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

What’s new – Restricting access to leave types

Part of a new series (also on my brand spanking new YouTube channel) where I look at the new shiny stuff that’s coming out in Talent, and distill it into bite-sized videos (basically, to make myself check the release notes and make sure I’m staying on top of the product). In this one – restricting … Read more

How to set up email notifications for leave requests – 5 – Running the batch jobs to send the emails

So in theory now, your emails should be generating, and sitting ready to go. This is because the batch jobs that are needed in Talent to run workflows and generate notifications are on by default. The batch job used to send the emails however, needs to be activated. First of all, check that your emails … Read more

How to set up email notifications for leave requests – 4 – Mapping your template to your workflow

We’re getting closer to actually sending some emails out now… At this stage you need to go back to your workflow, tell it which email template to use, and also give that email some content. When we entered ‘%message%’ in the HTML file, we were telling Talent to use the message data from the workflow … Read more

How to set up email notifications for leave requests – 1 – importing the workflow

There’s not much point in doing your leave management in Talent, if you still have to ping an email to your manager to tell them you’ve submitted a leave request before they know to go in and approve it. Now, as I’ve mentioned before, I’m not a techie. I’m a HR user who started pressing … Read more