Hello Indigo readers,
As the days get a bit brighter and the weather a wisp kinder, 🌞 we’re rolling out our second February release with a set of refinements to keep your everyday work running smoothly.
Starting with ... a feature spotlight for the Scheduler in Attendance! 📆 Now project-based shifts and exceptions are easier to set up, read, and follow thanks to this new ability we've added where you can assign projects to shifts.
Meanwhile, Performance Management gains clearer labels and tooltips across the Review experience, while recruitment teams using Hiring benefit from stronger security with multi-factor authentication for candidates and smarter company selection options.
That's not all! HR and Task Management also see a surge of usability improvements this time around, making navigation and on-screen actions more intuitive. Payroll & Leave enjoy tweaks to calculations, reporting, and APIs so data stays accurate and reliable.
The full details ... you know where they are! 😉 ⬇️
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🌟 Feature Spotlight 🌟
✍️ Assign Projects to Shifts in the Scheduler 📅
Looking for a clearer way to schedule who's working on what and when? We’ve got you covered! 📚
The ability to assign projects to shifts is now available in the Scheduler, giving teams instant visibility of their focus for each shift, reducing confusion, and supporting better time management across the week. Let’s dive into what’s new.
A Project field is now available in the shift's Custom schedule values tab, with the option to update just one shift or all future ones. Enable 'Show Project' in the Scheduler View Settings to display project labels on shifts.
The new 'Use Last Project Attendance' setting allows Indigo to autofill a shift’s project based on the employee’s most recent assignment.
For accuracy, Indigo now flags attendance exceptions as 'Project Mismatch' when an employee clocks into a different project than the one assigned.
Enjoy project‑based scheduling at its smartest; trading slow, manual, administrative matchmaking for improved efficiency and clarity at a glance. 🔍
🕘 Attendance
🛠️ Fixes and Improvements
🛠️ Fixes and Improvements
Device Manager now fully enforces Super Admin password rotation on all applicable devices, ensuring that all devices receive the updated credentials and strengthening background security without changing your daily workflows.
🏢 Hiring
Candidate access can be protected with multi-factor authentication, giving your recruitment process an extra layer of security.
The company selector in Indigo Hiring can now be sorted by either company name or company code, making it easier to find the right organisation in long lists.
🛠️ Fixes and Improvements
🛠️ Fixes and Improvements
We’ve adjusted how the chat behaves when you resize the page, so any text you’ve already typed stays in place and is not lost.
The 'Copy selected to another job' dropdown in Indigo Hiring only shows active jobs instead of inactive ones, as intended.
👨🏻💼 HR
🛠️ Fixes and Improvements
🛠️ Fixes and Improvements
The pop-up message for reasons shown in Expense Management has been updated to reference expenses correctly, instead of overtime.
The following improvements have been made to Task Management:
The Add New button on the Task Type screen is no longer hidden by the footer and now appears clearly above it.
The cogwheel icon in all Task Management screens has been replaced with a kebab menu, and spacing between the menu and dropdown has been refined for a cleaner layout.
When you leave Task Management, you are now taken back to the HR main page rather than the Attendance one, keeping navigation aligned with the right module.
💸 Payroll & Leave
The Payroll Costs report now correctly handles employer VOPS values, so your payroll analysis reflects the right employer contributions.
Variable schedules can be challenging to manage, especially when dealing with deductions that must remain predictable, such as the automatic exclusion of break overlaps.
To support this and reduce manual adjustments, 'Break From' and 'Break To' fields have been added to the Leave Hour Schedule Details screen, giving Indigo the precise timing needed for accurate leave calculations.
When a leave request overlaps the configured break, only the matching minutes are excluded from the deduction.
🛠️ Fixes and Improvements
🛠️ Fixes and Improvements
Pro-rata leave calculations that include weekend public holiday have been refined so employees’ entitlement and related pay are worked out correctly.
The Payslips API has been adjusted so that date-range requests without a specific payroll parameter return the expected information instead of an empty response.
🏆 Performance Management
The template selection dropdown in Reviews has been widened, making longer template names easier to read and reducing the chance of choosing the wrong one.
The Review Overview screen now includes clearer information about the different types of Notes, so managers know exactly how each note type is used.
The Review grid now shows one single three-dot icon per entry, containing the icons for Open Review, Viewers, and Nudge. This effectively reduces clutter while keeping the same options close at hand.
Icons in the Review Template area now include helpful tooltips, so users can quickly see what each icon does before clicking.
We’ve clarified the numbers and percentages shown in each tile of the 9‑box grid, helping you understand talent distribution at a glance.
🛠️ Fixes and Improvements
🛠️ Fixes and Improvements
When creating a question, the Answer Type options are showing again in the Answer Setup section.
Content in the Start Review modal now remains fully visible, ensuring you can review all details and actions without anything being hidden.
Feedback text now adjusts properly on smaller screens, preventing comments from being cut off and making it easier to read feedback on compact displays.
The + New Key Result button in the Objectives area has been centred correctly, improving the visual balance of the objectives page.
When picking from the Question Bank, the Template Builder retrieves the correct question category, reducing rework when building or editing performance templates.
The Feedback modal has had unnecessary blank space removed, making the window more compact and focused on the information that matters.
The Start Review button is now aligned neatly with the employee table layout, improving the overall look and clarity of the review list.
The Create Feedback button now stays within view on the page, so you can start new feedback without scrolling or adjusting your window.
The Privacy Level dropdown in Request Feedback is showing more clearly and no longer moves off screen, making all privacy options easy to select.
The Objectives grid now correctly shows its columns and supports horizontal scrolling where needed, giving you full visibility of all objectives.
Space around the pending icon in all PM screens has been adjusted, making the icon line up neatly with surrounding content for a tidier interface.
The Question Spotlight screen’s UI polish not only looks cleaner but also makes it easier for reviewers to focus on the most important questions.
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