Product Update Category: S-Release
Onboarding Table Display Issue
An issue has been identified wherein a read-only Onboarding table was displaying on employees and placements in Bullhorn Back Office for customers without Onboarding. This issue has been resolved and upon receiving the latest release, customers without Onboarding will no longer see the read-only table.
Errors Impeding Functionality
An issue has been identified wherein errors were impeding functionality on candidate or placement records. This issue has been resolved and upon receiving the latest release, candidate and placement records will open without this error.
Duplicate Audit Trail Entries for Documents and Packets
An issue has been identified wherein duplicate audit trail entries were appearing when a document or packet was assigned. This issue has been resolved and upon receiving the latest release, single audit trail entries will record as expected.
Lockout Mechanism for Repeated Client Admin Refreshes
A new restriction has been put in place for repeated forced refreshes of placements from Back Office and Onboarding. After the limit of five forced refreshes occurs, you will receive an alert pop-up indicating the limit is reached. Background refreshes will continue as scheduled, and forced refreshes may begin again after the restricted time limit of one hour has passed.
Onboarding Attachments from ATS/CRM
Customers using Bullhorn ATS/CRM and Onboarding are now able to add attachments to Onboarding documents from Bullhorn ATS/CRM. After assigning a document to a candidate or placement, an “Add Attachment” link will appear, enabling you to add any necessary attachments. With the proper permissions, the attachments are available for preview as well.
Attachments Now Included with PDF Flowback
You are now able to include attachments when flowing approved PDFs from Onboarding to candidate and placement file tabs in the Bullhorn ATS. Previously, only approved PDFs were able to be flowed back. For existing flowback users, there is now an option to include attachments as separate files with your approved PDFs.
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.
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.
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.
SMS Opt In Status for New Lead Candidates
An issue has been identified wherein newly added candidates are being automatically opted out of receiving SMS messages. This issue is now resolved and newly added candidates will be opted in and upon receiving their first message, candidates will be given the option to opt out.
REST APIs to respect default country
An issue has been identified wherein the Open Source Career Portal (OSCP) is not respecting the Candidate.countryID default value and as a result Candidates parsed into the system with the incorrectly defaulted Country. This issue has been resolved and upon receiving the latest release, the OSCP will default the Country field to the correct Country.
Change category/industry/skill/specialty does not add edit history entry
An issue has been identified wherein using the change industry, skill, or specialty drop down option on a Candidate record does not update the edit history. This issue has been resolved and upon receiving the latest release, the edit history for Candidates will updated as expected.
Date Export Timezone Issue
An issue has been identified wherein exported lists display some dates incorrectly. This issue is now resolved and upon receiving the latest release exported lists will display dates as expected.
Career Portal – REST APIs to respect default country
An issue has been identified wherein the Open Source Career Portal (OSCP) is not respecting the Candidate.countryID default value and as a result Candidates parsed into the system with the incorrectly defaulted Country. This issue has been resolved and upon receiving the latest release, the OSCP will default the Country field to the correct Country.
Career Portal – Indeed Application Parsing Issue
An issue has been identified wherein an application from Indeed would add in a candidate but would not parse the resume. This issue is now resolved and upon receiving the latest release resumes will parse as expected.
Job and Opportunity Parsing from Bullhorn for Email
An issue has been identified wherein attempting to parse a job or opportunity from an attachment would instead parse the email body. This issue has been resolved and upon receiving the latest release, the attachment will parse as expected.
Update to REST APIs
We have expanded the REST API to include new calls querying on entity edit histories. The edit histories for Job Order, Job Submission, Appointment, Placement, and User entities can now be accessed via the REST API.
Full documentation is available at developer.bullhorn.com
Password Reset Age
The default maximum amount of time that can pass before you must reset your password is being extended from 60 days to 180 days.
You can request this age to be reduced but the maximum amount of time this setting can be is 180 days.
Bullhorn strongly advises clients review their password policies and ensure they have settings commensurate to acceptable industry levels. Please contact Bullhorn Support if you would like to reduce the password reset age.
PDF Snapshot Issue
An issue was identified where with certain configurations, PDF snapshots were not generated for Onboarding document status changes. This issue has been resolved and PDF snapshots are generating as expected.
Change Password Button Fix
An issue was identified where Managers and Admins were unable to reset passwords with the “Change Password” button. This issue has been resolved and passwords are able to be reset when needed.
SEEK Job Posting Menu Enhancement
When publishing jobs to the SEEK job board, all dropdown menus now appear in alphabetical order.
SEEK Resume Parser Email
An issue has been identified wherein SEEK web responses are not being sent to the automatic resume parser. This issue is resolved and upon receiving the latest release, SEEK web responses will parse into your Bullhorn database as expected.
Standard Reporting Descriptions
Each Standard Report now displays an updated description.
Incorrect Column Headers
An issue has been identified wherein the Placement Change Request list correlatedCustomText4 column shows correlatedCustomText5 data and correlatedCustomText5 column shows correlatedCustomText4 data. This issue is resolved and upon receiving the latest update these columns and the related data will show as expected on the Placement Change Request list.
New Version of Career Portal Now Available!
Details for version 2.0.1 are available on Github.
Client Submissions Not Always Tracking When Sent From Web Responses
An issue has been identified wherein a Client Submission (Sendout) that is generated from a Web Response rather than an internal Submission will not appear under the Activity tab. This issue is resolved and upon receiving the latest release, Client Submission will record as expected.
