Overview
This article contains a list and summary of every UK release note published by Fourth during Q1 of 2022 (5th January to 29th March 2022).
Release notes are listed under the following headers (select one to go straight to that part of the article):
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Workforce Management
What's Changing?
- Moving Candidates between Brands, Locations & Roles
Managers can now move candidate applications between Brands, Location and Roles on static steps within a process - Read/Unread Candidate Applications
Managers can now easily distinguish between applications that have been viewed by a manager, and new applications submitted within the Application Review step
Release date: January 18th 2022
January 18th 2022, Release Note: WFM UK | Wagestream: Viewing Published Future Shifts
What's Changing?
- Wider availability of the Pay Schedules API to Wagestream to enable “published future shifts” visibility within the Wagestream app. When employees are scheduled to work, these shifts will be available to view in the Wagestream app along with their estimated associated earnings.
Release date: January 18th 2022
What's Changing?
- Displaying Location of Employees' External Shifts
Hovering over an employee's external shift on the rota will display its location - Manually Entering Times to Include Break Records
Ability to record breaks when manually entering shifts in the Time and Attendance screen
Release date: January 19th 2022
What's Changing?
- Pension Module Enhancements, Multi-Browser Access
Certain pages in the Pension module have been updated to allow it to be accessible from multiple different internet browsers - Pension Module - New User Interface
The Pension module is now available in the new user interface (UI) - Payroll Module Enhancements
Certain Payroll pages have been aligned with the rest of the Workforce Management solution
Release date: January 20th 2022
What’s Changing?
- New date parameters in minimum staffing level configurations.
Release date: February 2nd 2022
February 14th 2022, Release Note: WFM UK | Labour Productivity: NextGen Forecasting
What's Changing?
- Activation of the Fourth NextGen Forecast Engine across all Labour Productivity customer portals using Fourth's system forecast.
Release date: February 14th 2022 - April 25th 2022
What's Changing?
- Users who have access to create and edit Locations will now have the ability to enable Locations for use in Labour Productivity.
Release date: February 17th 2022
What's Changing?
- Managers Rescheduling Events
Managers can now reschedule Events from the admin portal and subsequently notify candidates and interviewers alike so that they can choose an alternative Event or just be informed that the Event has changed. - External Interviewer for Events
Managers can now create Events and specify an external interviewer (who is not a user within the ATS) by free typing their name and providing an email address.
Release date: February 17th 2022
February 24th 2022, Release Note: WFM UK | T&A: Consolidation of Ordering Process
What's Changing?
- Launch of a new online form for requesting orders of Time & Attendance devices.
Release date: 24th February 2022
What's Changing?
- Export of Scheduling Actions
Audit logs of scheduling actions can now be exported, to show which actions were performed and by whom.
Release date: March 16th 2022
- 'Actual' Tickbox Tooltip
A tooltip on the Schedule page that shows which user ticked the 'Actual' box, and when.
Release date: March 30th 2022
March 17th 2022, Release Note: WFM UK | Payroll & Pensions: New Tax Year 2022/2023
What’s Changing?
- This release note contains all changes made in the system required to allow legislative compliance from April 2022.
Release date: 17th March 2022
What's Changing?
- New income thresholds for Attachment of Earnings Orders have been introduced for orders issued by the Welsh Government
Release date: March 17th 2022
What's Changing?
- Social Care Levy
1.25% increase of rates for all National Insurance categories, and notifications in payslips. - Veterans' National Insurance Relief
A National Insurance contribution holiday for employers for a veteran's first year of civilian employment after leaving HM Armed Forces. - Freeport National Insurance Relief
A National Insurance contribution holiday for employers who recruit new employees within a freeport site.
Release date: March 17th 2022
March 24th 2022, Release Note: WFM UK | ATS: Introducing Zoom & Teams Video Call Events
What's Changing?
- Managers can now create Video Call Events directly from the ATS portal using Microsoft Teams or Zoom and invite candidates so that they carry out key recruitment events such as interviews remotely.
Release date: March 24th 2022
Purchase-to-Pay & Inventory
January 12th 2022, Release Note: RME: Recipe Usage in Menus
What's Changing?
- A new sub-tab has been added to the recipe 'usage' tab which displays the menus in which the recipe is used.
Release date: January 12th 2022
What's Changing?
- Ingredient Price Update Template with Invoice Price
The report previously titled 'Fullers Ingredient Price Update Template' has been renamed. This report is useful to customers using 'catch weight' functionality - Copy Parent Ingredient Only
Button added to allow copying of parent ingredient only, without copying linked alternate ingredients - Recipe Ingredients, Expanded View
When recipe ingredients are expanded, they are indented to make it easier to see which ingredients belong to each 'recipe in a recipe'
Release date: January 12th 2022
What's Changing?
- Default Tax for Each Tariff
Each Tariff type (aka 'sell price for a menu cycle item') will be linked to a 'default Tax %' - Tax Edit Permission
A new 'Edit Tax' permission has been created for Central and Local users - Mass Update Prices, v2
Mass Update Prices, version 2, will allow Central users to update selling prices in Local menu cycles and within the selected Central menu cycle
Release date: January 20th 2022
What’s Changing?
- New functionality to allow suppliers to send header-level charges in electronic invoices and credit notes in the segment called "SAC". SAC segments values will be imported and distributed across in Inventory.
