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Product Release Notes

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balanceAAPbalanceAAP, 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 BALANCEaapbalanceAAP & BALANCEhubBALANCEhub upgrades will include the following:

  • The Open Plan page in BALANCEaap and the Plans page in BALANCEhub have been enhanced to improve usability. Your list of Affirmative Action Plans (AAP) has been grouped by year 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 Plan Export 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 their plan being archived. The export file is a single zip file that contains each plan’s data and reference tables, overall plan settings 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 BALANCEhub Summary and Scorecard charts.
  • The PROGRESS SUMMARY report has been added to update plans. Similar to the “Plan Summary” found in annual plans, the “Progress Summary” pulls the results from key affirmative action 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.

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  • A list of users that have access to a plan via BALANCEhub can now be exported from the system.

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  • Additional bug fixes and minor enhancements.

    • This balanceTRAK upgrade will include the following:

    • The ability to archive and remove balanceTRAK requisition and job seeker information, has been added to the Admin Settings section. For more information on our Data Retention Policy, click here.
    • A global requisition and job seeker search option has been added to the top of most screens throughout balanceTRAK. When an exact match is found, the search will bring you directly to the detailed information page for that requisition or job seeker. If multiple matches have been found, you will be provided a list of matching results.
    • Previously entered Employment, Education and References information will now prepopulate into subsequent job seeker applications. For additional information, please contact Product Support.
    • When sending job seeker information to other balanceTRAK users, the option to attach job seeker forms has been enhanced to include the Cover 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.