The latest updates and changes in the world of Timetastic
Happy February!
We've updated the Timetastic bot and added a slash command so you can find out when your team are absent.
/timetastic next week
will give you the absences for next week. You can try individual dates or date ranges.
If you're in any doubt
/timetastic help
will give you a rundown of what you can do.
The bot has also been updated to support Slack's new Block Kit layout which should mean better readability and layouts on mobile and smaller devices.
We've rolled up a few changes into one announcement:
Happy New Year!
We've pushed a brand new API endpoint for getting users with contact details if you're a Pro user. The API docs are here: https://timetastic.co.uk/api/#get-a-user-amp-contact-details
Alongisde that there's some fixes for people signing up hitting a rate limit and some stability fixes for our emailer.
No big features this month but here's a roundup of our bugfixes and improvements:
- Fixed an issue where if you deleted an approver, any bookings they approved wouldn't be in reports 📊
- Fixed an edge case where if you updated many users at a time, you'd come up against a rate limit, stopping you editing more. 🏃♀️
- Inviting users now knows the difference between you re-sending them an invite and sending the first invite 📨
- Fixed a really rare edge case (4 times since 2014!) where it was possible to restore an admin user without an email address 🛑
- Fixed loads of text overflow, line clamping and truncation issues throughout the web app 📝
- Fixed the department boss name not updating when editing a user and changing their department 🐛
Hopefully more exciting updates coming soon.
Calling all developers, tinkerers and Zapier enthusiasts...
You can now integrate your other systems directly into Timetastic: Add, Edit, Archive or Restore users from the public API and connect into your other systems.
Pro users can also update user contact details too.
Full details in the API docs along with the new Postman collection to get you started straight away at https://timetastic.co.uk/api/
While these new endpoints bed in, we're rate limiting them to 2rps.
We're introducing a much better user experience for the inbox, to align with the mobile app.
Inbox
Under the Inbox icon you can see all of the requests you need to approve. And a simple click will take you to look at a specific request in more detail.
Sent items
When you've sent a request and you're waiting for your manager to approve it. You can now see these in your sent items...
We've had a number of small updates go out recently, none merited their own update but here's what's recently changed:
- We've got new menu designs! 🖌️
- Slack posts have been updated to use Slack's new layout technology which should mean better message formatting - especially for those on mobile. ✨
- We fixed an issue where you could create an "empty" leave type which caused other issues down the line. 🐛
- Thanks to a report from the security community we've updated our rate limits and put more protections in place for people overwhelming our email services. Thanks to @Jayalak54621465 for getting in touch. 👍
We've redesigned and improved the new user onboarding tips with a fresh design and more relevant information. 🖌️
Onboarding your staff to Timetastic just got a bit easier for everyone. 🙋♂️
We've also updated the Slack daily summary to fix an issue with Slack where sometimes some users would be cut off the end of the post.
We've updated our Terms of Service to align with current GDPR requirements.
Prior to this we included a number of clauses in the Terms of Service required by GDPR, but that mechanism no longer cuts it. So we've moved all those terms into their own Data Processing Agreement, which is the proper way of doing things now.
If you have any questions then just reach out to our support team.
