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V38.6.0 | Compas Maintenance | Release Notes

Dionne Gangadeen
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🚀Overview

We are pleased to announce Compas Maintenance Version 38.6.0. This includes a series of enhancements and bug fixes aimed at improving efficacy and functionality.

Disclaimer:

  • All the developments and fixes detailed in the release notes are implemented across all customer environments. However, depending on your company's settings and permissions, certain features may not be accessible or relevant.

🎉Enhancements and New Features

[ENHANCEMENT] [COMPAS CLOUD (OFFICE)/ONBOARD/CSSWEB] [CLAIM ID PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENTS]

  • Description:
    • In Compas Office, Compas Onboard, and CssWeb, performance improvements have been applied for crew when adding claims.
  • Reproduction steps:
    • Log in (Compas) | Enter Crew ID | Crew Profile | Payroll (tab) | Claims (tab)
  • Audience:
    • This is applicable for all users.

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[ENHANCEMENT] [COMPAS CLOUD (OFFICE)] [COST ALLOCATION POSTING AMENDMENTS AND UPDATES]

  • Description:
    • The following changes have been made to the GL07 interface:
      • For all transactions of type accrual reversal, encashment, and backpay adjustments resulting to reversal of accrual, these have been excluded from the existing GL07 files and a new file can be generated for such transactions.
      • This new file will have:
        • Fixed value "LV" in the tags <agrlib:ReportClient> and <agrlib:CompanyCode>
        • The name LV_GL07_YYYYMMDD.xml and will be included in the same zip archive as other GL07 xml files.
        • The accrual reversal, encashment, and adjustments transactions that are part of backpay adjustments will be treated in the same manner.
        • The new file will be 1 common file for all such transactions.
      • The debit GL A/c (expense) code for transactions pertaining to crew earnings have been replaced with the movement category code if available.
        • This is applicable for all transactions except accrued earnings.
        • For backpay or payroll reopen adjustments, the GL account code in the current month supersedes the previous month GL account code.
        • This debit GL A/c code overriding is also applied to backpay transactions included in the payroll.
        • The movement category code is looked up of payroll endorsement as per Compas standard functionality.
  • Reproduction steps:
    • N/A
  • Audience: 
    • This is applicable for all users.

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------[ENHANCEMENT] [COMPAS CLOUD (OFFICE)] [ABILITY FOR BRAZILIAN MOVEMENTS REPORT TO BE DROPPED IN SPECIFIED FOLDER AT SPECIFIED INTERVALS]

  • Description:
    • The Brazilian movements report generated as an XML report will now be dropped into the following folder by 10th of the month.
    • For example, the May 2025 payroll report will be dropped into the folder by 10th June 2025:
      • Root Folder: Brazil_Payroll
      • Location: Brazil_Payroll\XML
  • Reproduction steps:
    • N/A
  • Audience:
    • This is applicable for all users.
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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------[ENHANCEMENT] [COMPAS CLOUD (OFFICE)] [NOR NET WAGE REFUND | UPPER LIMIT UPDATE, TAX PER TERM, AND REFUND BI]

  • Description:
    • Upper Limit Update
      • Current: For refund entitlements other than ‘IB’ with a Vessel flag registry of ‘NOR petroleum/NIS construction vessel’, the maximum calculation limit is 36,667 NOK.
      • Present: For refund entitlements other than ‘IB’ with a Vessel flag registry of ‘NOR petroleum/NIS construction vessel’, the maximum calculation limit is 37,585 NOK.
    • Tax Per Term
      • In the tax per term column, only the 'TAX_OW', 'TAX_AW', and 'ADDITIONAL_TAX' are considered.
      • The ‘TAX TOTAL’ is not considered.
    • New Refund Entitlement Type Added
      • In the ‘Legend: Refund entitlement’ table, a new type titled ‘IBI’ has been added.
  • Reproduction steps:
    • Log in (Compas) | Payroll | Norwegian Payroll | Reports | Net Wage Refund Report
  • Audience: 
    • This is applicable for all users.

