Archives: Product Updates
Product update notes, links, and descriptions.
Bullhorn Back Office Data in Canvas
We’re excited to announce that BBO in Canvas is now generally available!
Understand the health of your business and the value of your relationships by reporting on key BBO data in the front office via Canvas. Anyone with Canvas access will now have direct access to actual timesheet, margin, and invoice data
You must have both Bullhorn Back Office and Canvas to use this feature. If you are interested in learning more about these products, please reach out to your account executive.
Incorrect Searching on User Name in Tools > Users
Searching for users with names ending in Z or 9 will now work as expected.
Tearsheet list Displaying Deleted and Archived Candidate Record
Tearsheet lists will no longer display candidate records that are deleted or archived.
Placement Change Request transactionID visible
Placement Change Request events now display the transactionID in the event response body of an API call.
REST API – Job and Candidates Association Fix for Placement Files Added
Files added to a placement record via REST will also be added to the relevant job order.
REST API – Categories display in List view when record is added
The category field value for a record added via REST is now searchable and viewable in the list view display.
Encrypted field icons
Encrypted fields are now identified by a lock icon so you can easily distinguish which fields are encrypted and may store sensitive information.
Lead clientUserID Adding to Edit History
Data Mirror will now show changes to a Lead’s clientUserID on the edit history.
Credential Filtering & Sort Partial Matches
Credentialing filters have been enhanced so that partial matches will return when searching.
Note > About Entity Title Update
Entity titles, such as Candidate or Lead, will now display correctly in the Note > About field.
Introducing: Field Interactions
Field interactions allow you to extend the functionality of your Bullhorn Novo application. For example, you can have additional fields appear automatically upon adding certain contacts to a job.
Your own developers can build field interactions using our REST API. If you’re interested in talking with your developer about how to implement field interactions, have your developer review the GitHub documentation for specifics on how to use this new feature.
If you don’t have a developer, our Professional Services team is able to review your needs and provide a quote. To begin the quoting process, please contact Bullhorn Support.
Merge Docs Support
Merge Docs can now be generated using Novo.
Field Maps for Submissions
If you have access to field maps, you can now edit Job Submission field maps.
isPublic Field Displayed Integers Instead of Values
When adding, editing, and viewing the isPublic field users would see integer values of -1,0, and 1. This has been resolved and you will now see Not Published, Published – Submitted, and Published – Approved.
Published Contact Information on Edit Tab Didn’t Show Current Value
An issue where viewing the responseUserID field on the edit tab was displaying the wrong information has been resolved.
Overview Card Candidate Status Changes
Updating a placement’s candidate status from the candidate card on the overview will now apply that change as expected.
Appointment File Names Rendering Correctly
When sending an appointment, the attachment file names are no longer displaying %20 in place of spaces.
Candidate Comments Added to Preview Slideout
You can now view information from the candidate “comments” field on the preview slideout. Now, when previewing a candidate from the submission workflow, you will be able to quickly see the information without needing to open the candidate record.
Job Description Card
You now have the ability to add a new “Job Description” card onto your record overview. This card will display information from the record’s “description” field.
List Search on Distribution Lists Properly Indexing
An issue has been identified where search results were not displaying correctly on distributions lists. This issue has been resolved and all matching results now display as expected.
HTML Tags Shown in Email Notifications
An issue has been identified wherein notifications with HTML formatting would display markup in the email. This issue has been resolved and email notifications will no longer show HTML tags.
Internal Commissions Not Automatically Created When Adding a Placement
An issue has been identified where commissions were not automatically populating for placements. This issue has bee resolved and commissions will now automatically populate as usual.
Picker Value List Being Cut Off
Picker value lists were being cut off when the field was placed near the top or bottom of the form. This issue has been resolved and the field can be placed near the top or bottom of the form and the picker will be visible.
Cannot Add All System Fields as Columns to Tearsheet
An issue has been identified wherein users could not add columns to the Tearsheet layout. This issue has been resolved and upon receiving the latest release, users will be able to add columns to the Tearsheet layout normally.
Feature Enhancement
Description of feature/bug fix.
Timesheet Deletion
Certain users were unable to delete timesheets, this has been resolved.
Invoice Breakdown Button
The invoice breakdown button wasn’t responding, this has been resolved.
Email from Submission List
Certain users were unable to send emails using the Submission list. Everyone will now be able to send emails using the Submission list for any Submissions they are allowed to view.
Unable to Select Disabled Users on Placement Commissions Tab
We resolved an issue where if you attempted to add commissions to a disabled user, you would be unable to select them from the picker.
Mappings Records in Entity Lists
When selecting the Map action in the entity lists, the resulting map would only display one record per location. We’ve updated this feature to allow multiple records to display per location.
New Currency Formats Added
We’ve added new currencies for use with money fields:
- Polish Zloty (PLN)
- Swiss Franc (CHF)
- United Arab Emirates Dirham (AED)
- Singapore Dollar (SGD)
- Hungarian Forint (HUF)
- Danish Krone (DKK)
- Swedish Krona (SEK)
- Norwegian Krone (NOK)
- South African Rand (ZAR)
Certain Users Unable To Mark Files As Private
For certain users marking a file as private would result in an error and the file would remain public. This has been resolved and all users can now mark files as private.
Custom Object Searches on Tracks as Entities
If you use tracks as entities, you can now use the list search to find information saved in custom objects that appear on contact, company or job records.
