Release Highlights
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Key Features - Help Center Search term(s) provided in parenthesis
Business Rules (Multi-context)
Employee Election Set Points (Election set point)
Migrating User Tables (User table migration)
Other Features
Key Features
The current release includes several new features which significantly enhance the functionality of AssignmentPro.
Business Rules
Business rules can now be used in What-If Cost Estimates (WICE) and Core Flex calculations.
Furthermore, the same business rule can be used in WICE, assignment cost estimates and Core Flex, using the new multi-context feature.
This significantly reduces the work required to create and maintain calculations.
Employee Election Set Points
Employee election sets now support the use of points for election choices and budgets. Choose from converting monetary costs into points or the “Points Only” currency type.
Migrating User Tables
User Tables can now be migrated using the migration wizard, either individually or within a user report migration.
Reminder: These release notes summarize the changes to AssignmentPro in the current release.
For help using the new features or more details on how they work, the help center contains detailed articles, guides and videos.
Access the help center through the ‘Community / Help Center’ link, or via the help widget on any internal AssignmentPro page.
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Other Features
Assignment Packages
Fixed an issue for Assignment Package Delivery Batches that were displaying errors incorrectly
AssignmentPro APIs
Updated the Assignment Documents API Subscription to allow for Employee Passport, Spouse/Domestic Partner Passport, and Assignment Dependent Passport records to be created or updated via POST and PATCH requests in the API
Authorizations
Added the new U.S. Permanent Resident Card Holder field to the authorization process. Field is supported for Employee creation from a completed authorization and also supports the backfill process where an authorization is created from an assignment
Business Rules
Business Rules now have their own screen, to allow for better display and search of rule information
Business rules can now be used in multiple ‘contexts’, at assignment, authorization, and company level. This allows one business rule to support multiple processes, such as What-If Cost Estimates and Benefit Sets
Support of Business Rules in the What-If Cost Estimate process, including the support of inputs by the Variable Inputs configuration in Business Rules
Support of Business Rules in Benefit Sets, for the Benefit Set Line Item cost calculation and the Benefit Set Choices (minimum, maximum, and recommended amount), including the support of inputs by the Variable Inputs configuration in Business Rules
Save & Run feature improved to allow testing the Business Rule in the context of an Authorization (for testing the Business Rules for the Benefit Sets scenario) and Company (for testing the Business Rules for the What-If Cost Estimate scenario)
New available Origins (in Business Rules inputs configuration) to support the configuration of setting the origin for What-If Cost Estimates, Benefit Sets, Quick Workflows, Checklists, and Invoice Auditing in the Business Rules conditions
New “Usage” section in the Business Rules details screen that lists all the places and templates where that Business Rule is currently configured
New “Usage” tab in the Business Rules components (Multi-Context, Table Lookup, Function, Math, and Inputs) that lists all the places (other Business Rules or other components) where that component is currently being used
New Business Rules History area, which lists in a grid all the execution logs of the configured Business Rules, allowing the user to check in what processes those Business Rules were executed
Added the ability to delete Business Rules that are not configured/used in any other place and that did not run yet in any process (What-If Cost Estimates, Cost Estimate, Quick Workflows, etc.)
Support for using the “Fixed Value” source in the Then/Else conditions when the Business Rule output type is money
Support for the usage of Business Rules with the output type number in the Election Set choices
Usability improvements in the Business Rules sections (Details, Steps, and Usage) to allow clicking on the entire bar to expand/collapse the section
Fixed an issue where the Save & Run feature was not working correctly with the Post-Assignment-Year Input
Fixed an issue where the Save & Run feature did not display the correct values of the inputs when multiple inputs were used
Fixed an issue where cascading line items with math operations between potential null values in inputs was prompting an error on the Cost Estimate creation
Fixed an issue where using invalid characters in the Business Rules fields was prompting an error technical message
Added Assignment Special Security Group table to conditions grid used in Quick Workflows and throughout AssignmentPro (including Checklists, Expense Audit Rules and Business Rules)
Checklists
Fixed an issue where company-specific Business Rules are copied to another company when a Checklist Template that references them is copied
Added validation to ensure the conditions grid has a value set in the “AND/OR” column for all rows other than the last
Fixed an issue with Checklists using Merged Fields that were initiated though Quick Workflows
Compensation Worksheets
Fixed an issue where changing the home/host country currency in the Assignment Compensation Worksheet Template, was not updating the currency in the Compensation Worksheets line items, until each of the line items was saved individually
Cost Estimates
Fixed an issue when opening the Cost Estimate Calculation Detail Report, when some line items had extremely small numbers (e.g. 8E-14), was prompting an error converting data type nvarchar to numeric
Documents
Improved status retrieval of e-signature documents to better align with DocuSign audit requirements
E-signature documents now support system e-mail header configuration including the &EQ_FROM_EMAIL merge code to show the name of the user that sent the document for signing
Election Sets
Election Sets now support converting monetary costs into “points” for election choices and budgets