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------[ENHANCEMENT] [COMPAS CLOUD (OFFICE)] [NET WAGE REFUND AND NET WAGE TRAINING POSITION | NORWEGIAN REPORT COLUMN HEADINGS MODIFIED]

  • Description:
    • The 'Net wage refund' and 'Net wage training position' reports have been modified:
      • Net wage refund
        • The knadsbelàcolumn has been removed.
        • The following column names have been updated:
          • Nasjonalitet has been updated to Nasjonalitet (Land).
          • Stilling has been updated to Stilling (Stilling STCW).
          • Skattekommune has been updated to Skattekommune (Skattekommune).
          • Refusjonsberettiget has been updated to Refusjonsberettiget (Refusjonsberettiget).
      • Net wage training position
        • The following column names have been updated:
          • Nasjonalitet has been updated to Nasjonalitet (Land).
          • Stilling has been updated to Stilling (Stilling STCW).
          • Skattekommune has been updated to Skattekommune (Skattekommune).
          • Refusjonsberettiget has been updated to Refusjonsberettiget (Refusjonsberettiget).
          • Typeopplæring has been updated to Typeopplæring (TypeOpplà ¦ ring).
          • Fradato has been updated to Fradato (dd.mm.åååå).
          • Tildato has been updated to Tildato (dd.mm.åååå).
  • Reproduction steps:
    • Log in (Compas) | Payroll | Norwegian Payroll | Reports | Net wage refund/Net wage training positions
  • Audience: 
    • This is applicable for all users.

 

🛠️Bug Fixes

[COMPAS CLOUD (OFFICE)] [HEADCOUNT ANALYSIS | CREW CALCULATOR (OWNER FILTER) INCORRECTLY POPULATED]

  • Issue:

    • When using the crew calculator with the 'Owner' filter, the report did not populate correctly, showing crew IDs from both owner and fleet instead.

  • Reproduction steps:
    • Log in (Compas) | Crew | Headcount Analysis | Crew calculator
  • Affected Users: 
    • This is applicable for all users.
  • Outcome:
    • This issue has been fixed.

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------[COMPAS CLOUD (OFFICE)/COMPAS ONBOARD/COMPAS CSS] [PAYSLIP TYPE OPTIONS ON COMPAS OFFICE DIFFERED FROM ONBOARD AND CSS]

  • Issue:
    • When the permission ‘Can only print payslip’ was set, the options for payslip type differed between Compas Office, Compas Onboard, and Compas CSS.
  • Reproduction steps:
    • Compas Cloud (Office): Log in | Enter Crew ID | Crew Profile | Payroll (tab) | Payroll (tab) | Print payslips
    • Compas Onboard: Log in | Payroll | Payroll | Print payslips
    • Compas CSS: Log in | Payroll | Payroll | Print payslips
  • Affected Users: 
    • This is applicable for all users.
  • Outcome:
    • This issue has been fixed.
    • When the 'Can only print payslip' permission is true, the Danish payslip option must always be visible in the payment types list in all applications (Compas Office, Compas Onboard, and Compas CSS) for crews under the Danish tax regime, provided the 'Display Danish Payslip' parameter is set to 'Y'.

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------[COMPAS CLOUD (OFFICE)] [ERROR APPEARED WHEN GENERATING ‘STATUS BY’ QUALIFICATIONS REPORT]

  • Issue:
    • When trying to access and generate a ‘Status’, ‘Status as of’, or ‘Status by qualification’, report, an error appeared.
  • Error:
    • 'An error occurred while processing your request. Please contact the site administrator. Error id: 142418'
  • Reproduction steps:
    • Log in (Compas) | Training | Qualifications | Status, Status as of, or Status by qualification (report)
  • Affected Users:
    • This is applicable for all users.
  • Outcome:
    • This issue has been fixed.

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------[COMPAS CLOUD (OFFICE)] [NUMBER OF SKAT PAYABLE DAYS AND HOURS DID NOT CONSIDER NUMBER OF PAYABLE DAYS]

  • Issue:

    • The number of payable days and payable hours that should have been based on payable days, showed the full month.

