We have recently updated the Performance Rating Distribution Report for those clients using Appraisal as part of their Remuneration Process. 

The report has been standardised to bring together all of the best features from similar bespoke reports. Your existing report will still have the same great data, but you might notice the following improvements:

• Sorting in ascending or descending order
• Inclusion of all valid available ratings even when these ratings have not been selected, providing a more complete view of data
• Select grouping for report data

As usual, this report can be accessed via the Standard Reports step.

You have the option to mask Personally Identifiable Information (PII) copied to your test site. We have now extended the PII masking to include employee image fields and child image fields because these fields have the potential to hold PII such as signatures or photos.

When you choose to mask data when completing a Copy Live to Test, any image associated with an employee or with a parent field will be replaced with a generic masked image in all locations in your test site.

See How to copy Live to Test in our Support Centre for more information.

This change will reduce the options and differentiate the steps to help you select the correct step when creating or editing a step commencement notification.

See How to set up automatic notifications/emails for further information.

This change will differentiate the steps when the same step name is available to multiple user roles. This will help you to select the correct step when editing help text.

Please see How do I add or edit help text for further information.

You have the option to mask Personally Identifiable Information (PII) copied to your test site. This gives you the flexibility of having anonymous data in your test environment when you are using this for training or support purposes.

We have now extended the PII masking to include Position Title and Business Case text. 

When you choose to mask data when completing a Copy Live to Test, the following data will be masked in all locations in your test site:

• Username
• First Name
• Preferred Name
• Last Name
• Email Address
• Date of Birth
• Address lines 1-4
• Start Date
• Title (Mr, Mrs, Miss etc)
• Position Title
• Business Case text

In addition, personally identifiable information has been removed from import error messages.

Please note: Masking of Position Title will only apply to those clients using the standard Position Title field. Please contact your Project Lead if you would like to discuss migration from a custom field.

See How to copy Live to Test in our Support Centre for more information.

Clients with 'email letters' turned on may have recently noticed that the date of the last letter emailed was missing from the Print Letters Step.

We have fixed this small bug so the date now shows when a letter has been emailed to an employee.

See Rem Letters: How to set up and email/pdf letters in the Support Centre for more information.

When selecting files to upload in the Data Import step, files can be dragged & dropped into the data file field.

The 'Drop files here to upload' message only appeared intermittently during this process. We have now fixed this so you can see this message all the time.

Clients with a review split, but no midpoint split, will have noticed a 'select midpoint split' option appearing momentarily while the Set Midpoint step was loading. 

This bug has now been removed.

Next time you view your Import History, you'll notice some minor improvements to how the table is presented.

We have removed some extra columns that were no longer needed and changed the 'error' icon to make it unique.

This should give you a bit more space in the table to view the really important bits.

It's still full of handy how-to guides and troubleshooting information, for you to have information at your fingertips anytime you need it, as well as being able to submit and keep track of all your support requests.

Visit support.pivotsoftware.com to find out more, and for system administrators you can also access this directly in your Rem or Performance systems by using the 'Support' button in the top right of your screen.

Your username is your email address, and click ‘Forgot My Password’ to be sent a welcome link if you've not visited before. Once you've logged in, check out the 'Getting started' section for more information.

Please note: the information contained within the Support Centre is considered Proprietary and should be treated with confidence.