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T&A 8 8.39.0.0 Controlled Release

We are pleased to announce the latest controlled release of Time and Attendance 8: Version 8.39.0.0!

Below you will find details on the new enhancement and a list of all bug fixes for this controlled release since the last Controlled release (version 8.38.5.2). 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.

  1. Send emails via Microsoft Exchange Online

What have we done?

We have provided a new option for T&A to use Microsoft Graph API for sending emails through Microsoft Exchange Online.

Why have we done this?

Microsoft now discourage use of SMTP AUTH Basic Authentication (an older security protocol that sends a username and password with every request), and this functionality is disabled by default for new Exchange Online tenants. More information can be found in Microsoft Learn articles:

How will this benefit you?

You are now able to configure T&A so that emails are sent through Microsoft Exchange Online using Microsoft’s recommended protocol.

Details of change

For details on how to configure the T&A system to use Microsoft Exchange Online to send emails, take a look at this new article here.

  1. Small enhancements

Jira/Salesforce

Issue

Resolution notes

TA-7635

Deadlock errors when doing various things in Web

Added new index to TMSBLOB table

TA-9182

Send Leave Date details of an employee to Auto Rostering Integration.

T&A leave date details are now being sent to Auto Rostering

TA-8541

Licencing system messages should not be displayed to all users

We have added Show all licence warnings in the General Options of the Edit profile page so that users with access to maintain user profiles can now control licence system warnings. This gives you more flexibility in managing license-related notifications.

TA-8008

Add optional debug logging for LDAP code

Added extra logs in specific areas that should give us more information when the issue is replicated again.

Added a config key to skip code path related to LDAP Authentication where this error is occurring, if LDAP Authentication is not in use.

TA-9457

Change Description of ENTCRED

Changes have been made to the description of ENTCRED, WRDATECOUNTEXPR, LASTABSDATE, and FIRSTABSDATE functions in the Expression builder of Custom report .

  1. Bug fixes

Jira/Salesforce

Issue

Resolution notes

TA-7635

Deadlock errors when doing various things in Web

Added new index to TMSBLOB table

TA-9182

Send Leave Date details of an employee to Auto Rostering Integration.

T&A leave date details are now being sent to Auto Rostering

TA-8541

Licencing system messages should not be displayed to all users

Optionally allows Licence system warnings to be not visible to users. Preference added to user profile.

TA-8008

Add optional debug logging for LDAP code

Added extra logs in specific areas that should give us more information when the issue is replicated again.

Added a config key to skip code path related to LDAP Authentication where this error is occurring, if LDAP Authentication is not in use.

TA-9457

Change Description of ENTCRED

Changes have been made to the description of ENTCRED, WRDATECOUNTEXPR, LASTABSDATE, and FIRSTABSDATE functions in the Expression builder of Custom report .

TA-9298

License Provision happens at the end instead of start Auto Rostering provision command

The License provision now happen at the start of provision command before any provisioning of lookups begin

TA-8515

Supervisors cannot accept work record requests where an employee requested to 'Insert work record' without granting access to the menu right Admin - Period ends

Check was based on there being an existing work record for that date and time, which there is not for an insert. If an existing work record doesn't exist, then perform the date checks on the submitted insert work record request.

TA-8534

Report within Widget not using correct date range

Set dates based on the dateRange parameter (and start and end offsets when dateRange=O)

TA-9269

Bradford Factor issue with leap year

Modified the code to check for 29th February

TA-9201

When modifying system preferences without sufficient field rights to the field specified in Absence Rules->Employee Active Field, the setting gets overwritten with another field the user has access to.

Don't apply user security to the list of fields that can be used

TA-9202

Anomalies widget on Web T&A displaying less than total number of anomalies

Added non-employed and future starter employees to the default selection for the anomaly count.

TA-9495

Able to book absence despite no leave slots available.

Leave slots are defined for ranges of dates, with dates not covered by leave slots using a default, the system will now prevent absences being booked when no leave slots are available.

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