Product Update Category: Bullhorn Version
Candidate Notes added to Submission List Slideout
Users can quickly review notes associated to any candidate who has either applied or been submitted to a job via a new tab on the submission list slideout. This tab works the same way as it does on the candidate list slideout – only the candidate will automatically be added as a reference if the quick note feature is used.
Merge PDF now Generally Available for Enterprise Edition
Bullhorn is excited to announce the Merge PDF tool is now GA! You are able to merge various files together either from Credentialing or start from scratch via the Actions menu on all your records. Contact Support to have this feature enabled in your environment
Credentialing – Manage Requirement Types from Staffing Admin
Credentialing users can now manage requirement types from Staffing admin directly. This includes adding new requirement types, removing requirement types, editing requirement types, and setting conditional expiration dates.
Credentialing – Conditional Expiration Dates for Requirement Types
Credentialing users can now manage the expiration date of requirement types from Staffing admin directly. This includes making the requirement type’s expiration date required or not required.
Credentialing – Enhanced In-Line Credential Matching
We have enhanced Credentialing to include in-line matching, which allows the user to link the placement’s requirements to the corresponding candidate credentials from the placement table directly.
Additional Actions on “All” Tab under Submissions
We heard your feedback! We’ve added client submission and interview actions to the “All” tab under Submissions so you can take action on those items without toggling back to “Current”
General Candidate Comments – Time Stamp Now Available
A new field has been added to View Layout that will let you see a time stamp and copy of the latest general candidate comment. The field is Latest Comment and can be added to an Overview card to let you quickly review the latest comment on a Candidate.
Note: You’ll need at least Corporate or Enterprise edition to edit your view layout.
Custom Objects Now Available On Overview
If you are a Corporate or Enterprise Edition user and have Custom Objects on your Overview as a card. Previously, Custom Objects were only available as a tab.
On the Edit screen, custom objects will be denoted by a distinct icon.
Distribution Lists Now Available On Overview Cards
If you have Corporate or Enterprise Edition, you can now add Distribution Lists via View Layout to one of your Overview Cards.
For details on how to add fields to your cards, check out this article.
Submission Comments Over 15 Lines Causing Actions to be Obstructed
An issue has been identified wherein users adding submission comments over 15 lines would not be able to perform all actions in the move modal. This issue has been resolved and you are now able to add comments over 15 lines long.
Parse from Gadget Adds File
An issue has been identified wherein parsing a record from the email gadget did not add the file from the email to the record. This issue has been resolved and the file will be attached to the record when parsing from the gadget.
Novo Find Results Count Issue
An issue has been identified wherein a count of find results would display, but the records themselves would not. This issue has been resolved and upon receiving the latest release, the records will display properly in find.
Copying a Published Job Would Publish the Copied Job
An issue has been identified wherein the “Make a Copy” action would retain the copied jobs “isPublic” value. This issue has been resolved and copying a published job will require you to publish the job before it will appear on your job board.
Jobcast Publishing Account
An issue has been identified wherein the Account drop down field was displaying no results. This issue has been resolved and the Account drop down field behaves as expected.
Cannot Navigate to a Child Company from Parent
An issue has been identified wherein users would receive an error when clicking on a child company from the overview cards of a parent company. This issue has been resolved and you are now able to navigate to a child company from the overview cards of a parent company.
Skills Field Required Input Before List Would Show
An issue has been identified wherein users were required to input characters into the field before being returned skills. This issue has been resolved and you will be able to click into the field and view skills without input.
Cannot Select Country after Typing in the First Letter
An issue has been identified wherein searching by country name would not allow the user to make a country selection. This issue has been resolved and users can now select countries after typing.
Specialties Displayed on Record Overview Show “[object Object]”
An issue has been identified wherein users would see “[object Object]” when specialtyCategoryID was a configured field on the overview . This issue has been resolved and you are now able to view specialty categories from the record overview.
API Custom Text Block Character Limit
An issue has been identified wherein PUT & POST operations via REST API were restricted to 255 characters for customtextblock fields on the Candidate Reference entity. This issue has been resolved and PUT & POST operations via REST API for customtextblock fields on the Candidate entity will work as designed.
Bullhorn for Outlook with SSO
Bullhorn users configured for single sign on can now use the Bullhorn for Email gadget in the Outlook Desktop Application as expected.
New I-9 Form Version (E-Verify Customers)
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has released a new I-9 form as of 07/17/2017. Employers are expected to use the new form for all employment as of 09/18/2017.
