Release Notes
MINERVA BUILD RELEASE NOTES INTRODUCTION
PURPOSE
The purpose of the Minerva Build Release Notes is to communicate major new features and bug fixes for the latest version of Inzenius v 019.005.143; code name “Minerva Build”.
REFERENCES
The below documents/manuals are referenced throughout the Release Notes:
1. Inzenius Employee Portal Admin Dashboard
2. Inzenius Employee Portal
3. Inzenius Manager Portal
4. 1.9.8 Inzenius New Zealand Manual
5. Inzenius Pay Run Controller
6. Inzenius Payroll Management
Copies of each document are available via the links provided for online manuals and for those manuals not yet online, on Inzenius’ Guest FTP Site, located in the ‘Minerva Build 2023’ zip file in the ‘Documentation’ folder (as well as additional Inzenius Utility and User Manuals).
OVERVIEW
Inzenius have separated the Release Notes into two sections;
1. Bug Fixes – All items that have been fixed based on existing functionality, reported through the year by clients are included in this section.
2. New Features – All new functionality – that is, functionality that was not previously present within older versions of Inzenius – will be detailed under this section.
Clients should read through fixes and new features included within Jupiter Build so that full understanding of the changes are achieved.
DISCLAIMER
Clients will need to ensure that all previous Patch Thursday updates have been applied prior to upgrading. If you are uncertain if your Database is up to date, please contact Inzenius Support (support@inzenius.com) to request this information.
Both Bug Fixes and New Releases outlined in the current document apply to both Australian and New Zealand clients unless otherwise specified. Items pertaining only to a specific country/database type will be noted with the country in the item title (e.g., “New Zealand KiwiSaver Employee Contributions Bug” only applies to New Zealand clients).
Clients should ensure they are aware of all changes outlined in this document prior to upgrading to prevent issues from occurring, and to minimise queries.
BUG FIXES
BUSINESS UNIT
Opening Employee Files From Quick List View
Employee files in a Pre Employment state with no Grade assign can now be opened from the Quick List View.
Update To Employee File Saving Process
Employee File saving processes have been updated to ensure that Default Entities are applied with the Employee File is saved without them.
Payslips Displaying Correct Leave Accrual
Payslip generation process has been updated to ensure that Leave Accrual Minimums and Maximums are correctly shown on the Payslip
Update To Saving Event Codes
When editing an Event updating the ‘Event Code’ will now also update the GL Code for the Event.
CONFIGURATION – No Bug Fixes
HR MANAGEMENT – No Bug Fixes
PAYROLL MANAGEMENT
NZ – Executed Final Pays Calculating Correctly
Final pays have been updated to avoid duplicating PBS transactions.
NZ – Committing Final Pays With Student Loan Component
Final pays with no regular wages and a Student Loan Component (SLC) can now be committed.
Public Holiday Rates Paying Correctly When Using AMT
Public Holiday Rates that utilise the AMT field were previously paying incorrectly. Updates to the Pay Run Controller have corrected this so the AMT field is used correctly in calculations
REFERENCES
Unit Visibility In Quick List View
Units with no Time Unit (Hour/Minute/Second) were previously hidden in the Quick List View. Units with no Time Unit assigned are now visible in the Quick List View.
ROSTERING
Supplementary Grid Summing Hours Correctly
Resolved issue where the Supplementary Grid would sum P/T/A hours incorrectly under certain circumstances.
Deleting Roster Update
In previous versions Users could not delete Rosters if the Rosters had GPS data associated with them. Rosters with GPS data can now be deleted, deleting the Roster also deletes any associated GPS data.
Break Start/Finish Time
Previously Users could not enter a Break Start or Finish time of Midnight, Inzenius was still able to automatically calculate Breaks starting or finishing at Midnight. Users can now manually enter a Break Start or Finish time of Midnight.
SECURITY
Duplicate Employees Appearing When Assigning An Employee File To A User
Under certain circumstances Employees could appear multiple times when selecting an Employee from the Employee Name drop down menu. Employees will now only appear once in this option.
Employee Name Restored To User Quick List View
Employee Name column dropped from the User Quick List View in a previous release. This column has now been restored.
REPORTING
HR Reports – STP Employment Types Added
New Employment Types added by STP can now be used in HR Reports for filtering. New Employment types are as follows:
• Labour Hire
• Voluntary Agreement
• Death Beneficiary – Dependant
• Death Beneficiary – Non-Dependant
• Death Beneficiary – Split ETP Type N
• Death Beneficiary – Trustee of the Deceased Estate
• Non-Employee
Standard Reports – Employee Payroll Details (Detailed) Report Correction
Report was previously displaying the Rate Multiplier as the dollar amount for Non Base Rates and Unsociable Hours Rates. Report now correctly displayed the dollar amount for these Rates.
