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JOB001970

The Employee State drop-down menu now populates as expected for Guam addresses. 

JOB001975

Users are no longer able to modify the EnteredBy value in the Employee > Users section if the property recordrequirement is set to "System." 

JOB001978

Multiple ROE Feed issues have been addressed*.

• The total insurable hours are now calculated within the appropriate pay period date range.
  
  
• Voided work history is now ignored. 
  
  
• Weeks worked under different assignments with differing weekend day configurations are no longer combined.
  
  

*Originally applied in 16.1.2.3

Mass Mail sent to a Contacts Favorites Group will now link to the Contact as well as the Customer.

A calculation rate has been adjusted to avoid a rounding issue that sometimes caused a difference between Employee deductions and Employee benefits.

A check delivery processing procedure has been optimized to improve payroll performance. 

When copying an existing branch, only those Workers Comp codes visible to the copied branch are now showing. Previously, all WC codes were showing in the newly created branch. 

When the property Web_Customer_New_Order_Rate_Type is set to 0 in Customer > Sales and Service > Service Info > Web Option, data now loads as expected in the Customer portal > New Orders after selecting the customer. Additional, when the Web_Customer_New_Order_Rate_Type is set to "0", the Pay Rate and Bill Rate are no longer displayed in the Customer portal's New Order wizard.

An errant period has been properly placed in the AR Statement Letter Email format.

The Agency generation procedure has been optimized to improve performance.

In an order created in the Core application, job information no longer changes when switching between jobs. The job title, status, and description no longer revert to what they originally were when the order was created. 

Performance of the Time Entry batch verification process has been improved. 

In Advanced Search, the Select Operator grid is re-enabled for value list type fields (i.e. Employee > Detail > Employee Status).

The default order status value is now properly generated when called from Agent. 

Addresses added through the temp order wizard will now save overridden geocodes. 

When navigating from a customer to the customer's message tab in the Mobile Sales Application, the customer message section now loads at an expected rate. 

A candidate applying through the Applicant portal's job board login page no longer receives the message "You've already applied for this job" when they actually haven't. Candidates are now reliably receiving thank you emails as well. 

In the Employee Portal > Certifications, users are now able to attach documents to new certifications. When attaching to existing certifications, there is now feedback that the doc was attached and the form is no longer cleared.

In the Chart Preview form, the tool tip is no longer cut off at the edge of the chart. 

When clicking the browser's back button on the Applicant portal's Pre Screen Failed page for a secondary company, the logo and other data will no longer revert to the root company.

Calendar reminders will now display correctly even if the user is not on the Calendar. Reminders will also display when restarting or opening the application.

A page has been added to the Group Time Filter Daily page to improve performance for orders with many assignments.

Email templates are now visible in the email templates section.

16.1

An issue with Mass Mail "send" error handling has been resolved. The Mass Mail SendSMTPMethod would handle an error the same whether the error occurred before or after sending the email. To correct the issue, this behavior was modified so that exceptions that occurred after the email was sent are now caught so that the email is now marked as "sent."

16.2.2

Orders are now populating in Aero as expected. Change tracking was not being enabled in databases on SQL 2008 R2

16.3, 17.1

Peoplenet assignment statuses are now being updated as expected. Previously, when assignments were sent to Peoplenet, the assignment status was displayed as "unknown."

16.1.3

Background check packages are now being made available in Core Application's Admin Tools > Background Check Plugins > Plugin Packages.

When applicants apply for DH Order jobs through a job board, the applicant is no longer automatically being created as an order Candidate.

Email addresses with trailing semicolons or commas are now populated as expected in the send email dialog when creating an Email Statement Letter. In addition, if there is a trailing semicolon, a statement letter is now sent using Avionté Agent.

Rather than failing without explanation, a tax recalculation now generates an error explaining what is missing when a full year is not covered by a tax rate. 

The Ending Calls counter no longer counts rate changes as ending assignments.

An error message is no longer generated when a skill code is deleted from Admin Tools > Skill Code.

A time stamp has been added to each ROE Feed file so that the process never tries to overwrite an existing file. 

The WOTC page in the Onboarding Portal now scrolls as expected on iOS devices. 

The process of importing web transaction entries has been optimized to reduce import time. 

The copy order form now uses the IsDateValueRequired settings.

Users no longer receive an error when creating a username that already exists as a web user.

Employee Portal users are now able to view the large size of document in Employee portal > Documents > Other Documents > View.

When a time difference exists between a desktop computer and a host server located in different time zones, the times displayed in the mobile time entry portal are now displayed accurately.

When an employee adds or edits a new skill in the Employee portal, the experience "Unit" field is now available for value input. 

An error is no longer generated when an invalid date is entered into any date search cell of the Employee > Pay History or Employee > Work History page.

