Release notes for Performance Management 3.16

Warning

Due to our quality assurance policy, we have decided not to proceed with the planned 'Production Ready' state of this release. For this reason, we decided not to push the updates further than 'Public Preview', meaning that they will not reach Production Ready. All changes and quality improvements scheduled for the 3.16 version will be part of the 3.17 product version.

Below is an overview of changed and new features introduced in this preview release of the FourVision Web Apps, the final version of these items will be available as part of the 3.17 Winter Release version.

New features

Added a parameter 'Allow system maintenance' on the user roles, it will control the visibility of the buttons 'Renew license', 'Start/Stop background' and 'Update version' on the 'Getting started' screen as per the user access

Changes and bugfixes to existing features:

Generic security updates, minor bug fixes and patches
28811: Worker selection on questionnaire enhancements
28864: Merit increase - Allow Overlapping periods for Reward cycles
29328: Percentage on Rating model should allow to enter decimal numbers
29348: Quantity measurement should allow to enter decimal numbers
29389: Screen Issues related to the compensation in the app
28783: The text area field in the Questionnaire is max 300 characters long. That is way too short to type in your answers in most cases.
28958: Add a new parameter to resolve the user is able to add tasks after the PDR is end approved
29295: Date formatting issues in the Web App
29264: Employee worker profile is showing incorrect birth date for five timezones
29308: When you scroll in a PDR and you open and close the tab. The PDR reopens at the top and take time to scroll back to the same tab
29321: Activities tab not showing in the 'Edit objective' screen via PDR
29335: If the 'Assigned to' field is empty in PDR, getting validation on approving after the reassignments
29351: Expose OData entities related to Average Rating field which is available in PDR Form > Objective/Goals section
29356: Add ‘Created by’ column on 'My team objectives' screen and other issues/improvements of objectives and PD types in the app
29364: Saving comment on the 'Edit objective' screen resets the values of 'Status', '%Completion' and 'Rating' field
29383: Initial sync throws error on sync position if KeyMap (custom fields) are not setup

Detailed release information:

New feature 1: Added a parameter 'Allow system maintenance' on the user roles, it will control the visibility of the buttons 'Renew license', 'Start/Stop background' and 'Update version' on the 'Getting started' screen as per the user access

Added toggle ‘Allow system maintenance’ with hover text and kept enabled by default for the ‘System Administrator’ role

The ‘Start/stop background’, ‘Update version’, and ‘Renew license’ buttons showing and are clickable for System Administrator

For the user 'Sara Thomas' on the ‘Accounting manager' role, the added toggle showing disabled by default

For all the other users with 'Admin' access will not be able to view the ‘Start/Stop background’, ‘Update version’ and ‘Renew license’ buttons as the toggle ‘Allow system maintenance’ is disabled by default

Enable the toggle ‘Allow system maintenance’ on the ‘Accounting manager’ role

With the user 'Sara Thomas' the buttons 'Renew license', 'Start/Stop background' and 'Update version' are visible

Note: a) The ‘System administrator’ will always have access to the ‘Start/stop background’, ‘Renew license’ and ‘Update version’ buttons as the newly added toggle ‘Allow system maintenance’ is by default enabled and set as ‘Read-only’ on his/her role

b) Existing users (Admin) cannot access the 'Start/Stop background', 'Renew license' and 'Update version' buttons as the added toggle 'Allow system maintenance' is disabled by default on the 'Edit role' screen. The ‘System administrator’ has to give them access to do any of this.