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Detail on our latest enhancements can be found below. Also, many of these items are covered in our training videos which can be accessed via the Training Resources link under the “Home Links” section on your home screen which will be released next week. These quick videos provide more detail on the enhancements and how to apply them. Description

Updated user interface and new name

REWARD is being renamed Talent|REWARD Compensation (TRC) and updated to reflect the latest look and feel of our full Talent|REWARD suite. In addition to automating Market Analysis and Compensation Design, Talent|REWARD automates Performance Management, Career Development, Learning Management, Succession Planning, Job Leveling, Compensation Planning and Recruiting.

Surveys Survey participation flag now in benchmark children

The UseInSurveyParticipation flag now is reflected in benchmark children.

Structures Action dropdown item renamed

The Action dropdown item “Line of best fit" on the structure tab has been renamed to "graph: market comparison to midpoint"

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Analyses New figure added to merit matrices

A new figure has been added inside each cell of a merit matrix to indicate the percentage of employees in each cell compared to the total sum of all employees represented in the matrix. This percentage can be reported on as well.

This new feature enables easier understanding of the distribution of employees across various properties in addition to knowing the counts and costs for various actions.

Reports / Charts New interface for reports The user interface for reports now allows the user to

quickly navigate to five different report formats:

1. Standard Reports

2. Advanced Reports (editable)

3. Spreadsheet Reports (download only)

4. Custom Generator (formerly in the top menu bar)

5. Charts (new!)

Reports now download to authentic Excel file

The download process has been re-engineered so that TRC now downloads an authentic Excel file. Previously downloads created a .CSV file and then the user’s browser would automatically import the file into Excel and open it.

With Excel files, we can download UNICODE characters and maintain the integrity of data-type formats; a job code of “0035” will download as the exact value “0035” instead of converting to a numeric 35 as sometimes happens in when downloading to .CSV format.

Please note: If the total number of rows is less than 65,536 the file is downloaded as an .XLS (prior version of Excel) file. Otherwise, for more rows the file is downloaded as

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an .XLSX (new-version) file.

Generate reports directly from employees and jobs tabs

Users can now easily select records on the Employees or Jobs screen and use this selection as a filter on an Employee or Job-based report. Using the normal TRC screen filter, a user selects the desired records, selects "run reports" from the Select Action dropdown, selects the Standard report that the user would like the filter selection applied to, and the selects whether the report should be rendered in .PDF or Excel format.

Create charts as report format

TRC now offers the ability to create charts as a report format. Three types of charts are available:

1. General Purpose charts with lines, bars, and scatterplots,

2. Differential Charts that show the differentials between employee pay, market, and/or midpoints,

3. Pay Mix Chart that shows the distribution of pay elements that make up employee pay.

Refer to the instructional video posted to TRC for complete instructions in creating and printing charts.

Show distinct values in Advanced Reports

A new checkbox option has been added to Advanced Reports to show distinct values. If your output would have generated multiple rows with identical values, you can select this option to output unique values only.

Structure fields added to Advanced Reports

Structure fields have been added to Advanced Reports: structure currency code, min/mid and mid/max

UseInSurveyParticipation added to Advanced Reports

A UseInSurveyParticipation indicator has been added to Advanced Reports. This is linked to the flag associated with each survey match.

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Tools jobGradeLinkTypeID is now visible on Link window

The jobGradeLinkTypeID is now visible (read-only) on the Link window. This is needed if you are updating your jobgrades.txt file for a new Grade Link Type.

To access, choose menu items:

Tools Miscellaneous Job Grade

Administrator Administrators can assign restricted user view

Data Administrators can now control permissions so that users have a restricted view of the data. Specifically the data administrator can create a view and assign that view to one or more users. Those users are restricted from having the ability to change their view.

There are two new permission groups: “Can see view selector” and “View information screens.” Initially all users will be given these permissions.

Removing the new permission group “Can see view selector” disables the user from changing their view.

Removing the new permission group “View information screens” disables the user from seeing the information pop-up on the employee and jobs views.

Removing the additional existing permission groups “Report User”, “Custom Data Generator User”, “Structure User” and “Planning User” sufficiently limits the user’s ability to see anything other than the columns in the views that are allowed.

To manage user groups, choose menu options:

Tools User RightsUser Group Membership

Administrators can now assign Change and View-only Entities

Data administrators can now assign users the permission to Change (edit) data or just View data. This effects how the user works with:

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Employees

Jobs and their Matches

Structures

Analyses

Surveys

With the release of TRC 6.0, all users will be initialized with permission to Change data as this reflects existing access rights.

The screenshot below shows the new screen for assigning entities.

To manage these permissions, choose menu options:

Tools User RightsSet User Entities

Data Administrators can now maintain the email distribution for HRIS Import Notification

Data Administrators can now maintain the email distribution list for messages when the data file imports either fail or succeed. Multiple emails must be separated by a semi-colon and there is a 128-character limit. For multiple recipients we advise that you create a distribution list and enter the email address for that rather

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than individual names.

To access this functionality, choose menu items:

Tools Import/Export DataSet up HRIS Import click on Edit pencil