The USCIS offers two types of I-9 forms – a dynamic Adobe Reader “fillable” PDF which changes when data is entered, and a static I-9 form for use outside of Adobe Reader.
We will continue to support electronic images from the static I-9 form. The default I-9 form for the E-Verify process will change over on August 29, 2017. The new I-9 form now contains “Consular Report of Birth Abroad (Form FS-240)” as a valid document in List C.
We encourage you to visit https://www.uscis.gov/i-9 to review all updates related to the new I-9 Form as well as to review your I-9 collection and storage processes to ensure you are in compliance with the requirements put forth by the USCIS.
PTO Changes Reflected in Audit Trail
An update has been made to now display changes to user PTO data in the Audit Trail. Going forward with the September release, any change to PTO will be visible in the Audit Trail.
Hours Rounding Issue
An issue was identified wherein hours entered on timesheets in the time in/time out format were not rounding correctly. This issue has been resolved and upon receiving the latest release, the time entered will round properly for administrators and employees. On invoices, quantity will now display with four decimal places. For example, if an employee works 20 minutes per day for 3 days in a week, both the employee portal and administrator portal will reflect one hour of work for the week.
Attachments on Supplemental Timesheets
Attachments are now enabled for supplemental timesheets! You are able to upload supporting attachments for supplemental timesheets, or even replace the supplemental timesheet with the attachments provided.
Permanent Placement Update
An issue has been identified wherein some fields on permanent placements were not able to be saved. This issue has been resolved and upon receiving the latest release, all necessary fields on permanent placements will be able to be saved.
Paragraph Display Issue
An issue has been identified wherein paragraph inputs fields in Onboarding documents were displaying incorrectly. This issue has been resolved and upon receiving the latest release, the paragraph input fields will properly align text to the paragraph box. Please note, if a character limit is not set and the text added to the paragraph input field is greater in length than the size of the input field, then the text will continue to display below the paragraph field when viewing the PDF of the Onboarding document.
Automatic Creation of Onboarding Administrators
An issue was identified within the automatic creation of Onboarding administrators from Bullhorn ATS. This issue has been resolved and upon receiving the latest release, administrators with the proper permissions will automatically be created for Onboarding.
Inline Editing of Parent Tasks
An issue has been identified wherein inline editing a parent task would remove child tasks and associated records. This issue has been resolved and upon receiving the latest release, inline editing a parent task will retain child tasks.
Move to Submission Workflow from Submission List
An issue has been identified wherein following the move to submission workflow for a web response in the submission list did not appropriately credit the recruiter. This issue has been resolved and upon receiving the latest release, moving a web response to a submission will properly credit the recruiter.
Candidate Primary Email Available on Submission List
The candidate primary email is now available on the submission list. Users will be able to add it to the layout, search and filter on it, as well as initiate emailing the candidate by clicking on the email address. This will launch the preferred email client for the user.
Placement Dates in IE
An issue has been identified wherein placement start and end dates did not display correctly for all time zones when using the Internet Explorer or Edge browser. This issue has been resolved and upon receiving the latest release, the start and end dates will display correctly for all time zones regardless of browser.
Date Last Comment Field not Updating
An issue has been identified wherein the Date Last Comment on Candidate and Contact was not consistently updated when the user added a note.This issue has been resolved and upon receiving the latest release, the Date Last Comment on Candidate and Contacts will consistently update when a user adds a note.
Publishing Jobs from Legacy Publish Screen
An issue has been identified wherein jobs could not be successfully published from the legacy parsing screen. This issue has been resolved and upon receiving the latest release, Customers will be able to publish jobs successfully from the legacy publish screen.
Filtering on Country Name in the List view
An issue has been identified wherein filtering for two word country names in list columns would occasionally return results for an incorrect country. This issue has been resolved and upon receiving the latest release, the filter will return correct country results.
REST API Create Custom Object Update
REST API consumers are now able to create a custom object using PUT /entity/ClientCorporationCustomObjectInstance[1-10] with parent ID
REST API Custom Object Delete Update
REST API consumers can now delete custom object records when using the delete request in the following format: DELETE /entity/entityCustomObjectInstance[1-10]/[id]
REST API Named Custom Objects and Fields
We enhanced custom objects so that REST API consumers can now request and receive custom objects and custom object fields by their customer given/static name. This is applicable to create, update, delete, get, query, search, and meta operations, as well as requesting specific fields by their static name. Additional details are available in the REST API documentation.
Safari and Firefox Now Supported
Bullhorn Novo is now compatible with Safari and Firefox browsers.
