The enhancements described in the related pages below represent significant functional changes that you must be aware of prior to upgrading to this release. Some of these enhancements require specific actions before or immediately after upgrading and are therefore highlighted here for your reference. Please refer to the relevant sections of this What’s New Guide, as identified below, for detailed information about each enhancement and any configuration that is required.
Please be aware of the following important points about upgrading to v12.10:
Before upgrading, please ensure that no pay batches are being processed in the Payroll module. All pay batches must be closed before attempting to proceed with the upgrade.
Security Role Changes
We have split out some of the security permissions that impact the Candidate and Client Portal to provide you with the ability to change what sections display in the record - this mainly impacts the Candidate Portal permissions. So that your Candidate Users do not experience change, on upgrade we will automatically tick any additional permission items to sustain their current view and access.
Custom Field Change
Currently where you create a new custom field with a default value, and then search for the default via the UI, or run a call via an API, the system will not pick up results that match the default value. In the v12.10 release, we have made a change to remedy this issue to ensure that where default values are applied in a search or API call, the system will find these results. Please be aware that any reports will need to be re-factored to support where the default value is used as a criterion.
Leave Taken Deduction Rule Entitlement Balance Condition Change
The behaviour of the Sufficient Entitlement Balance condition on leave deduction rules for leave taken has changed whereby on upgrading to v12 the condition will partially pay leave taken if a payee has an insufficient entitlement balance to cover the entire duration of leave taken. Read more here.