Department settings is getting some love today - we've updated it to show you how many people are in each department and made saving changes to departments more obvious. 

API customers will know this also removes some older no longer used fields for departments - if you've not updated your integration you'll start seeing errors now.

Rolled into this release we've also fixed some issues with Insights not showing days or hours correctly and some behind the scenes improvements.

Hi all,

Happy Monday!

Today we have a new user access level for you, "Director" 🎉 

Where a department manager can see all employees win their own department, a Director is one level above that and can see a read-only view of all the departments and bookings on the Wallchart and view all users' calendars️.

For those of you with Timetastic Pro accounts, your Directors can see the Insights page too.

You can set someone to be a Director in their user profile page:

Fresh out today we've got an improvement to the user uploader.

Instead of uploading everyone with an allowance in days and then converting them to an hourly allowance one by one, you can just put a H in the last column of your upload and we'll create your users with hourly allowances now. 

A small improvement that'll hopefully save some of you some time.

In our recent privacy push we've got another change coming to Leave Types. This is probably one of our most requested features and we've been working on it for a bit in the background.

From today, everyone with Timetastic (Business and Pro) will get the ability to set leave types as "public" or "private"

This replaces the existing privacy mode toggle in Settings > General

All your leave types will be set according to that setting but now you can make individual leave types visible to everyone. Working from home is a good example of where we've had this requested.

Head to Settings > Leave Types and set the visibility to "Public" or "Private":

Public: 

Sets the leave type to be visible to everyone in your organisation regardless of whether they're a user, manager, approver or Admin user. 

Private:

Hides leave type details from everyone who isn't a user's approver, manager or admin users.

This affects Timetastic, external calendar integrations, Slack, Teams and API requests. You'll also be able to set it in the mobile app once the latest app update is out.

We've had some really valuable feedback over the last few months about this one and as a result, there are some changes to birthday visibility from today.

 Birthdays are now only visible on the Wallchart and Calendar to the user who has the birthday and their approver or manager.  As always in Timetastic, Admins can see everything including birthdays.

Apologies if this reduces the amount of cake anyone gets on their birthday 🥳, but hopefully you'll appreciate the tighter privacy around personal information.

We've got more privacy-focused updates coming, stay tuned!

Happy Friday everyone

Good news for all the admins.. 

💥 We've just updated the user listing page 💥

It's simpler and cleaner, with a brand-new filter to boot.

Go take a look, we hope you like it :)

Good news! We've redesigned the leave type settings page. While we were in there we added this: 

Each and every leave type can now be set to show as "Busy" or "Available" in external calendars. Google Calendar, iCal, Outlook - anywhere you can send an iCal feed.

This will only affect external calendars and won't change anything in Timetastic for that leave type. A few (thousand) of you requested it so we hope this helps you organise your leave types better. Calendars can take a few minutes to update after changing availability while we sync up all the bookings in the background

API consumers will also see this in new fields, check the API docs for more info.

Stay tuned for more updates.

A small but often requested feature comes to Timetastic today. Work anniversaries now show on the Wallchart and Calendar.

They're visible to the person having the anniversary and their approver (plus admin users).

They look like this: 

They'll be coming to our next mobile update shortly too.

Enjoy!

It's been a long time coming...

We've often been asked by customers if there was any way to support more advanced working patterns where a weekly repeating schedule isn't enough. Timetastic does support multiple schedules, but they're quite limited in flexibility. Well, not any more!

So, from today, yes you can! Some examples:

- Working patterns that repeat every 2 weeks - for example, you might not work every other Friday

- Custom "ad-hoc" schedules for a week - an easy way to define a user's schedule just for one week that doesn't repeat.

There's a lot to this - so if you're interested in finding out more please check out the help centre article here.

Enjoy! 

Today we're releasing the first benefit of joining forces with Citation. From today, you have access to a free HR advice line if you're a Timetastic customer in the UK. This isn't just for our Pro customers, but everyone.

Click the link in the footer, organise a time and you're all set.

We've cleaned up the footer a bit and added a less distracting "what's new" section as well.