hh2 Web Services Release Notes

4.01.008 Release Notes

8/31/2010 6:23:38 PM

(Released August 31st 2010)

• Improved Media Management: Starting with this build, uploaded files to hh2 Web Services (photos, documents, etc.) will be stored on the web servers rather than in the database servers. This should help increase database performance of the system overall as well as eliminate receiving timeout errors when loading thumbnails on pages.
• Friendly 404 Errors: When encountering a "file not found" error, the system will now display an informative page which includes the menu so users can navigate to the page they wanted.

4.01.007 Release Notes

8/16/2010 6:44:00 PM

(Released August 16th 2010)

• Trades on Subcontractor Prefill: When using the Prefill button on the Subcontractors tab, the trade would not copy over. This has now been fixed.

• Equipment PDF Timecards: The Equipment PDF Timecard interface would not return any equipment ready for reporting. This has now been resolved.
• Equipment Data Web Service: A publically consumable XML web service has been added which allows users to create an Excel spreadsheet pulling live up-to-date equipment time from hh2.

The XML file cann be accessed at the following (login required): http://[COMPANYIDENTIFIER].hh2.com/remote_payroll/equipment/EquipmentTimeData.asp

To setup an excel file like this (this will require Office 2007 or greater) you just open a new spreadsheet, go to the Data tab, click “From Web” in the Get External Data section. Then for the URL, paste the URL listed above and click "Import". Note, you must be logged into the equipment system before calling for data.

4.01.006 Release Notes

8/6/2010 5:52:28 PM

(Released August 6th 2010)

• Configurable Employment Type Pick-List: The Employment Type field on Employee Records is now a user-configurable pick list. You can add/edit/delete values in this list by going to Human Resources > Setup > Employment Types.
• New Sync Data Classes: The data classes in the Sync Client have been further categorized. There is now additionally "HR - Employee Pay", "HR - Employee Pay Stubs" and "HR - Secure Information" (which handles syncing of employee's social security numbers. NOTE: These are not checked by default so if you currently manage social security numbers, employee pay, or upload paystubs to hh2 Human Resources, you will need to check the appropriate boxes in your sync client (Upload tab, Download tab, and Settings tab) or they will no longer sync for you.

4.01.005 Release Notes

7/19/2010 8:03:03 PM

(Released July 19th 2010)

• Certification Attachments in Dashboards: When viewing employee certifications in the Jobsite or Crew Dashboard, any file attachments for the record will now be available for viewing.
• My Records App for iPhone/iPad Released: We have just submitted to the iTunes App Store an app for My Records that allows your employees to view paystubs, certifications, benefits, etc.
• Safety Meetings (Final) Released: A reworked and final version of the Safety system has been released. This contains completely redesigned interfaces for safety curriculum setup, safety assignments, and safety meetings. Included is an RSS feeds for superintendants and crew managers to be notified when new safety lessons have been assigned to them as well as an RSS feed for safety officers to be notified whenever a jobsite or crew has held a safety meeting.

4.01.004 Release Notes

7/12/2010 10:30:58 PM

(Released July 12th 2010)

• New Data Classes on hh2 Sync: SSN numbers, Paychecks, and employee pay have now been split out into separate data classes on the hh2 Sync client so sensitive data can be optionally excluded from syncing to hh2.
• Delete Certifications Defect: Attempting to delete an employee's certification was generating an error. This has now been resolved.

4.01.003 Release Notes

6/11/2010 8:01:08 PM

(Released June 11th 2010)

• No Activity Cost Code Fix: A vulnerability in the data validation of the Activities tab as allowing records to be created with production units specified but no job cost code selected. This is invalid according to Timberline requirements and would cause reports to fail when syncing into Timberline. This has now been resolved and Field Reports will not accept production units without a job cost code first being selected.

• I-9 Non-Compliance RSS Feed: A new RSS Feed has been added that will notify you of all employees to which you have HR Identifications access whenever an employee is currently not I-9 compliant, or is about to become non-compliant in the next 30 days. You can subscribe to this RSS feed either in the Employee Records Identifications section or in the RSS Feeds page in hh2 Human Resources.
• Enterprise Certifications Expiring Filter: Additional criteria has been added to the status filter of the Enterprise Certifications interface. The list now contains values for "Expiring in 30 days", "Expiring in 60 Days", and "Expiring in 90 Days". These will show you employees whose certifications are about to expire in order to work proactively to get them re-certified.
• Enterprise Certifications Update Defect: Updating records in the Enterprise Certifications interface was not persisting. This has now been resolved.

• Promote Time Defect: Attempting to promote an employee's time in the Time Approval interface was not persisting if only a specific job or group was being viewed. This has now been resolved.

4.01.002 Release Notes

6/9/2010 2:45:04 PM

(Released June 7th 2010)

• RSS Feed Repository Page: A new page has been added to the menu for hh2 Human Resources called RSS Feeds. This page will give users all RSS feeds for functionality in the system to which they have access to.
• In Development: We have begun a redesign of the Safety Meeting interfaces, which we expect to have completed by the end of this month.

4.01.001 Release Notes

6/1/2010 6:52:01 PM

(Released to Beta June 1st 2010)

• Announcements Ignoring Post Date: The announcements on the home page were always displaying once created rather than waiting for the post date before appearing. This has now been resolved.

• Deleting Evaluations Error: Attempting to delete an employee evaluation in the Employee Record would err. This has now been resolved and evaluations are archived.
• Lecture Registration Notification RSS Feed: An RSS feed has been created to give notifications when employees register for training lecture sessions.

• Named User Approval Path Defect: The approval path would encounter complications if more than one named user was specified in an approval path. This has now been resolved.
• Approval Notification Email Defect: The approval notification emails were being sent to the person who just approved time rather than to the next person in the approval path. This has now been resolved.
• Edit Employees in Daily Timecard Defect: If an approval level did not have permission to edit the employee list, the "Edit Employee List" button would still appear when clicking the "Add Codes" button on the daily timecard. This has now been resolved.

