OrangeHRM 2.1 Mock UIs

Ruchira joins OrangeHRM

Ruchira Amarasinghe joined OrangeHRM as Chief Architect. Based in Texas, USA, he will be responsible for the high level architecture of OrangeHRM.

Prior to OrangeHRM Ruchira worked at hSenid Software for over 5 years as a Senior software engineer, working on a wide range of enterprise systems including payment solutions, mobile content delivery systems, billing and stock trading systems.

Ruchira has a BS in Electrical Engineering from University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka. He is also a former Chess champion of Sri Lanka.

OrangeHRM 2.1 Scenarios Defined

We have defined the scenarios for OrangeHRM 2.1 based on the response received in OrangeFuture section in our wiki. We plan to release OrangeHRM 2.1 in January 2007. More features from the wiki will be selected for future releases

Here's the scenario:

Apply leave for a range of days

Define holidays

It was the new year and Carol decided to enter the holidays for the year to OrangeHRM. She entered all public holidays and a few company holiday that are applicable for all staff. She knew that OrangeHRM would treat these days as holidays for all employees.

Apply for leave

Ashok was planning his vacation. He had saved enough annual leave and it was time to take it. He logged into OrangeHRM using his user id and password and accessed the tab for leave and accessed apply leave from the menu. He was taken to a page which allowed him to select a range of days before applying for leave. He could select from date and to date from using calendars. He chose the Monday and Friday of next week as the from and to dates respectively and applied for leave.

Having applied he accessed his leave list and saw that it showed the range of days he had applied for and showed the status as Pending Approval. Also he was shown the number of dates applied for and it showed 4. Ashok knew that this was due to next Wednesday being a public holiday.

Auto notification email of employee applying leave

Robert checked his email after lunch and immediately noticed there was an email from OrangeHRM informing about a leave application that he needs to approve. He opened the email and saw that Ashok has applied for email for the entire next week. He logged into OrangeHRM accessed the leave module and approved leave for Ashok.

Ashok got a notification for an email. He checked his mail and saw an email from OrangeHRM. He opened the email and saw that his supervisor, Robert has approved his leave for next week.

User defines employee id

Emily was given the task of adding information of a newly joined employee to OrangeHRM. She accessed the PIM tab in OrangeHRM and created an employee by specifying the employee id and other details of the employee. The company uses a unique employee id to identify an employee.

More columns with employee list

Display more columns with employee list

Emily saw that the employee list in PIM included columns of employee id, name, title, department and supervisor. This gave her a very good idea of the internal hierarchy. Since she was new to the company this was very helpful.

Search with more fields

She was also happy to see that it was possible to search employees based on all the fields displayed in the list. This made her life easy as she wanted to have a quick way to select an employee based on a major field without having to generate a report.

Have admin leave summary in one screen

It was time to add leave entitlements for the new year. Carol accessed leave summary as HR administrator and was presented with a spreadsheet like view with all employees listed. She entered and saved entitlements for each employee for each type type of leave. She preferred this view more than the previous way of updating employee data per each employee.

Reports

Have first name in reports

Carol also noticed that now she could view first name on an employee in a report. This made sense as they had number of employees who had the same last name.

More fields in reports

There were other new fields that made reports more flexible. These were "Reports-to", "Reporting-Method", 'Skills" "Joining Date", "Sub-division", "Contract", "Year of passing (from education)", "Years of Experience".

Time zones of OrangeHRM team

OrangeHRM team is truely distributed working from all around the world. You can see the current times of all OrangeHRM team members here.

Define Orange Future

We've introduced a new way for the users to define the features they want in OrangeHRM in future releases. This is in the form of a Wiki page where any one could go and edit with their suggestions. The requirements are in the form of a narration with fictitious
characters using OrangeHRM. Varous scenes from real life will be used to explain the new features of OrangeHRM.

Define Orange Future

OrangeHRM 2.0 is released with Leave Management

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OrangeHRM 2.0 was released to Sourceforge last week with leave management.

The following features are now available:

1. HR admin can define leave types and entitlements of leave for employees.
2. Employees can apply for leave.
3. Supervisors can approve/reject leave.
4. Employees can view their leave summary.
5. Supervisors can view leave summary of employees who report to him/her.
6. HR Admin can view leave summary of all employees.

OrangeHRM 1.2.2 released with bug fixes

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OrangeHRM 1.2.2 has been released to Sourceforge. The following bugs are fixed now:

Bug Number	Description
1586102	Deleting an ethnic race deletes the employee record
1586103	Deleting a nationality deletes the employee record
1586125	Employee Info - Contact - Error in saving phone numbers
1586546	Employee Info - Pay Grade - Deleting a pay grade deletes a job title
1587434	Report to incorrect label
1587436	Report to - Error in selecting employee id
1588277	ESS User functionality does not worl
1586059	Error when searching with 'search by' not selected
1586495	Company Info - General - Clear button does not work.
1586498	Employee Info - Job - If contract is saved before job info, job info gets lost.
1587571	Company info - locations - says successfully deleted when deletion fails

OrangeHRM has passed 9000 downloads

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OrangeHRM has passed a total of 9000 downloads from SourceForge.net.

OrangeHRM featured in Open Source Loudspeaker podcast

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Open source loudspeaker is the only radio program serving the Open Source software community.

The October 24 newscast featured OrangeHRM
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OrangeHRM rises within Sourceforge top 50

OrangeHRM continued it's rise within top 50 in Sourceforge. Now it's ranked 34 which is an alltime high.
























Also, OrangeHRM had it's highest number of downloads on October; close to 2500 downloads which, is a high fugure for an Open source product especially for an enterprise product.

OrangeHRM

OrangeHRM leverages on more than 10 years of experience of developing HRM software by hSenid Software USA, Inc. Being an open source product based on Web 2.0 principles OrangeHRM attempts to reach small to medium sized organizations all over the world that require affordable software to manage their most valuable asset; people.

OrangeHRM values simplicity and aims to reach people who are not familiar with technology. A simple AMP stack based installer makes it easy to install and get started by anyone, and the intuitive user interface makes it easy to get started without studying lengthy manuals. Being a web based product the user is able to use the product from any operating system through a web browser and the product can be installed on both Windows and Linux.

Having only released the basic features to the community OrangeHRM depends on the community to determine the product roadmap by giving feedback through forums and email groups. The product has improved with frequent iterative releases in response to community reported defects and feature requests. This high level of activity has placed OrangeHRM within top 50 in SourceForge.

Use of lightweight open source technologies of MySQL, PHP and Apache enables OrangeHRM to provide users with a robust, lightweight product and the rich user interfaces achieved with AJAX make the OrangeHRM experience pleasurable.