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elementTIME release 8.05 – Glide shifts for flexitime workers
by Nic Edmonds | 26 July 2018
8.05 of elementTIME is a major release version introducing new glide shift functionality (and of course the normal round of other smaller enhancements).
elementTIME release 8.04 – excess time, scheduling and little things
by Nic Edmonds | 26 July 2018
New setting allowing the decision on whether excess time is approved by default or requires individual approval by instance. There are increased validations and settings to help the management of shift types.
elementTIME release 8.03 – data, data, data
by Nic Edmonds | 7 May 2018
Responsive dashboards showing organisation statistics, FTE counts, employee breakdowns as well as trends for tracking leave, excess time worked and other metrics. All users how have access to personal dashboards displaying leave, excess time and worked hours over time.
Payroll officers have additional tools to help visually track variances between payruns, overall payrun trends as well as new reports to show leave requests by payrun, leave variances, changes between employees by payrun, and updated extract reports.
elementTIME release 8.02 – right tools for the job
by Nic Edmonds | 6 April 2018
Highlights of this release include functionality to allow payroll officers to override scheduled hours, new higher duties workflows, new personal employee profile section, tenant style settings and expanded timesheet summary options.
There is also a major rework of how schedule functionality works including performance of copying schedules.
elementTIME patch release 8.01
by Nic Edmonds | 15 February 2018
This patch includes major revisions to service and application calls to increase system response when users are in low bandwidth or limited resource areas. This is also to provide for planned functionality over the next few phases where we introduce integrated plant and equipment timesheets and expand our scheduling and roster functionality to offer more flexibility to casual and contractors.
elementTIME – release 8.1 pay run processing wizard
by Nic Edmonds | 7 December 2017
Version 8.1 releases the payroll processing wizard. This helps guide users to manage their own close of pay-run.
It also adds functionality allowing timesheet approvers and payroll officers to apply for leave on behalf of direct reports direct from their timesheet.
elementTIME – major release 8.0
by Nic Edmonds | 20 October 2017
elementTIME 8.0 is a major framework release but it also comes with auto complete options on timesheets As my 4 year old says - 'are you kidding me?' No I am not... For users where you want to just manage timesheet exceptions (like leave, excess time and allowances)...
elementTIME – release version 7.18
by Nic Edmonds | 4 October 2017
elementTIME 7.18 is about adding new functionality to the recording and approving of workflow for excess time.
We also altered some of the rules around how excess time rules can be assigned to individuals and added some new reporting.
We hope you love it as much as we do.
elementTIME – release version 7.17
by Nic Edmonds | 12 September 2017
We have been developing pretty fast and sometimes it does one good to sit back, look out at the view…and put the code through the wringer to make sure it is working as well as it should. So we took some time to do some house keeping and make sure things are working as fast as they should be. Page and functionality loading times should be improved especially for users on low bandwidth.
In the process we also made some changes because we like making things.
elementTIME – release version 7.16
by Nic Edmonds | 29 August 2017
elementTIME 7.16 is all about adding additional functionality to allowances. Users can now set up rules for as many mileage, daily, hourly, fixed / per period allowance types as they need. Each type has its own pre-built rules and is designed to make entry as simple...
