Version 0190

Updated by Leigh Hutchens

Release date July 11, 2024

Please note that Version 0190, which was originally scheduled for release on July 10th, has been delayed to allow for additional quality assurance. The new estimated release date is July 11th, 2024.

Release summary

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Quinyx web app Version 0190

New functionality

  • With this release, we’re happy to announce the go-live for Reminders Version 1!

New functionality requiring additional configuration

  • None at this time.

Updates and performance improvements

  • Audit logs - As of this release, you'll be able to find information about the warnings that the manager accepted when the shift was created or edited inside the shift audit logs.
  • Collaboration groups - We’ve included the first in a series of usability improvements designed to make the configuration of Collaboration Groups more intuitive and require less manual work so that you can better manage your collaboration groups.
  • Dashboard - We are continuing to add smaller improvements that give a fresh look and feel to our Dashboard page.
  • With this release, we're adding support for hiding the unassigned shifts row when using the Schedule printout functionality!

Bug fixes

  • You might be interested in one of our bug fixes in this release. For more information, click here.

Frontline Portal Version 0190

New functionality

  • None at this time.

Updates and performance improvements

  • None at this time.

Bug fixes

  • You might be interested in one of our bug fixes in this release. For more information, click here.

SOAP API / Webservice updates

  • Check out the updates and new documentation here.

Important notice!

Scheduled Maintenance on July 17, 2024

Please be informed that maintenance will occur as the team upgrades our database system for Workforce Management. 

European customers

The scheduled maintenance will take place on July 17, 2024, at 21:00 CEST. 

North American customers

The scheduled maintenance will take place on July 17, 2024, at 3 am EST. 

During the scheduled maintenance, we anticipate limited disruption, but: 

  • It will result in a brief downtime of the Quinyx service for up to 60 minutes.
  • We will temporarily suspend all incoming traffic to the database during the upgrade window.

If you have any questions or concerns regarding this upgrade, please do not hesitate to contact our support team.

Thank you for your understanding and cooperation as we work to enhance our systems and provide you with the best possible service.

Quinyx web app Version 0190

Release date July 11, 2024

New functionality

Reminders - Version 1

With this release, we’re happy to announce the go-live for Reminders Version 1!

Reminders is a new functionality designed to provide automatic notifications for you and your organization. Where, by leveraging the unique data set in Quinyx today, we’ve started creating an intuitive and dynamic reminder suite that can automatically provide different user groups with actionable insights so that they can take the right action at the right time.  

The goal here is to make Quinyx more intuitive and transparent, and make information easily accessible through automated alerts and messaging.

For a detailed breakdown of how to work with reminders and the answers to some common questions, you can find everything to get started here.

New functionality requiring configuration updates

None at this time.

Updates and performance improvements

Audit logs - insights about accepted warnings

With this release, you will be able to find information about the warnings that the manager accepted when the shift was created or edited inside the shift audit logs. 

This information will make the shift audit logs more complete and will provide a better overview to anyone searching for audit logs if any of the configured rules were broken when the shift was created or edited. The list of accepted warnings will be visible inside the audit logs table as well as inside the shift history view. 

In the images below you can see how this warnings list is visualized:

Collaboration groups - Usability improvements

With this release, we’ve included the first in a series of usability improvements designed to make the configuration of Collaboration Groups more intuitive and require less manual work so that you can better manage your collaboration groups!

So first, we’ve improved the creation flow for Collaboration Groups, where the tree hierarchy remains in an expanded state after creating a new group, allowing for better visual confirmation of the created group, easier navigation of existing ones, and a more seamless create-edit flow where you can now continue editing a created group with a single click!

Dashboard improvements

With this release, we are continuing to add smaller improvements that give a fresh look and feel to our Dashboard page. Below you can find the list of improvements that are part of this release:

  1. Within the Staffing graph, you will now be able to see the specific dates for the selected period. Clicking on any of the graph bars will redirect you to the Schedule view for that specific day, week, or month.
  1. Below the graph, you will see that there are now two parts called Needs approval and Needs attention.

Needs approval will contain information about the number of pending absences and shift requests that need the manager's approval. Below the number of pending requests, there is a new link called View requests that will redirect you to the Notifications panel of Schedule view so that you can easily resolve pending requests.

The shift requests number represents the summary of all pending Shift bookings, Shift swaps, Shift unassignment requests and Shift assignment requests on the away unit(s) for the upcoming 28 days. Absence requests represent all pending absence requests for the upcoming 28 days.

Inside the Needs attention, you will be able to see the number of unassigned shifts and the connected percentage of shift coverage. Below the number of shift coverage and unassigned shifts, there is a new link called View upcoming schedule that will redirect you to the Schedule view of the upcoming 28 days so that you can easily assign those shifts and increase the shift coverage on your unit.

The number of unassigned shifts and the percentage of shift coverage represent the data for the upcoming 28 days.
Support for hiding the unassigned shifts row in schedule printout

In an attempt to optimize for vertical space of the schedule printout, thereby improving the user experience as well as saving trees! - the unassigned shifts row will now be excluded from the printout altogether if, prior to printing, the row has been collapsed using its chevron:

The Schedule, prior to collapsing the unassigned shifts row:

The Schedule, after collapsing the unassigned shifts row:

The schedule printout, after having collapsed the unassigned shifts row in Schedule:

Bug fixes

  • Resolved an issue that caused warnings in the Schedule view not to correspond with the hours in employee metrics/statistics.
  • Resolved an issue with the filtering of punches in the Schedule view.
  • Resolved an issue causing absences created via absence schedules that spanned daybreak to not convert scheduled shifts into absence shifts.
  • Resolved an issue where if the employee attest checkbox was ticked, the back-end would still return it as false.
  • Resolved an issue that caused labor display groups to not be visible when creating a new optimal headcount variable.
  • Resolved an issue where in the statistics section of the base schedule, the “absence hours” would be calculated as “0”, although there were absences in the schedule which should be considered in this calculation.

New Quinyx HelpDocs content

Frontline Portal Version 0190

Release date July 11, 2024

New functionality

None at this time.

Updates and performance improvements

None at this time.

Bug fixes

  • None at this time.

New Frontline Portal HelpDocs content

HelpDocs articles
  • None at this time.

SOAP API / Webservice updates

  • None at this time.
Click here to view the new Quinyx WFM Web Service documentation. You can find even more web services information here.
We encourage all of our customers to make use of our APIs to maintain data and to make sure that information is up-to-date. To ensure the scalability of our APIs while growing our customer and user base, we've decided to add restrictions on the usage of our SOAP APIs. These restrictions will be enforced programmatically, which means we will enforce a limit on concurrent calls per customer to 10. You should expect response code 429 if you happen to exceed this limit, and you are recommended to implement a backoff retry mechanism to handle the limit. Note that the limit applies to SOAP only. When moving from SOAP to Rest over the coming years, any limits will be built into the API. 

Please make sure to forward this information to the party within your company responsible for integrations.

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