Archives: Product Updates
Product update notes, links, and descriptions.
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.
Appointment Attachments Not Being Received
An issue has been identified where upon attaching files to an appointment, the file would not be received by the associated contacts or candidates. This issue has been resolved and files will be attached to the emails sent out about the appointments.
Add Note Upon New Record Not Being Respected
An issue has been identified where System Settings starting with addNoteOnNew… were not being respected. This issue has been resolved and if you have any of the impacted System Settings set to True then you will be prompted to add a note upon adding the corresponding record.
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.
Mass Mailing Warning Issue
An issue has been identified where when you attempt to send a mass mail using personalization tags, you would receive a warning stating that personalization tags are only to be used with Mass Mailing. This warning should only appear when attempting to send a non-mass mail with personalization tags. This issue has been resolved and the warning only appears for normal mail.
Organizational Charts Now Available
Org Charts are now available within Bullhorn Novo.
System Settings Updated
An issue has been identified where two existing system settings were not being respected in Bullhorn Novo. This issue has been resolved and the attributes are now being respected.
The system settings are:
- Auto Generate Notes From Submission Comments
- Expand All Notes By Default
Job Workflow Icon Now Available
You can now add a job workflow icon to your contact or company records. This allows you to quickly see how many job orders you have with a given record.
If you do not already have a Job order workflow icon, you can add it by going to System Settings and searching for the corresponding workflow.
Additional Details Cards
Job records now have additional contact and company detail cards allowing you to display related information on the Job record itself. The contact record has been updated to add a company detail card as well.
Printing Option Available
A print button has been added to Bullhorn Novo. This print option will only be available to users who have the appropriate entitlements.
Note: Cards that appear in the right side column of a record will be moved to the bottom of the record when printing. This is to ensure the entire contents of the card is visible when printing.
Drag and Drop Keywords Issue
An issue has been identified where dragging and dropping keywords in the advanced search did not behave as expected. This issue has been resolved and you can now drag and drop keywords.
Categories and Overview Cards
An issue has been identified where displaying categories on an Overview card would result in only one category displaying, regardless of how many were attached to the record. This has been resolved and all categories will now display.
Skills and Overview Cards
An issue has been identified where Skills listed on overview cards would display a number rather than listing out the actual Skills. Cards will now display the actual Skill names and will display up to 5 skills. If the record has more than 5 skills, an option will appear to view more skills.
Inline Edit Submission Statuses
You can now quickly update Submission statuses or move stages from within the Submissions tab.
Toggle Submission View
Bullhorn Novo has a new Submission tab that lets you clearly see what the current stage is for each Submission. In response to popular demand, we have added an “all submissions” toggle switch to the Submissions tab within records.
Setting the button to All will convert the way Submissions display to show all submissions in a single list view rather than separating the Submissions into their current stages.
Edit From Record Overview
You can now quickly update important drop down menus from the record overview.
Preview Resumes from Job Submission Tab
Back by popular demand, we have added a resume preview button to the Job Submissions tab. Now you can quickly review a submitted candidate’s resume without leaving the job record. Just click the binoculars next to the Candidate’s name.
Last Note Column Added To Contact Tab on Company Record
If you’re working from the company record and you’re checking out your contacts you can now sort and filter them by the date of the last note added to those contacts.
Record ID Now Appears In Bowling Alley Tab
Have multiple records open with the same name? No more wondering which job is which. To help you keep organized we added the record ID to the tab in the bowling alley.
Upload Multiple Files At Once
You can now drag and drop multiple files into Bullhorn Novo to attach to records.
Standard Resumes Now Available!
The Candidate Standard Resume feature is now available in Bullhorn Novo.
Copying Text Within Cards
Need to copy some text off your record overview? You can now highlight and copy text on all cards.
Editor Updates
The text editor for fields that allow text formatting has been updated.
- Horizontal lines can now be inserted.
- Uploading an image now available.
Confirmed and Rejected Submission Statuses List View Enhancement
The submission status when filtering, in-line editing, and mass updating via the Submission list view now incorporates the rejected and confirmed submission buckets.
Note: The Rejected and Confirmed Submission buckets must be set up via your System Settings. Check out this article if you’d like to set up these buckets.
Login Issue
An issue has been identified where if the user closes out a browser tab with Bullhorn Novo and then logs in again in the same browser, they would be prevented from logging in. This issue has been resolved and users will be able to login without issue.
Adding Appointments Does Not Allow You To Set a Time
An issue has been identified where upon adding an appointment you are unable to select a start or end time for the appointment. There are also fields that appear that are not relevant to setting the appointment. This issue has been resolved and you will be able to set appointment times as expected.
Adding a Job from Contact Record Doesn’t Populate Address
An issue has been identified where upon adding a job from the contact record, the address for the job is not automatically populating with the contact’s address. This issue has been resolved and the job record generated will populate an address as expected.