Teams have been promoted from a Unitend T&A-only feature to become a global feature across the entire product range. Employees can be assigned to teams and absences can be restricted by teams. For example, you might only let 25% of staff in a particular team be off at any one time; this will help you monitor that.
The old Event Diary that was available within Unistaff has been removed as it has been superceded by the new external Event Diary for some years now. The new Event Diary has been improved and any profiles you may have used in the old Event Diary have been brought across to the new one. Also:
- An Event Wizard has been added to help users easily set up the most common events.
- More than one event can now be set against the same date field, allowing different criteria to be reported upon.
- Security has been improved on the Field Maintenance to use any user table- and field-level security.
- A toolbar has been added for easier navigation.
- Added a host of options to the Schedule Maintenance: Is an event active, Include leavers, Include casuals, Exact match only.
- The person selected to receive an email now only receives one email, listing all matching employees, instead of one email per employee.
- Recruitment dates can now be selected and applicant details are output instead of employee details.
A lot of work has been put into improving the Recruitment module for Unistaff HR:
- User-defined screens can now be added to Recruitment and details are saved for applicants instead of employees.
- A new “Correspondence File” has been created that allows for a more flexible correspondence history to be maintained. An unlimited amount of correspondence dates can now be added between a company and an applicant or a reference.
- New "Tests" page added to the Applicant screen, where details of tests can be entered against applicants.
- Document Links have been added to Vacancies so that vacancy-specific documents can be attached.
- To complement this, a Post Link button has also been added to the Vacancy Maintenance, so that users have easy access to documents attached to the Post to which the selected vacancy applies.
- A new page has been added to the Vacancy screen called "Applicants". This lists all of the applicants that have applied for the selected vacancy, along with their current application status, application date and details of the last correspondence.
- A new tick box "Employment Reference" has been added to the Applicant Previous Employer screen. If this is ticked then the details of this previous employer can be added automatically to the applicant's References.
- References has been extended to allow the contact to be emailed directly, to allow one or all references to be mail merged and to attach reference letters.
- References are now transferred with a successful applicant to the HR if they are made a live employee.
- Added option to HR Administrator to auto-assign the applicant number when inserting a new applicant. This is turned on by default as previous versions of the software automatically assigned an applicant number. The choice not to do this has been introduced.
As ever, more details will be in the release notice that ships with the CD.
We are now also focused on improving the online help that comes with the product. Pressing F1 in almost every screen gives you help on that screen and we are dedictated to bringing you as much help as you need on each subject. For the first time we have a dedicated help author on the team and we hope that you will benefit from the improvements to this in future releases.
In addition, we have moved to the HTML Help format which is recommended by Microsoft and supported natively by Windows Vista (the old help system is no longer supported on Vista without installing software for it).
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