March 13th 2024, Release Note: WFM UK | Scheduling: Additional Information in Unavailability Tooltip, New Rounding in Costs Table

Summary

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Release date for both features: March 13th 2024

Additional Information in Unavailability Tooltip

• Enabled by default? - Yes
• Set up by customer admin? -No
• Enable via support ticket? - No
• Affects configuration or data? - No

What’s Changing?

When selecting an unavailability on the schedule, a tooltip shows its date and recurrence. This tooltip will now include the date that the unavailability was requested.

Reason for the Change

To offer more transparency and context to users for unavailability requests, helping them understand when requests were made. This will then help with decision-making regarding scheduling and resource allocation.

Customers Affected

All Scheduling customers using the new user interface.

Release Notes 

• Go to the Scheduling tab and select an unavailability

The date when the unavailability was requested will be displayed - see Fig.1.

Fig.1 - Unavailability creation date

New Rounding in Costs Table

• Enabled by default? - Yes
• Set up by customer admin? -No
• Enable via support ticket? - No
• Affects configuration or data? - No

What’s Changing?

The display format for numbers in the Costs table will now show only integers (whole numbers). Numbers in the thousands will also have a comma after the first digit.

Reason for the Change

To improve readability and usability by providing a clearer representation of numerical data, particularly for large numbers.

Customers Affected

All Scheduling customers using the new user interface.

Release Notes 

• Go to Scheduling and open the Costs table

The formatting can be seen below in Fig.2.

Fig.2 - New rounded/displayed numbers in the Costs table