4.01.000 Release Notes

5/21/2010 7:15:33 PM

(Released May 21st 2010)

• Sync Log RSS: There is now an RSS feed available for administrators to see daily summaries and be notified of sync issues. In addition to reporting on all your successful syncs, this feed will also report both on records that have failed to sync as well as notify you if no sync has run for an entire day. This would be an indication that if you have an auto-sync running, it is currently experiencing problems (such as an out-of-date Timberline password) and needs to be immediately checked to avoid any problems. It is strongly recommended that all administrators of hh2 Remote Payroll or hh2 Human Resources subscribe to this feed. It can be found on the homepage of your hh2 Web Services website at the bottom of the "hh2 Web Services RSS Feeds" section.
• Right-Hand Side Screen Truncation Issue: On small monitors, there are some interfaces that may get truncated and not render in the browser. This has been fixed for users of IE8, though still remains for users of IE7.

4.00.061 Release Notes

5/14/2010 5:55:25 PM

(Released May 14th 2010)

• Additional QA Fixes: The new Field Service product went through another round of QA Beta testing. Also the Apple iPhone and iPad apps for it are nearing completion. See us at the TUG conference next week for a demonstration of hh2 Field Service along with their iPhone and iPad apps.

• Safety Assignment Notifications RSS: There is now an RSS feed available in both the Jobsite and Crew Dashboards under the Safety section. Subscribing to this feed will allow superintendents and crew managers to be notified when a new safety lesson has been assigned to them. An additional application option for this feed can be set to determine whether the notification should be sent 1, 2, 3, or 7 days prior to the start date of the assignment (3 days is the default).

4.00.060 Release Notes

5/10/2010 3:05:30 PM

(Released May 10th 2010)

• Eligible Benefits Notifications RSS: There is now an RSS feed available both in the Enterprise Benefits interface as well as the My Records benefit interface. Subscribing to this feed will allow HR administrators to be notified when employees are about to become eligible for benefits (HR security settings still apply to determine which employees they are notified on) or for employees to be notified of their own benefit eligibility. An additional application option for this feed can be set to determine whether the notification should be sent 14, 30, or 60 days prior to the eligibility (30 days is the default).
• New Paystubs Notification RSS: There is now an RSS feed available in the My Records interface in the paystubs tab. Subscribing to this feed will allow employees to be notified when they have a new paystub available for download. The notification will also include the net, deposit, and check amount toals.

• Code Exceptions Setup Defect: The setup interface to create code exceptions was only allowing "exclude" entries and never "include" entries. This has now been resolved.

4.00.059 Release Notes

5/4/2010 7:53:19 PM

(Released May 3rd 2010)

• Report Type Defect: In some scenarios, the Report Type of a Field Report would not persist to the record. This has now been resolved.
• Responsible Party Defect: When setting a Responsible Party on an Activity record, the sync into timberline was attempting to sync a contact, but Timberline only supports a company. So even though this field is a contact in hh2 (for extended information), when the report is synced into Timberline, the record will only list the contact's parent company.

• Expiring Certifications Notifications RSS: There is now an RSS feed available on the Enterprise Certifications interface. Subscribing to this feed will allow HR administrators to be notified when employee certifications are about to expire (HR security settings still apply to determine which employees they are notified on). An additional application option for this feed can be set to determine whether the notification should be sent 14, 30, or 60 days prior to the expiration (30 days is the default).
• Accruals Reporting: The "Acc" tab in Employee Records and "Acc" tab in My Records now display accrual reporting. This will display all accrual Pay IDs the employee has and what his year-to-date taken and remaining totals are. If you would like to use this feature, please contact customer support for instructions on setup.
• EEO Types: The EEO report was missing several types found on the official government survey form. These have now been added to the report.

• Read-Only Punches: A new Approval Path level function has been added to give read-only permissions to the punches popup on the timecard. This allows employees to be able to punch in and out using the punch clock interface, but not to be able to manually add, change, or delete punches.

4.00.058 Release Notes

4/27/2010 7:44:24 PM

(Released April 26th 2010)

• Application Options Defect: Some of the application options are not being persisted and the system would only use the default values of options. This has now been resolved.

4.00.057 Release Notes

4/20/2010 1:50:57 PM

(Released April 19th 2010)

• Finalized Activities Defect: It was discovered that after a report has been finalized in Timberline, it is no longer possible to make any additions, changes or deletions to activity information. This is because Timberline posts this data to Job Cost upon finalization. Because of this, hh2 now permanently locks down the Activities tab once a report has been finalized. Un-finalizing the report will not re-enable the Activities.
• Jobless Report Defect: There has been a defect that allowed a user in some scenarios to create a field report with no job selected. This has now been resolved.

• Punch In/Out Defect: Using the web interface "In/Out" punch clock was creating a new punch pair for every punch rather than appending "out" punches to previous "in" punches. This has now been resolved.
• Labor Detail Report Job Grouping: When grouping the Labor Detail Report by jobsite, occasionally time record from other jobsites would appear. This has now been resolved.

4.00.056 Release Notes

4/14/2010 5:46:15 PM

(Released April 12th 2010)

• Timberline 9.7 Compatibility: Testing was performed and verified on this build to be compatible with Timberline 9.7.

4.00.055 Release Notes

4/6/2010 10:17:57 PM

(Released April 6th 2010)

• Login Redirects: When clicking on links in email notifications (e.g. weekly labor detail report notifications), if the user was not already logged in, the redirect would lose information contained in the query string of the URL. This has now been resolved.

• Archived Jobs on Time Approval: The Time Approval interface will now hide archived jobs in the summary list on the right-hand side. As a reminder, jobs are automatically archived in hh2 when the jobs status in Timberline is set to "completed".
• Batch Edit Cert. Class in Grid View: Attempting to batch change certified classes in the payroll grid view was not persisting. This has now been resolved.

4.00.054 Release Notes

4/1/2010 5:42:53 PM

(Released March 31st 2010)

• Beta Update: The new hh2 Field Service product for Sage Timberline Enterprise is currently in beta-testing. This release saw the initial syncing functionality between hh2 and Sage Timberline Enterprise. Over the next few weeks, all data classes for hh2 Field Service will be added to the syncing process.

