What’s new – Workflow experience enhancements

What’s it called? This feature (still in preview at time of writing) is called ‘Workflow experience enhancements’, you can find it in the feature management workspace. Why should I be interested? There’s a small, seemingly minor, change in this feature which will be of value to anyone who uses any sort of workflow in the … Read more

New name, new hashtag, new focus

I should have seen it coming really. I was warned. There was no excuse. ‘Naming your blog after a Microsoft product will send you bankrupt in domain names‘ (Joel Leichty, 2019). Well fool me once, Microsoft, shame on you. Fool me twice? No chance. Having – slightly to my surprise and despite having a rather … Read more

Changing how leave balances display in ESS

Every so often working with Talent I’ll stumble on a parameter that either I haven’t noticed before, or that’s been recently added. I had that experience today with a drop down under Human resource parameters > Leave and absence. It was marked ‘Balance calculation’ and seemed to have defaulted to ‘Balance as of today’. The … Read more

Personnel actions – what and why

I’ve been meaning to write this post for ages, but a combination of life in general and more exciting things to do keep getting in the way. What’s finally nudged me in to it is working with a customer this week who were already using Talent before we got involved. They had a number of … Read more