Leads and Opportunities Now Available for Enterprise Edition
If you have the Enterprise Edition of Bullhorn, you can now request Leads and Opportunities to be enabled for Novo. Please have your Account or Support Contact reach out to Bullhorn Support to have Leads and Opportunities enabled if you have Enterprise Edition.
If you’re not sure which edition you have, please contact your Account Manager or Bullhorn Support for assistance.
Extended Sorting and Filtering Support in Tables
The set of fields on which filter and sort actions can be performed has been extended. This applies to tables in Novo that appear on records.
Tabbed Custom Objects Now Available
If you are a Corporate or Enterprise Edition user and you utilize tabbed Custom Objects you can now access those Custom Objects within Novo.
If you’d like more information on Custom Objects and you have Corporate or Enterprise Edition, check out our knowledge article
Show Tearsheets on Record Overview
We’ve enhanced the people record overview cards so you may configure them to display tearsheets. Your admin will need to ensure tearsheets has been added to the view layout for the desired card.
For more information, see this article
Tab Through Fields
You can now tab through fields when manually entering data.
24 Hour Time Display
We have added a new system setting (use24HourTime) to allow you to display time values in a 24 hour format, if desired.
Your admin will need to go Menu > System Settings and toggle the setting from False to True in order to enable this feature. This change will change the time format for all users at your company.
Maximum Width Increased on Overview Dropdowns
An issue has been identified wherein values displayed in overview dropdowns were unnecessarily truncated. This has been resolved and values will no longer truncate.
Existing Candidate Parsing Missing Occupation and Company
An issue has been identified wherein candidate occupation and current company would not return on new and existing record parsing in Novo. This issue has been resolved and the candidate’s occupation as well as current company will return during existing record parsing.
Client Submission Email Subject Missing
An issue has been identified wherein the client submission email subject was not previously visible on the Submission > Client Submission section of the record resulting in an inability to open the email itself. This issue has been resolved and upon receiving the latest release, the email subject will now show as a hyperlink to the email.
Submission Icon Total Incorrect
An issue has been identified wherein web responses were included in the count displayed on the Submission workflow icon. This issue has been resolved and web responses are no longer counted on the Submission workflow icon.
Support for More than 500 Departments
An issue has been identified wherein we only showed up to 500 departments in department filter on lists. This issue has been resolved and upon receiving the latest release, the department filter on lists will show more than 500 departments, if applicable.
Issue Adding Numerous Placements to Tearsheets
An issue has been identified wherein users could not successfully add large numbers of placements to tearsheets. The issue was seen when adding approximately 1,500 placements. This issue has been resolved and, upon receiving the latest release, you should be able to add 1,500 or more placements to tearsheets. Please note, the limitation to adding 2,000 records to a tearsheet is still applicable.
SMS Received Email Notification Not Sending When Response Exceeds 160 Characters
An issue has been identified wherein SMS responses exceeding 160 characters were not generating email notifications. This issue has been resolved and upon receiving the latest release, all SMS responses will generate email notifications.
Parse as Existing Errors
An issue has been identified wherein the parse as existing action would result in an error for some users. This issue has been resolved and upon receiving the latest release, the parse as existing action will work appropriately.
Leads in the Notes Activity Report (Enterprise Edition)
We have enhanced the Notes Activity Report to include notes logged against Lead records. Leads and Opportunities are only available in the Enterprise Edition of Bullhorn.
Forward Job with Email Signature
An issue has been identified wherein the user’s email signature would appear above the job content in the compose message screen when forwarding a job. This issue has been resolved and upon receiving the latest release, the email signature will appear below job content.
Exported Date Format Respects User Locale Preference
An issue has been identified wherein the dates included in a CSV export would not respect the date format specified in user preferences. This issue has been resolved and upon receiving the latest release, the CSV export will respect user specified date formats.
Unpublish Job in Data Mirror
We’ve made an update to include unpublishing jobs in Data Mirror.
Monster Jobcast Modification
We have updated the Monster Jobcast file to include job location zip code.
Include Client information on Forward Job Action
An issue has been identified wherein in new versions of Chrome an error would occur on Forward Job when Client information was included. This issue has been resolved and upon receiving the latest release, the Forward Job feature will function as anticipated when Client information is included.
Filtering Name Values in Housing Complex and Unit Lists
We have applied updates to the Housing Complex and Unit lists to support enhanced column filtering against complex and unit names.
Merge PDF Open Beta! (Enterprise Edition)
Bullhorn is excited to announce the open beta of a new Merge PDF tool! You will be able to merge various files together either from Credentialing or start from scratch via the Actions menu on all your records. Healthcare and Enterprise Edition clients may contact Bullhorn Support or betarequest@bullhorn.com to learn more and have this feature enabled.
