This release introduces several improvements to attendance management, leave handling, employee number generation, and overtime workflows. It also includes an important fix to the login page to ensure validation and error messages are displayed correctly.
Context & Business Value: Large volumes of report data were previously causing page loading and storage-related issues, slowing down day-to-day attendance processing.
What Changed: Improved the performance of the Manage Attendance Import option by implementing database indexing and optimizing the underlying code.
Benefits:
- Resolves page loading and storage-related issues caused by large volumes of report data.
- Improves the overall responsiveness of the import functionality.
Context & Business Value: Short Leave was previously managed as an option within the Leave Duration field, making it difficult to track and limit separately from other leave types.
What Changed: Removed Short Leave from the Leave Duration field and introduced it as a separate Leave Type. Short Leave is now managed independently from Annual and Casual Leave, allowing employees to apply for up to two Short Leaves per month.
Benefits:
- Enables clearer tracking and control of Short Leave usage.
- Currently implemented on the client side only.
Context & Business Value: Attendance records for leave applications submitted after the relevant leave date were not accurately reflecting the employee’s actual status.
What Changed: Introduced two new statuses, Pre-Leave and Post-Leave, to accurately reflect leave-related attendance records. Once the leave is approved, the attendance record is updated accordingly instead of continuing to display as Absent.
Context & Business Value: Organizations often need to distinguish employee numbers based on contract type.
What Changed: Enhanced Employee Number generation to support configurable prefixes based on Contract Type. Administrators can now define a specific prefix when configuring a contract type, allowing employee numbers to be generated with different prefixes such as T00001, T00002, C00003, etc.
Context & Business Value: Introduces a structured process for employees to request and track overtime, with proper validation and approval controls.
What Changed: Introduced a new Overtime (OT) Request and Approval workflow. Employees with the required permission can submit OT requests by specifying the requested OT start time, end time, and reason. The system validates shift availability, attendance status, submission timing, duplicate requests, and previously rejected requests before allowing submission.
Benefits:
- Submitted OT requests are processed through a two-level approval workflow (Supervisor → HR) and initially remain in a pending status at both levels.
- Employees can track their submitted OT requests through the My OT Requests section.
Context & Business Value: Users were not receiving clear feedback when entering invalid or incomplete login information.
What Changed: Fixed validation issues on the Login page where validation and error messages were not displayed correctly. The login process now provides clear and accurate feedback when invalid or incomplete information is entered.
Context & Business Value: Previously, certain features were directly restricted based on user roles within the code, reducing flexibility and code maintainability.
What Changed: Improved the access control implementation by replacing hardcoded User Type-based validations with Role and Permission-based validations. These hardcoded role checks have been removed and replaced with permission-based validation, ensuring that feature access is now controlled through the permissions assigned to each role.
Context & Business Value: The attendance table did not accurately reflect whether a recorded punch was captured through the fingerprint device or manually modified.
What Changed: Enhanced the attendance approval process to correctly identify edited punch records. When a fingerprint punch time is modified and approved through the Attendance Approval process, the attendance record is now displayed as a Manual Punch instead of a Fingerprint Punch.