Election Choices can override the overall point conversion rate to incentivize employees to pick certain choices
A new "Points Only" Currency Type allows points values to be defined directly in User Reports with no conversion when generating the set
Fixed an issue where an Election Set could sometimes not be submitted if using points, a budget, and rounding down converted point values
Employee Experience
Fixed an issue where sometimes the Employee Feedback page was not accessible after activating the Mobile Employee Experience
Fixed an issue with the Self-Initiations display order, that was different in the navigation menu and the Self-Initiations screen
Fixed an issue with the Employee Delegates navigation using the left navigation logo, where the page was not loading until the user refreshes the screen
Fixed an issue where the footer on the Election Set overview page would sometimes cover useful buttons
Employee Feedback
Custom fields can now be added to the Employee Feedback details screen to support custom workflows for tracking and follow-up
Employee Feedback statuses can now be fully customized
Import Data
Added support for the field U.S. Permanent Resident Card Holder field to universal import process, flexible header import and Employee Assignment flexible header import
HRIS Integration modified to support the field U.S. Permanent Resident Card Holder
Invoice Management
Fixed an issue where Expense Audit Rules did not respect the sequence of the conditions
Added a new invoice management vendor report (Equus Vendor Summary User Report) in which audit completed expenses can be reported back to the vendor through an email submittal – if the voucher was vendor reported
Reports are delivered to vendors as an email attachment in Excel format and can be password protection for increased security
Added Reprocess validation that will require a Voucher status to which reprocessed expenses will be updated to
Added warning text to override/reprocess modals to notify users if expenses have been reported back to vendor
Landing Experience Dashboards
Fixed an issue where the Extended Assignments widget could incorrectly display very old extensions
A new Word Cloud widget has been added that displays an infographic of commonly occurring words to identify trends in text fields
Migration Packages
Added a new Migration Package type “User Tables” to support the migration of User Tables
User Report (includes Prerequisites and Report Types) package type now includes User Tables referenced by the User Report Type
Fixed an issue that prevented some User Reports from being able to be migrated
Fixed an issue that prevented User Reports with prerequisites from using existing prerequisite reports on migration
Online Help
Made an adjustment to how suggested articles are retrieved for the Help Widget by removing the custom service that handled page keywords
Production Reports
Fixed an issue with the running of 2 specific RDLC reports (Tax Calc - Year End and Tax Calc - Assignment Year End) with one or more sub-reports, where the configured parameters were not honored
Pulse Checks
Scheduled Pulse Checks now support filters and can be sent to specific employee populations
Pulse Check questions support situational rules and questions can show/hide based on assignment criteria
When a Pulse Check Template is associated with a Quick Workflow, that Quick Workflow is now listed on the template configuration page
Pulse Checks now indicate the current page and total number of pages for a better user experience in the Mobile Employee Experience
Pulse Checks have an option to appear in the new Announcements section of the Mobile Employee Experience and supports branding and extra description text
Quick Workflows
Added validation to ensure the conditions grid has a value set in the “AND/OR” column for all rows other than the last
Fixed an issue that caused Quick Workflows to sometimes not trigger when the target field changed
Fixed an issue where Quick Workflows that fire based on a target date would error
Fixed an issue where Quick Workflows had slow performance when many workflows were fired
Fixed an issue where Quick Workflows were sometimes firing inappropriately because of a change in how conditions are evaluated
Fixed an issue where condition sequences were not honored
Fixed an issue in the conditions grid where certain status fields, such as Service Order: Status, did not list all available statuses. This also applies to Checklist Templates
Fixed an issue where Quick Workflows were sometimes not firing when expected when the “Is Not Equal To” comparator is used in a condition
NOTE: Previously, Quick Workflows evaluated conditions of the pattern “<field> Is Not Equal To <value>” as true in cases where the triggering assignment, company or authorization does not have a value for the field. This behavior changed in v20.6 when Quick Workflow was upgraded to use the same logic for evaluating conditions as the rest of AssignmentPro. Now, “<field> Is Not Equal To <value>” comparisons are evaluated as false in cases where triggering record does not have the field
This fix updates all existing Quick Workflows that have one or more conditions of the “<field> Is Not Equal To <value>” pattern. It changes these conditions to “(<field> Is Not Equal To <value> OR <field> Is Blank)”. It is necessary to add this “OR <field> Is Blank” condition to future Quick Workflows if you want them to fire when the triggering record does not have the field
For example:
Fixed an issue where inactive lookup values could no longer be entered as conditions
NOTE: This fix affects more than just Quick Workflows. Inactive values will now be available in all lookup fields on system-level configuration pages
Security Updates
As a standard process, Equus fixes vulnerabilities found through testing and analysis. For this release, a few enhancements have been made to address findings
Single Sign On (SSO)
Added support for multiple IDP (Identity Providers) SSO to a single instance of AssignmentPro
Modified SSO Provisioning processes to support user creation from multiple IDPs
System Preferences
The "Plugin batch default maximum wait time" power user system preference (TBJOBMAXWT) can now be set to 0 for unlimited wait time