4.00.053 Release Notes

3/22/2010 8:22:29 PM

(Released March 22nd 2010)

• BETA-VERSION RELEASE: The NEW hh2 Field Service product for Sage Timberline Enterprise has been beta-released. For the past six months, we here at hh2 have been working feverishly on creating this new service management product to be released alongside Sage Timberline Enterprise this spring. We're happy to report that we have now wrapped up the Beta version of this exciting new product. Features will include:
- Live up-to-date information from the field while providing the technician with live access to important data.
- Efficiently designed interface providing access to all the information technicians need on one convenient screen.
- Instant access to GPS for both technicians and dispatchers.
- Native iPhone and iPad applications for live mobile access.
- Provides a paperless process.
- Synchronizes with hh2 Remote Payroll and hh2 Human Resources.

• End-User License Agreement: From this build on, all users will be required to agree to the End-User License for hh2 Web Services. If a user has not agreed to the EULA, upon login they will be presented with the agreement and required to agree in order to proceed with their login.
• Access Log: Recent code builds had lost the functionality of the security access log under the "Manage" tab due to the new .NET login screen being implemented. The Access Log is now once again populated with user login records.

4.00.050 Release Notes

3/1/2010 10:25:19 PM

(Released March 1st 2010)

• User Homepage: Users who have used the house icon at the bottom of the left-hand menu to set their homepage were not being redirected after login to their set page. This has now been resolved.

• My Records Document Download: The notification emails that are sent whenever new documents are uploaded to the Document Library now contain a link that when clicked will take the user directly to a download page (after login, if needed) for that document and display information about the file.

4.00.049 Release Notes

2/23/2010 8:27:33 PM

(Released February 22nd 2010)

• Material Decimal Units: The units field for material entries has been changed to allow decimals.

• My Records Employee Issue: The My Records interface was not adequately handling any user who had not been assigned to an employee record. This has now been resolved.

4.00.048 Release Notes

2/16/2010 10:26:32 PM

(Released February 15th 2010)

• Better Password Retrieval: The login screen for hh2 Web Services now features a section for users who have forgotten their login credentials. They can enter their email address (this has to be an email address that is associated with an active user account) and it will send an email to that address containing a link to click for resetting the user's password.
• Change Requests: Accepting employee change requests was not persisting to the employee's record. This has now been resolved.
• Employee Batch Selector: The employee batch selector found on several HR interfaces including training invitations and enterprise certifications was erring when loading its lists. This has now been resolved.

4.00.047 Release Notes

2/9/2010 5:16:38 PM

(Released February 8th 2010)

• Enrollment Benefit Rates: In the Employee Record benefits enrollment interface, the rates dropdown was not populating. This has now been resolved and HR administrators can change an employee's enrollment from one rate to another without having to archive the existing enrollment and recreate a new one.
• Document Library Types: The document types dropdown at the top of the document library was sorting in order of type creation. This has been changed to sort in order of the type names.

4.00.046 Release Notes

2/2/2010 4:35:20 PM

(Released February 2nd 2010)

• Ajax Memory Leak Plugged: When using AJAX in the Remote Payroll system (specifically the timecard), there has always been a memory leak in that every AJAX request (e.g. loading of a timecard, entering time, changing employees, jobsites, approving, etc.) would be kept in the user's RAM. After time, this could slow the user's computer until they refresh the browser page to clear the allocated memory. This has now been resolved and AJAX requests will be purged from memory as soon as they have completed. For users on older machines with under 2 GB of RAM, this should provide a much higher performing experience.

4.00.045 Release Notes

1/28/2010 7:57:13 PM

(Released January 28th 2009)

• Prefill Popups: Clicking on the "Prefill" buttons in the Labor and Equipment tabs were erring. This has now been resolved.
• Excel Activity Tab: Activity entries were not rendering correctly and omitting unit production entries in the Excel downloads of reports. This has now been resolved.

• Document Library Email Notifications: There are now two types of email notifications built into the Document Library. When adding a document to an employee's folder, that employee will be emailed with a notification of the new file. Additionally, the document class setup now has a field called "Notification". Here you can enter a distribution list email address so that whenever you add documents to the global library under that class (such as company newsletters), it will send a notification email to that distribution list.

4.00.044 Release Notes

1/20/2010 6:06:55 PM

(Released January 20th 2009)

• Updating Visitors: Updating the contact on existing visitor records was failing. This has now been resolved.

• Updating Documents: Updating existing documents in the Document Library or Employee Records was failing on some of the fields. This has now been resolved.
• Updating Safety Meeting Assignments: Updating existing safety meeting assignment records was failing. This has now been resolved.

4.00.043 Release Notes

1/13/2010 9:11:03 PM

(Released January 13th 2009)

• Required Custom Questions: When using the custom questions section of hh2 Field Reports, if a select drop down is marked as "required" it will be blank on a new record, thus requiring a user to select an option. Before, it simply defaulted to the first answer in the list.

• Enforce Secure (SSL) Connection: There is now an application setting (under the "Manage" tab to "Force SSL Connection. This will automatically make all users have a secure "http" connection when using hh2 Web Services.

4.00.042 Release Notes

1/4/2010 10:56:29 PM

(Released January 4th 2009)

Note: 4.00.040 and 4.00.041 were released during the holidays, but they did not contain any end-user functionality.

• Secure (SSL) Now Available: All users on 4.00.042 or later can now access hh2 Human Resources (as well as all other hh2 Web Services modules) via a secure SSL connection. This can be accessed by simply replacing the “http” in your browser URL with “https”. Temporarily for the next several sprints, a security warning will appear in Internet Explorer regarding the security certificate but clicking “Allow” will initiate a secure web connection.