Duplicate paychecks are now handled properly when payroll is processed and the start check number selected is already being used. Previously, the application was not populating the duplicate form with details, but now the form is populated with with the duplicate check number.

An error is no longer generated when the employee interview has a Record Requirement of "None" in the New Employee wizard.

Characters are no longer missing in messages when the message was created with trailing spaces.

Tax amounts are now applied correctly after removing a tax exempt status.

Previously, when processing payroll, taxes were applied incorrectly to an employee filed as "tax exempt" for a period of time (Jan-June). The employee had the exemption removed from their tax setup and, upon processing payroll after this change, new checks being processed were having their EE EI and ER EI tax amounts self-adjusted to accommodate for the time the employee was filing as "exempt." Those amounts should not be applied retroactively.

IsVisible is no longer automatically set to "1" (visible) when a new branch is created and a portal menu is opened, even though web portal menu staffing supplier site data is not included for that particular menu. Logic has been added a logic to copy web portal menu staffing supplier site data when a new branch is created.

A performance issue has been resolved in the procedure that generates an employee's pending review eDocument.

Employee record type is now set properly when an employee is created by parsing a resume. 

Address validation has been installed so that, when an alternate address is added in CareerBuilder, the location is validated for required fields.

Document download functionality has been added to the Document tabs found under Employee > Certifications and Order > Candidate. The Download button is available next to a corresponding document enabling the download of the document from the Avionté Core Application to the user's computer. 

A 16.2.4 upgrade issue has been resolved. For some customers, when starting the core application, the application would display an "AI00000000 error" and immediately shut down if a user had access to a top-level menu (both directly and through a group) and, if the sort order was different between the two, the core app would try to load duplicate menu items causing a conflict.

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This release resolves a code migration issue that overwrote changes in previous 16.2 releases. Those overwritten changes are:

• BUG-96 - Peoplenet assignment statuses are now being updated as expected. Previously, when assignments were sent to Peoplenet, the assignment status was displayed as "unknown."
  
  
• BUG-98 - An issue with Mass Mail "send" error handling has been resolved. The Mass Mail SendSMTPMethod would handle an error the same whether the error occurred before or after sending the email. To correct the issue, this behavior was modified so that exceptions that occurred after the email was sent are now caught so that the email is now marked as "sent."
  
  
• JOB002172 - Orders are now populating in Aero as expected. Change tracking was not being enabled in databases on SQL 2008 R2

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The web component installer used by self-hosted clients now supports IIS10.  This patch is only being issued to update the installer.  No content or functionality was changed.

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This bug, recently applied in 16.2.4 to allow group access to Admin Forms, is being reverted to avoid subsequent access issues that resulted from the application of BUG-102's 16.2.4 resolution.

Individual access to Admin Forms continues to work as expected. 

Advanced search no longer times out with multiple 'and' clauses for large result sets. 

The option of 'Web User' has been added to Advanced Search: Employee > User. Previously, users were unable to search employees when the employee was created by a web user.

Portal properties Web_Customer_Document_ShowDeleteButton and Web_Customer_Document_ShowAddButton have been added to enable the option of showing/hiding the ability to add or delete customer documents.  

A truncation issue has been resolved regarding Contact Name and State in Order > Order Candidate > External Candidates. The Contact Name field no longer errors when the value is longer than 50 characters and the State field no longer errors when the value is longer than 25 characters.

A partial applicant may no longer apply for jobs through a job board when Web_Allow_PartialApplicantToApply = "false."

The status in the DH Order > Detail page is no longer automatically updating when Auto Status Update is set to "false."

Interview questions are no longer grayed-out.

A search for dates in Advanced Search now generates results as expected.

Formatting issues have been resolved in iOS time approval emails. 

An import through Admin Tools -> Import Export Mapping now handles irregular files.

DH Orders are now correctly calculating Assigned Count and Status.

Daily Web Transactions now display as expected following an assignment's end in the Core application. 

Previously, when an Assignment was ended in the Core application and it had Daily Web Transactions that had not yet been imported through a portal, the next time the user attempted to access those transactions, they were not displayed. 

An "Out of sync" error message is no longer displayed when switching to the Order > Detail menu item.

For customers with a large number of Config Choice properties, nightly refresh files are now being sent to Peoplenet as expected. 

Time sheets now load as expected for Mobile Time Entry users in any time zone. 

The "Background check request" screen has been optimized to load efficiently.

Vertex releases periodic updates that contain any additions, discontinuations, adjustments, and/or fixes for issues related to tax processing and geocode options discovered by Vertex.

Avionté has applied the latest Vertex update to the 17.1.3 version of the Avionté Suite and made the latest Vertex update available for self-hosted customers. 