Standard Report – Retirement Threshold Report Missing Pays With No Superable Gross
Previously, any Super payments that did not have Superable Gross associated with them were omitted from the Retirement Threshold Report. The report has been updated to ensure that all payments, regardless of Superable Gross amount, are displayed.
EMPLOYEE PORTAL
Correct Failed Login Messages
Employee Portal was incorrectly showing ‘Username or Password is invalid’ when the User account was locked out or invalid recapture token. Employee Portal now correctly errors with ‘Your Account has been locked, please try again after 15 minutes’ and ‘Recaptcha token failed verification’ respectively.
ETP Payment Summary And PAYG Payment Summary Reports Correctly Loading
An issue with the ‘Report Type’ drop down menu caused the ETP Payment Summary and PAYG Payment Summary Reports to not load. Corrected issue with ‘Report Type; drop down menu allowing the ETP Payment Summary and PAYG Payment Summary Reports to load.
MANAGER PORTAL
Prevent Entities From Having The Same Name At The Same
When giving two Locations or Cost Centre the same name at the same hierarchy level a generic ‘Database Error’ would occur. Attempting to do so now gives the error ‘Submission error. Attempted to duplicate Cost Centre/Location name at the same hierarchy level. Please enter a unique Cost Centre/Location Name.’
Updated Placeholder Text For Login Page
Login Page now displays ‘Username’ in the username field instead of ‘Login’.
Correctly Delete Cost Centres/Locations At The Top Level Of The Entity Tree
Previously when deleting Cost Centres/Locations at the top level of the Entity Tree users would need to refresh the page to ensure that the Cost Centre/Location is removed from the User interface.
Cost Centres/Locations are now correctly removed from the User interface when deleting them in the Manager Portal.
Correct Failed Login Messages
Manager Portal was incorrectly showing ‘Username or Password is invalid’ when the User account was locked out or invalid recapture token. Manager Portal now correctly errors with ‘Your Account has been locked, please try again after 15 minutes’ and ‘Recaptcha token failed verification’ respectively.
Prevent Entities Being Named With Whitespace
Enhancements to the Entity Screen have been made to ensure that Entities (Cost Centre, Locations, Events, and Positions) cannot be with only whitespace characters (e.g. spaces and tabs)
WEB API – No Bug Fixes
SINGLE TOUCH PAYROLL – No Bug Fixes
OTHER FUNCTIONS & FEATURES
NZ – Payday Filing XML Output Update
Under certain circumstances payday Filing was outputting negative figure or figures to 4 decimal places. This has been corrected to never allow values below $0 and ensure that amounts are output to 2 decimal places.
NEW FEATURES
BUSINESS UNIT
TLS/SSL Split For Core And Web For Email Setup
Separate TLS/SSL options and Ports can now be configured for use in Inzenius Core and Inzenius Web Based applications (Employee Portal and Manager Portal).
CONFIGURATION – No New Features
HR MANAGEMENT – No New Features
PAYROLL MANAGEMENT – No New Features
REFERENCES – No New Features
ROSTERING – No New Features
SECURITY – No New Features
REPORTING – No New Features
EMPLOYEE PORTAL
Allow Employees To ‘Sign’ Authorised Rosters
Added functionality to allow Employees to Sign Authorised Rosters within the Employee Portal. See More
Enhancements To Login And Change Password Pages
Added Autocomplete attributes to Login and Change Password pages to enhance support for password managers.
MANAGER PORTAL
Enhancements To Login And Change Password Pages
Added Autocomplete attributes to Login and Change Password pages to enhance support for password managers.
Added Tabs For Events And Positions To Entity Screen
Support for Events and Positions in Manager Portal added with parallel features to Inzenius Core. See More
Added Units Report To Manager Portal
Able to generate the Units Report from the Rostering Screen on the Manager Portal. See More
WEB API
Error Log Enhancements
Web API error logging has been enhanced. Error log files are now partitioned by day and automatically archived.
SINGLE TOUCH PAYROLL – No New Features
OTHER FUNCTIONS & FEATURES
Employee Import Enhancement
Employee Import has been Enhanced to accept Tax Treatment Codes in the TaxScale Column
Please contact Inzenius Support for a copy of the “Juno” build Release Notes.
Please contact Inzenius Support for a copy of the “Jupiter” build Release Notes.