Release notes — 9 October 2024

We have also released some enhancements in MyCascade. For more information head to our dedicated MyCascade help centre.

HR | Payroll | User interface restyle | Stability and infrastructure

HR

Enhancements

  • UI System Property: we have removed the ability to switch back to the old UI (Admin > System properties). We are no longer supporting this look and feel and as such we are stopping any customer or user from switching back to it.

  • Absence Durations - Cancel: an improvement to the behaviour of the Cancel button on the absence durations (summary) screen.

    When selecting Cancel, it now returns the user to the previous page and also now remembers the data that was entered for some fields.

    The data remembered will NOT include tick boxes or any documents that had been added.

    More details on the absence screen improvements.

Fixes

  • Team Activity - labels: a fix has been applied to the standard dashboard chart Team Activity where it wasn't always showing all the labels.

  • Adding queries to reports with duplicate names: A fix has been applied to IRIS Cascade reports when adding a query using the fields Duration and Duration minutes from the HOLIDAY screen.

    Adding these two fields would cause an error as the internal database ID of the fields were the same.

Payroll

Enhancements

  • Gender Pay Gap Report: updated to not include leavers in relevant tax year.

    Learn more about the Gender Pay Gap Report.

  • Integrate Salary and Pay: new option to integrate all salary changes, allowing multiple changes of salary to be integrated into payroll with Pro-Rata calculations.

    Learn more about Salary and Pay

User interface restyle

Fixes and enhancements

  • IRIS Cascade- sidebar has had improvements made so it is now more accessible for keyboard and screen reader users.

    This has been done to help us meet WCAG accessibility guidelines.

  • IRIS Cascade - Absence Summary (durations): we have made the following improvements.

    • The page now uses the full width of the browser. No more white space on the right-hand side.

    • The action buttons are aligned bottom right.

    • Using a keyboard, all interactive parts of the page can be:

      • Tabbed-to in the same order as is visible on screen

    • Using a screen reader, all parts of the page:

      • Are read in the visible order, have accessible labels when there is no visible label (i.e. on radio buttons)

      • Are announced correctly.

    This has been done to improvement layout of the screen and help us to meet WCAG accessibility guidelines.

Find out more about the user interface restyle.

Stability and infrastructure

  • We have improved the Admin > Hierarchy page to load and display information more efficiently.

Find out more about stability and infastructure.