• TimePilot iButton Alpha Testing Complete: We have now finished our alpha QA tests of our integration with TimePilot iButtons for punch clock functionality. For more information on using these devices, please visit http://www.timepilot.com

4.00.039 Release Notes

12/14/2009 9:56:42 PM

(Released December 14th 2009)

• Accruals Development Begun: This past week saw the beginning of accruals support for hh2 Human Resources. The groundwork was laid for setting up the incrementing and decrementing relationships between Pay IDs. Development on this feature will be continuing throughout December and into January.

• TimePilot iButton Integration: We have now finished developing our integration with TimePilot iButtons for punch clock functionality. QA has now begun and this feature will be beta released in the coming week. For more information on using these devices, please visit http://www.timepilot.com

4.00.038 Release Notes

12/7/2009 9:01:28 PM

(Released December 7th 2009)

• Subcontractor Trade PDF Defect: When assigning a trade to a subcontractor entry, the trade would not render in the PDF reports. This has now been resolved.

• Archived Benefits Defects: When archiving a benefit that currently has enrollments, it would cause the employee enrollments interface to err. This has now been resolved. Enrollments will no longer be shown in the list for benefits or rates that have been archived.

4.00.037 Release Notes

11/30/2009 6:00:09 PM

(Released November 30th 2009)

• Subcontractor Trade Defect: When assigning a trade to a subcontractor entry, the trade would not render in the entry list. This has now been resolved.

• Paystubs Defects: The PDF paystubs ran into some real-world problems in the last build (4.00.036) that didn’t show up during development. The issues have now been resolved. Any company using PDF paystubs should not use versions 4.00.032 through 4.00.036.

• Prefill & Copy Departments Defect: When using the Prefill button on the timecard, if time was coded to either departments or unspecified time, it would not copy over correctly. This has now been resolved.

4.00.036 Release Notes

11/23/2009 10:24:45 PM

(Released November 23rd 2009)

• Employee Evaluation Excel Defect: Attempting to download an employee evaluation as an excel file was sometimes erring. This has now been resolved.

• Signature PDF Approval Text: On the PDF Signature report from the hh2 Desktop Client, the approval text that displays when an employee signs his name will now also print in the header of the PDF Signature report. This is set by going into the Remote Payroll application settings and setting the value for the “Approval Confirmation” option under the “Timecard” category.

4.00.035 Release Notes

11/16/2009 6:24:08 PM

(Released November 16th 2009)

• Payroll Tab Order: The Payroll tab now lists the employees ordered by employee name rather than time of entry.
• Subcontractor Trades Defect: The trade dropdown on the subcontractors tab was not syncing and rendering the trades as imported from Timberline. This has now been resolved.

• Accruals on Paystubs The PDF paystubs will now display up to two accrual Pay IDs (such as sick and vacation). For this initial release, we will need to set those Pay IDs for you, but a future release (approximately January) will include a new user interface to manage accruals yourself as well as report on totals from Employee Records, My Records, and the Jobsite/Crew Dashboards.
• And/Or Search of Employment Applicant Classifications The Employment Center search now allows specifying whether you want to search classifications on an “and” basis or an “or” basis.
• Employee Evaluation Delete Defect: Attempting to delete an existing evaluation on the Employee Record interface was erring. This has now been resolved.

• Signature PDF Issues: On the PDF Signature report from the hh2 Desktop Client, the Pay IDs will now show the hh2 Remote Payroll abbreviations (if any). Also the “Context” area will read, “All Employee Time” if the signature was made for all jobsites and groups.

4.00.034 Release Notes

11/9/2009 2:39:40 PM

(Released November 9th, 2009)
hh2 is currently developing a completely new Web Services product to offer alongside Field Reports, Human Resources, and Remote Payroll. We can’t say much more than that but that’s why this week’s release is so light.

With the end of the year now in sight, we are aiming to have both the new version of Remote Payroll (Basic) in pre-release come January as well as a pre-release of our new Web Services product.

Also, if you are at Sage Summit this week, be sure to check out our booth (#810) for a demonstration of our new iPhone Timecard application for remote time entry!

• Defect: Attachments Tab Updates In recent builds, when changing the Title or Notes fields on an existing attachment entry, the save failed. This has now been fixed.

• Defect: Document Library Uploads In recent builds, when attempting to upload files to the HR Document Library, the save failed. This has now been fixed.

4.00.033 Release Notes

11/2/2009 8:36:23 PM

(Released November 2nd, 2009)
This latest release saw ongoing development of a new feature for the current version of hh2 Remote Payroll called iButtons which are an offline punch in/out solution offered by http://www.timepilot.com. We have become an authorized dealer for the TimePilot devices and will be supporting integration with them in the upcoming weeks. If you are interested in adopting these devices for your company, please contact our sales team.

• Safety Meeting PDF The PDF print-off for holding safety meetings has now been completed and can be accessed from the Safety tab of the Jobsite and Crew Dashboards in HR.
• Attendance Added to Manpower Report The Manpower report in HR now features three more columns to report totals on tardiness, excused absences, and unexcused absences for the employees.

• Certified Class on Signatures PDF The Signatures PDF report that is part of the hh2 Desktop Client has been upgraded to include certified classes.

4.00.032 Release Notes

10/26/2009 7:41:39 PM

(Released October 26th, 2009)
This latest release saw a lot of progress on the new .NET rebuild of the Remote Payroll product. In addition to this, there was a large push to resolve many of the known issues still outstanding in previous builds. Because of this, all items have been retroactively deployed to the 4.00.031 build as well. It is our intention to move all clients to that 4.31 build in the near future.

Also, don’t forget to follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/hh2WebServices to get updates including development of our new Remote Payroll iPhone app.
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• Session Issue In the 4.00.031 build, If a user was in the Remote Payroll module, the “Logout” link would not display. This was related to a user session compatibility issue between the new .NET code base of hh2 Web Services and the classic asp code base of Remote Payroll. This has now been resolved.
• Homepage Issue In the 4.00.031 build, the user homepage redirect was not being followed due to the session issue listed above.
• Home Tab Issue In recent builds, the “Home” tab on the top menu of hh2 Web Services was not showing in the .NET modules. This has now been resolved.
• Popup Box Issue On smaller monitors, sometimes opening a popup box would jitter the browser window if the popup box was partially off screen. This has now been resolved.

