Updates and Announcements

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Version 2.1.0.7

• Highlights & Enhancements:

  • Reports & Statistics:

    • A new submenu called "Statistics" is now available in the Reports module.
    • It is now possible to display the company's sickness rate as well as the sickness rate of individual employees or departments as tiles.
    • The evaluation can be configured flexibly using different analysis modes.
    • Working time reports have been extended with the new columns Start Time and End Time.
    • In addition, the working time reports now include the columns Remaining Vacation and Vacation Entitlement.
    • The values are calculated historically correct depending on the selected To Date (e.g. current remaining vacation for today or the remaining vacation at a previous point in time).

  • Absences & Requests:

    • Employees can now continue to view their own submitted absence requests after submission.
    • Submitted requests therefore remain visible to the requester and no longer disappear until they are approved.
    • Absences are now easier to identify in the attendance list.
    • A tooltip displays the full absence period, for example: "Absent (Sick Leave): xx.xx.xxxx to xx.xx.xxxx".
    • The respective absence reason is now also displayed directly on the employee card.
    • A new option has been added to absence reasons: "Half-day absence allowed: Yes/No".
    • This allows control over whether an absence reason can be requested as a half day.

  • Time Tracking & Bookings:

    • Four new booking functions have been added:
      • Start Doctor Visit
      • End Doctor Visit
      • Start Business Errand
      • End Business Errand
    • Time correction requests can no longer be submitted for the current day if there are still open bookings (e.g. only "Clock In" booked).

  • Approvals & Permissions:

    • A new overview page for time correction requests has been introduced.
    • All time correction requests can now be viewed centrally and filtered by date, user, and other criteria.
    • Notifications now only serve as a jump-off point to the new overview and no longer contain a direct approval function.
    • The permission logic for the Team Absence Overview has been adjusted:
      • Users with this permission now only see employees in teams where they are the team leader.
      • Users who are only team members no longer see any employees in this overview.
      • The current user is not shown in the list.
    • As part of this change, the user permissions have been extended.

• UI & Design:

  • The navigation menu can now be expanded.
  • A pin function allows the menu to remain permanently expanded.
  • The display of absences in the attendance list has been improved so that relevant information can be recognized more quickly.

• Bug Fixes:

  • Reports & Export:

    • Fixed an issue in time report export so that reports are now correctly printed across multiple pages.
    • Fixed an issue where no values were displayed in the Working Time Report Clock In + Clock Out.
    • Fixed an endless loading spinner in time reports for financial projects without a name.

  • Time Tracking & Calculations:

    • Fixed issues in manual time tracking.
    • Corrected incorrect project time calculations.
    • Fixed an issue where sickness hours were counted as overtime.
    • Corrected the calculation of absence periods.
    • Fixed time capping on non-working days.
    • Added missing validation for the status "Work Started" to prevent corrupted history displays.
    • Ensured that vacation days can no longer become negative.

  • Stability & Navigation:

    • Fixed an issue where pressing F5 always redirected users back to the main menu.
    • Fixed a caching issue on the COBI.time website that caused outdated pages to be shown after updates.
    • Fixed an issue in user management where the pagination state was reset after editing.
    • Fixed a NullPointerException in user management.
    • Resolved errors in the Working Time Models view.
    • Fixed scrollbar issues in the daily history table.

  • Absences, Translations & Miscellaneous:

    • Fixed an issue when saving e-mail notifications for absence requests.
    • Corrected an error when selecting the vacation account based on the year.
    • Fixed an issue when saving absences.
    • The KPI "Sick Days" now correctly includes employees without a working time model.
    • Cleaned up incomplete and inconsistent German and English translations in buttons, messages, dialogs, and notifications.
    • Fixed stability issues in absence management related to invalid name lengths.
    • Corrected user import behavior related to SAP cron job processing.

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Version 2.2.1.1

• Highlights & Enhancements:

  • Team Management & Hierarchies:

    • COBI.time now supports full team hierarchy management.
    • Teams can be managed directly within COBI.time.
    • A new frontend module allows users to create and maintain hierarchies (parent/child teams, members, structure).
    • The functionality can be enabled via settings.

