What's new or changed in Dynamics 365 Human Resources (March 19, 2020)

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05/03/2022

Applies to these Dynamics 365 apps:
Human Resources

This article describes features that are either new or changed in Dynamics 365 Human Resources. Changes apply to build number 8.1.3014. The numbers in parentheses in some headings refer to Lifecycle Services (LCS) support numbers for reference.

Human Resources environment limits are now based on updated licensing (394595)

The limit on the number of environments per project in Lifecycle Services (LCS) has changed. The previous limit was two environments. The limit on the number of production and sandbox environments you can create for Human Resources in LCS is now based on updated licensing. You can now create as many environments as needed per LCS project, depending on the number of licenses purchased. The new licensing, updated on February 1, 2020, allows customers to purchase additional environments. For more information about licensing requirements for additional environments, see Dynamics 365 Licensing Guide.

Provide cross company viewing of compensation data for employees and managers (403904)

Turn on this feature in the Feature management workspace. For more information, see Enable or disable preview features.

When you enable this feature, managers can see direct and extended reports compensation without having to sign into the company of employment. Full compensation history is available from any signed in company the manager can access. For more information, see Employee and Manager self service overview.

Enable global address book merge functionality (427189)

You can now merge duplicate address book entries by selecting the duplicate records and choosing Merge from the Global address book page.

Unable to adjust leave balance for a plan with no accruals that was created with the Multiple leave type feature on (419635)

You can now adjust balances for leave plans that were created with the Multiple leave type preview feature enabled in Feature management.

Primary position field in the WorkerPositionAssignmentEntity when an employee is terminated (420774)

For employees with a terminated employment, the primary position that was active at the time of termination is displayed in the entity. For integrations, a duplicate record will no longer be created for the employee’s worker position assignment.

Dataverse solution is now available with the following changes:

Description	Change
Job/Position entity changes	Compensation region added
Job position dimension entity added	Financial dimensions added
Worker entity changes	Name sequence added Works from home added Language added Seniority date added Anniversary date added Original hire date added
Employment entity changes	Financial dimensions added Termination reason added Termination date renamed from Transition date Probation date added
Worker address entity changes	Street address added Address line 1, Address line 2, and Address line 3 marked for deprecation
New variable compensation setup entities	Compensation variable plan type Compensation variable plan Vesting rules Compensation variable plan level
New Worker calendar employment entity	Work calendar entity added
New Payroll position detail entity	Payroll position detail added
New Title entity	Title added The new Title entity is included in Dataverse but isn't referenced from the Job Position or Job entities at this time.

Note

Financial dimensions for both positions and employment provide one-direction integration for updates from Human Resources to Dataverse. Financial dimensions updates don't currently synchronize from Dataverse to Human Resources.

Over the next few weeks, these entity changes will be available in all environments. To manually install the latest Dataverse solution for Human Resources:

Go to the Power Platform Admin Center.
Select Environments.
Find the environment you want to upgrade. The environment should correspond to Environment name in the Common Data Service information section in the About form in Human Resources.
Select the environment to view the environment details.
In the action bar at the top, select Manage Solutions. A new browser window will open and navigate to Dynamics 365 Administration Center in the context of your environment.
In the Solution list, select Dynamics 365 Human Resources Anchor.
Select Upgrade to apply the latest solution.

SharePoint preview doesn't work in some environments

If document preview for documents stored in SharePoint doesn't work, try the following procedure:

Verify the Admin user account has an email associated with the user record. You can view this information in the User page. If email isn't set up, you need to add the email and provider with the OData Excel add-in. By default, the email address isn't present in the Excel design. You'll need to edit the Excel design, add all fields, apply, and refresh. Once you've completed those steps, you can update the admin account.
After the Admin account has an associated email account, sign in to Human Resources with Admin credentials.
Access an attachment in SharePoint to start the document preview.
Sign in with another user account that has access to attachments and verify that the preview works as expected.

Coming Soon

Platform update 33

Full page apps (Preview) - This preview feature, which requires you to enable the Saved views feature, allows Power Apps and third-party apps to be added as full-page experiences via the dashboard.
Saved views (Preview) - This preview feature enables saved views, which provide a significant enhancement to the personalization subsystem. This feature allows users to have multiple named sets of personalizations per page. You can also publish views to security roles.
Optimized "is one of" filtering experience - This feature enables an optimized "is one of" filtering experience that makes it easier to enter multiple filter values, has a simpler mechanism to remove individual or all filter values, and has a more compact and intuitive visualization of filter values.
Recommended fields - Users often need to add fields to a grid or page. This can be difficult with so many available fields. Instead of having to search through a large list, this feature enables the system to surface a set of recommended fields based on what other users most often add in similar scenarios.
Sticky default actions in grids - This feature ensures that the default action in a grid is linked to a specific column in a grid, regardless of whether that column is moved or hidden.

New production release cadence

Beginning in April, the release cadence for Human Resources will shift from a weekly update to a biweekly update. This will ensure alignment with safe deployment practices and maintain high standards of stability and reliability in the service. We're putting additional testing and monitors in place to verify successful deployment at each stage of the process. For more information about the release cadence, see Update process.

In preview

The following preview features are available on February 3, 2020:

Leave and absence preview features - For more information, see Leave and absence preview features.
Benefits management preview feature - For more information, including known issues, see Benefits management overview.