• Code Descriptions in Payroll Tab The new Payroll tab was only showing the Timberline IDs to preserve space. The request to have this also display the description was made and added to both the Payroll tab as well as the Payroll data in the PDF and XLS version.
• Pay ID Codes in Payroll Tab The new Payroll tab of Field Reports was only returning the hh2 Web Services “Abbreviation” for a Pay ID. The functionality has been added to default to the Timberline code if no abbreviation has been added.
• Defect: Custom Questions PDF If the answer to a select dropdown in the custom questions tab was changed, the PDF printout of that field report would sometimes fail. This has now been resolved.
• Defect: Payroll Tab Not Displaying All Records It was discovered that the new payroll tab in Field Reports was only reporting current and un-exported time. This was fixed so that exported time will also be returned.
• Defect: Custom Question Changes Not Shown in PDF There was an issue whereby if changes were made to a custom question answer, the PDF was not reflecting the new value and was only showing the original answer. This has now been resolved.
• Defect: Materials Creating a materials record was erring in builds 4.00.027 or later. This has now been resolved.
• Defect: Report Browser XLS Button The Excel button in the enterprise Report Browser interface was not working correctly. This has now been resolved.
• Defect: CM Selectors In the 4.00.031 build, the contact and company selectors in Field Reports were saving correctly, but not displaying the name in the box after making the selection. This has now been resolved.

• Separate Start/End Date Selectors on Employee Paystubs The “Paystubs” tab of Employee Records and My Documents has had its date range selector broken out into a start and end date selector allowing for easier entry of the dates desired. It also indirectly resolves a common issue that has persisted where sometimes selecting a date range threw a JavaScript error in the browser.
• Defect: Paystubs PDF In the 4.00.031 release, the PDF paystubs were erring when rendering. This has now been resolved.
• Defect: Employment Applicant Attachments The system was erring when attempting to upload an attachment to an applicant’s record.
• Defect: Employee Occupation In the previous build, the “Occupation” field wasn’t committing to the database. While that was resolved, the interface wasn’t returning the value in future instances. This has now been resolved.
• Defect: Applicant Rolodex The rolodex above the applicant list in Employment Center was not working correctly for systems with over 500 applicants. This has now been resolved.
• Defect: Safety Lesson Attachments The safety lesson setup was erring when attempting to upload attachments. This has now been resolved.
• Defect: Employee Certification Creating a new certification record in Employee Records was erring out in recent builds. This has now been resolved.
• Defect: Photo Uploads Some of the file uploads in recent builds were having issues. They have now been replaced with a new control.

• Legal Agreement for Signatures On the hh2 Desktop Client’s signature interface, a custom option has been added to allow users to specify legal text (ex: “By signing this, I acknowledge that”) that will be displayed on the screen when an employee signs his name.
• Defect: Desktop Client UTC Offset On the hh2 Desktop Client’s punch clock, if the device lost its network connectivity, the application would lose its time zone and upon export to hh2 Web Services would apply the wrong UTC offset. This has now been resolved and all times stored in the database are stored as local time values, regardless of the time zone they originated.
• If you would like to try the hh2 Desktop Client for offline solutions, you can download the install at http://new.dbi.hh2.com/Downloads/PunchClock.zip

4.00.031 Release Notes

10/5/2009 9:35:01 PM

(Released September25th, 2009)

• Safety Meetings Beta Release The first beta release for the Safety Meetings module of HR has been rolled out. This module includes:

• Creating safety lesson curriculum.

• Scheduling safety lessons to be held by jobsite, crew, or all.

• Printing off PDF copies of the lesson curriculum and meeting items.

• Logging meetings held including comments, attendance, tasks, translators present, and attachments.

• Viewing meeting history at a jobsite, crew, or enterprise level.

• Separate Start/End Date Selectors on Employee History The “History” tab of Employee Records has had it/s date range selector broken out into a start and end date selector allowing for easier entry of the dates desired.

• Defect: Employee Occupation Changing the Occupation field on the Information tab of Employee Records was not saving to the database. This has now been resolved.

• Mouse-over Tips The yellow dialogue-bubble mouse-over tips and labels have been retired and now just use the built-in mouse-over labels of the browser being used. This was to allow for cross browser compatibility.

• Payroll Tab A new tab is now available on the Field Reports interface called “Payroll”. This provides a quick look at the data currently in the Remote Payroll system for the currently viewed jobsite and day. This data has also been integrated into the PDF and XLS downloads for Field reports.

• “Author” in XLS A new column has been added to the XLS download of Field Reports showing the last user to work on that report.

• Mouse-over Tips The yellow dialogue-bubble mouse-over tips and labels have been retired and now just use the built-in mouse-over labels of the browser being used. This was to allow for cross browser compatibility.

• Option to Disable Default Code For some companies with large amounts of cost codes and payroll data, the default cost code that is selected on the “Edit Timecard” interface can be problematic in regards to performance. A new application option has been added to the Payroll Setup to allow them to disable this feature and simply requiring a user to always select what code they are adding rather than having the most used code auto-selected.

• Defect: Copy Time with Cert. Class When using the “Copy Time” button in builds 4.00.024 and later, when also selecting to copy codes to the destination timecard, it was neglecting to copy over certified class settings to the codes. This has now been resolved.

• Defect: Login Loop Some users on later builds were experiencing issues when logging in if they had their user homepage set to a page in Remote Payroll. This has now been resolved.

[Last edited on Monday September 28th, 2009 at 11:19 AM]

4.00.030 Release Notes

10/5/2009 9:16:58 PM

(Released September 1st, 2009)

This release was a “strategic” release which saw its focus on continuing to develop the new .NET rebuild of hh2 Remote Payroll. There were however a fair number of defect fixes which were prioritized and inserted into this release.

• Equipment Prefill Cost Codes The recently added feature allowing users to specify a whitelist of cost codes to only prefill equipment time for has been upgraded to a limitless textarea field. This will support clients who require entering in a large list of codes.

