Last Updated: April 25, 2023

Enhancements

1. Login
   • Added “Windows Integrated Authentication” as a login option for the ESM.net client.  This means client computers that are signed in with a domain user will now have the ability to sign in without typing in a user or password as it will authenticate to the server using the currently logged in Windows user.
2. Project Budget (including capital)
   1. Interface for View/Update more flexible 
      1. Search by Fiscal year,  with optional additional parameters including Cost Centre, Project, Job Cost (all chart fields supported)
      2. Fiscal Year searches both the Project start, and any year that is budgeted in project detail. (Project can have started in prior years)
3. Salary budgeting
   1. Added Employee Organization Group table
      1. Can code earnings or benefits to match by group versus employee Org detail
      2. All reports have integrated the Employee Org Group (higher level) reporting 
4. Reports
   • Two new report functions:
     • GetPayPeriodEarnedHours (Pay Period based)
       • Nearly identical to the report function: GetPeriodEarnedHours (GL based function)
       • Syntax: GetPayPeriodEarnedHours(14, 5, 1) Returns 75
       • Gets the earned hours for the fiscal year, pay period, and entity (optional…default value is 1 for not-coded). The resulting value is for the single period.
     • GetPayPeriodYTDEarnedHours (Pay Period based)
       • Nearly identical to the report function: GetPeriodYTDEarnedHours (GL based function)
       • Syntax: GetPayPeriodYTDEarnedHours(fy_id, pay_period, ent_id) returns the YTD earned hours
       • Gets the cumulative earned hours for the fiscal year, pay period, and entity (optional…default value is 1 for not-coded). The resulting value is from pay Period 1 through to the requested period.Inventory Detail
5. Cost Centre elements (tree security)
   1. Site using elements can now utilize the automated tree for their cost centre nodes security for staff.
   2. When Cost Centre tree elements is rebuilt
      1. The nodes store the elements in the system user table.
      2. The tree is rebuilt
      3. The cost centre nodes are restored from the elements stored prior to rebuild
6. Inventory Detail
   1. Text field expanded to 30 characters versus 20