Discover Release Notes 29 February 2024 (v1.24.4)

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We’re committed to continuously improving Discover and have some exciting updates to share with our services this week.

You can add additional subscribers to our emailed release notes here.

And you can attend our new release monthly hui, where we’ll showcase all the new features covered in our release notes for that month.  

When: First Wednesday of each month, 11:00 am NZT

Next date: 6 March 2024 | 6 Maehe 2024 

Register: Via this link

Ka tūtaki tātou ki te hui! We hope to see you there!

Features & Enhancements

These features will be available on 29 February 2024.

Dashboard & Funding Report Enhancements – Discretionary Hours

• We have added discretionary hour columns to the Registered Staff Percentage table on the dashboard to allow administrators to quickly see the difference between Rostered and Allocated discretionary hours. The allocated hours are what Discover automatically assigns and reports to ELI during RS7 to try and ensure the 80% funding band is met*. 

• We have added the option to show Rostered and Allocated discretionary hours to the Centre Funding report. Ticking this box will show the daily breakdown of rostered and allocated discretionary hours.

  
  

  

* Rostered discretionary hours will be adjusted on a day-by-day basis, and will round to the closest hour. Throughout the funding period (each time you adjust the roster), and at the end of the relevant 4 months, once all rostering and attendance has been completed, Discover will recalculate the discretionary hours (per the allocated column) to optimise your funding, with the goal to meet 80% registered teacher percentage each day. As such, you may see your allocated hours change throughout the funding period, but figures will be finalised before your RS7 is submitted.

WINZ Auto Apply—Feature Improvement

• We’ve made a slight adjustment to the WINZ auto apply to separate the auto-application of WINZ payments into a schedule. The first part will generate the next (rolling) seven days of WINZ payments onto the schedule, and then at the start of each day, process and receipt these payments. There should be no noticeable change to centres using the existing auto-apply feature. The future state of this feature will allow centres using auto-apply to make any adjustments for a particular week rather than adjusting the setting on the child benefactor.

Bug Fixes

• In some circumstances, toggling the Spare Capacity button on the Roster Sheet could cause slowness. This was due to a caching issue that is now resolved.

• On the account screen, we’ve disabled the URL behind the word ‘Refund’ to prevent a 500 Error that some users experienced. This URL should not exist - the refund function is under the Admin column of the Account screen.

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