What's new or changed in Dynamics 365 Human Resources April 5, 2021

Applies to these Dynamics 365 apps:
Human Resources

This article describes features that are new, changed, or coming soon in Dynamics 365 Human Resources.

For more information about our update process and schedule, see Update process.

For more information about new features and their expected general availability dates, see Overview of Dynamics 365 Human Resources 2021 release wave 1.

In this release

This release includes the following new features and bug fixes. Changes apply to build number 8.1.4074.

New features

The following features are generally available with this release.

Feature Release plan Documentation
Restrict employees from editing business contact details Restricting employees from editing business contact details Restrict editing of personal information

Bug fixes

The following bug fixes are included in this release.

Note

Our goal is to get you this information as soon as possible. We may update this article to include bug fixes that made it into the build after this article was initially published.

Issue number Issue Description
550852 The Approval button doesn't validate with mandatory fields set on the Review form. When you set a field on the Review form as mandatory and publish the changes for the Manager role, the form doesn't validate as expected.
559564 Historic worker actions for fixed compensation change give error for terminated users. Worker action of an exited employee compensation gives an error. After an employee is terminated, the worker action of promotion before termination gives an error.
560074 Employment category dropdown isn't filtering on Worker type and shows categories for employees and contractors. On the Employee form, the Employment category dropdown should show either employee or contractor categories, based on the employee’s worker type.
567388 Some of the information for newly created employees doesn't sync immediately to the cdm_worker table in Dataverse. When creating a new employee record, the new record would sync to the cdm_worker table in Dataverse, but not all properties would be included in the Dataverse record.
563837 Features that aren't available in Human Resources display. Several features that don't apply to Human Resources display in Feature management. These features are now removed from the list of features available to enable in Human Resources.

In preview

The following new features are in preview. For more information about turning features on or off, see Manage features.

Feature Release plan Documentation
Benefits management workspace Benefits management workspace (Preview) Benefits management workspace

Coming soon

Feature Details
Skills entered by a manager for their employees can be auto-approved by a workflow Coming soon.
Platform update 10.0.17 (41) Platform update 10.0.17 is scheduled to begin rolling out with the next release on April 19, 2021. For more information, see Platform updates for version 10.0.17 of Finance and Operations apps (April 2021).

For a complete list of planned features and their scheduled releases, see Overview of Dynamics 365 Human Resources 2021 release wave 1.

See also

What's new or changed in Human Resources
Overview of Dynamics 365 Human Resources 2021 release wave 1
Update process
Manage features