Nexgen Changelog

4.5.0 (Nov 2017)

Features:-

• Brands can be configured within the system area.  A brand can be used with a vacancy to apply a logo and specific colour customisations.
• Interviews can now be configured and used with applications.  The interviews functionality allows simple management of telephone interview questions and answers.
• Internationalisation.  Locations have been altered to use geographical coordinates to replace postcodes.  This changes allows vacancies to be posted in countries that do not have traditional postcodes.
• Multiple child locations can be assigned to regions.  This feature allows integrations with job boards to post multiple locations.

4.4.0 (Sept 2017)

Features:-

• Adding the ability to skip offer authorisation.
• Adding the ability to skip sending emails when progressing a candidate.
• Adding an email preview before submission.

4.3.0 (Sept 2017)

Features:-

• Control panel users can now clone a vacancy from the hub.

4.2.0 (Sept 2017)

Features:-

• Control panel users can now manually add candidates to talent pools.

4.1.0 (Sept 2017)

Features:-

• Applications that have been previously created by control panel users can now be edited.
• Applicants can be added to a vacancy from a talent pool.
• Applicants can be copied from one vacancy to another.

4.0.0 (Sept 2017)

Improvements:-

• We have worked very hard to improve the loading speed of the ATS.  Our tests have shown an average increase in load time of x5.

Features:-

• New application process.  We have developed a new application process that we feel will increase total application numbers for vacancies.

3.2.0 (Sept 2017)

Features:-

• Archived vacancies are now listed in the vacancies section.

3.1.0 (Aug 2017)

Features:-

• Forward CVs.  Applicant CVs are now automatically generated if no CV document is uploaded, and can be forwarded by email.

3.0.2 (July 2017)

Improvements:-

• The candidate search pages have been further improved to increase the usable screen space on mobile devices.
• IPhone and IPad has been improved to utilise “momentum” scrolling.
• The candidate app code size has been reduced by 10%.  This will result in faster download times.

Updates:-

• Location data returned by certain mobile devices contained too many decimal places, and resulted in an error.
• Time and Date picker components displayed below popups, making them unclickable.
• Scrollable areas sometimes would not scroll to the bottom.  This would result in small areas of hidden content.

3.0.1 (June 2017)

Updates:-

• Fixing animation problems in IE10/11.  The IE browsers have shown weaknesses when displaying the new animation effects within the system.  These weaknesses resulted in certain areas not fully completing animation cycles, and form elements not displaying correctly.  The features have been removed in these browsers.  More modern browsers can still benefit from the improved animation experience.

3.0.0 (June 2017)

Features:-

• New vacancy search pages.  The new search page has been brought completely within the NexGen bubble.  A new user experience and the latest web technologies bring the best experience to your candidates.  Moving forward it will benefit from a continuous and seamless code update pathway.
• Vacancies now include optional benefits.  These are administered in the new rewards section within the system area.
• “Snack Bars” replace short, non critical messages.  Short messages appear at the bottom of the screen to give constant user feedback.
• Candidate returned documents have been sub-categorised, and can be easily downloaded.
• Vacancies on the hub can now be filtered by the ones created by the logged in user.
• Applicant returned documents can now be downloaded as a single ZIP file.
• Applicant references now displayed on the hub.

Improvements:-

• Backoffice animations have been added to all areas.
• List rendering performance improvements.
• Vacancy privileges have been improved to allow vacancy templates to ben further locked to particular groups of users.
• Reports load performance has been improved.
• Applicant returned documents are now grouped to show which ones have been signed and verified.
• The workflow interface has been simplified.
• Vacancies awaiting approval can now be edited.
• Emails in the audit trail can  now be viewed.
• Emails sent to candidates can now be viewed in the audit history.

Updates:-

• Reintroduced section description text.
• Candidate Assessment answers are now fully displayed within the hub.
• Error when clicking reset on an empty email template has been fixed.

2.1.2 (May 2017)

Updates:-

• Fixed file upload button not working in IE.
• Correctly encoing chart data.
• Fixed parsing error of polygons for regions.

2.1.0 (May 2017)

Features:-

• Remote error logging.  All errors in the system are now automatically logged.  This feature will help pro-actively identify problems.
• Adding summary map to locations.  This is a user interface update that will show a static map on each saved location.
• Popup confirmation before application submission.

Improvements:-

• Avatar Image load optimisations.  Avatar images are now loaded through an optimised path.  There is no perceivable difference to the user.
• General error handling improvements throughout the system.  Additional error types have been added to help identification.
• Profile application tabs now default to an open state.
• Report chart performance improvements.

Updates:-

• IE11 form fixes.  General fixes to dropdown and toggle form elements in IE11.
• Fix to interviewers list when creating a vacancy.  This was previously not being populated.
• Component cleanup fixes.  This is a general cleanup task that has been actioned based on remote monitoring of the system.

