What's new or changed in Dynamics 365 Human Resources September 6, 2021

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06/28/2022

Applies to these Dynamics 365 apps:
Human Resources

This article describes features that are new, changed, or coming soon in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Human Resources.

For more information about our update process and schedule, see Update process.

For more information about new features and their expected general availability dates, see Overview of Dynamics 365 Human Resources 2021 release wave 2.

In this release

This release includes the following new features and bug fixes. Changes apply to build number 8.1.4443.

New features

The following features are generally available with this release.

Feature	Release plan	Documentation
Enable an absence manager to manage leave	Enable an absence manager to manage leave	In this release, we are updating the absence manager workspace view. For more information, see Configure absence manager role.
Configure attachment requirement per leave type	Configure attachment requirement per leave type	Configure leave and absence types
Configure leave units per leave type	Configure leave units per leave type	Configure leave and absence types

Bug fixes

The following bug fixes are included in this release.

Note

Our goal is to get you this information as soon as possible. We might update this article to include bug fixes that made it into the build after this article was initially published.

Issue number	Issue	Description
610128	Error on publishing data when using the HcmDiscussionOverallCommentEntity	When data is published from an Excel workbook to the HcmDiscussionOverralCommentEntity entity, the following error occurs: "Cannot locate data source record of type HcmTopicOverrall."
589073	EEO-1 report counts "Non Specific" and blank values for Gender field as "Female" value.	If Male isn't specified for the Gender field, the EEO-1 report generates a default value of Female.
589617	Time off card balance, Available to buy and Available to sell balances do not appear when user roles are restricted to a specific legal entity.	If the user (employee role) is restricted to a specific legal entity, balances don't appear correctly on the Time Off Balances card, and in the Available to buy and Available to sell fields.
604310	Absence manager tab should be hidden when the user does not have absence hierarchy assigned.	For a given legal entity, the Absence manager tab should be hidden in the self-service portal unless the cross-company parameter is enabled and at least one absence hierarchy is associated with the user.

In preview

The following new features are in preview. For more information about how to turn features on or off, see Manage features.

Feature	Release plan	Documentation
Enable simplified payroll integration (Payroll integration APIs)	Enable simplified integration with payroll providers	Payroll integration API
Benefits management workspace	Benefits management workspace (Preview)	Benefits management workspace
Enable employees to be marked as ready to be paid	Enable employees to be marked as ready to be paid	Ready to pay
Custom fields in Eligibility	Custom fields support in eligibility processing	Using custom fields in eligibility processing

Coming soon

For a complete list of planned features and their scheduled releases, see Overview of Dynamics 365 Human Resources 2021 release wave 2.

Feature	Details
Platform update 10.0.21 (45)	Roll-out of Platform update 10.0.21 is scheduled to begin with the service release on October 4, 2021. For more information, see Platform updates for version 10.0.21 of finance and operations apps (October 2021).
Benefits statement	Benefits statement for viewing an employee's current benefit elections. For more information, see Benefits Statement in the Release wave document.