Attention: expiring license types

Currently there are two Microsoft license types which will expire soon and can't be extended.The expiration date is individually for every customer, depending on the contract start date.

• Dynamics 365 for Team Members
• Dynamics 365 for Talent

If you are using one of these license types in your company, you need to switch to an other licence to ensure an uninterruptible usage of the solution. Our Sales Team is happy to advise you and provide you a suitable offer.

Continuos updates for ideal user experience

Microsoft is currently working intensively to make the Dynamics 365 Power Plattform even more innovative and performant. Additional basic features and entities are continuously added in compliance with high security standards. Therefore, Microsoft Apps like Sales, Marketing as well as the ISV Apps like HR for Dynamics need to be updated on a regular basis to ensure compatibility. Therefore, Microsoft has worked out new ways of performing these Updates while maintaining customer-specific adjustments more easily. Additional information

We kindly ask you to install the HR for Dynamics Updates shortly after the release in the HR for Dynamics Customer Portal. This helps you to ensure the ideal User Experience of your employees. To the Customer Portal

In case you don't want to install the updates by yourself we would be happy to do it for you. Simply book our Update Service: benefit from our special offer: the first Update is free for you. Just talk to us.

The Support Portal is coming

Our new Support Portal will be launched on May 1, 2021.
You can submit your ticket even more comfortably in the Portal.

The Portal actively assists you. You can take a look at open tickets and their status at any time as well as ask questions about tickets. You can see the history of every ticket and receive automatic notifications.

You will receive additional information and an invitation to the portal in April.

Work Patterns (Preview Feature)

Major Benefit

The new Work Pattern feature enables HR Managers to schedule irregular working times easily and reflect short-time changes in the system. This is especially useful for all employees who do not work "9 to 5" on weekdays - part timers, apprentices, working students, seasonal workers and shift workers. Furthermore, working hours can be overwritten manually on a daily basis for maximum flexibility, e.g. in case of spontaneous changes.

Introduction to the functionality

Work Patterns can be configured in detail. Within the Employment Terms the HR Manager can choose to use work patterns or keep "static" working hours.

• Multiple Work Patterns for different time durations can be configured for an Employment Terms
  Use Cases:
  - Seasonal workers who work full time in summer and do not work the rest of the year.
  - Working students who work full time during their semester holidays and part time in the semester.
• Two Recurrence modes: Work Patterns can be based on a sequence of days ("Details") or repeat yearly
  Sequence = the array of work pattern details will repeat itself one after the other for the specified time period. Use Cases:
  - Apprentices who go to school a few days of the week. The school days follow a two week rhythm. In this case, please configure 14 Work Pattern Details, i.e. days and choose Sequence as recurrence.
  - Shift Systems.
  
  Yearly Recurrence = the sequence of work pattern details will repeat on a yearly basis. Use Case:
  - e.g. seasonal workers who only work during the summer
• Working Hours can be defined by a start & end time or be based on a shift
• Work Pattern Templates simplify the maintenance of the patterns for all employees.

Further Information

With the introduction of Work Patterns, the Daily Summary will become the "single source of truth" for all attendance and leave related information. Not only the work pattern, but also the employment terms, holiday calendars, leave request, leave calendars, etc. will rely on the information stored in the daily summaries. With the work pattern enabled, the leave management is calculated accordingly. The absence calendar shows the days where the employee does not have allocated hours. If no daily summaries are existing for a specific time period in the future, the system will project the situation of working hours for the employee based on the work pattern of that employee in combination with the relevant calendars.

The existing working hours functionality based on Employment Terms will remain in the solution. We recommend to use this function for employees who have regular working hours.

Tips

• Work Pattern time periods cannot overlap.
• Once the functionality is enabled for a valid employment terms, the switch cannot be flipped back anymore. However, it is possible to enter regular working hours as a work pattern. Please choose Sequence as recurrence mode and add 7 work pattern details (= 7 days). Set the work pattern to start on "Monday" and enter the working hours.
• Once an employment terms is set to valid, the work pattern cannot be edited anymore. If you want to do this, you need to replace the work pattern, similar to e.g. a wage. This gives transparency about the deprecated work patterns of an employee.