• Defect: Calendar Showing Unfinalized Reports In the monthly calendar view of the Field Report header, days would show as having unfinalized reports if there were unfinalized reports for that day on any jobsite. This has been resolved to only reflect the currently selected jobsite.

• Defect: State/Country/Contact Selectors In hh2 Human Resources versions 4.00.027 to 4.00.029, the state, country, and contact selectors on the Employee Info tab of Employee Records were not functioning properly. This has now been resolved.

• Defect: “Enroll” Button of Enterprise Benefits The “Enroll” button that appears for eligible employees in Enterprise Benefits was not properly redirecting to the Employee Record page and Benefits tab, prefilled with the selected benefit. This has now been resolved.

• Defect: Syncing Jobsite Employees in the hh2 Desktop Client In the hh2 Desktop Client, payroll group employees were syncing correctly, but jobsite employees were not. This issue has now been resolved.

• Defect: Signature Pad PDF Report in the hh2 Desktop Client The PDF report that lists employee signatures gathered using the hh2 Desktop Client was not handling the payroll group filter properly. This has now been resolved.

• Defect: Adding Certified Classes to Timecards In the latest version numbers of hh2 Remote Payroll, when a payroll manager attempted to add certified classes to an employee’s timecard, it would add the associated job cost or general ledger but miss the certified class. This has now been resolved.

[Last edited on Wednesday September 2nd, 2009 at 11:57 AM]

4.00.029 Release Notes

10/5/2009 9:16:30 PM

Released August 21st, 2009)

• On-Going Development: Safety Meetings The new Safety aspect of Human Resources is continuing to be developed. This release saw the initial development of the Safety Meeting interfaces which will include scheduling safety lessons to be held on jobsites as the Jobsite and Crew Dashboard interfaces to record safety meetings held. The beta release of this section of Human Resources should be available in the next few months.

• Defect: Adding Cost Codes to Equipment Timecards In the situation where a payroll group had its code configuration to allow “All Job Cost Codes” or “All GL Accounts”, Equipment timecards were not reflecting the allowance when adding codes to the card. This was because the “All Codes” functionality of payroll group access was a feature added after equipment time had already been built. The equipment time module has now been updated to reflect this configuration.

• Defect: Pay ID Group Default The select dropdown at the top of the timecards for Pay ID Group was no remembering its last selection and would reset to the first group in the list every time the timecard was loaded. This has been resolved and the Pay ID Group dropdown will now remember its last used setting.

• Labor Prefill Pay IDs Due to the engineering of Field Reports by Timberline, the prefill button on the labor tab was only considering time coded to the “Regular” or “Overtime” Pay IDs. If no time had been entered to either Pay ID (such as all vacation time for the week being entered) the prefill would not pull anything. This functionality has been improved to prefill all time into the notes for the labor entry but then leave the “Regular” and “Overtime” values at zero.

• Labor Employee Selector The Employee Selector on the Labor tab has been updated to a newer version of the employee select control which allows the “All Employees” option for clients who do not use Remote Payroll or Human Resources to assign employees to jobsites.

• Defect: Jobsite Contacts The Job Assignments interface of Contact Management was not refreshing the display when changing to a different jobsite. This has now been resolved. These assignments are what determine what companies (subs) show up in the Field Reports Company selectors.

[Last edited on Tuesday August 25th, 2009 at 6:51 AM]

4.00.028 Release Notes

10/5/2009 9:15:56 PM

Released August 12th, 2009)

In an effort to balance priorities between long-term and short-term needs of our customers, DBI has implemented an alternating release schedule between “strategic” and “tactical” releases. This week’s “strategic” release focused on new development of the Remote Payroll rebuild. As such, the number of notes on these “strategic” sprints will be light, but we will include information to let everyone know what progress is being made.

• Defect: Date Range Selector The date range selector popup was occasionally failing due to an intermittent JavaScript error. This has been resolved.

• Ongoing Remote Payroll .NET Development The .NET rebuild of the Remote Payroll product has continued during this past release. The prototype now has a completed database model, a business tier is well underway, and the majority of the Remote Payroll setup interfaces have been completed. These setups will allow online access to adding, editing, and deleting all “codes” in the Timberline database (which feature two-way syncing of changes back to the Timberline database). “Codes” refers to all jobs, extras, job costs, equipment, equipment costs, general ledger accounts, departments, certified classes, shifts, unions, union locals, union classes, and Pay IDs.

[Last edited on Tuesday August 25th, 2009 at 6:48 AM]

4.00.027 Release Notes

10/5/2009 9:15:28 PM

(Released August 5th, 2009)

• Safety Curriculum A new Safety Curriculum system and setup has been created. The first stage of this new feature contains the management interface to create safety lessons, list discussion points for the lesson, and upload attachments with captions. All aspects of the new system also feature multi-lingual support.

• Timberline Year-To-Date Import hh2 has now added year-to-date totals to the Sync Tool. This is the first step in building formal support for accrual time (vacation/sick/etc.) into the Remote Payroll and Human Resources modules.

• Defect: Global Documents in Job/Crew Dash Files marked as “global” in the Document Library of Human Resources were not showing on the jobsite and crew dashboards. This has now been resolved.

• Subcontractor Trades Normalized Subcontractor Trades have now been added to the hh2 Sync Tool and the “Trade” field on the Subcontractors tab of Field Reports has been changed from a text box to a select dropdown with a list of all the Timberline sub trades. This will then properly sync back into Timberline and appear on their Field Reports data.

• Defect: Changing Custom Tab Possible Answers When changing the possible answers for Custom Tab questions in field reports, the system will now archive the original answer and create a new answer with the updated value. This will allow historical data to be preserved on prior reports.

[Last edited on Thursday August 6th, 2009 at 8:08 PM]

4.00.026 Release Notes

10/5/2009 9:14:45 PM

(Released July 23rd, 2009)

• Enrolling Eligible Benefits In the benefit eligibility tab of Employee Records, when clicking the “Enroll” button, the interface will redirect to the enrollment interface and automatically pre-populate with all the necessary information.

