HR solutions for a Microsoft world
TL:DR – this is a personal post about something that happened this week, and how it made me think about new ways of working. It includes cat pictures. If you’re just here for Dynamics stuff, this post isn’t for you. As someone who’s been on a home based contract since the beginning of 2016, one … Read more
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
At the time of writing, although it seems to have been around forever, this option is technically still in preview. But it was a special request ages ago from the comments on this post and I finally had a chance to take a look at how it was working, so here it is. Be warned … Read more
I’ve been waiting for this one like I used to wait for Christmas as a child (or to be completely honest, like I wait for Christmas now. I’m one of those really annoying people that is desperate to put the decorations up as soon as we hit December). When D365 HR first launched as D365 … Read more
How often, when you start a new job, have you been handed IT equipment with an asset tag on it? You know the sort of thing, a little sticker with a barcode and/or a number on it that tells you ‘we know you have this gear, try not to lose it/break it/drop it down the … Read more
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
TL:DR – the loss of Attract is disappointing but justifiable. Onboard was a simple gem of a product and should have been rolled into Office 365 as an optional add on. Note to translators and syndicators – do me a favour and don’t use this post anywhere else. I’d rather it stayed just on this … Read more
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
Praise be to Elvis (and certain lovely people in the Talent product team who shall remain nameless), the feature we’ve all been asking for since July 2017 is here… You can now copy a Talent Core HR environment. There’s been some confusion around this for a while now. So let’s take a little bit of … Read more
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