Release Notes: 10/07/2022

Welcome to October! This release brings a new default report for the Portland Oregon Metro Supportive Housing Tax along with plenty of fixes and improvements across TempWorks products.

*Self-Hosted Action Required - Resume Parser*

It is essential that you update your resume parser service prior to 10/16/2022 to ensure resume parsing functionality continues to work.

Additional information regarding this change can be found within the Self-Hosted note at the bottom of this article.

*Self-Hosted Action Required - Beyond & APIv3*

As of the 9/9/2022 release, updates to Beyond and the API ("APIv3") are released under a version tag of "windows" (formerly "latest-1809").  It is required that self-hosted customers update the configuration of their environment to refer to this tag prior to 10/31/2022 in order to continue receiving updates for these products and services.

Additional information regarding this change can be found within the Self-Hosted note at the bottom of this article.

As always, ensure you install all updates to give your users the best experience and new features.

The Highlights


New Default Report - Portland Oregon Metro Supportive Housing Tax

Created the new default report titled “Portland Oregon Metro Supportive Housing Tax” which displays a list of employees required to pay Portland, Oregon Metro Supportive Housing Tax (XORP19282) and the amount of tax withheld on each paycheck.

  • This report can be run/viewed when the user is tied to any of the following default Security Groups:
    • TempWorks Default - Front Office Manager
    • TempWorks Default - Back Office Manager
    • TempWorks Default - Pay Clerk
    • TempWorks Default - Billing Clerk
  • For custom Security Roles/Groups, the report permission can be found via the following:
    • Enterprise: All Options > Administration > Sec Roles > Report Group - Tax Administration
    • Beyond: B Menu > System Settings > Security > Reports > Tax Administration > Portland Oregon Metro Supportive Housing Tax

Additional Updates


In Beyond

  • Fixed an issue where not all job titles were being listed within the job title dropdown of the job information of the order.
  • Improved the searching and filtering of multiplier codes when adding customer defaults. This should help with clients that have over 1000 multiplier codes.
  • Fixed an issue where duplicate entries would appear within the Employee > Pay Setup > Payment Options > “Paycheck Delivery Code” dropdown.
  • Added the ability to remove selected categories when creating a resume via the employee record.

In Bridge

  • Added a “Billing” indicator to billable users. Also added tooltips when hovering over the icons for whether a user is billable and/or a Bridge Administrator.

  • Added the following toast messages when interacting with users within Bridge (these messages will appear at the bottom of the web page and will automatically disappear after 3 seconds):
    • Create a new user: "User created"
    • Update a user (change their name, email, or security roles): "User updated"
    • Update a user's password: "Password updated"
    • Activate a user: "User activated"
    • Deactivate a user: "User deactivated"
  • Fixed an issue where the “Disconnect Sessions“ button would not function as intended. Now, the user will be successfully disconnected from Enterprise when the button is selected:

In Enterprise

  • Added the PSD code for St. Thomas Township, Franklin County, PA.
  • Created a new payroll error which will warn users when they have checks in their payroll run which have a check date prior to today's date:

  • Fixed an issue preventing the printing of payroll runs.
  • Fixed an error that would occur when attempting to run the 1095/1094 export.
  • Fixed an issue with the Employee Timecard Adjustments report that would not respect the selected branches and/or adjustments when being run.
  • Fixed an issue where the “Department Name” would not appear within the invoice header when invoicing was set to “Invoice Department Separately” and have “Create Separate Invoices for Each: Department.
  • Fixed an issue when recalculating worker comp codes from an order, the worker comp code would not be updated on the transactions if the worker comp cost of the new code equaled the worker comp cost of the old code. Now, the worker comp code will be updated as intended.

In WebCenter

  • Fixed an issue where invoices with corrections and/or merges would not appear with correct amounts and balances within the invoice list in WebCenter.

Tax Updates:

  • Updated the PA LST rates for ANTRIM TWP/GREENCASTLE-ANTRIM S D to $47.

Self-Hosted Notes:

Resume Parser License Update

It is essential that you update your resume parser service ("tempworks/sovren-srps-dev") prior to 10/16/2022 to ensure resume parsing functionality continues to work.  Note that a solitary container may be updated (ex: `docker pull tempworks/sovren-srps-dev:latest-1809 && docker-compose -p twapi up --build -d` for the example configuration).

Release Version Tag

As of the 9/9/2022 release, updates to Beyond and the API ("APIv3") are released under a version tag of "windows" (formerly "latest-1809"). It is required that self-hosted customers update the configuration of their environment to refer to this tag prior to 10/31/2022 in order to continue receiving updates for these products and services.

Docker environment configurations and/or update scripts will need to be updated to refer to this new version.  Each environment is slightly different, so be sure to update the appropriate `.env`, `docker-compose.yml`, or environment parameters to ensure that the following image references are used (ex: rather than `tempworks/beyond:latest-1809`):

  • tempworks/beyond:windows
  • tempworks/api3-server:windows
  • tempworks/api3-jobservice-server:windows
  • tempworks/api3-email-server:windows

Congratulations! You've made it to the end of the release notes. Like what you read?  Click the thumbs up below.

Related Articles

  • None