• Document Class Info In the Documents tab of Employee Records, the list of documents will now display the document class directly in the list instead of having to select the entry to see it.

• Employee Title & Occupation The Timberline fields of Title and Occupation have now been incorporated into the Employee Records.

• Canadian Regulations To be in accordance with Canadian HR regulations, there is now an application option in HR allowing a company to remove the Gender and Ethnicity fields from Employee Records.

• Enterprise Pay Primary Classification Filter The Enterprise Pay interface now has an additional filter to only include employee’s primary classification. This prevents the possibility of the calculations being skewed.

• Default Employee Record Tabs The default setting for which Employee Records tabs are used has been changed to include all of them.

• PDF Signatures Report The PDF report to print off all employee signatures uploaded from the hh2 Desktop Client’s signature pad has been beta released.

• Equipment Prefill Cost Codes A new application option has been added that will allow a company to specify a list (separated by commas) of specific cost codes that will then be used as a limit of which units the Equipment Prefill from Remote Payroll pulls from.

• Defect: Updating Subcontractors Changing the company of an existing Subcontractor entry was not saving. This has now been resolved.

[Last edited on Tuesday July 28th, 2009 at 1:42 PM]

4.00.025 Release Notes

10/5/2009 7:49:48 PM

Released July 10th, 2009)

• Offline Windows Desktop Client Beta Released hh2 Remote Payroll now offers a beta release windows desktop client that provides offline functionality for punch in/out timekeeping. The desktop client then syncs all data back to the online Remote Payroll database when an internet connection is available. Future functionality of this tool will provide for regular timecard entry as well.

• Equipment ID in Export The Equipment Description field in the export file was displaying both the id of the equipment and the description. Since the equipment ID is also shown in another column this was redundant and taking up extra space, so it was been removed and only the description will display in the description column.

• Defect: Syncing Subcontractors The Timberline sync of Field Reports was not grabbing the Trade and Notes fields. This has now been fixed.

• Defect: Archived Custom Tabs Showing Custom tabs that had been archived were still showing up in the interface. This has now been fixed.

[Last edited on Tuesday July 28th, 2009 at 1:42 PM]

4.00.024 Release Notes

10/5/2009 7:48:59 PM

Released June 24th, 2009)

• Field Report Browser Author Filter A filter labeled “Edited By” that will bring up all field reports that were contributed to by the specified hh2 Web Services user.

• Field Report Browser PDF The results of the Field Report Enterprise Browser can now be downloaded as a PDF report for printing. This can be accessed via the PDF icon in the upper-right corner of the Field Report Enterprise Browser interface.

• Defect: Updating Field Report Subcontractors The most recent versions of Field Reports was not updating changes made to existing subcontractor records. This has now been fixed.

• Contact/Employee Association In order to maintain some of the Timberline database relations in the hh2 system, an association is now shown between employee records in HR and contact records in CM. The hh2 sync tool will import these relationships into hh2 automatically but they also can be set manually under the “Employee Information” tab of HR Employee Records or in the Contact Management Address book.

• Employee Certification Attachments The “Certifications” tab under Employee Records in HR now contains an attachment field for uploading scans of documents relating to that specific certification.

• Punch In/Out Separation The punch clock entries on the hh2 Remote Payroll timecard now allows manually specifying whether a new punch is an “In” punch or an “out” punch.

• Defect: Unit-Specific Comments The unit-specific comments in hh2 Remote Payroll were not saving when being created at the payroll manager level. This has now been fixed.

• Defect: “All Groups” Approval List Not Limiting The list of employees shown on the approval screen in hh2 Remote Payroll was not being limited to only the users groups. This has now been fixed.

• Defect: Payroll Manager Promoting Time In hh2 Web Services versions 4.00.022 and above, clicking the “Promote Time” button at the payroll manager level was not promoting the time. This has now been fixed.

[Last edited on Wednesday June 24th, 2009 at 3:18 PM]

4.00.023 Release Notes

10/5/2009 7:48:31 PM

(released June 12th, 2009)

• Redesigned Homepage The homepage of hh2 Web Services has been redesigned to prominently feature the new hh2 RSS feeds and display the release notes for the most recent version as well as inform the user what version they are currently on.

• Company Logos in .Net System The company logos will now appear in the upper-left corner when in Field Reports or HR.

• HR Lecture Invitations The invitation component to the upcoming HR Lecture application has been released for beta testing. This application will allow creating lectures and schedule sessions for any sort of HR meetings, trainings, etc. The invitation component lets users specify which employees in the company can attend and email them a registration link to confirm and to select from choices of session times available (if applicable).

• Defect Fixed: HR Security Group Employees The interface to select which employees belong to an HR security group was only displaying non-archived employees. For employees who had been terminated prior to a company’s using the hh2 HR product, terminated employees would not display in order to process rehires.

• Defect Fixed: Employee Select in FR Events The Employee selector in the Events tab of Field Reports had not been working in recently released versions.

• Defect Fixed: Homepage Setting in .Net Modules The “Set as My Homepage” icon at the bottom of the side menus had not yet been implemented in the .Net modules of Field Reports and HR. This has now been activated.

• Defect Fixed: Weather Tab as Default in FR In Field Reports, the weather tab was always the default tab to load when creating new reports, even when the weather section had been disabled in the settings. This has been fixed and Field Reports will load the first enabled tab available by default instead.

04.00.022 Release Notes

10/5/2009 7:48:03 PM

Release 4.00.022

(released May 13th, 2009)

• Expired Enrollments The Employee enrollments section of HR Employee Records has been divided into two tabs: “Current Enrollments” and “Expired Enrollments”

• Employee Pay Stubs A new tab has been added to the employee pay section of HR Employee Records allowing HR managers to view and print PDF paystubs for employees.

• Employee Pay Current/Past The employee pay section of HR Employee Records has been divided into two separate tabs for “Current Pay Records” and “Past Pay Records”

• CM Jobsite Assignment The company job assignment list in CM wasn’t saving after making selections. This issue has now been resolved.

