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Equus Mobile Workforce Platform v24.2 released 28th March 2024

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AI Assistant

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Your new AI Assistant is now live! No more SQL headaches when report-building, just ask questions in plain English for instant program insights. New capability to search and filter your mobility cases in an easy and flexible way.

MEE Theme Builder

Customize the Mobile Employee Experience per company with the enhanced theme builder, now offering personalized company logos, alternative text options by company, and custom backgrounds.

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Remote Work Request Enhancement

Define your process for each remote work scenario, based on location, day count or both. Plus, easily cater for exceptions with updates to the rules grid and additional warnings for out-of-policy requests.

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Webinar

Features

Access Groups

  • Corrected a scenario where Access Groups security was causing issues with user access

AI Assistant

  • The AI Assistant is now available to all internal users. The Assistant can report on move related fields including employee details, dependents, policy, projects and initiations. Note, results…

    • only return active cases by default

    • can include inactive cases if specified

    • can display up to 1000 rows of data, formatted as an interactive data table

    • can be sorted or exported to Excel

    • can now include links to cases

  • The Assistant resides at a System Level and can be enabled or disabled using a new System Preference

  • The Assistant can refer to System terminology overrides if set

  • Usage tips are available to help users get the most out of the AI Assistant

  • Users can now provide additional feedback when using the AI Assistant

API

  • Added a new configuration option to API error handling

Assignment Packages

  • Resolved a scenario where deleting a document in an existing assignment package with an e-signature merge document fails

Company Segments

  • Segment levels now will correctly display on records where applicable

Company Settings

  • A new field ‘Payroll Variance Threshold’ was added to the Company Details screen. This field stores a payroll percentage threshold that can be used to compare and identify Compensation Worksheet line items that are outside of a configured threshold value

Compensation Accumulator

  • Users can now add, edit and view ‘Where Paid’ details for Compensation Accumulator entries. This field is now supported in:

    • Compensation Accumulator Simple Format Import

    • Comp Accum Import by Wage Code (by Pay Source)

    • Comp Accumulator Simple Format Import by PaySource

  • Solved an issue with the Approval Status on the Compensation Accumulator

Compensation Calculations

  • Users with correct security rights will now see Compensation Calculation templates as expected

Compensation Worksheets

  • Resolved a scenario where Compensation Worksheets failed to process, due to secondary payroll system descriptions exceeding 50 characters

Cost Estimates

  • The ‘Cost Estimate Calculation Detail’ report will now work when a range of years was provided as a reporting variable

Dashboards

  • Added a new dashboard ‘Equus Dashboard - Compensation Super User’ to assist with navigating through configuration components for compensation

Mobile Employee Experience

  • The Mobile Employee Experience theme settings have been enhanced to support both Company and System level themes

  • Fixed an issue in the Mobile Employee Experience Android app, where Expense Report file attachments were not uploading

Mobility Management

  • Exceptions:

    • Users can now configure a new setting allowing exceptions to remote work locations not allowed and set day limit rules that may have been configured.

      • Note, when any rules are bypassed via this setting, the Remote Work Approval ruleset can route the approval form to a specific contact. Approvers will also receive detailed information about any bypassed rules in the approval form

  • Travel Confirmation Process:

    • The Assignment Destination screen includes the following new fields:

      • Original Start Date

      • Original End Date

      • Travel Dates Confirmed

    • Added a new review screen where employee users that have recently finished a working trip can confirm start and end dates for accurate trip information

    • Undo functionality has been added to this screen, incase employees accidentally submit incorrect entries

  • General:

    • We improved the mobility case creation process. Now, after successfully creating or saving a mobility case, the ‘View/Edit Existing Record’ modal will automatically appear

    • Enhancements were made when searching for mobility cases within the Mobility Manager widget:

      • Destination details are now fully displayed for the following mobility types:

        • Business Trips

        • Domestic Remote Work

        • International Remote Work

      • The search button now works as expected when the language is set to French

    • Improved the accessibility features of the Remote Work Request form ensuring a more inclusive and user-friendly experience

    • Mobility records can now be saved as expected when no coordinator is selected

    • Resolved some issues when Remote Work Requests are submitted, including:

      • New country rules not being reflected

      • Issues encountered when the employee’s first and last names exceed a combined length of 50 characters

    • Corrected a scenario where the date validation on the ‘WHEN’ step of the Remote Work Request form allowed users to proceed to the next step with invalid dates

    • Resolved an issue where the ‘Total Working Days’ field was not displayed on the Remote Work Request form

Quick Workflows

  • Quick Workflows have been created to support Mobility Management as below:

    • ‘Send Travel Date Reconfirmation Notification to Employee’ - alerts employees that travel dates need to be reconfirmed

    • ‘Remote Work Confirmed Dates Exceed Approved Dates’ - alerts coordinators that employee travel has exceeded the maximum allowable days configured

    • ‘Send Travel Date Confirmation to Employee’ Quick Workflow - alerts employees that they must confirm the dates of travel 7 days after the completion of a trip

    • Note, these three Quick Workflows are inactive by default

  • Solved an issue with certain Quick Workflows not sending Pulse Checks when triggered

Single Sign-On

  • Improved the interface of the SSO login page. Locked or expired users will no longer be displayed on the page

Stability Enhancements

  • Enhanced the Business Rules context selector to handle large volumes of data

  • Resolved an issue where criteria filters resulted in incorrect date values when the browser was set to a non-US language setting

  • Improved performance of the User Profile Template page to better handle large Company Segment data sets

  • Enhanced performance of the Company Segment page to manage entries with a large number of lookup values

  • The following buttons on the Rich Text Editor now work as expected:

    • Insert an image

    • Insert an email

    • Insert a table

    • Insert a link

System Requirements

  • From this release onwards, for self-hosted instances the Equus Platform requires a web server running on .NET Framework (Version 4.8) or above

Theme Builder

  • The Theme Builder now allows only one active theme at the company level and one theme at a system level

User Groups

  • User profiles now work as expected when configuring defaults and exceptions

User Reports

  • Added User Report Type validation on User Reports to prevent errors with reporting

Resources

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