  • Reproduction steps:
    • Log in (Compas) | Payroll | Danish Payroll | Skat - send request | Select Company, Year, and Month.
  • Affected Users:
    • This is applicable for all users.
  • Outcome:
    • This issue has been fixed.
    • The system calculates payable days as follows:
      • For a full month's pay, it shows total calendar days and payable hours in the Skat report.
      • For less than a full month's pay, it displays payable days and prorated hours.
      • If days are encashed, the current logic remains unchanged.

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------[COMPAS ONBOARD] [ERROR APPEARED FOR OFFSIGNER CREW WITH NEGATIVE LEAVE BALANCE]

  • Issue:
    • An error occurred for offsigners with a negative leave balance and positive estimated days.*
      • Specifically, when the latest payroll was closed, it failed to recognise the same future movement and start date.
      • Users were unable to confirm the crew in the Compas Onboard Planned Event and an error appeared.
  • Error:
    • 'Due date cannot be earlier than start date'.
  • Reproduction steps:
    • Log in (Compas Onboard) | Crew | Planned Event | Planned Event Details
  • Affected Users:
    • This is applicable for all users.
  • Outcome:
    • This issue has been fixed.

*The offsigner with a negative leave balance should have had a future movement due date set to the same start date, avoiding any past dates.

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------[COMPAS CLOUD (OFFICE)] [ERROR APPEARED WHEN GENERATING 'SIGN ON BY SOURCE' REPORT]

  • Issue:
    • When trying to generate a ‘Sign on by source’ report and selecting ‘No’ for ‘Include Promotions’, an error appeared.
  • Error:
    • ‘An error occurred while processing your request.’
    • (Admin | Errors) ‘Exception of type 'System.Web.HttpUnhandledException' was thrown. - Incorrect syntax near the keyword 'INNER'. Incorrect syntax near the keyword 'AS'. Incorrect syntax near the keyword 'AS'.’
  • Reproduction steps:

    • Log in (Compas) | Crew | Crew onboard/signed off | Reports | (Report:) Sign on by source | Submit | (Include Promotions) No

  • Affected Users: 
    • This is applicable for all users.
  • Outcome:
    • This issue has been fixed.

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------[COMPAS CLOUD (OFFICE)] [ERROR WHEN GENERATING ‘DANISH ASSISTANCE FEE’ REPORT]

  • Issue:

    • When generating a ‘Danish assistance fee’ report , a 504-gateway time-out error appeared.

  • Error:
    • '504 Gateway Time-out.'
  • Reproduction steps:

    • Log in (Compas) | Crew | Crew onboard/signed off | Reports | (Report:) Danish assistance fee | Submit

  • Affected Users:
    • This is applicable for all users.
  • Outcome:
    • This issue has been fixed.

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------[COMPAS CLOUD (OFFICE)] [EPF MALAYSIA ROUNDING OFF LOGIC | 60-YEAR-OLD AND ABOVE SEAFARERS]

  • Issue:

    • The employee contribution should be 0 and the employer contribution was calculated at 6% instead of 4%.

      • The system did not compute the EPF statutory contribution for Malaysians above 60 years old, as per the requirement set by the statutory body.

      • Malaysians who are age 60 and above, fall under Stage 2, whereby, the employee will have no contribution, while the employer’s contribution will be at 4%.

  • Reproduction steps:
    • Log in (Compas) | Payroll | Payroll Overview | (click) View Payroll | Search the crew and click the expand icon to view the EPF contribution.
  • Affected Users:
    • This is applicable for all users.
  • Outcome:
    • This issue has been fixed.

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------[COMPAS CLOUD (OFFICE)] [‘COURSE REQUESTED’ REPORT FILTERS DID NOT PERFORM ACCORDING TO USER PERMISSION]

  • Issue:
    • On the ‘Courses Requested’ page, the following filters were not in sync with the user's permission (granted in terms of the Rank or Manning Office):
      • From
      • To
      • Ranks
      • Manning office
      • Nationalities
      • Course
      • Course Type
      • Request Source
      • Request Status
  • Reproduction steps:
    • Log in (Compas) | Training | Reports | Course Requested
  • Affected Users:
    • This is applicable for all users.
  • Outcome:
    • This issue has been fixed.

