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July 2014

Recommended Browsers and Settings for HCOM

July 17, 2014

Harvard's Strategic Procurement office has produced a work instruction and a short simulation on the recommended browsers and browser settings when using HCOM.  The work instruction and simulation include troubleshooting steps users can take when encountering an issue while using a recommended browser.

If you are an HCOM user, please take a moment to download the PDF work instruction or view the ...

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Change to How HUIDs Are Assigned Gives New Harvard “Persons of Interest” One ID for Life

July 17, 2014

The Identity and Access Management (IAM) team at Harvard University Information Technology (HUIT) is pleased to announce that beginning July 9, 2014, all Persons of Interest (POIs) new to Harvard will be issued Harvard ID (HUID) numbers using the IDGen system. IDGen has a built-in matching algorithm that greatly reduces the incidence of duplicates, while the previous method of issuing POI-specific Harvard ID numbers that begin with a leading zero lacked a programmatic check for potential identity matches. While...

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Do you have the need for a system to register and track employee trainings?

July 17, 2014

The Center for Workplace Development is reaching out to schools and departments to gather the business requirements for a system to register and track employee trainings.  The goal of the selected tool is to replace whatever you are doing locally with an enterprise Learning Management System (LMS)  that all of Harvard can utilize.  This tool will be used for tracking instructor-led trainings, online courses and webinars for trainings taken in and outside of the University.

If you have been keeping track of employee trainings on a piece of paper, Excel spreadsheet, LMS...

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Upcoming System Outages for Electronic Submission Tracking and Reporting (ESTR)

July 17, 2014

ESTR will be unavailable on the following weekly schedule to complete regular system maintenance:

  • Sundays through July 27, 2014: from 12:30 AM EST until 5:30 AM EST
  • Saturdays beginning August 2, 2014: from 12:30 AM EST until 2:30 AM EST 

Details about system availability and scheduled releases, along with job aids and reference materials are available on the ESTR Support Site:...

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Period of Work Performed added to the Detailed Listing (csv) in support of effort reporting (ecrt)

July 17, 2014

The Period of Work Performed (PWP) entered on an ADI, manual or Wasabi salary journals has now been added to the CSV version of the Detailed Listing in CREW. It can be found as the last column on the right and is labeled Period of Work Performed. The PWP will not be found on payroll entries (weekly, bi-weekly, and monthly payroll): those dates are input into ecrt as part of the automatic payroll data feeds