terminal breaks were not synced
      • Time off request could not be rejected
      • Export date format did not contain the year 
2023-Oct-18v1.47.1
  • New box for 'Adjustments' in Time Off sections
  • Improvements to error messages to be more descriptive
  • Improvements to import validation messages
  • General Fixes: 
    • Newly created users have incorrect 'Last Login' selection
  • Time & Attendance
    • Fixes:
      • 'Employee is absent' notification was incorrect and not received
      • 'Auto-create timesheets with existing clock entries' checkbox was not saved correctly
      • 'Require approvals for all clock entries' checkbox was not saved correctly
      • Inability to rapidly clock in and out several times
      • Duplicate notifications when Harmony is opened in two separate tabs
  • Human Resources:
    • Fixes:
      • Inability to print onboarding & offboarding documents
      • Duplicate notifications when Harmony is opened in two separate tabs
      • Search functionality displaying incorrect employees when assigning training courses
2023-Oct-05v1.46.7
  • Changes to Email Settings
  • Ability to mass import users from a .CSV file
  • Allow superadmin user(s) to bypass all security permissions
  • New message when updates are available
  • Enhanced notifications: Harmony can now send Windows Notifications even when the webpage is not open
  • Time & Attendance
    • Added "Clock Method" to timesheet and reports
    • Allow timesheets and clock entries to be exported by employee
    • Fixes:
      • Invalid Warning message is shown when exporting clock entries in .TXT file format
      • Employees sometimes are not receiving web notifications for new timesheets
      • Employees are not receiving new notifications unless the page is refreshed
      • Web notifications are being received twice
2023-Sep-15v1.45.4
  • New 'Adjustment' box when viewing Time Off balances
  • General Fixes
    • "Seniority Date" field should not have any validations
    • Deleting a backup file results in an error message
  • Time & Attendance
    • Fixes:
      • "Clock Out" button freezes after system prompts about breaks
      • Error message pops up when deleting a manual clock entry 
      • When break duration exceeds the shift duration, an error message is missing
      • "Something went wrong" error message pops up when trying to save empty Time Off adjustments or when trying to save a Timesheet in which there are records using 'Accrue by hours worked' option in Time Off setup
      • Terminated employees are hidden from assigned time off types and terminals
  • Human Resources
    • Fixes: 
      • When modifying permissions, an "Access Denied" error pops up
      • Adding a new checklist item to onboarding is saved as multiple records
  • Employee Self-Service
    • Fixes:
      • Unable to export goals by PDF
      • When creating a new goal, an error message pops up
2023-Aug-30v1.44.21
  • New security T&A permission for Employees Working Today widget on the dashboard 
  • New security T&A permission to show admin and employee dashboards for a user 
  • Time & Attendance
    • Terminal mode UI is updated 
    • Fixes: 
      • Decimals not allowed in "Default Hours Per Day" field in Preferences 
      • Employee is auto-clocked out without a clock out time if exceeding shift hours 
      • Incorrect label for "Show terminated employees" field in Preferences 
      • Terminated employees were still visible even though "Show terminated employees" checkbox is ticked 
  • Human Resources
    • Skills section on employee profile 
    • Fixes:
      • Decimals not allowed in "Default Hours Per Day" field in Preferences 
      • Goals appeared in the 'Final Report' in Performance Appraisals, even though it's not supposed to be included
2023-Aug-01v1.42.5
  • Time & Attendance
    • Show clock out notes in the quick-view of timesheet 
    • System Audit report 
    • Request employee to deduct a break if it was not taken 
    • Fixes:
      • Unable to use a previous colour for time off type 
      • Unable to close the window for Routes 
      • Exporting timesheets triggers successful message twice 
      • Email template for 'Early Clock In' notification sent instead of 'Late Clock In' notification
      • 'Timesheet Modified' notification was not sent 
  • Human Resources
    • Fixes:
      • 'Membership Renewal Reminder' email was not sent 
      • Assignment of documents triggers two successful notifications 
      • Onboarding link sends two emails 
      • Redirection to 403 page for several sections 
      • Unable to save a file with a long file name 
      • Unable to upload multiple files for training event 
2023-Jul-05v1.38.5
  • Improvements to the update message when a new version is available 
  • Improvements to how items are exported 
  • Updated approval path reminder minimum value 
  • Time & Attendance
    • Changes to navigation menu > clock entries 
    • Removed hyperlink to Harmony desktop login page in terminal modes
    • Fixes: 
      • Navigating to 'time off taken', 'logged in now', and 'logged out now' from the dashboard results in a 404 error page 
      • Unable to add historical clock entry records for past dates 
  • Human Resources
    • Importing/exporting of several HR sections 
    • Improvements to the update message when a new version is available 
    • Improvements to how items are exported 
    • Updated approval path reminder minimum value 
    • Fixes: 
      • 'Something went wrong' notification when updating notifications 
2023-Jun-24v1.36.1
  • Time & Attendance
    • Fixes: 
      • Employee filter for clock entries does not refresh correctly 
      • Project/task/activity field in clock entries cannot be changed when adding a new record 
      • Display a 404 error when navigating to an inactive terminal 
      • Missing validation message when a break exceeds the shift duration 
2023-Jun-15v1.35.1
  • Time & Attendance
    • Ability to clock in, clock out, and switch tasks on the employee dashboard 
    • New dashboard UI 
    • Fixes: 
      • Number of "Logged out now" employees on the dashboard displaying incorrectly 
      • "Total active employees" on the dashboard could not be clicked 
      • New terminals were inactive by default 
      • Cannot delete a terminal that has employee notifications 
      • Creating new time off types with entitlement date 'after employee's start date' shows an error
      • Reassignment of time off types in the adjustment window showed incorrect values 
  • Human Resources
    • New employee fields (contact end date, dietary preferences, allergies)
    • Fixes: 
      • "Sign off" button in performance appraisals was not available
      • 'Manager' tab in performance appraisals can be edited after submission
      • Unable to email documents
2023-May-18v1.29.7
  • Two-factor authentication
  • New employee wizard
  • Time & Attendance
    • Ability to view statutory holidays from the holiday calendar in an employee's timesheet 
    •  Fixes:
      • 'Cancelled Time Off Request' notification not sending
  • Human Resources
    • Onboarding & offboarding checklists now allow unlimited number of items 
    • Language in the employee profile can no longer be selected multiple times
    • Inactive employees appear now appear in offboarding section
    • Fixes: 
      • Employees cannot add attachments in training courses 
      • Date range in some reports not filtering correctly 

 

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