Optimisation of hour calculator assignments and time phasing

Introduction

In preparation for the WTTA legislation the hour calculator assignment in MSF has been extended per collective agreement, customer and project with time-phased settings.

With this extension in MSR you can determine from which start date an hour calculator is active. As a result, the transition from registering hours in numbers to time registration can be carried out in phases, without creating new projects or placements. Existing projects can therefore continue unchanged.

This feature makes sure that MSR also matches the changes made in MSF. From now on, the hour calculators that are assigned to a project in MSR can also be entered with a start date. A new wizard helps you choose the right hour calculators and settings.

Who is this feature relevant for?

• Customers who would like to assign hour calculator on the project in MSR while having set them up in MSF
• Staff who set up the projects in MSR

Feature explanation

The new wizard

• The new hour calculator assignment wizard helps you with the right combination of settings.
• The hour calculators that fall in the same period must have the same settings. For this reason they are now bundled in a set. This is done fully automatically in the wizard.

How it works

The wizard has three steps:

• Start date and end date: the first hour calculator set of a project does not need a start date. Each later hour calculator set needs a start date after the start date of the previous set. Sets cannot overlap. If the previous set has no end date, it ends automatically one day before the new set starts.
• Select hour calculators: the tab ‘Specific’ shows the hour calculators that MSF links to the customer or to the collective agreement of the project. The tab ‘Other’ shows all other active hour calculators in MSF.
  • A new set starts with the hour calculators of the previous set. New hour calculators can be added or existing ones removed. The previous set is closed automatically with an end date.
• Settings: the settings of the hour calculator assignment are retrieved from MSF the first time, for the chosen hour calculator(s). These settings can be changed if necessary:
  • ‘Break in Times’ or ‘Deduct Break in Middle Shift’.
  • ‘Break Calendar’
  • ‘Method of Processing Shift Hours’

  For a consecutive hour calculator set, the settings of the previous set are shown. This makes it easy to only change the new settings by a given date.

Permissions

A new permission set has been created for the different parts of the wizard.

Permission set: ‘Hour Calculator Settings’

It has the following custom permissions:

• msbc.Hour Calculator Show Break Calendars
  • For changing the break calendar settings
• msbc.Hour Calculator Show Break Options
  • For changing the break settings
• msbc.Hour Calculator Show Other Hour Calculators
  • For showing the other hour calculators (which are not linked to the customer or the collective agreement of the project)
• msbc.Hour Calculator Show Shift Processing Type
  • For changing the setting ‘Method of Processing Shift Hours’

If a user is allowed to use all settings as described above, this permission set should be assigned to them. If it is not desired that an employee may change one of these settings, a new permission set can be created with a limited number of custom permissions.

If no permissions have been added, the settings from MSF are used by default.

Flows

This new functionality can also be used in flows.

• Applicable Hour Calculator: a new flow action. It returns the hour calculators that apply to a project, a customer or a collective agreement.

Other features in this release

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