Release date: 25th January 2022
What’s Changing?
- Unless a new user permission is applied, users will no longer be able to reopen GRNs after they have been invoice-matched.
Release date: January 25th 2022
What's Changing?
- Consumer-Facing Report, Footer Added
Calorie reporting legislation - A footer has been added to the Consumer Facing Report to help with compliance - Shelf Edge Label Report
New report for creation of small and medium Shelf Edge Labels - Mass Update Prices, v2, Search By Category
The keyword search has been extended to include the recipe/buffet menu category - Empty Weeks will Display in Local Menu Cycles
'Empty weeks', i.e., weeks without a meal period that occur at the end of a menu cycle will now display for local users
Release date: 9th February 2022
February 22nd 2022, Release Note: RME: GET API Base URL, v1, Deprecation
What's Changing?
- The version 1 base URL of the Recipe and Menu Engineering API GET requests: api.starchef.net/[resource] will be deprecated on 22 February 2022. API users should use the newer version (version 2) api.starchef.net/v2/[resource].
Release date: February 22nd 2022
What’s Changing?
- New functionality that will allow automatic creation or updating of Goods Received Notes (GRNs) from electronic Invoices (received from Tradesimple).
Release date: February 22nd 2022
What's Changing?
- Change ALC Menu Course Order
After a menu course has been created, ability to change its 'order' relative to the other courses in the menu - Log in/Log out user report
A new report that lists all log-in and log-out activity for all users - Ingredient Pack Descriptor Visible when in Read Mode
Cosmetic improvement to ensure the same fields are visible in read and edit modes
Release date: February 23rd 2022
What's Changing?
- Shelf Edge Label Report Enhancements (Local Only)
Both Recipe Name and Recipe Menu Description will display onscreen; both are searchable in keyword search - Allergen Report, Default Response Changed (Local Only)
Default response changed to return 'planned items'; new parameter added to include 'unplanned items' - Traffic Light Report (Local and Central), New Parameters
Default response changed to return 'planned items'; new parameters: date range, meal periods, include unplanned items
Release date: 17th March 2022
What's Changing?
- Multi-browser support for Tradesimple website
Tradesimple will become accessible on web browsers other than Internet Explorer.
Release date: March 16th 2022
March 29th 2022, Release Note: Inventory | Restaurants: RME Recipes and Wastage Calculation
What's Changing?
- Use of RME Wastage Data for Recipe Calculations
Wastage data in RME recipes will now be used for calculations in Inventory. - Automatically Update Recipes to Sites
Recipes updated in RME will also update the same site-level recipes in Inventory.
Release date: March 29th 2022
March 23rd 2022, Release Note: RME: Set Validation, Menu Archive, Price Band Override Template
What's Changing?
- Set Validation to Eliminate Hidden Records
Set validation has been added to prevent records from being removed from all sets - Menus, Archive Functionality
Archive option for menus, similar to existing 'archive' functionality for ingredients and menus - Price Band Override Template, Mark Impacted Ingredients for Inventory Export
'Mark ingredients for export' when their prices are changed using the Price Band Override Template
Release date: 23rd March 2022
Adaco
February 7th 2022, Release Note: Adaco: Mobile Transferring app
What's Changing?
- A new connected app called Transferring, that allows for the transfer of products and recipes between outlets.
Release date: February 7th 2022
What's Changing?
- Outlet Default Delivery Address
New ability to assign a default delivery/'ship to' address to an Outlet for purchase requisitions - Using the Default Browser for Punchout Orders
When creating a Punchout order the vendor's website will now be opened in the user's default web browser rather than in the Adaco in-app browser - Auto Creation of Vendor Interfaces
When creating new vendors, either in the Adaco UI or using the Vendor API, an email vendor interface can be created automatically
Release date: 15th February 2022
What's Changing?
- Outlet-Specific Vendor Interfaces
Ability to assign a default vendor interface to transmit purchase orders when auto-created - Enhancements to SSO
Various enhancements for users who use Fourth's Single Sign-On (SSO) mechanism to access Adaco - Minor Functionality Improvements
New icon to indicate where products have documents attached. Further use of Outlet-specific delivery/ship to addresses
Release date: March 15th 2022 (EMEA), March 17th (US)
Fourth Engage/Mobile apps
January 11th 2022, Release Note: Mobile | Fourth App: Requirement to Upgrade Native Fourth App
What's Changing?
- Fourth is changing the way that users are authenticated and authorised when they access the Fourth App. To work with this new Identity Management service, users will be required to upgrade their native iOS or Android apps to a new version which is planned for release to the app stores by 11th January 2022.
Release date: January 11th 2022
What's Changing?
- New Design for All Applications page
The 'All Applications' page has been re-designed to align with the look and feel of the rest of the Fourth App/Engage - New Design for non-Engage Users
The landing page for Non-Engage users has been re-designed to allow easier access to connected apps and the user's profile - Static Custom Pages No Longer Supported
The static, built-in custom menu items are no longer supported as customers are able to create their own custom menu items/pages
Release date: 15th February 2022
What's Changing?
- New User Activation and Password Reset Flow
Minor changes to the new user activation mechanism and existing user password reset flow - New Login Page
Design change for the login page
Release date: March 8th 2022
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