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Product Release Notes

Previous Product Release Notes

balanceAAP, BALANCEhub, and balanceTRAK 3.6 Release Notes

October 21, 2015

We thank you in advance for your patience during this upgrade. If you have any questions or comments, please contact Berkshire’s Product Support department at product.support@berkshireassociates.com, or use Product Report Request, which is also available from the software's Support button in the page header.

Thank you, Berkshire’s Product Support Team

This balanceAAP & BALANCEhub upgrades will include the following:

  • The Open Plan page in BALANCEaapbalanceAAP and the Plans page in BALANCEhubBALANCEhub have been enhanced to improve usability. Your list of Affirmative Action Plans (AAP) has been grouped by yearyear, and the ability to filter your plans by type has been added.

  • The Plan Archive Date has been added to the Plan Information page. This date will control when each of your plans will be archived and potentially removed from BALANCEaap. For more information on our Data Retention Policy, click here.

  • A Planplan Export[Export All] option has been added to each plan’s home screen. This feature will provide users with the ability to export their entire AAP, prior to theirthe plan being archived. The export file is a single zipZip file that contains each plan’s data and referenceReference tables, overall plan settingssettings, and all plan reports.

  • The Errors page has been enhanced to provide more flexibility when correcting employees or individual records with multiple data errors.
  • The Narrative Templates section has been updated to provide users with a more advanced editor. The editor now closely resembles a standard word processing software. Additionally, users will be able to export selected sections, make changes to those sections and then import those changes directly into their templates.
  • The IWD Utilization Goal and Protected Veteran Benchmark values have been added to the BALANCEhubBALANCEhub Summary and Scorecard charts..
  • The PROGRESS SUMMARY report has been added to update plans. Similar to the “PlanPLAN Summary”SUMMARY found in annualAnnual plans, the “ProgressPROGRESS Summary”SUMMARY pulls the results from key affirmativeAffirmative actionAction reports into a single analysis.
  • Recruitment Area Assignment in External Availability has been redesigned to perform more efficiently, including the ability to show or hide recruitment areas that have been generated by the Recruitment Area Wizard.
  • A list of users that have access to a plan via BALANCEhubBALANCEhub can now be exported from the system.
  • Additional bug fixes and minor enhancements.

This balanceTRAK upgrade will include the following:

  • The ability to archive and remove balanceTRAK requisitionRequisition and jobJob seekerSeeker information, has been added to the AdminAdministrative Settings section.. For more information on our Data Retention Policy, click here.
  • A global requisitionRequisition and jobJob seekerSeeker search option Search has been added to the top of most screens throughout balanceTRAK. When an exact match is found, the searchSearch will bring you directly to the detailed information page for that requisitionRequisition or jobJob seeker.Seeker. If multiple matches have been found, you will be provided a list of matching results.
  • Previously entered Employment, EducationEducation, and References information will now prepopulate into subsequent jobJob seekerSeeker applications.APPLICATIONS. For additional information, please contact Berkshire's Product Support.
  • When sending jobJob seekerSeeker informationInformation to other balanceTRAK users, the option to attach jobJob seekerSeeker formsForms has been enhanced to include the CoverCOVER Letter.LETTER.
  • The ability to identify and merge duplicate job seekers has now been added. For additional information or to activate this feature, please contact Product Support.
  • Additional bug fixes and minor enhancements.