Encrypted Fields on Placement Record
An issue has been identified wherein encrypted fields on placement records were displaying incorrectly in the application. This issue has been resolved and upon receiving the latest release, the encrypted fields will display as expected.
Corporate User Replication Issue with Data Mirror
An issue has been identified wherein corporate users were not replicating with Data Mirror when the corporate user had time restrictions in place. This issue has been resolved and upon receiving the latest release, the corporate users will replicate as expected.
Business Sector Changes on Contacts in Data Mirror
We’ve made an update to reflect business sector changes on client contacts in Data Mirror.
Career Portal – SEEK Job Board Sub-Classification Menu
We have updated the SEEK job board sub-classification menu. Upon receiving the latest release, you will be able to see parent categories in the sub-classification in order to successfully choose the proper sub-classification for your job posting.
Career Portal – SEEK Job Board Location Area Update
We have updated the SEEK job board location area menu. Upon receiving the latest release, you will be able to see parent job locations in the job location area menu in order to successfully choose the proper area for your job posting.
Canvas – Date Prompts Now Include Specific Time
You can now set a specific time in addition to a date with using a Date Prompt.
Canvas – Repeater Element Now Available
You can now added repeaters to allow content to be easily repeated in a table structure. You can find the Repeater elements under the Toolbox in Canvas
Canvas – Placement Change Requests Now Available
If you utilize Placement Change Requests these fields are now available for reporting upon in Canvas.
Bullhorn for Email – Outlook Gadget Enhancement
We are excited to announce that the Outlook Desktop Gadget is now compatible with Chrome! In order to take advantage of this update, please contact Bullhorn Support to enable.
Enhanced Electronic Signatures
We are excited to announce the general availability of our enhanced e-signature capabilities. With this enhancement, electronic signatures in Onboarding are aligned with more robust standards of signature intent, consent, authenticity, and integrity. These enhancements include new consent pop-ups, expanded access to audit trails, and emails to candidates with approved PDF copies. We encourage you to call Support and have this enabled after your environment is updated to the August release! Our enhanced electronic signatures will eventually be enabled in all customer environments by default – at present, customers must currently opt-in by calling Support.
Details about electronic signature regulations and Bullhorn’s approach to compliance can be found at http://www.bullhorn.com/products/onboarding/e-signature-compliance/
Custom Message in Timesheet Approver Portal
An issue has been identified wherein custom notifications for timesheet approvers were not displaying in the newly redesigned timesheet approver portal. This issue has been resolved and upon receiving the latest release, the custom notifications will display as expected.
New Manager App!
We are excited to announce a newly refreshed Timecard Approver Portal for Bullhorn Back Office and Onboarding! Approvers will find approving timecards easier than ever with our new streamlined interface. Approvers will still default to the legacy app, but are able to go to the new app by clicking the “Here” link at the bottom of the app. For users unable to access Flash sites, this is the app for you. You are able to approve and reject timesheets and run your most pertinent approver reports.
Manager and Employee Help Links
The Manager and Employee in app help links have been updated to consistently load the proper help site for each user.
Admin List Timing Out
An issue has been identified wherein the Admin List was timing out with large numbers of administrators. This issue has been resolved and upon receiving the latest release, the admin list will load more efficiently for lists of any size.
Special Characters in Document Titles Causing Error
An issue has been identified wherein special characters in document titles were causing 404 errors when trying to the view the PDF of the document. This issue has been resolved and upon receiving the latest release, the PDF will open as expected.
E-Verify Update for List A/B/C Documents Not Requiring Expiration Dates
An issue has been identified wherein a blank expiration date for documents in List A,B, and C that didn’t require an expiration date was causing the E-Verify integration to display an error. This issue has been resolved and upon receiving the latest release, you will be able to leave the field blank for certain identification types without receiving an error. Please follow all guidelines put forth by the USCIS.
Department Update for SMS Messaging
An update has been made to Bullhorn SMS to allow for restricting usage of phone numbers across departments in your company. With this setting, users in different departments will send SMS messages from different phone numbers, without reusing the same number across departments. Please contact Support to enable this setting.
Improved Phone Number Output from Parser
An issue has been identified wherein elements of the phone number did not parse correctly to the candidate record. This issue has been resolved and upon receiving the latest release, the phone number will parse completely to candidate records.
