1 New feature added, 1 Problem fixed

New feature added:

In the travel expense form, the methodology to add individual line items has been modified:

-          Earlier when a line item was added, once the Add this expense was pressed, the system first used to save the details in the database and only once the database operation was completed, could the user begin to add the next line item. Though it usually happened quite fast, this was a problem over slow connections since the user had to wait for that much time. Also once the Add button was pressed, the system used to do various validations and if there was a problem with some field, then the message used to appear.
-          Now, the server side validations, wherever relevant, happen as soon as the field value is entered. So the user does not have to wait till all details are entered and Add is pressed, to know the error. Only if a mandatory field is left blank, then that message comes only on pressing Add button.
-          When a user adds a line item, he/she is immediately able to add the next line item. The saving of already entered line items happens in the background while the user is adding subsequent line items. This should drastically reduce user’s wait time in case of slow connection. The user is given visual feedback on whether a line item is saved or not by displaying the text ‘saved’ in the line items. As the user keeps adding line items, they immediately keep becoming visible at the bottom, but without the status ‘saved’. As the system saves the line items in the background, the ‘saved’ status keeps becoming visible on line items. All this happens without page refresh
-          If a user has added 4 line items and is adding the fifth one and the system finds that the previous four have not been saved (say because the internet connection has broken down), the system will give a warning message to the user about this when the fifth line item is added. This will prevent a situation where a user keeps on adding lot of line items locally which are not saved and when finally tries to submit the form, realizes that the connection is broken and all the items he has added cannot be saved and are lost.

This methodology will subsequently incorporated in other business expense claim forms and also reimbursement claim forms

Problem fixed:

Next and Previous buttons have been added for navigation in the Functions list view of administrator interface

3 New Features added, 3 Problems Fixed

New Features added:

1. Continuing with addition of more dashboards in EmployWise, we have this week released dashboards based on Travel Requests. These dashboards will enable users to see Travel Summary, Travel Days by Company, Business Unit, Location, Function, Role Group and also Average Travel days by Function and Role Group. All these dashboards can be filtered by Company, Business Unit, Function, Location, Employee Type, Role Group and Grade and across time periods like This Year, This month, last month, Custom date range. These dashboards appear under Travel menu option.
2. Similarly Travel Expenses Dashboards have been added which enable users to see Travel Expense Summary, Total Travel Expense by Company, Business Unit, Functions, Locations, Role Groups, Travel expenses per travel day across all these factors. These dashboards appear under Expenses menu option.
3. An option for administrator to add Cost centers has been added.

Problems fixed:

1. In IE 6, if a print expense option is invoked and then cancelled without printing, a page not found error was coming. This has been fixed.
2. In case of self-approver in business expense claim, a Draft expense claim was get approved. This has been fixed.
3. In the drop down list of employees while assigning an RFR, inactive employees were also seen listed. This has been fixed.

1 New Feature added, 2 problems fixed:

New Feature added:

The configuration to allow administrators to set up accounts/travel desk groups and to setup travel and expense workflows on the basis of these groups instead of roles has been enabled. The option to setup groups is available as Group Members under Travel and Expense option. The option enables administrator to create a group and then add members to the group. The travel expense workflow option to define workflow based on groups is also enabled. Please note that both these options will come only if the Group feature is enabled through single field master by setting the value of the parameter 'Is Travel and Expense workflow Based on Group' to Y.

Problems fixed:

1. IE 8 problem while defining Rating types in configuration has been fixed.
2. IE 8 problem in displaying error message if no stage owner is defined in a recruitment required, has been fixed.

1 New Feature added:

An option to Reconsider a reimbursement claim by both approver (if applicable) and accounts person has been added. This option if exercised, will enable requester to make corrections in the claim form and resubmit. The earlier option of Rejection was insufficient for situations where a small part of the claim form only had some problem.