T&A 8.38.5.1 General Release - 16th February 2024
We are pleased to announce the latest general release of Advanced Time and Attendance 8: Version 8.38.5.1, released 16th February 2024!
Below is a list of all features and bug fixes for this General release since the last General release (version 8.37.4.2). More information can be found by contacting our Customer Support team.
For instructions on how to upgrade your installation of Time and Attendance 8, please take a look at our Upgrade guide by clicking here.
Type | Jira ID (TA) / DevOps ID (Z) | Description | Change Notes |
8.38.0.0 | |||
Small Enhancement | TA-1419 & TA-2476 | Auto Rostering to inherit licensing info from T&A | T&A licence info provisioned through People Connect via API to Auto Rostering |
Small Enhancement | TA-7793 & TA-7803 | Additional Absence Code details for Auto Rostering integration | T&A API endpoint implemented to GET absence hours codes elements [Name (Code), Description and Display Colour] and provisioned into Auto Rostering |
Small Enhancement | TA-7827 | Display Auto Rostering Installation ID in T&A web | "Installation ID for Advanced Auto Rostering" added to Licensing screen |
Issue Resolution | TA-7915 | Auto Rostering integration - Error when syncing shift definition update | Now ensures group property is set and a successful sync to Auto Rostering results |
Issue Resolution | TA-7413 / Z:147263 | Employee HR request emails sometimes go to the wrong site HR email address | Preference cache was not being switched to the employees site before accessing the site preference for HR Email address. Now checks the site of the cached preference and refreshes if required. |
Issue Resolution | TA-7574 / Z:156671 | Scheduled Messages not working & 500 internal server error if “exclude leavers from recipients” and just a single supervisor connected to the leaver is selected | Error 500 when trying to send scheduled message to supervisor linked to leaver is now handled with a warning |
Issue Resolution | TA-7599 / Z:157050 | HBTASC[TAS0,XID-1] expression not evaluated on Web where as it is on Windows | Recalculating in Web now matches functionality in Windows |
Issue Resolution | TA-7629 / Z:158071 | Adding Additional Payments on the Web does not behave the same as Windows | All data types are now auto populating relevant TAS fields in Web T&A to match Windows behaviour |
Issue Resolution | TA-7639 / Z:159380 | If a user gets a failed message on web should then set request as failed | Ensured the update to the request is set when the status is determined to be failed |
Issue Resolution | TA-7668 / Z:156832 | XML and PDF payslips show dates in different formats | Date format in payslip viewed in web now matches dates in downloadable pdf version |
Issue Resolution | TA-7802 | Correct checking of indexes against base package to allow additional without forcing rebuild | Previous check for indexes required exact match only. New check allows for additional indexes to be defined without reporting as an issue. Rebuilding tables also does not remove these added indexes. |
Issue Resolution | TA-7850 / Z:153944 | Holiday entitlement allowing overtaking days | Entitlement now checked with the planned absence before the request can be accepted |
Issue Resolution | TA-7874 / Z:164946 | Group Selection - Selection option groups incorrectly limited by views assigned | Now loads the lookup used for the views after the Security list has been loaded (which causes the view lookup to be loaded correctly) |
Issue Resolution | TA-7876 / Z:164983 | 3 days of absences on days with 2 shifts showing as 1 day in Web instead of 3 days | Improved the checking for multiple half days so the counter resets after the date changes |
Issue Resolution | TA-7965 | Error in browser console relating to Product Hub SVG icon | Error caused by invalid characters at the end of the path that the browser developer tools was picking up on. These characters have been removed. |
Issue Resolution | TA-7966 | POST request to ClientInfo fails. 403 error in F12 Developer browser tools, Network tab | Fixed |
Issue Resolution | TA-7967 | Dashboard Maintenance - cannot add or reorder widgets | Fixed |
Issue Resolution | TA-7969 | Work record view state to not kept when reopened | POST request is no longer failing when editing work record in clock card |
Issue Resolution | TA-7984 | MIME Type of dashboard-background.css is Text/HTML instead of Text/CSS when the css file does not exist error in F12 Developer browser tools when no background image defined | Now it only includes the link to the css file where it exists |
Issue Resolution | TA-7985 | Web developer tool warning: Permissions-Policy unrecognized feature vibrate | Header item for vibrate removed from the permission policy in web.config |
Issue Resolution | TA-7989 | Build issue - References to mpxj.dll, junit.dll and poi-3.6-20091214.dll causing alot of reflection errors to be stored in Elmah | References removed prevents these errors from occurring and make the start-up of the application quicker and cleaner |
Issue Resolution | TA-7606 | Invisible characters are added to employee fields when edited through job details | Data added from the extlist including carriage return and linefeed invisible characters. These are now removed from the end of the string provided. |
