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AssignmentPro v21.1 released 28 January 2021

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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.

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

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