4.00.021 Release Notes

10/5/2009 7:47:33 PM

Release 4.00.021

(released April 27, 2009)

• The Copy button on the timecard will now also allow the codes to remain on the time card after any hours are deleted.
• Batch Timecard Setup was experiencing issues with cost codes. This has been resolved.

• HR Enterprise Salary was not filtering correctly based on HR access. This has been resolved.

• A number of defects found in Contact Management have been resolved.
• Syncing CM Locations will inter-relate with parent companies through associated contacts
• Employees, Contacts and hh2 Web Users are now all associated as a function of the sync tool. This allows the "created by" column as well as the labor employees in Field Reports to properly associate when pushed into Timberline.

hh2 Code Release Notes: 4.00.020

10/5/2009 7:47:03 PM

• WAP-Compliant Punch In/Out. Any WAP-compliant cell phone (this should include any cell phone with a web browser) can now perform basic punch in/out. The Wap version of the sites can be reached by going to ex: http://yourcompany.hh2.com/m but eventually when our development team gets the .mobi extensions setup on the servers, companies can use ex: http://yourcompany.hh2.mobi
Over the current quarter,when we find the time we will add support for basic time entry as well, much like the desktop client that is currently available.

• Defect: When creating a new field report, only the appropriate custom tabs for the selected report type will be displayed.

Defect: When opening the unit-specific popup on timecards, the union local list will be appropriately filtered based on the union

4.00.019 Release Notes

10/5/2009 7:46:30 PM

Release 4.00.019

(released March 30, 2009)

• New Module: Accounts Payable

o The Credit Card Transaction Coding interface has been completed. Major feature upgrades to this are:

• Coding Defaults This button in the top left corner of the transaction list allows you to specify a default Job/Job Cost Code/GL Account/Equipment/Equipment Cost Code. After setting these, when coding a distribution, as soon as you select what code type you want “JC/GL/EC” it will automatically apply the default and save. The user can always change it after the save to something else if they want.

• Approval Paths This feature is incredibly complex and far beyond even the complexity of Remote Payroll’s system. So, I’ll let Devon explain this. The actual approval functionality will not be supported in this prototype release, but approving a transaction will visually disappear from the interface at least when the final post-QA release of this build is made).

• Additional Info/Receipts Each transaction (when expanded by clicking on it) has an “Info” button which will open a popup and allow a user to upload a scanned receipt, enter transaction-level comments, or fill out one of three available custom text fields.

• Memorization/Prefill When a transaction is expanded, a button called “Memorize” is available. This will save the distribution jobs/codes/accounts and proportionate dollar amounts so that in the future, by clicking on the “Prefill” button in the top right corner of the transaction list, all uncoded transactions for the same merchant will have the same splitting/coding/and amount ratios applied and saved.

• Transaction Search This tab allows a user to search for transactions based on various filters and keywords searches.

• On-Demand Transaction List The list of transactions in the UI will only load the first 20 records. After that as the user scrolls down, the scrollbar will momentarily turn yellow as it loads another 20 records and appends them to the bottom and so forth.

• On-Demand Selectors Job, Cost Code, GL Account selectors have all been rebuilt with on-demand scrolling. This means it doesn’t matter if a company has 60,000 active GL accounts, the selector will only popup with the first 50 and then load more as the user scrolls down. Eventually they will learn to just use the keyword search. In addition, the search box has been added to the top of the popup so that you can search from both the original selector box in the interface or directly in the popup. This also allows you to change a keyword search after the popup has opened. NOTE: Job groups have been eliminated at this point. Since very few clients actually use job grouping, and with the added searchability and on-demand scrolling of the new job selectors, we are going to try it without grouping to see if we can get away with it. ALSO the new job selector in AP has advanced searching functionality. To search for a job/extra combination, a user would specify the following context “J: 001.212 E: 008” The “J:” and “E:” syntax tells the search the keyword following it is just to search jobs with or just to search extras with. (this aspect is not completely finished but will be by the final post-QA release of this build)

4.00.018 Release notes.

10/5/2009 7:46:01 PM

Release 4.00.018

(released March 20, 2009)

• New Module: Contact Management

o Address Book. This interface allows a user to navigate and manage companies, contacts, and locations to/from their Timberline address book. This offers several filters to search on as well. (Please note that as of right now, all contacts/companies are considered “Active” in hh2 while we work out a syncing issue with Timberline’s address book. This should be resolved next week or so. When resolved, ONLY active companies/contacts will appear in Contact or Company selectors in FR and elsewhere. However, all will still be accessible in the Address Book via the “Status” filter, and users and activate or deactivate companies and contacts directly in hh2.)

o Job Assignments (a.k.a. Sublists). This interface allows users to assign what companies/contacts are involved with specific jobs. These lists determine who shows up in the “Included List” of Company and Contact selectors in Field Reports.

• Field Report Permissions. Access to RFI, Submittals, and Job Cost reports have been separated into individual functions for customization. By default, standard FR roles will STILL include these. If a client wants to limit the functionality, they will need to create custom FR roles. (the defect with editing custom roles has also been fixed).

• Punch Time Reconciliation Warnings. This is a feature that is OFF by default but can be activated in the Remote Payroll application global settings. When enabled, if the total amount of coded hours for an employee is different from the number of punched hours, the total box for the day will be highlighted.

• Field Reports Batch “All Report Types”. An choice was added in the Field Report Batch report to print a PDF/XLS of all report types rather than having to specify one.

• Benefit Enrollment Archive Choice. When clicking on the “X” button to archive a benefit enrollment in HR Employee Records, a prompt will appear asking if you want to deactivate fringes and deductions in Timberline or ignore it. What this means is that if a user selects deactivate, it will set the “Auto” field of all fringe and deduction records for that enrollment to false, set the expiration date to today, and sync back to Timberline. If the user chooses to “ignore” then it simply archives the enrollment in the hh2 system without any syncing activity to Timberline. In effect, this indicates that the user does not wish to manage this enrollment in hh2 but will only manage it in Timberline.