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------[COMPAS CLOUD (OFFICE)] [LOGO AND PHOTO WERE MISSING FROM STANDARD CV]

  • Issue:
    • When trying to generate a standard CV for a crew member, the logo and photo were missing from the document.
  • Reproduction steps:
    • Log in (Compas) | Enter Crew ID | Crew Profile | Personal (tab) | Personal Documents (tab) | Standard CV (Word) 
  • Affected Users:
    • This is applicable for all users. 
  • Outcome:
    • This issue has been fixed.

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------[COMPAS CLOUD (OFFICE)] [E-APPROVALS WERE MISSING FROM SUMMARY REPORT]

  • Issue:
    • The e-approvals summary report did not show all approvals. For example, if CID 1234 had 2 appraisals, only 1 appeared in the report.
  • Reproduction steps:
    • Log in (Compas) | Crew | E-Approvals | Reports | Summary Report
  • Affected Users:
    • This is applicable for all users.
  • Outcome:
    • This issue has been fixed.

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------[COMPAS CLOUD (OFFICE)] [DOCUMENT VERIFICATION CHECKMARK DISAPPEARED]

  • Issue:
    • In the ‘Crew’ profile, specifically on the ‘Books’, ‘Licenses’, ‘Passport’, and ‘Vaccination’ tabs, the document verification mark did not appear on some documents even though they were verified.
      • (If verified, the checkmark will appear; if not, it won't.)
  • Reproduction steps: 
    • Log in (Compas) | Enter Crew ID | Crew Profile | Documents (tab) | Books / Licenses / Passport / Vaccination (tabs)
  • Affected Users: 
    • This is applicable for all users.
  • Outcome:
    • This issue has been fixed.

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------[COMPAS CLOUD (OFFICE)] [E-SIGNATURE DID NOT SAVE WHEN CLICKING ‘SUBMIT’ IN THE OFFICE STAGE]

  • Issue:
    • The signature input was not saved during the office stage, leaving the box empty post-submission and causing the workflow to remain in progress instead of being marked as complete.
  • Reproduction steps:
    • Log in (Compas) | Enter Crew ID | Crew Profile | Services (tab) | Contracts (tab)| Edit (button) | Select relevant template (to start e-signature workflow). | Repeat the first 3 steps. | + (button) | Click relevant stage (to open signing page). | Click signature sign in page. | Upload (button) | Submit (button)
  • Affected Users: 
    • This is applicable for all users.
  • Outcome:
    • This issue has been fixed.

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------[COMPAS CLOUD (OFFICE)] [PAYROLL OVERVIEW | FILTER FUNCTIONALITY ISSUE]

  • Issue:
    • Previously, the crew member's movements were duplicated.
      • For example, when filtering by vessel X, the movements from vessel Y were duplicated, and when filtering by vessel Y, the movements from vessel X were duplicated.
  • Reproduction steps:
    • Log in (Compas) | Payroll | Payroll Overview | (select) Payroll Group | Vessel Filter
  • Affected Users: 
    • This is applicable for all users.
  • Outcome:
    • This issue has been fixed.

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------[COMPAS CLOUD (OFFICE)] [‘PENSIONELEMENTSBACKPAYINTEGRATION’ BUG]

  • Issue:
    • The backpayment calculation is incorrect; there should be none showing for 26-28 February.
    • If a VAR crew receives overtime and the last movement of the month does not generate Hypotax, the deducted Hypotax from their previous salary counts as earnings.
  • Error:
    • ‘Exceeded Overtime 6.5Hr’
  • Reproduction steps:
    • Log in (Compas) | Payroll | Payroll Overview | Backpay Details | Detailed View
  • Affected Users: 
    • This is applicable for all users.
  • Outcome:
    • This issue has been fixed.

Summary

We appreciate your continued partnership and welcome any feedback you have on this latest update. If you have any questions or need further assistance, please feel free to reach out to our support team.

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