What's new or changed in Dynamics 365 Human Resources October 5, 2021

Article
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 8.1.4485.

New features

The following features are generally available with this release.

Feature	Release plan	Documentation
Platform update 10.0.21 (45)	--	Platform updates for version 10.0.21 of finance and operations apps (October 2021)

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
598896	Employee amount does not display until after the employee has completed the enrollment	On the Employee self service page, the employee amount for the benefit was not displayed. The employee amount is now displayed on the Benefits self-service page.
613440	Unable to export data from Data Management	When exporting data for a project in Data management, the export fails unexpectedly.
618327	Closed and future periods are showing on the Reports parameters page for the benefits statement	When navigating to the Benefit statement in Employee self service, the Report parameters page displays Records to include and Run in the background FastTabs. These sections were removed.
618326	An incorrect Report parameters page displays in Employee self service for the benefits statement	When navigating to the Benefit statement report destination page, the user was able to select benefit plans periods that are closed or are future dated, which results in a blank page. Only the current benefit plan period should display in the list.

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
Benefits management workspace	Benefits management workspace (Preview)	Benefits management workspace
Custom fields in Eligibility	Custom fields support in eligibility processing	Using custom fields in eligibility processing
Benefits statement	Benefits Statement	Benefits statement

Benefits statement known issues

Issue	Description
Error when emailing report using GER report destination	The benefits statement can be set to use the email parameters on the GER Report destinations page. When completing the setup and printing the report, the user will receive a formatting error and the benefits statement will not be sent.

Feature management changes

Feature	Description
Performance journals extended reports view	This feature will become enabled by default in this release.

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 10.0.22 (46)	Roll-out of Platform update 10.0.22 is scheduled to begin with the service release on November 1, 2021. For more information, see Platform updates for version 10.0.22 of finance and operations apps (November 2021).