8.38.1.0 | |||
Small Enhancement | TA-7886 | T&A Website installer rebranded to Advanced | Mitrefinch references and imagery replaced |
Small Enhancement | TA-7878 | T&A Windows application installer rebranded to Advanced | Mitrefinch references and imagery replaced |
Small Enhancement | TA-8081 | T&A IT Pre-requisite Tool and UpgradeWizard installs rebranded to Advanced | Mitrefinch references and imagery replaced |
Small Enhancement | TA-8044 | Support website link reinstated on Help screen loaded from login screen | Link to advisory page https://www.mitrefinch-support.com added |
Small Enhancement | TA-8078 | Microsoft Internet Explorer references removed from 'Browser support' section of Accessibility Statement | Internet Explorer is no longer a supported browser by Microsoft and therefore Advanced too |
Small Enhancement | TA-8000 | timeoutRedirect cookie does not contain the “HTTPOnly” attribute and the “secure” attribute | Apply secure and HTTPOnly flags to timeoutRedirect cookie when this is configured in web.config |
Defect Resolution | TA-8005 / S:23168388 | "Error in sort 1 - Unknown identifier - Employee" error when running a report for an employee range without an employee sort set | Now sets the field for the sort when range is used and no other sort order is defined |
Issue Resolution | TA-8045 | Themes - ‘Dustbin’ icon difficult to see in black theme in applicable screens e.g. Dashboard Maintenance and Maintain on-site list screens | Themes - Fade on icon adjusted so that ‘Dustbin’ is clearer |
Issue Resolution | TA-8040 | Themes - Diary screen - In black theme Filter checkboxes unreadable as labels in black font on black background | Black theme and custom theme issue fixed |
Issue Resolution | TA-8021 | Windows - Maintain System Preferences - Licence warning preference not shown | Layout of form definition resolved |
Issue Resolution | TA-7975 | On screens where the Toggle Details Pane button is visible it overlaps with the Help button e.g. Dashboard maintenance | Fixed |
Issue Resolution | TA-7968 | Dashboard - The header bar wraps onto two lines at certain small screen sizes | Fixed |
8.38.2.0 | |||
Small Enhancement | TA-8183 / S:23244413 | Recalculate selected employees processor job crashes | Processor job now checks existence of all tables when passing in the list of tables to use |
Defect Resolution | TA-7961 / S:23148734 | Possible vulnerabilities due to use of jQuery version 1.9.0 | jQuery updated to version 3.6.4 |
Defect Resolution | TA-8155 / S:23224521 | Supervisor, without access to the 'Modify standard hours' Clock card right, ticks/unticks 'Checked' box on Work record, the standard hours change to 0:00 | Standard hours being reset to 0:00 resolved by this action resolved |
Defect Resolution | TA-8034 / S:23178146 | Point in Time Report ESTABLISHM returning incorrect results in Web application | Web changed to use the same logic as Windows for PIT reports |
Defect Resolution | TA-8067 / S:23182524 | Modifying Emergency contacts caused four delete requests for the ‘Entitlement’ panel to be raised | The employee profile had access to 2 entitlements and no access to the other 4. When comparing the records when saving, it looks to the software as though the 4 they don’t have access to have been removed, so submits delete requests. Same root cause as TA-7944. Comparison reclist now has the hidden items removed. |
Defect Resolution | TA-7944 / Z:126698 | Changing employee details on web when the supervisor does not have access to an entitlement zeros the entitlement | Same root cause as TA-8067. Comparison reclist now has the hidden items removed |
8.38.3.0 | |||
Small Enhancement | TA-633 / Z:148911 | Users cannot create diary entries for 'Non-employed' (employees marked with a CE.STAUS1 of 'N') employees. When run the 'Create automatic diary entries' job on the Processor these employees are skipped. | Diary entries can apply to employees, vacancies or be general reminders (not related to a specific employee). The change allows the automatic creation of diary entries for actual employees, non-employees and future starters. If customers want to retain their current behaviour, they can add ce.status1<>'N' to their selection for the diary definition. |
Small Enhancement | TA-8269 / S:23270771 | Kiosk mode : New jobs don't appear automatically on the kiosk without synchronisation | Sync button now shows in kiosk mode when logged in as employee, and syncs as if it were the supervisor doing the synchronisation |
Small Enhancement | TA-8334 & TA-8347 | Potential vulnerability in input validation for Language maintenance import & modify phrases feature | Ensure XSS vulnerability is not introduced by importing or modifying phrases |
Defect Resolution | TA-8300 | HTTP 500 Internal Server Error if large number specified for dashboard columns | Column value for tabs in dashboard maintenance can no longer be modified through browser dev tools. 400 error also added if number of columns is not in lookup. |
