April 2023

The April 2023 release brings the Beta version of our ‘Fixed Shifts’ functionality and contains several bug fixes.

New Features

Beta release of “Fixed Shifts” feature

We are trialling a feature where you can choose to ‘lock in' specific shifts in the roster. This is useful if you optimise your roster and then want to keep those shifts for a period of time before you 'reoptimise’ everyone again.

We are trialling the functionality with a limited number of centres before we provided it for general availability.

Additional blank rows on Leave and Payroll

To help adding in data manually, we’ve reserved a few extra blank rows on the leave and payroll screens

Removed Totals from Shift Lengths view

The totals were provided on this screen as a guide (not a calculation) when entering shift lengths, so that obvious errors were detected. We’ve found it causes more confusion than it does help, so we have taken the fields away.

Bug fixes:

We have tweaked the Leave import process to reduce the chances of incomplete data being imported.
Fixed an issue where casuals might be preferred over full-time staff as part of baseline roster generation.
Fixed an issue where staff might be given too few shifts if rostering them on would break the qualification ratio requirement.
Fixed an issue where leave shifts were created on days where staff are unavailable.
Fixed an issue where staff with availability or shift lengths not in 15 minute intervals would always be rostered on for open shifts.