Overview
This article contains a list and summary of every UK release note published by Fourth during Q2 of 2022 (6th April to 30th June).
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
May 5th 2022, Release Note: WFM UK | HR: Casual Holiday Annual Cleardown
What's Changing?
- A new global setting for users to configure an automatic clear down of holiday accrual for employees.
Release date: May 5th 2022
What's Changing?
- Benefits Module Enhancements, Multi-Browser Access
Pages in the Benefits module have been updated to allow it to be accessible from multiple different internet browsers - Benefits Module - New User Interface
The Benefits module is now available in the new user interface (UI) - Benefits Module - Enhancements
Certain Benefits pages have been aligned with the rest of the Workforce Management solution
Release date: May 19th 2022
May 19th 2022, Release Note: WFM UK | Rotas: Weekly Overview Report v3 Enhancements
What's Changing?
- Weekly Overview Report v3 Enhancements, Multi-Browser Access
Weekly Overview Report v3 has been updated to allow it to be accessible from multiple different internet browsers - Weekly Overview Report v3 - New User Interface
Weekly Overview Report v3 is now available in the new user interface (UI) - Weekly Overview Report v3- Enhancements
Weekly Overview Report v3 has been aligned with the rest of the Workforce Management solution
Release date: 19th May 2022
May 19th 2022, Release Note: WFM UK | Labour Productivity: Displaying Employees' Preferred Names
What’s Changing?
- A new setting to make employees' preferred names display within Labour Productivity.
Release date: May 19th 2022
Please note: In a previous release, the system displayed preferred names by default. This release reverts back to displaying first and last names, with the option of using preferred names if desired.
May 25th 2022, Release Note: WFM UK | Labour Productivity: Displaying Employees' Preferred Names
What’s Changing?
- Displaying employees' preferred names within Labour Productivity.
Release date: May 25th 2022
May 26th 2022, Release Note: WFM UK | ATS: Carrying out Right to Work Checks Directly in ATS
What's Changing?
- New functionality within the Admin portal that will enable managers to carry out Right to Work (RTW) checks directly within the ATS via an embedded Trust ID interface.
Release date: May 26th (with a phased rollout - see full release note for details)
June 15th 2022, Release Note: WFM UK | Scheduling: Sales Forecast Amendment Report
What’s Changing?
- A new report which will display a history of sales forecast amendments. The report will display the original forecast, the new forecast, the user who made the change, and the date and time stamp of when it took place.
Release date: June 15th 2022
June 16th 2022, Release Note: WFM UK | HR: Existing User Interface Page Enhancements
What's Changing?
- The following pages within the UK HR and Rota modules are being updated to align the look and feel with the rest of the Workforce Management solution:
- Job Titles
- User Access
Release date: June 16th 2022
What's Changing?
- Student & Postgraduate Loan refunds through Payroll
New option for student and postgraduate refunds to be made through the Payroll module - National Insurance Primary Threshold Changes
Changes to NI thresholds used in the Employee National Insurance calculation
Release date: June 16th 2022
What's Changing?
- Contractor Costs Available on Analysis Page
The option to view contractor costs within the Analysis page has been added to the Rotas module - Wage Cost Analysis Page - Page Enhancements
The Wage Cost Analysis page has been aligned with the rest of the Workforce Management solution - Wage Cost Analysis Page - New User Interface
The Wage Cost Analysis page is now available in the new user interface
Release date for all features: June 16th 2022
Purchase-to-Pay & Inventory
April 13th 2022, Release Note: RME: Replace in Recipes
What's Changing?
- Remove from Recipes
'Replace in Recipes' functionality has been extended to allow the bulk removal of a single ingredient or recipe from multiple recipes - Replace in Recipes, Nutrition Calculation Method to Persist
When a 'Replace in Recipes' operation is completed, all impacted recipes' existing 'nutrition calculation method' will persist - Replace in Recipes, Warning if Replacement Ingredient is Missing Weight conversion
A warning has been added to the Replace in Recipes screen to indicate that the 'replacement item' is missing a weight conversion
Release date: April 13th 2022
April 19th 2022, Release Note: RME | Menu Cycles: Extend End Date of Published Menu Cycle
What's Changing?
Extend End Date of Published Menu Cycle
- A published menu cycle can have its end date extended for one or more of the locations to which it has already been published
Release date: April 19th 2022
What's Changing?
- Reports optimised for Excel
'Suppliers' and 'Users' reports have been optimized for use in Excel - Global Database setting 'Recipe ingredient wastage mandatory' more flexible
The 'wastage removed' tickbox will be 'true' and editable for recipe ingredients
Release date: May 18th 2022
What's Changing?
- Groups configured with 'inherited data' in Recipe and Menu Engineering can now use this 'inherited data' (recipes and menus) to populate a menu cycle. Previously only data in 'directly linked' sets could be accessed when selecting recipes and menus for a menu cycle.
Release date: May 18th 2022
What's Changing?
- GRNs from Invoices - Grouping by Product Code and Price for Returned Items
Enhancements to the 'creation of GRNs from electronic invoices' functionality - Recipe Gap Check Report
A new report that displays reasons when the cost price of a recipe is unable to calculate
Release dates for all features
May 31st 2022 for the USA
June 7th 2022 for EMEA/APAC
What's Changing?
- Bulk Edit Ingredients
Edit a limited range of fields for multiple 'parent' ingredients in a simple workflow - Intolerance Audit History Separate From Nutrition
Intolerance audit history will be displayed separately from nutrition audit history
Release date: June 29th 2022
Adaco
April 5th 2022, Release Note: Adaco: Change to Single Sign On (SSO) page
What's Changing?
- Change to Single Sign-On (SSO) Page
The landing page that users see when accessing Adaco via Single Sign-On (SSO) from the Fourth App has changed
Release date: April 5th 2022
What's Changing?
Unlinking Fourth Accounts
- The ability to remove the link between an Adaco user account and a Fourth Single Sign-On (SSO) account
Release date: April 12th 2022 (EMEA & APAC) April 14th 2022 (US)
What's Changing?
- Requisition API
A new endpoint on our existing web API that allows the creation of outlet requisitions from an external system - 'Reply to' Email Address in Purchase Orders
When purchase orders are auto-created and transmitted, the 'reply to' email address will be that of the requisition creator - New Setting in Administration
Visibility of a new counting setting (to be implemented in a future release)
Release dates for all features: June 14th (EMEA/APAC) / June 16th (USA) 2022
Fourth Engage/Mobile apps
June 21st 2022, Release Note: Mobile | Ordering App: Shared Market Lists Editable by All
What's Changing?
- Users will now be able to make changes to any Market List that has been shared with them. Prior to this change, only Market List owners were able to do this.
Release date: June 21st 2022
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