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.