The latest update includes the following:

1. Work tax credit not being deducted from Ohio resident city tax calculation
   This issue occurs only when Ohio residents work in a Kentucky location where
   either of the following conditions exist for a county tax:
   • The county tax has a maximum limit.
   • The county tax is eliminated when a city tax exists.
     Previously, in some instances, PTQ was not correctly deducting the work tax
     credit during the calculation of the resident tax for cities in Ohio.
     
     This issue was addressed, effective with this release.
     
     The calculation was modified to calculate the correct credit amount.
     
     
     
2. Ohio city subject wages
   This issue affects only employees who live and work in the same city in Ohio, and
   who are exempt from the city tax.
   If an employee lives and works in the same Ohio city and is tax exempt, PTQ was
   returning the subject gross wages on the resident tax handle in error.
   
   This issue was fixed.
   
   
   
3. Concurrent Aggregation and the Annualized Concurrent Aggregation methods for Canada
   Before this release, there were some calculation issues when an override tax or
   override rate was passed, or when an additional supplement tax or rate was
   passed. These issues occurred in Canadian Federal and Quebec Provincial tax
   calculations.
   
   The following calculation methods were affected:
   • Concurrent Aggregation
   • Annualized Concurrent Aggregation (Federal only)
     
     These issues were fixed.
     
     
     
     
     
4. Additional MED EE Tax for highly compensated employees with wages from a predecessor employer
   The Medicare and Railroad Retirement Tier 1 (Medicare portion) tax rate is
   currently 1.45% each for the employee and employer. In addition, you must
   withhold 0.9% Additional Medicare Tax from wages that you pay to an employee
   in excess of $200,000 in a calendar year. Employers are required to begin
   withholding Additional Medicare Tax in the pay period in which they pay wages
   in excess of $200,000 to an employee and continue to withhold it each pay
   period until the end of the calendar year. Additional Medicare Tax is imposed
   only on the employee. There is no employer share of Additional Medicare Tax.
   When corporate acquisitions meet certain requirements, wages paid by the
   predecessor employer are to be treated as if they were paid by the successor
   employer for purposes of determining if the employee has reached the
   Additional Medicare Tax or Railroad Retirement Tier 1 Tax (Medicare portion)
   withholding threshold.
   
   Vertex Payroll Tax Q Series Enhanced Integration
   Summary of Program Modifications
   March 2017 3
   What these changes mean:
   For PTQ to use year-to-date wages to accumulate the wages for both employers,
   you must pass the predecessor employer wages and taxes in the following fields:
   • eVprtGrsIDPriorState - Prior State Gross
   • eVprtGrsIDPriorStateSup - Prior State Supplemental Gross
   • eVprtTaxAmtIDPriorState - Prior State Tax Amount
   • eVprtTaxAmtIDPriorStateSup - Prior State Supplemental Tax Amount PTQ will add the information in these fields for predecessor employer wages to
     year-to-date and
     
     
     
5. Issue with VI work state SUI calculation
   Currently, PTQ calculates the territorial income tax for the Virgin Islands (VI). The
   Virgin Islands calculation does not handle multi-work situations. If the work and
   resident locations are not in the same territory, the calculation status is set to
   Invalid Employee handle, and no taxes are returned.
   Beginning with this release, VI State Unemployment (SUI) calculates when the
   work GeoCode is 78-000-0000 (VI) even if the resident GeoCode is not the same.
   
   This calculation change is for VI SUI ER only.
   
   
   
6. Canada Pension Plan (CPP) calculation error for employee who transfers from Quebec to another
   province
   The self-adjust and self-adjust at maximum calculation methods are complicated
   if a portion of the employee's year-to-date earnings are earned in Quebec, due to
   the difference in the CPP and QPP contribution rates and annual contribution
   limits.
   
   To determine if the employee and employer have satisfied the annual maximum
   contribution for the Canada Pension Plan (CPP) when the employee transfers
   from Quebec to another province, enhancements were made to the
   contributions calculations that use the self-adjust and self-adjust at maximum
   calculation methods.
   
   
   
7. Maine withholding tax
   Beginning in 2017, the Maine Department of Revenue updated the formula for
   calculating Maine withholding tax.
   
   In release 4.2.2, Vertex modified the program code and updated the calculation
   to account for these changes. Refer to the Vertex Payroll Tax Q Series Calculation
   Guide for more information about the changes in calculations.

BUG-494

Avionté now supports New York's newly introduced FLI (Family Leave Insurance) tax that became effective July 1st. The tax has a cap of 0.126% of an employee’s weekly wage (not to exceed $1.65). Avionté now passes the week to-date tax amounts to ensure that the tax does not exceed this cap for employees paid multiple times in a week.

This upgrade to the Avionté Suite enables 16.2 users of Aero to download documents from the Customer section in Aero.