Find Matching Candidates Update
An issue has been identified wherein the parsing process that supports the Find Matching Candidates feature passed the detected language of the resume as a keyword to the candidate search. This issue has been resolved and upon receiving the latest release, the parsing process for Find Matching Candidates will not add the detected language of a resume as a keyword.
Note Action Searching
An issue has been identified where occasionally not all values for Note Action are available for Advanced Criteria searching. This issue is resolved and you can now search for all Note Actions using the Advanced Criteria search.
Merge Docs Tag Issue
An issue was identified wherein the $CurrentDate$ tag on Merge Docs was not returning the user’s timezone. This issue has been resolved and upon receiving the latest release, the proper timezone will be returned with this tag.
Bullhorn for Email parse as existing workflow
An issue has been identified wherein the parse as existing workflow would not correctly perform a name match search against records and resumes without an email address. This issue has been resolved and upon receiving the latest release, the parse as existing workflow will correctly perform a name match against records and resumes without an email address.
New Field on Client Company
A new field has been added to field maps for Client Companies: requirementCertificationID. By default, this field is hidden and has an edit type of Picker:Certification.
At Mention Update for Notes
As you already know, “@ mention” functionality already exists in Notes for quickly tagging records to a Note.
You now can “@ mention” internal distribution lists and internal users to send an email copy of the note to other Bullhorn users upon saving the note.
Add and View All Notes on Recent Notes Card
On the Recent Notes card for your overview we’ve added the ability to work with Notes directly from the card.
Notify Attendees Default Option Now Available
You now have the ability to set a default as to whether or not an appointment invitation will be sent to attendees listed on the Appointment. This default can always be toggled on a per-appointment basis by the end user.
To change your default, please go to System Settings and search for Notify Attendees. By default the System Setting is set to Yes.
Forward Jobs
The Forwarding Jobs functionality from S Release is now available in Novo.
Record Overview Header Updates
You can now add City and State fields to record overviews.
Paste to Parse Editing Enhancement
Novo allows you to paste resumes into the resume field in order to parse a new candidate. Previously, you were unable to edit those resumes prior to parsing and generating the candidate. You can now edit the pasted resume and the resulting parsed information will be updated with your edits.
Reference Questions
If you utilize the Reference Questions functionality, this feature is now available in Novo.
Tearsheet Printing
Printing a tearsheet is now available. The ability to print is restricted by Usertype Entitlement. If you do not have the ability to print a tearsheet, please have your Account or Support Contact reach out to Bullhorn Support to request this feature to be turned on for your Usertype.
Tearsheet Binoculars
You can now preview Job Descriptions and Resumes on tearsheets in Novo using the binoculars slideout. For Contacts on a Tearsheet, you can only see a Resume if the Contact has a linked Candidate record.
Note Action Searching
An issue has been identified where occasionally not all values for Note Action are available for Advanced Criteria searching. This issue is resolved and you can now search for all Note Actions using the Advanced Criteria search.
Dropdown Values on Overview Not Displaying All Values
An issue has been identified where if you have a dropdown containing a large number of values, not all values will be available when attempting to use the drop down from the Record Overview. This issue has been resolved and all values now display as expected.
URL Link Saved To Record Opening with an Error
An issue has been identified where upon clicking on a URL in Novo, the URL would open with https:// at the beginning of the URL and this would prevent the resulting site from loading. This issue has been resolved and links will open as expected.
Message Priority Default
An issue has been identified where upon composing a new message, the Message Priority is defaulting to Low. This issue has been resolved and the default Message Priority is now Medium, as it is in S Release.
Skill and Specialty Pickers Unable to Be Filtered By Category
An issue has been identified where upon typing a category into a Skill or Speciality picker the resulting list of Skills would not be filtered by that Category. This has been resolved and you can now filter your pickers by Category that the Skills or Specialities are assigned to.
Job Reference Field Missing on Compose A Message Screen
An issue has been identified where upon generating an email inside of Bullhorn the Job Reference field is not available to associate the message with a specific Job record. This issue has been resolved and you can now associate Jobs with messages sent from within Bullhorn.
Canceling a Sendout Email Results in a Moved Candidate
An issue has been identified where if you cancel out of composing an email for a sendout (also called a client submission) the candidate’s submission will still be moved to the corresponding Sendout stage. This issue has been resolved and now you must fully complete sending the email before the Candidate’s Submission will be moved to the corresponding stage.
Clicking on Email Link Creates a Blank Tab
An issue has been identified where upon clicking on a email notification link to open a record, the link will open the record in Bullhorn but a blank tab is also created in the Browser that must be closed out. This issue has been resolved and the additional tab generated will automatically close once the record is loaded.