Bidding

Bidding release notes pertain to the OPS client bidding features.

Version Type Description ID
19.0.1.0 ENH Bid Standby work that overlaps with a Hold Down Operational Bid is now allowed for the Hold Down Operational Bidding to continue. When the day in which this occurs is activated, the Hold Down bid is assigned and the Bid Standby work is skipped. If the Hold Down bidding is not performed, the Standby work is assigned. OPS-18934
19.0.2.0 CORR The issue of days marked Off being removed in the Bidding screen for an employee assigned to a holiday bid has been fixed. This occurred after the first employee bid was deleted and the employee was assigned another holiday bid. OPS-19793
19.0.2.0 CORR Critical: The issue of the Remaining values in the Bid Quotas screen not being updated during the second pass for Vacation Relief Bidding has been fixed. OPS-19503
19.0.2.0 CORR Critical: The issue of the incorrect Week Template for Days Off of the Vacation Relief operator for a Holiday week has been fixed. OPS-19397
19.0.2.0 ENH The application of the OPS/Bidding/Holiday/Extraboard/PreventHolidayOffIfRegularWorkingDay context property has been changed. If selected and the employee has Extraboard work on a Holiday, Holiday Day Off will not be shown on the employee's record in the Work Planner, Daily Activity, Employee Activities, Extra Employee List screens. OPS-18262
19.0.2.0 CORR The issue of the MasterRun records being deleted when the sign-up period was shortened has been fixed. This occurred when using Hastus scheduling data. OPS-19389
19.0.3.0 CORR The issue of Bid Units being reverted to the original Bid Unit or set to empty when bids were rolled back or deleted has been fixed. This occurred when there were two holidays in the same bid period. OPS-20038
19.0.3.0 CORR The issue of the Week Template being shown as '000000' when more than one record has the same Exception Combo Id has been fixed. OPS-20192
19.0.3.0 CORR The issue of v19 standard reports referencing incorrect data values has been fixed. OPS-20210
19.0.3.0 ENH Critical: Added the ability to perform a skills check for Extraboard and Volunteer assignments in the Operational Bidding - Hold Down operational bid screen, and also added enhancements to the skills check feature in the WorkPlanner and Bidding - Employee Bid screens. OPS-20379

This task is related to OPS-17645.

19.0.4.0 CORR When users attempt to select a 6th day for the daily vacation Absence Quota, a message appears stating that the number of absence days must not exceed 5. Previously, the message appeared after users had already selected a 6th day, and then were unable to deselect any of the selected days. OPS-20433
19.0.4.0 CORR The issue of invalid extra work pieces being created when more than one user selected the same work to be part of a roster has been fixed. Users are now informed of the duplication when attempting to save a roster that contains work that has already been created by another user. OPS-20608
19.0.4.0 ENH Critical: The ability to perform a skills check for Extraboard and Volunteer assignments has been added to the following screens: OPS Skills Requirements, Daily Employee List, Work Planner, Employee Volunteer Status Entry, Daily Activity - Assign Employee, Employee Profile - Volunteer Tab, Activate Day - Creating Daily Employee List, OPS WEB - Volunteer calendar, Bidding - Employee Bid, and Operational Bidding - Extraboard operational bid. OPS-17645
19.0.6.0 CORR Critical: The assertion error that occurred in bidding for extra work rosters that include holiday service has been fixed. OPS-21044
19.0.6.0 CORR Critical: The context property, OPS > Work > Fixed Route > ExtraWork Use Holiday Service is now applied properly when configuring either a standalone or work/holiday bid with extra work. OPS-21094
19.0.6.0 CORR
Critical: The following properties are now applied properly:
  • Bidding > Rosters > Holiday > Include Holiday - If selected, use the Roster Management Screen to maintain Roster Holiday Information.
  • Bidding > Weekly Roster > Include Holiday Work - If selected, holiday work is considered in the weekly roster.
OPS-20196
19.0.7.0 CORR The issue of the Vacation Bid Accrual Balance showing incorrectly for part-time operators has been fixed. OPS-20707
19.0.7.0 CORR Critical: The issue of the calculation of Holiday Quota considering all employees in the bid list instead of only those eligible to bid on holiday work has been fixed. OPS-21095
19.0.7.0 CORR In the Absence Quota Config screen, sorting by Absence Quota Type now works properly. OPS-21154
19.0.7.0 CORR If the property OPS/Bidding/Holiday/PreventAssignmentIfRegularDayOff is selected, operators who have a day off are excluded from the holiday bid. Operators who have a day off as vacation relief operators are now excluded from the holiday bid. OPS-21285
19.0.7.0 CORR Critical: If the Holiday Day Off quota is zero, it is no longer displayed in the Employee Bid - Select Quota grid. OPS-21310