  • Audit Log:

    • A new module for activity tracking and traceability has been introduced.
    • All relevant system actions are logged and can be reviewed centrally.
    • Supported event categories include:
      • USER (create, update, delete, role/manager changes, password changes, RFID assignment, etc.)
      • TIME (create, update, delete)
      • TIME CORRECTIONS (request, approve, reject, manual changes)
      • ABSENCES (request, update, approve, reject, delete)
      • MASTER DATA (absence types, holidays, time accounts, models)
      • SYSTEM events
      • AUTH (login success, login failure)

  • Time Models & Tracking:

    • Day models (daily work time models) can now be deactivated instead of deleted.
    • Time capping is now visibly displayed in the daily history.
    • Users can clearly see when working time limits have been applied.

  • Reports & Statistics:

    • New project time reports have been added:

      • Project Reports
      • Financial Project Reports
      • Service Call Reports

    • Reports can now be exported as:

      • CSV
      • PDF

    • The Sickness KPI has been extended:

      • Multiple absence types can now be included in the calculation
      • Configurable via system settings
      • Statistic tiles reflect the selected configuration

  • Exception & Compliance Reporting:

    • A new module "Exceptions" (Auffälligkeiten) has been introduced.

    • Includes:

      • Exception Reports
      • Exception Criteria configuration

    • Supported evaluations include:

      • Working time violations (e.g. too long, too short, no work)
      • Manual time corrections tracking (how often and by whom)
      • BEM evaluation (employees with more than 42 sick days within 12 months)

• Bug Fixes:

  • User & Integration:

    • Fixed an issue where user import did not correctly trigger SAP cron jobs

  • Absences & Calculations:

    • Corrected incorrect calculation of absence periods

  • General Stability & Improvements:

    • Multiple additional bug fixes and stability improvements based on testing feedback
    • UI inconsistencies in team hierarchy management resolved
    • Performance and input validation improvements in team management module

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Version 2.3.0.0

New Features

• Audit Log:

  • Introduced a new module for tracking and auditing system activities.
  • All relevant actions are logged and can be reviewed centrally.
  • Supported event categories include:
    • USER (Create, Edit, Delete, Role Changes, Password Changes, RFID Assignment, etc.)
    • TIME BOOKINGS (Create, Edit, Delete)
    • TIME CORRECTIONS (Request, Approval, Rejection, Manual Adjustments)
    • ABSENCES (Request, Change, Approval, Rejection, Delete)
    • MASTER DATA (Absence Types, Holidays, Time Accounts, Models)
    • SYSTEM Events
    • AUTH (Successful / Failed Login)

• Half-Day Public Holidays:

  • Added support for creating and managing half-day public holidays.

• Time Account Functionality Extended:

  • Enhanced the "Clear Time Account" function for more flexible handling of employee time accounts.

• Incident Report:

  • Added a new "Balance" criterion to incident reports.
  • Allows targeted analysis of employees with unusual time account balances.

Bug Fixes

• Improved monthly display within the Absence Overview.
• Fixed inconsistent search results in the absence list after using the "Show All" function.

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Version 2.3.1.1

New Features

• Daily Time Models:
  • Daily time models can now be deactivated without being deleted.

Enhancements

• Absence Overview:

  • Added the ability to display deactivated employees within the absence overview.

• Time Account Recalculation:

  • Extended the functionality for recalculating time accounts.

• Reports:

  • Added the column "Planned Vacation" to reporting.

• Weekly Time Model:

  • Added a function to display all linked employees directly from a weekly time model.

Bug Fixes

• Absence Overview: Non-working days are now correctly displayed within the yearly report.

• Holiday Import:

  • Added preview/information display for already imported holidays.
  • Improved handling of the "No Entries" message.
  • Enhanced editing capabilities for imported holidays.

• Notifications:

  • Absence requests are now visually marked according to their approval status.

• Project Stages:

  • Improved the display of activity types.
  • Fixed an issue causing an empty project stage entry to be displayed.