Defect Resolution | TA-7880 / Z:40671 | User with Self access which is not set as 'Can edit' cannot access their own diary. | Behaviour changed: Now allows user to access their diary without requiring edit access to their linked employee. If a user only has access to diary for one supervisor, then don’t prompt for the diary to view. If a user has access to more than one diary, then if the employee they currently have selected is flagged as a manager that they have access to the diary of, show the diary for that manager, otherwise prompt for the diary to show. |
Defect Resolution | TA-8327 | Logged into mobile as an employee online functions returns 500 error | Resolved |
8.38.4.0 | |||
Defect | TA-8259 / S:23266725 | 500 Error when deleting an absence record where the code contains an ampersand (&). Clicking View also causes the same error. | Absences can now be actioned successfully when the Absence code contains an ampersand. |
Defect | TA-8362 / S:23318345 | T&A emails via turbo-smtp to gmail and googlemail accounts are being rejected by Google's servers with the below message. Reviewing RFC 5322 indicates that 'If the originator of the message can be indicated by a single mailbox and the author and transmitter are identical, the "Sender:" field SHOULD NOT be used. Otherwise, both fields SHOULD appear.' | Resolved by commenting out a line that explicitly sets the sender in the stsmtpemail.pas unit. The SMTP server sets it’s own sender address without us needing to do it in the initial message we submit. |
Defect | TA-8413 / S:23351276 | Web work record details screen sections not respecting last state. When editing a work record in web, the various sections (Shift Details, Worked Hours, Absence Hours, etc.) do not respect the previous expanded state. | Expanded details are now stored after refreshing page or leaving edit clock card section. |
Defect | TA-1213 / Z:126645 | Modifying future starter in TMSWeb after explicitly setting the change date causes history to be written before their start date. | For a new employee it takes the start date as the date of change if the Point in Time date is set before it. For restarters it takes the first start date of the employee if the employee already has a past history. Display panel subtitle now shows the date of the point in time date being used. |
Enhancement | TA-8394 | System preference requested. | Added preference to disable timed passwords in Windows |
Bug | TA-8235 | The Default employee profile can be deleted which then causes issues with new starters. | Preference for the default employee profile is now checked, and profile cannot be deleted if it is the default employee profile. |
8.38.4.1 | |||
Enhancement | TA-8436 | Changes to T&A Payroll package links to support the new SSP Diary record structure, which was released in Payroll v2.60. | Allows the T&A package links to correctly initialise the diary records for new employees when using the new Payroll feature. |
8.38.5.0 | |||
Small Enhancement | TA-8451 23380228 | 400 Bad request error was being randomly generated, when booking absences. | A check has been added to ensure referrer-policy is set correctly. If the HTTP response header is configured incorrectly, then an error is logged in the Elmah file and references referrer-policy. |
Defect | TA-8430 | Fields in Employee Details could not be set back to blank. | Users will be able to remove field values, in the Employee Details screen and save the record with blank values. |
Defect | TA-8407 | Logging into web app, as an employee, shows last login information twice. | Employee last login information is correctly displayed in the web app. |
Defect | TA-8524 | Supervisor login preferences are not being obtained from the correct User profile. | Login preferences will be obtained from the correct User profile for Supervisors. |
Bug | TA-8289 | System allows unrestricted file uploads | File upload restrictions are introduced to make the application more secure. Three new settings are available to control the restrictions in the
For upgrades, these new settings should be copied in as directed in the Upgrade Guide (or by copying from example Web.config file supplied in the release), and configured as required. If the new settings are not copied into Web.config (or are otherwise not present), then default values will be used as listed above. |
Bug | TA-8481 | Cannot access Drop down menus in work record of clock card, while using the mobile app. | When using the Clock card in the Mobile app, sub-menus in the work record will now be accessible. |
Bug | TA-8492 | Running setup batch file for web T&A installation throws error. | Running the setup batch file for the Web app, will successfully install the web files. |
Bug | TA-8443 | Vulnerability issue - runtime error page is displayed when hitting specific URLs | Correctly display custom error page (400) when an invalid character is detected in HTTP request path. |
8.38.5.1 | |||
Defect | TA-9163 | Timesheet Bands-Day dropdown arrow doesn't function correctly | Removed the href="#", with this change the menu works fine |
Defect | TA-9115 | Drop down arrow in profile maintenance section of dashboard maintenance not working correctly | Removed the href="#", with this change the menu works fine |
Bug | TA-8570 | Cloud Kiosk application not working after installation was successful. | Added exception parameter to catch to prevent JavaScript error |
Bug | TA-8417 | HTTP Header Configuration Weakness | Permissions policy has been added in web.config file |