This task is related to OPS-21357.

19.0.7.0 CORR The assertion error that occurred when Auto Holiday Bid was run has been fixed. OPS-21594
19.0.7.0 CORR Critical: The following changes in relation to the Holiday Off designation applied to employees in Work Planner have been made:
  • Holiday Day Off in Work Planner is now displayed depending on whether the employee (or the employee that was held down) has work assigned on the holiday.
  • The setting of the OPS > Bidding > Holiday > Regular > PreventHolidayOffIfRegularWorkingDay and OPS > Bidding > Holiday > Extraboard > PreventHolidayOffIfRegularWorkingDay properties are taken into consideration by checking the regular work assigned on the holiday. If it is Extra Board or regular and the applicable property is selected, Holiday Off is not displayed even if the employee may not have any holiday work assigned.
OPS-21781
19.0.7.0 CORR In Standalone Holiday and Standalone Vacation bids, the second pass is now only triggered if the bids contain a bid category of Vacation Relief or Day Off (relief). OPS-21816
19.0.7.0 CORR Blocker: The issue of the vacation accrual balances in Vacation Bidding being rounded down to the closest product from multiplying a number by 5 has been fixed. An example of the rounding is if an operator had 42 days in vacation accrual balance, OPS showed 40 days. OPS-21829
19.0.7.0 CORR The issue of a Para run work showing against all Divisions in the Work Planner even when only one division was selected in the Context has been fixed. OPS-21906
19.0.7.0 CORR An issue where Weekly Planner Report was not able to handle division bids that did not use rosters has been fixed. The Work Planner Details report has been updated to show only work-related bid units. OPS-21965
19.0.7.0 CORR An issue in the OPS Roster Management screen where dates could be updated when they should have been disabled has been fixed. OPS-22007
19.0.7.0 ENH The issue of the Vacation Bid Accrual Balance showing incorrectly for part-time operators has been fixed. OPS-21716
19.0.7.0 ENH When bidding vacation relief, employees who are absent due to vacation are also restricted from the holiday options in the bidding. OPS-21337
19.0.8.0 CORR An issue where Weekly Planner Report was not able to handle division bids that did not use rosters has been fixed.

The Work Planner Details report has been updated to show only work-related bid units.

OPS-21965
19.0.8.0 ENH Blocker: There was an issue where vacation the amount for vacation absence accrual was incorrect. To resolve this issue, a new property was added: OPS > Absence > Designated Days Off Method. It specifies the Day Off template used when calculating the maximum hours for the designated accrual type.
  • Use Actual Days Off checks the property OPS > Absence > When No Days Off Found when no days off exist in the week.
  • Use Default Days Off checks the OPS > Absence > Default Days Off property.

Additionally, the property OPS > Bidding > Absence > AccrualDayValue should be set to 0.