2.0.0

Features :-

• Candidate anonymisation when requested.  To adhere to data protection laws, a candidate is now able to request their personal data to be removed from the system.
• Anniversary emails are sent to users and must be actioned in order to remain on the system.  This is to adhere with data protection laws.
• Vacancy documents.  It is now possible to add documents to a vacancy.  Possible use cases for this feature include, telephone interview questions, notes.
• Vacancy summary chart can be displayed on each vacancy within the hub.
• Timeslot appointments can be created.
• SMS reminders can set for a workflow stage.
• Onboarding document signing allows verification of document receipt by a candidate.
• Outlook appointment emails are sent with each appointment email.
• Calendar appointment emails are sent when an appointment is edited.
• Last logged in details for control panel users.
• The reports section has been completely rebuilt to improve performance, usability and versatility.
• Regional News and Weather Dashboard tiles.
• News page created to display THIS document.
• Candidate job history now includes an option for “This is my first job”.

• Adblocker plugin check. Ad blockers can interfere with the normal functionality of the NexGen system.  If we detect that you have an adblocker plugin installed we will advise you to disable it.

Improvements:-

• Maximum login attempt limit.
• Increased system security against DOM injection.
• Increased system security against harmful file uploads.
• Increased data request security.
• Request count reduction.
• System remote error reporting.  All application errors are now reported automatically to preempt bug resolution.

1.2.5

Improvement:-

• Added pagination on lists to improve IE11 rendering performance.  Changes in IE11 and Edge caused catastrophic performance degradation  of rendering performance.  Pagination has been added to bring consistent performance across all browsers.
• New NexGen logo.

1.2.4

Updates:-

• Performance improvements around submenu request count.  Continues work from v1.2.3
• Removed Zombie subscriptions.

1.2.3

Updates:-

• Removing development features that had been incorrectly merged with code from v1.2.2

1.2.2

Updates:-

• Fix to applicant audit not displaying after date updates in v1.2.0
• Removed log which displayed user login details in development. The information would never have been displayed under normal circumstances, but was held in memory.
• Fix to Email section mail merge dropdown list.
• Fix to Create New Email crashing application.

Improvements:-

• Adding user feedback on hub when there are no applicants in vacancy.

1.2.1

Updates:-

• Side menu request reduction after 1.2.0 update.  Changes to the side menu caused a dramatic increase to request counts, manifesting is system slowdown.

1.2.0

Updates:-

• Date timezones and internationalisation (also fixes all increment/decrement of 1hr, related to v1.1.3)
• Authorisation security on routes and components. Strengthens overall security of system.
• Masked user data updates and data reload on dashboard.
• User feedback on login modal to display request activity.

Improvements:-

• Adding encryption and compression to all local storage cache entries to strengthen security.
• Obfuscating JWT token in storage to strengthen security.
• Changes to side menu, to display on hover.  Builds on changes in version 1.1.7

1.1.8

Updates:-

• Display no data message in Vacancy templates and Media sections instead of spinning loader.
• Stop errors when location images are added or deleted.
• Fix attachment download link for email templates not working.

1.1.7

Updates:-

• Layout amends on vacancy templates.
• Reducing number of initial requests on Hub page.

Improvements:-

• Change to side menu for better user experience on small laptop screens.  The side menu now has rollover behaviour and auto displays child links without having to click.
• Improving visibility of logout.  Moved to top right of page.

1.1.6

Updates:-

• Fix for hub crashing when no onboarding documents present on application.

1.1.5

Updates:-

• Hub change detection bug causing data to not visually update.

Improvements:-

• Talent search allowing searching by applicant name.

1.1.4

Updates:-

• Removing expired JWT and stopping error when JWT has expired.
• Vacancy assessments not always updating when using history back/forward.
• Iframe preview communication causing error to bubble to top and show as critical error.

Improvements:-

• Talent Scout implementing google autocomplete.

1.1.3

Updates:-

• Vacancy draft/edit state fixes. Caused inconsistent behaviour.
• Dates losing 1hr. Caused by inconsistent use of timezone offset.  Dates would continue to lose time when an Appointment was edited.

Improvements:-

• Profile styling amends.
• Frontend search map functionality updates.  Adds user’s geolocation on load and optimises visible markers on map.

1.1.2

Updates:-

• CV parser and Linked in message.  Previously the message display was identical for both.
• Talent scout hardcoded LatLng for location removed.
• User feedback to application download errors caused infinite loop in certain scenarios.
• Change detection not updating applicants on hub when changing tab.  This caused selected applicants to be held unexpectedly when changing view.
• Calendar losing ApplicationID when editing an existing Appointment.

Improvements:-

• Removing font-awesome dependency, and replacing with svg sprites.
• Creating critical.css for minimal first load css.
• Talent Scout implementing google autocomplete.
• Improvements to our internal build system and deployment strategy.

1.1.1

Updates:-

• Referrer information not being passed through when apply for a vacancy from an external site.
• Onboarding creating duplicate pack items.
• Observable cleanup to stop zombie subscriptions.  In certain scenarios, page code would not be cleaned up correctly, causing data requests to multiply.
• IE SVG fix caused sprites to display black.

Improvements:-

• Reducing the number of individual requests made on page load.
• Reducing internal analytics noise.
• Decreasing initial download size of app to allow parent page to render as quickly as possible.
• General application loading sequence improvements.

1.1.0

Improvements:-

• Changes to application loading to reduce complexity of page embed.