Data Mirror Re-Start Update
A change has been made so that when Data Mirror becomes inactive, Data Mirror will fail to re-start. Data Mirror being inactive is defined as 7 days of inactivity and/or 1 million request statuses. An email will be sent to notify you that Data Mirror is inactive and you will need to contact Bullhorn Support to restart the program.
Data Mirror reportsTo field
DataMirror now has access to the reportsTo field for corporate user records.
New Contact Task References Do Not Appear when Multiple Assignees and Contacts on Tasks Enabled
An issue has been identified wherein when the Multiple Assignees and Contacts on Tasks setting is enabled, the contact task references would not appear. This issue is resolved and upon receiving the latest release, the contact task references for tasks affected by this setting will appear.
Bullhorn Accelerator Chrome Support
Bullhorn Accelerator now supports the latest version of Google Chrome. With Accelerator, it’s easy to quickly parse text from the web into Bullhorn Candidate, Contact, and Job records.
Unique Names for Document Fields
An issue has been identified wherein the requirement to have unique names for fields on Onboarding documents is not being enforced. This issue has been resolved and upon receiving the latest release, you will now be prompted to use unique names when creating fields on a document.
Note: Existing non-unique field names will not be impacted unless you select “Save Field Mappings” on a document. You will then be prompted to update any duplicate field names.
Setting Tax Exemptions Fields as Confidential
An issue has been identified wherein tax exemptions fields were not displaying the same behavior as other fields when marked confidential. This issue has been resolved and upon receiving the latest release, the tax exemptions field will behave as expected when marked as confidential.
Default country value respected for Companies added via Custom Import
If you import a contact and include company information in the import, Bullhorn will create a new company if the system is unable to find a matching company in your database.
Previously, all new companies created this way would default to the United States for their country. This issue has been resolved and upon receiving the latest release, the system will default to the specified country upon uploading.
Data Mirror – Tearsheet Replication Enhancement
Data Mirror has been optimized to better handle replication of tearsheets and related entities.
Canvas Scheduled Reports
We are excited to announce that you are now able to schedule reports in Canvas. With this new feature you will be able to:
- Automatically send reports (PDF, Excel, CSV) via email
- Schedule reports to be sent daily, weekly, monthly, or annually. You can also set repeat sends.
- Timezones are determined by the user that scheduled the report.
- Currently, you cannot schedule reports with containing a prompt. This ability will be released at a later time.
- Select recipients by user, department, or automatically send to all users who are entitled to see the report
Admins with Restricted Branch Access Cause Report Failures
An issue has been identified wherein administrators with restricted branch access are encountering errors with the proper permissions to run reports. This issue has been resolved and administrators are able to run reports according to their branch access.
Note Sorting Oldest to Newest in Slideout
An issue has been identified wherein notes listed in the slideout view are sorting oldest to newest for users with a particular combination of usertype entitlements. This issue has been resolved and upon receiving the latest release, notes will sort from newest to oldest in the slideout for all combinations of usertype permissions.
LinkedIn Button Error
An issue has been identified wherein upon selecting the LinkedIn button on candidate and contact slideouts an error message appears. This issue has been resolved and upon receiving the latest release, the LinkedIn button will open LinkedIn as expected.
Quotations Causing Errors in Job Publishing
An issue has been identified wherein publishing a job with quotations in the job description results in an error. This issue has been resolved and upon receiving the latest release, job descriptions containing quotations will no longer display an error upon publishing.
Client Submission Emails with Submission Comments
An issue has been identified wherein the inclusion of submission comments in a client submission (also known as a Sendout) email resulted in inconsistent formatting in the delivered message.
This issue has been resolved and upon receiving the latest release, client submissions with submission comments added will have consistent formatting.
Last Note Date Issue in Candidate List
An issue has been identified wherein the Last Note column on a candidate list is displaying the wrong date for certain time zones. This issue has been resolved and upon receiving the latest release, the Last Note column will reflect the correct date according to the user’s local time zone.
Onboarding PDF Flowback to Bullhorn Files Tab
Have you been manually downloading PDF files of completed documents from Onboarding and uploading them, one by one, to the files tab in Bullhorn? Our newly-added PDF flowback feature is here to make your life easier! We’ve improved the integration between Bullhorn and Onboarding – now, Onboarding documents will be automatically copied over to the Files tab in Bullhorn upon document completion and approval. Your candidates’ latest completed Onboarding files will always be up-to-date in Bullhorn, where your front-office workers can easily email and share them with colleagues.
This feature will be available to all Onboarding customers using Bullhorn ATS/CRM upon the latest release. The March release will need to have been deployed for both Onboarding and ATS/CRM before this functionality is available.
To learn more about using this feature, please consult the following training resource: PDF Flowback. If you encounter any issues with this functionality, please contact Bullhorn Support.
Tearsheet Management Enhancement
We are excited to announce a better way to manage your tearsheets. If you need to add or remove a single record, you no longer need to navigate to the tearsheet list to do so. You will now see a Manage Tearsheets option within the slideout or on the record itself under the Select An Action menu. This button allows you to either add or remove current tearsheets as well as add the record to a new tearsheet.
SEEK Job Publishing Update
When publishing a job to the SEEK job board, you will now only see formatting options available for SEEK job advertisements. These formatting options include:
– Bold
– Italic
– Bulleted list
– Numbered list
– Hyperlink
– Add horizontal line
SEEK Job Publishing is in Open Beta!
Note: SEEK is a job board that is specific to the APAC region.
We are excited to announce that SEEK Job Publishing is now in Open Beta. You can post directly to SEEK from Bullhorn and your applicants will automatically appear on the job record.
Please contact Support if you have a SEEK account and would like to participate in the Open Beta.