OPS-22288
19.0.11.0 ENH A new property was added: OPS > Bidding > DayoffRelief > RegularBidPickRestriction If selected, when bidding cafeteria-style work, if any days of work have been picked, the rest of the work for the week is available ONLY for the Relief Dayoff Bid unit. If unchecked, work remaining in the week can be picked by other operators (and is not saved for the Relief Dayoff Bid Unit). OPS-23155
19.0.11.0 CORR An issue where clicking on Edit Bidding Times did not show a default date and time in the available fields has been fixed. OPS-22995
19.0.13.0 CORR Critical: An issue with the Pick Slip where Days Off included days off that operators were actually working (through inherited work) has been fixed. OPS-22973
19.0.13.0 CORR The length of the Employee field in the Bidding Details report has been extended. OPS-22980
19.0.13.0 CORR Blocker: An issue where incorrect rosters were loaded for cross-divisional bids unless work was filtered by division has been fixed. OPS-23420
19.0.13.0 CORR An issue in Bid Configuration - Quotas for a holiday bid where the incorrect Number Needed was shown has been fixed. OPS-23549
19.0.14.0 CORR Critical: An issue where some bid units were not offered as optional work for MDT-associated employees has been fixed. OPS-23715
19.0.14.0 CORR An issue where the system indicated an employee bid request was rejected due to an overlap when the work was already taken as been fixed. OPS-23599
19.0.14.0 CORR Blocker: An issue where absence bid requests made in OPS-Web were not processed in the correct seniority order has been fixed. OPS-23769
19.0.15.0 ENH An issue where rolling back the second pass of a bid did not roll back volunteer selection has been fixed. OPS-23832
19.0.15.0 ENH Critical: An issue where Work Planner was updating employee Status records beyond the selected weeks when using the Replicate Work function has been fixed. OPS-23970
19.0.16.0 CORR Blocker: An issue where bid units with a bid category of ReliefDayOff where no screen appeared to allow weekend work to be selected in Pass 1 has been fixed in the Trapeze6 Client Shell. OPS-24476
19.0.16.0 CORR Blocker: An issue where bid units with a bid category of ReliefDayOff where no screen appeared to allow weekend work to be selected in PASS 1 has been fixed in the Trapeze6 Client Shell. OPS-24476
19.0.17.0 CORR Critical: An issue in the Unbid Work Inquiry screen where the information shown did not match the defined Context (F3) has been fixed. OPS-24767
19.0.17.0 ENH The Work Planner screen has been updated to show bid periods as expected when sign-up periods are shortened or extended in the Sign-Up Management screen. OPS-24453
19.0.17.0 CORR Blocker: An issue where an error occurred when trying to select Alternate work in the Employee Bid Wizard has been fixed. OPS-24798
19.0.18.0 CORR An issue where runs were not matched for hold-down operators when the original operator had an inactive status has been fixed. Now, runs are matched and a message lets Client Shell users know that an employee is inactivate and the data should be fixed manually after the bid. OPS-24198
19.0.18.0 CORR Critical: An issue in the Employee Bid - Absences page where an error appeared indicating too many days were selected when the correct number of days were selected has been fixed. OPS-24891
19.0.18.0 CORR An issue where accrual balances were reduced incorrectly has been fixed. OPS-24894
19.0.18.0 CORR An issue in the Employee Bid Wizard where an exception violation error occurred when entering cafeteria-style work bids has been fixed. OPS-24905
19.0.18.0 CORR An issue where rosters created manually for extraboard operational bids within a sign up period were not extended if the sign up period was extended has been fixed. OPS-24907
19.0.18.0 CORR An issue where manually created holiday work was not removed from operators for Extra Board operational bids as expected has been fixed. OPS-24906
19.0.18.0 CORR Critical: Issues where holiday bid units and days off were not properly rolled back for Vacation Relief Package employee bids have been fixed. OPS-25035
19.0.18.0 CORR Issues in Work Planner were fixed:
  • work assigned to vacation relief operators can no longer be unassigned if multiple rows of work are selected.

    To remove vacation relief work, for the assigned operator, use the right-click Delete VR option.

