SmartHCM Webservice Release Notes 2.3.4.0

SmartHCM Webservice 2.3.4.0 Release

Release Date: 27-Dec-2023

Module Version: 2.3.4.0

Maturity Status: QA Approved

Enhancement

• General - General: The "SmartESS" Menu has been provided in the main Menu. It will show the Sub-Menu "Request Management System" under which all sub-nodes of this module will be shown as per the "ESS Specific Activity Rights" screen.

• General - General: Software/Code for "TLS Configuration" has been updated to a minimum of Version "TLS 1.2" for the SMTP (Email) service, we are using at AWS.

• General - General: Provided the data of "Outside Employee Allowances and Deductions" in the "Salary_getPayslip_SecurityCode" end-point of "Webservice".

• General - General: Incorporated the impact of "From Date", "From Time", "To Date" and "To Time" columns when the user performs "Check-In" and "Check-Out" from "Mobile App."

• General - General: Impact of "From Date" and "To Date" fields are now working properly in the "Check-In" / "Check-Out" functionality.

• General - General: Created a new method for checking "Version No." of "Webservice" and "SmartHCM Mobile" applications.

• General - General: Incorporated the impact of the check box (Show "Medical Certificate Attached" Check Box) and impact of the panel "File Attachment Setting" available in the "Leave Location Grade Setup" screen in this screen.

• General - General: 1. The "Time From" field will automatically be populated with the "Time" as per the employee's shift "Start Time" on selecting the date from the "Date From" field. Also, the "Time To" field should automatically be populated with the "Time" as per the employee's shift "End Time" on selecting the date from the "Date To" field. 2. If "Roster" has not been defined on the selected date from the "Date From" field then the system will show the alert message "Roster not defined!" on the screen. 3. Also, If "Roster" has not been defined on the selected date from the "Date To" field then the system will show the alert message "Roster not defined!" on the screen.

• General - General: When the user has already logged in: Provided the password expiry dashboard screen for the user when its password expired.Also provided the automatic lock in application for user id on the dashboard so user can not access any feature of application. When user login first time: 1. When user login first time and its password got expire the dashboard screen to reset a new password will open. 2. Also during the first time login if user id got locked the message "Your account has been locked" will display.

• General - General: Created an end-point that will be used for the impact of "Threshold" and "Face Recognition" parameter values set in the System Default screen.

• General - General: Provided a new end-point named "GetDesignation_SecurityCode" in the webservice. System will show the following fields as a result when a user invokes this end-point: Designation Id, Designation, Status (Active, Inactive)

• General - General: Added the "Designation" field as a result when a user invokes the "GetEmployeeList_SecurityCode" end-point. Currently, "Employee Id" and "Employee Name" are showing as a result.

• General - General: Moved the web service from TFS to Git-Hub.

• General - General: The "From Time" and "To Time" fields (Attendance Locations Setup) impact on Web Service has been provided.

• General - General: Reverted the expiry subscription work from it.

• General - General: Provided a new end-point named "GetEmployeeDetailList_SecurityCode" in the webservice. System will show the following fields as a result when a user invokes this end-point: Employee ID, First Name, Last Name, Email, Date of Birth, CNIC, Designation, Campaign, Employee Pseudo Name, Reporting to ID, Employment Status (i.e. confirmed, not confirmed), Date of leaving and Date of Joining.

• General - General: The new end-point has been provided in the application which will return the "Version Number". Also, the "Version Number" has been removed from the "Web Config." file.

• General - General: The "Subscription Expiry" feature has been checked also for all those clients who have deployed Applications on their local servers.

• General - Mobile App Update: For the old Mobile Application, a message has been added to inform users that your app is outdated. To access the latest features, please download the new version from the app store using the provided link.

• General - General: Enhanced leave rules for the "how many time allowed" limit, updating it at the beginning of a new leave year for leave types with a "Leave Year" cycle. For instance, if the leave year concludes in June 2023, the system permits users to apply leave starting from July 1, 2023, without prior day validation. When the leave type follows a custom cycle, the limit conditions conform to the defined "how many times allowed" settings without year validation.

Fixed Issues

• General - General: On pressing the "Invoke" button of an "PostMonthlyAllowanceDeductions_SecurityCode" end-point then a message {"success":true,"Msg":"Allowances have been saved successfully!"} was appearing on the screen but data was not updating in the "Monthly Payment and Deduction (Code Wise / Employee Wise)" screen.

• General - General: On getting data of an employee, "Location", "Department", "Position" and "Employee Type" the data will not be shown according to that selected "Month". Currently, upon getting previous month's data, current "Location", "Department", "Position" and "Employee Type" was showing.

• General - General: If any employee's payroll was "withheld" then "Outside Payroll Payments" was not showing in the "Salary Sheet" Report but was showing in (salary_getpayslip_securitycode) endpoint.

• General - General: Created Following two "tables" for mobile application version checking: 1. Product _ Version _ android. 2.Product_Version_ios.

• General - General: On pressing the "Invoke" button of "PostMonthlyAllowanceDeductions_SecurityCode" end-point then an error message {"success":false,"Msg":"Inner exception: --- Exception: String was not recognized as a valid DateTime."} was appearing on the screen.

• General - General: When the Payroll process runs at the end of the month the "From Date" on the Dashboard was shown the wrong date.

• General - General: 1. Removed the new provided columns from the "Product_Version_Android" and "Product_Version_iOS" tables. 2. Mobile App. will check Expiry on Login and on all events performed inside the Mobile App. such as "Mark Attendance", "Apply Leave", "View News", "View Loan", "View Salary", "View Attendance", etc. Note: Expiry checking will be done on both new and old Mobile Apps.

• General - General: Leave to date is smaller than left from date and It can be applied and It was approved also. Also, the validation was provided on web service endpoints.

• General - General: Custom settings of the workflow were not worked on leave approval on the mobile APP.

• General - General: The numeric value has been removed that was coming on message while giving wrong user id or password on the login page of the mobile application.

• General - General: 1. "Employee ID" was not shown in order for these methods: "GetEmployeeDetailList_SecurityCode", "GetEmployeeList_SecurityCode" and "GetDesignation_SecurityCode". 2. If user entered the incorrect "Security Key" then the system was not shown the message "Security Code not matched" on the methods "GetEmployeeDetailList_SecurityCode", "GetEmployeeList_SecurityCode" and "GetDesignation_SecurityCode".

• General - General: For the leave limit rule of the "how many time allowed" section, for both hour/day-based leaves, the system was not generating an alert message for the user to display remaining limits and a future date from which further leaves can be requested.

• General - General: Attendance records were showing the wrong count for the statuses like "Present", "Off Day, "Absent", etc.

• General - General: In the mobile application, all the "Sub-Menu" bars against the "Attendance" menu are not showing any data related to attendance records.