Hello Indigo readers,
As autumn settles in, we've brewed up practical improvements to make day-to-day people operations smoother.
This release introduces powerful new job lifecycle functionality in Hiring, giving you greater control over how vacancies progress from publication to closure. New applicant source tracking, agency performance analytics, and enhanced Careers page search and filtering further strengthen recruitment management and reporting.
Beyond Hiring, we've expanded Skills & Training reporting with additional employee and organisational fields, clearer labels, and the option to include terminated employees in reports, helping HR teams gain deeper workforce insights.
We've also introduced new payroll capabilities, including support for the latest SEPA payment file requirements and a new ING Bank export format, while continuing to refine document management, system administration, and user experiences across Indigo People.
Read on for the full details. ⬇️
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🌟 Feature Spotlight 🌟
☯️ Job Lifecycle Functions in Hiring
Navigating the complexities of job lifecycles? With this new feature, whether you're posting internally or publicly, or simply reviewing applications before closing the post, we've got your back.
Create custom stages, schedule automatic lifecycle stage changes, track them in the Activity Log, and see the entire lifecycle for each job.
This includes company-level lifecycle stage configuration, job-level lifecycle stage selection, scheduled stage changes, activity logging, and applicant entry lifecycle tracking.
💻 Platform
The Link Tenant User icon consistently indicates when a user is linked to an SSO user, including in the user form.
🕘 Attendance
🛠️ Fixes and Improvements
🛠️ Fixes and Improvements
Split shifts are being checked according to the corresponding tolerances, as intended.
We have refined the alignment of the Shift Location Information icon on the Shift Presets page.
In Approvals, the Actions column now remains at the end of grids, even when you add or arrange other columns.
🏢 Hiring
When updating default reply automation, administrators can now choose whether to apply the changes to existing open jobs as well as future jobs.
Two new analytics reports show agency submissions by vacancy and by application status, with filters and export options for easier reviewing of agency performance.
A Source column has been included in the All Applicants page and job applicant lists, showing whether an applicant came from a direct application, through an agency, or via a referral.
In the Careers page, we've added keyword search and configurable filters for category, location, experience level, job type, and workplace.
🛠️ Fixes and Improvements
🛠️ Fixes and Improvements
Recruiter communications sent on an applicant’s behalf now clearly identify the recruiter as the sender.
Candidates are associated with the agency submitting their application to the relevant job, as expected.
👨🏻💼 HR
🎓 Skills & Training
Reports now offer additional employee and organisational fields, including default Cost Centre Description and Department columns.
The reports also use the clearer Occupation and Employee Code labels and include a Show terminated employees filter.
🛠️ Fixes and Improvements
🛠️ Fixes and Improvements
Document Manager:
You can now download multiple selected files together in a single ZIP file.
Tags assigned to a document that have been made inactive remain visible in the document's View Tags window.
When trying to create a tag whose name already exists, the resulting notification is clearer.
Folder icons show fully and consistently in the folder tree.
They also consistently reflect whether a folder is open or closed, across the folder tree, grid, and file details.
Selecting a file or folder row in Personal, My Team, or All Employees opens its details, while checkboxes remain available for bulk actions.
JET:
The Occupation Evaluation edit window fits more comfortably on laptop screens.
The rationale in evaluation criteria will no longer be available once the percentage values are changed, since the saved values no longer match the rationale that was originally generated.
Skills & Training:
We've added more tooltips to help identify buttons across Skills & Training.
The search field in the Languages widget clears after you add a language.
The Skills & Training link from HR > Employees opens the selected employee’s Skills & Training record, as intended.
Duplicate-skill validation messages are now grouped across multiple companies for a clearer summary.
Importing an empty file provides a downloadable text file with the relevant validation details.
The Setup grid refreshes after an import so newly imported records are available immediately.
Exports from Setup no longer include the Actions column.
The Assign Employees window remains open when you select values, allowing you to complete the assignment.
Long names of training, certification, skill, or language entries are shown better in the Delete confirmation pop-up.
Unassignment confirmation pop-ups now use clearer wording and spacing.
Completed hours are validated against selected training dates again.
Changing a training or certification selection refreshes the related form details, as expected.
The loading indicator in the Training/Certifications window has been refined to preserve the form layout while saving.
The Actions column in all grids can no longer be sorted.
💸 Payroll & Leave
Administration > Settings now includes an optional Legal Contact section for recording a full name and email address.
A new ING Bank SEPA payment export format is available for supported payroll configurations.
The APS and Finductive SEPA files have been updated to the latest ISO requirements.
🛠️ Fixes and Improvements
🛠️ Fixes and Improvements
Leave applications for flexi-hour schedules show a clear validation message when the selected dates are not covered by the employee’s schedule.
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