  • when there's an empty unassign work message, log data is updated
OPS-25038
19.0.18.0 CORR Blocker: An issue where bids with over 2000 employees listed would not load has been fixed. OPS-25053
19.0.18.0 CORR An issue where roster bid units were not available in extraboard operational bids has been fixed. OPS-25178
19.0.18.0 CORR PassRuns bid categories are now included when selecting the OPS > Bidding > Cafeteria > PickSameWeekdayRun and OPS > Bidding > Cafeteria > PickSameWeekendRun properties. OPS-25181
19.0.18.0 CORR An issue where multi-phase vacation bids were saving the same absences twice, resulting in duplicate employee absence records, has been fixed. OPS-25285
19.0.18.0 CORR Critical: An issue where the OPS > Bidding > Cafeteria > PickSameWeekdayRun and OPS > Bidding > Cafeteria > PickSameWeekendRun were not respected for OPS-Web Bidding Requests (because the system did not consider the agency) has been fixed. OPS-25319

19.0.20.0

CORR Critical: An issue where Auto Holiday Bid failed to apply the holiday when the first date of the sign-up period was a holiday has been fixed. OPS-25243

19.0.20.0

CORR An issue where bid quotas for relief roster bid units were not shown in the Bid Configuration - Quotas screen if opened later on when rosters were created between the first and second pass has been fixed. OPS-25592

19.0.20.0

CORR An issue where some operators with Holiday Bid work showed as having holidays off when the selected date range included multiple holidays has been fixed. OPS-25834

19.0.20.0

CORR An issue in the Bidding screen where the holiday quota wasn't restored correctly when rolling back or deleting Pass 2 bids has been fixed. OPS-25803

19.0.20.0

CORR An issue where deleting employee bid records for Pass 1 and then deleting the Pass 2 bid resulted in incorrect Pass2 bid statuses has been fixed. OPS-25802

19.0.21.0

CORR Critical: An issue in the Unbid Work - Quota Inquiry screen where relief bid units weren't available has been fixed. OPS-24740
19.0.21.0 CORR In the Bidding screen, an issue where the Bidding Timeframe appeared in military time was fixed. Now, the system shows time format based on the Core > Locale > Formats > Time property. OPS-25871

19.0.21.0

CORR Critical: An issue where deleting an employee bid caused the Service Shell to crash was fixed. OPS-26078

19.0.21.0

CORR An issue in the Bidding screen where, when an absence bid was rolled back to enter an operator bid and Launch Pick Slip was selected, a "You cannot configure this bid because it contains holiday(s) that have not been rolled out." validation message appeared was fixed. OPS-26023

19.0.22.0

CORR Fixed an issue where Bid Time Parameters could not be set for Cross Divisional Bid. Could not save as "Not Applicable". OPS-26392

19.0.22.0

CORR Fixed an issue in OPS Bidding, where an assert error was caused when clicking Select All, and then right-clicking Edit bid time. OPS-26391
19.0.22.0 CORR An issue in the Operational Bidding screen where rolling back a bid caused a bid to be read-only was fixed. OPS-26545
19.0.23.0 CORR An issue in the Operational Bidding screen where an invalid column 'SignOnLocation' message appeared when selecting employees was fixed. OPS-27553
19.0.23.0 CORR Blocker: Fixed an issue where attempting to create an absence bid with a Multiple Daily quota would result in an error: "The absence days selected for the current group exceeded the accrual balance." OPS-27099

19.0.23.0

CORR Fixed an issue where changing the OPS > General > First Operational Day of Weekproperty and updating the sign-up period would cause operators to be assigned incorrect bids. Bidding and the Assign Roster functionality in the Work Planner now respect the property as expected. OPS-27058

19.0.23.0

CORR Fixed an issue that caused Day Book and PTOD absence reasons to not be selectable in the Absence Requests screen. OPS-27304

19.0.24.0

CORR Fixed an issue in Operational Bidding where an error could occur while performing an employee bid for a hold-down operational bid. OPS-28182

19.0.24.0

CORR Fixed a bug in Bidding that caused a rowset error when clicking next on Employee Bid or Bidaround windows. OPS-28447

19.0.26.0

CORR An issue where a bid was awarded message was sent to employees who were not awarded bid work (when bid processing stopped on their record in the Bidding screen was fixed). Now, employee messages are only sent when work is actually awarded. OPS-29813