Progress 23.12 Release Notes

Updated 15-Feb-2024

Daily Planning

  • Increased hour validation – The Flag hours as exception on the employee review screen when they are above this value setting is now used to highlight employees when more than expected hours are included in the specific daily plan. For more information, see "Organization settings"

  • Show all Employee hours – The Daily Plan review has been updated to show all employee hours. The Daily Plan Review now shows all data for any projects the logged-in user has access to allowing for review across multiple projects. For more information, see Employee Register

  • Disabled PIN Sign Out – If a PIN has not been configured for an employee, the option to enter a PIN at sign-out is now disabled, and a signature is required. For more information, see Input Actuals

  • View plans for all projects – A drop-down option was added to view Plans for All Projects. The View plans for all projects option lets you review multiple projects in Daily Plan Review. For more information, see Employee Register

  • Images posted to Document gallery (Web only) – Photos attached to daily plans are now visible in the Document application (if configured) and in the existing sources.

  • Default allowances – You can configure an employee so that allowances are automatically associated when added to a daily plan. This is done through the Project assigned Payroll indicators.

  • Operational work order entry – For reason code-based projects, you can now enter a custom work order with time collection. This data is made available to Time Center through external APIs.

  • Contract data filtered – When you view the contract data in Progress only values with the same vendor associated with the account are shown.

  • Override billing class/project rate code – Override billing class and project rate codes are now incorporated into the Progress iPhone application. For more information, see Daily Plan from Scratch

  • Face ID supported for sign-in and sign-out – New Face ID biometrics for sign-in and sign-out have been added when available on iPad and iPhone hardware. For more information, see Input Actuals

  • Copy planned quantities – When making a copy of a plan with planned quantities, the planned values now are copied if the components are selected. Previously, this feature was only available on the web and it is now included in the iPad or iPhone app. For more information, see Daily Plan from Copy

  • Ability to send field issues before plan approval – iPad now supports publishing a field issue logged in the app before daily plan approval. Previously, this feature was only available on the web.

Time Center

  • Shared Views – Views can now be shared with users and roles. Role recipients require Time Center access. For more information, see Time Center Navigation

  • Default allowances – You can configure an employee so that allowances are automatically associated when added to a daily plan. This is done through the Project assigned Payroll indicators.

  • Added fields to query builder – The Created by and Project display fields have been added to the query builder.

  • Operational work order entry – For reason code-based projects, you can now enter a custom work order with time collection in the timesheet tab. You can create and edit this information through Daily Plan and Time Center and it's been added to the Progress external APIs.

  • Predefined date ranges update – The predefined date range values have been revised to use the organization fiscal calendar weekend day for week-based ranges.

Time Weekly time

  • Weekly time sheet access – Weekly time sheet access has been moved to the account level from the project level. This move better reflects the cross-project functionality of the application. Users must have a role assigned with organizational permissions; an existing default role mapped to the organization is acceptable.

  • Hours without Cost code – A new option was added in the organization settings to control whether users are allowed to save hours without selecting the task in the Weekly time sheet first. For more information, see Organization settings