Entity Titles Fix
Some customers were experiencing timeouts when attempting to open the entity title menu. These timeouts have now been resolved.
Credentialing Entity Titles
Credentialing users will now see title changes apply wherever Credentialing is mentioned within Bullhorn.
Advanced Credential Searches
Candidate and Placement searches now have an Advanced Credential Searching option to allow you to find records with specific credentials or types of credentials, or that are missing credentials.
(Requires Credentialing – please contact support if you are interested in learning more/enabling credentialing functionality)
Timesheet creation on Placement end date
An issue has been identified wherein a timesheet could not be created on a placement’s end date. This issue has been resolved and upon receiving the latest release, timesheets can be created on a placement’s end date.
Required Onboarding Fields for Administrators
An issue has been identified wherein required fields for administrators were not always enforced on Onboarding documents. This issue has been resolved and upon receiving the latest release, the administrator required fields will highlight in red and must be completed before approval.
Invoice Line Item Rounding Issue
An issue has been identified wherein rounding for line items on invoices was not occurring consistently across areas of the application. This issue has been resolved and upon receiving the latest release, rounding for line items on invoices will be consistent.
Candidate tearsheets now loading as expected
An issue has been identified wherein candidate tearsheets were timing out and/or loading very slowly. They now load as expected. This issue has been resolved and upon receiving the latest release, the candidate tearsheets will load normally.
SMS Opt In field properly updating
An issue has been identified wherein the smsOptIn field was not being updated when message recipients were opting out of SMS service. This issue has been resolved and upon receiving the latest release, the smsOptIn field will update when message recipients opt out.
Placement Overview Honors View Layout by Respective Entities
An issue has been identified wherein view layouts for Placements II-V were not pulling from the respective entities. This issue has been resolved and upon receiving the latest release, the field maps will be based on the Placement track number.
SalesDuel Tournaments in TV Mode Refresh to 0 Points
An issue has been identified wherein SalesDuel tournaments in TV mode would display stats at 0 points when auto refreshing. This issue has been resolved and upon receiving the latest release, tournaments in TV mode will reflect accurate points on auto refresh.
Housing Complexes and Units Lists
Sorting has been removed as an option from list columns based on customTextBlock fields. This is not supported in other lists and was generating errors.
Job Posting Start Date Based on Local Time
An issue has been identified wherein the Job Start Date was defaulting to current EST time, not the user’s local time. This issue has been resolved and upon receiving the latest release, the Start Date will be stored correctly as the local time.
Updates to Live Chat and Help Buttons
We’ve enhanced the Help button in Bullhorn to house your chat and documentation needs.
– Live chat enabled users will see a dropdown option on Help
– When chat agents are not available, clicking chat option opens bullhorn.com/technical-support
– Users without Live chat will still be able to click the Help button for the customer portal access relevant to their edition
Credentialing – Grouped Requirements
We have enhanced Credentialing to include grouping of requirements to better expedite the requirement assignment process and make template management easier for users.
Credentialing – Date picker updated to offer series of "Next" options
We updated the date picker to have a series of Next X Days options.
Bullhorn Planner Open Beta (All Editions)
We are excited to announce an open beta for our Planner tool! The feature will allow users to see a snapshot of their upcoming appointments in Bullhorn. Please contact Bullhorn Support to learn more and enable this feature.
SMS Successfully Sends with £
An issue has been identified wherein SMS was failing to send when the £ character was included in the text. This issue has been resolved and upon receiving the latest release, SMS messages will send as expected.
Inconsistent Behavior for Timed-Out Sessions
An issue has been identified wherein there was inconsistent behavior on timed-out sessions. This issue has been resolved and upon receiving the latest release, users will always be brought to the Login page when their session expires and the user performs an action in the system.
Opportunity Cards Count
An issue has been identified wherein opportunities by owner and opportunities by department dashboard cards did not display the same number of opportunities as shown on the list view. This issue has been resolved and upon receiving the latest release, the opportunities by owner and opportunities by department dashboard cards will display the number of opportunities shown on the list view.
Notes created from Outbound Emails not visible on Notes tab and not searchable
An issue has been identified wherein notes generated through outbound emails were not searchable and not visible on the Notes tab. This issue has been resolved and upon receiving the latest release, the notes generated through outbound emails should be found and visible on the Notes tab.
User Activity Report Successfully Returns Results for Bullhorn Mobile
An issue has been identified wherein the User Activity report was not returning results when the criteria contained Bullhorn Mobile. This issue has been resolved and upon receiving the latest release, the User Activity Report will return results appropriately.
Job Publishing URL Shortening
An issue has been identified wherein shortening URLs using the is.gd structure for Indeed were resulting in errors. This issue has been resolved and upon receiving the latest release, the XML feed for Indeed will use the full career portal URLs.
Submission Update Events
An issue has been identified wherein Transaction IDs were not being generated with submission update data events in some cases. This issue has been resolved and upon receiving the latest release, Transaction ID’s will be generated as expected.
Notes created from Outbound Emails not visible on Notes tab and not searchable
An issue has been identified wherein notes generated through outbound emails were not searchable and not visible on the Notes tab. This issue has been resolved and upon receiving the latest release, the notes generated through outbound emails should be found and visible on the Notes tab.
Attach Resume File Button is Responsive on iPhone
An issue has been identified wherein the Attach File button was unresponsive on the iPhone when in Safari and Chrome browsers. This issue has been resolved and upon receiving the latest release, the Attach File button will work for iPhones in Safari and Chrome.
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.
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]