The latest updates and changes in the world of Timetastic
After many years our old datepicker has been retired 🫡 in favour of a more accessible and easier to use picker with better screen reader support.
This resolves the long standing issue we had for Firefox users where the dropdowns for years wouldn't work. 🥳
We've also fixed some edge case bugs in and around attachments.
No big features this month but here's a roundup of our bugfixes and improvements:
- Fixed an issue where if you created a new user with a pro-rata allowance you weren't taken into their details to continue setting them up 📅
- On rare occasions, the copy invoice was not sent out, this has now been fixed 📨
- Improved the copy where there is no approver ✅
Hopefully more exciting updates coming soon.
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.
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. 👍
Happy New Year! 🎉 Today we've kicked off 2022 in style with a number of small updates and improvements:
User management 👥
We’ve updated the user list to make it more obvious which users are being archived or deleted. We’ve also improved the archive and delete screens to be clearer about what impact archiving or deleting has on your users.
Email summary of absences 📩
We've changed the order that absences appear in your weekly summary emails, for those of you whose emails are truncated by hitting the maximum number of absences that can be displayed. Previously they were ordered by start time descending, so the latest dates appeared first. We've changed this to prioritise the absences coming up soonest, to make sure you don't miss any important information about your team's whereabouts. 😎
Public Holiday icons 🌹
We've improved icon prioritisation to make sure it's clear when a booking falls on a public holiday. Previously, the public holiday icon disappeared when a booking was pending on that day:
Now, the bank holiday icon always shows, even if there's a booking on it:
Sometimes it's the little things...
If you ever clicked and dragged your mouse outside of one of our modal popups and released the button you'd have noticed it close without warning. You'd lose all your changes to the user or HR fields you were working on and have to start again.
🙄 🤦
We fixed it - you can drag outside of a modal and not be punished now 😁
New:
New companies signing up to Timetastic now get a nice welcome screen going through some of the basics and guiding you to setup help if needed.
Improved:
We fixed editing your allowance from the preferences page.
We fixed an issue where in some situations your users wouldn't be grouped into their departments correctly in summary emails.
We also fixed a rare display issue on the billing page.
Few small things we've rounded up.
1) A fix to the department filter on the book form and we fixed that pesky off by 2 pixel date picker too. 🔧
2) Weekly summary emails are more compact and we've improved the layout for who is off on a particular day
3) Technical bits incoming! 🤓 We've turned HTTP3 on to make things even faster for those of you that can support it (Chrome, Edge, Firefox & Samsung Internet). From our initial trials we're seeing over 25% of our traffic using it and image heavy page loads (Wallchart & Users page) are seeing improvements already. 🏎
Most of this update is to improve and prepare things for the new mobile app and get us ready for more people to jump into testing it.
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