These release notes bring together the changes since v20. Over the past two months, the focus has been on a completely revamped talent review module, a bespoke visual identity for the application, the modernisation of several management screens and a smoother mobile app. These releases also include various bug fixes and security improvements.

General

• The "Users", "Delegations" and "Log in as" screens in the general settings have been updated to the modern layout, consistent with the rest of the application. They work as before. For delegations, the overview immediately shows whether a delegation applies to the entire team or only part of it.
• Statuses (such as approved, rejected, enrolled or cancelled) are now shown as a coloured label in the updated overviews. This lets you see the situation at a glance.

Personnel administration

• The "Salary information" and "Commuting" pages in the personnel record have been updated to the modern layout. All existing data has been retained.

Training

• A participant's status is now shown as a coloured label on the "Participants" and "Invitations" tabs of a session and for an employee's scheduled training, just as on the session record. This will also be shown in this way on the training requests page.

• E-learning (SCORM) works more smoothly: videos can be fast-forwarded and rewound, and anyone who interrupts an e-learning course can continue later from where they left off instead of starting again. 

Leave & absences

• The management screens "Leave types", "Leave rules" and "Statutory leave and collective leave" have been updated to the modern layout.

• For leave types, the former "Applicants" field has been split into three separate columns (administrators, managers and employees), which you can sort and filter. You can choose a colour using a colour picker.
• For leave rules, you set the order of the leave types on a separate tab.
• For statutory and collective leave, public holidays are shown with the most recent at the top and you can filter by date. A calendar that is no longer used can now also be deleted.

Talent reviews

The talent review module has been completely updated to the modern layout: the review overview, the review itself, the nine-box, follow-up (succession), the task list and the management screens for cycles, talent groups and fields.

• Communication per cycle. A new "Communication" tab is available in a started cycle. There, you set a title and message for each language and select the reviews you want to communicate. Each manager receives one email in their own language with the names of the employees concerned. For each review, you can see when the communication was last sent.
• Insight into groups. On the "Groups" tab of a cycle, click on a number to open the list of employees behind it, including their photo, job title and status.
• Exclude managers. In the nine-box, the list of reviews and the follow-up, you can use the new "Exclude managers of organizational units" filter to hide managers' reviews. This is useful when holding a talent review meeting with the managers themselves present.
• Clearer filters. The organizational unit filter now displays the name of the unit instead of the code.
• Manually add reviews. A talent review can (again) be added manually from the management area or from the employee's record.

Reporting (OData)

Talent review data (reviews, assessors, criteria, successors, cycles and talent groups) and the final evaluations from Performance Management are now available for reporting in tools such as Excel and Power BI. Everyone only sees the data they are entitled to access.

Additional objects have also been added for HR administration: addresses, marital status, commuting journeys, diplomas and degrees, development needs, emergency contacts, personal contact details, family members, tax information, insurance contracts and salary information. Addresses, marital status, tax information and salary information are also available with only the current values.

Expense claims

Approved expense claims can now be exported to Securex HRAccent. The export merges expense claims by type and category. You can first check the export using the "Generate test file" option before finalizing it.

Mobile app

The mobile app has received a series of improvements for a smoother experience: a new navigation bar, smoother transitions between screens, loading screens that show how the page is being built and an improved "pull to refresh". In addition, several display issues on iOS and Android have been resolved.