Version 6.71 Build 301, January 27, 2010

This page documents all new features, enhancements and bug fixes included in this release of Pacific Timesheet. For information on changes made in previous versions of Pacific Timesheet, please see the release notes archive.

1. Partial Day Holiday Support

You can now create half-day and other partial day holidays.

2. Scheduled Hours Per Day

You can now specify the scheduled hours per day in the employee's profile (Employees tab). This allows you to override the Hours Per Day property on the System > General page on a per-employee basis. The hours per day property is used when putting leave requests and holidays on timesheets.

3. Request Conflict Warning

When employees submit leave requests, and managers approve them, a warning message will be displayed if the employee has previously submitted a request that falls in the same time period.

4. Pay Code Colors

You can now specify a color for each pay code. The pay code color is used when rendering leave and holidays on employee calendars (such as on the Home tab).

5. Leave Request Enhancements

You can now keep employees from submitting leave requests that overlap or conflict with other leave requests they may have already submitted. This is configured on the Schedule Rules page (System > Policies > Schedule Rules). You can now keep employees from entering partial day leave requests if you so desire. This is configured on the Time Entry Rules page (System > Policies > Time Entry Rules) by setting the minimum and maximum hours allowed to the same value for each appropriate pay code.

6. Over Time Rule Issue With Holidays

If you include holidays or other leave in your over time rules you can get too many regular time hours. This happens most frequently if the holiday falls on the last day of the week and the employee has over time. For instance, if the employee worked 42 hours, and the last day was a holiday, they would end up with 2 hours of over time, and 34 hours of regular time, with 8 hours of leave. The regular time value should instead be 32 hours. This is now fixed.

7. Pay Code Can Now Be In Details

The Pay Code field can now be in the details part of the timesheet template. Previously this would cause strange behavior in the timesheet's week view.

8. Leave Request Lists With Different Time Zones

When viewing a list of leave requests for approval, you could see seemingly odd date ranges for employees in other time zones. For instance, a single day of leave requested by an employee in another time zone could show up as two days in the list. This was a display-only artifact and didn't affect the how the system behaved, but this has been corrected anyway to avoid confusion.

9. Audit Trail For Employee Changes

Editing an employee profile could output an audit log message about changing the pay or bill rate, even if the rate was unchanged. This has been fixed. In addition, changes to the employee permission level are now audited (standard audit level and higher).

10. Holidays With Work-Only Timesheets

Holidays are no longer placed on a timesheet if it is work-only. A timesheet is work-only if the advanced timesheet template property "Time Entries Allowed" is set to "Work Only" (see the System > Templates page).

11. Correcting Leave Time Entry

If you selected a leave row on a submitted timesheet and clicked "Add Correction", the correction time entry type would default to Work, instead of Leave. This is fixed in this release.

12. Line Item Approval/Rejection

Rejecting a row on a timesheet will now clear any approval checkboxes that were checked on that row. This is a cosmetic change as once the Save button was clicked the approvals on that row would be cleared anyway, but the change will eliminate some confusion.

13. Leave Request Not Clearing Out Partial Day Setting

If you checked the 'Partial Day' checkbox on a leave request, then later unchecked it, in some cases the leave request would still be marked as partial day. This is fixed in this release.