Mercury v32 Release Notes
Welcome to the Release Notes for the latest version of Mercury.
Version 32 will be released on the following schedule:
| Date | Start time | Release Group(s) |
| 6th January 2025 | 09:00 | Sandbox environments |
| 18th January 2025 | 06:00 | Standard EMEA / APAC / USA Production environments |
| 25th January 2025 | 06:00 | Sandbox customer Production environments |
In this release we are pleased to bring you a number of improvements, all designed to make Mercury faster and more intuitive and provide you with a more consistent user experience.
Please note – in the initial release notes we mentioned some upcoming improvements to the Email Editor. During testing we identified an issue with this and so we will not be releasing this as part of v32; apologies for any inconvenience this may cause.
The release notes are available for you here, and you can use the links below to jump straight to the area you are interested in.
There is also an itemised version of the release notes available, but here are some highlights from v32 to whet your appetite!
v32 Highlights
Enhancements to Placements
In v32 we have focussed on making improvements to the Placements area of Mercury, adding in some additional functionality and making some software fixes.
These have all been done to make it easier for you to manage Placements and should provide a better, more consistent user experience.
Click here for more information.
Shortlist form enhancements
We have added in some new functionality to the Shortlist form so that it is easier to arrange and manage interviews.
Click here for more information.
Performance improvements
We’ve improved the performance and load times on the Mercury forms. This will be particularly relevant to clients who have international offices.
Full v32 Release Notes
Enhancements to Placements Related to development item numbers: 47305, 54134, 61836, 65413, 67300, 67443, 61866
The following improvements have been made the Placements functionality in Mercury to help you make and manage Placements more effectively.
- When clicking the NEW button or when a placement is created by accepting a shortlist, the Accounts Contact now defaults as Invoice Contact on the associated placements.
This will reduce the amount of data that you need to populate and so make it quicker to use this part of Mercury.
- A new security role – Mercury – Cannot Create New Placement – has been created so that you can limit who is able to use the +New button to create a Placement.
This provides a better user experience and improved data within your Mercury platform as the quick create could miss some of the important information needed when creating a Placement.
- We have added the ability to Follow/Unfollow a Placement which can be viewed in Placements I Follow and Placements Being Followed.
NOTE: this feature needs to be enabled before it can be used – please log into your Customer Support Portal and raise a request case to get this set up.
This makes it easier for you to see which Placements you want to keep track of.
- The Finance Account Reference field will now copy its value to a cloned/extended placement. If this field is blank on the placement, it will copy the value from the placement's client's Finance Account Reference field. If this field is excluded from the exclude clone/extend configs, then this field will never copy over to a cloned/extended placement.
To exclude fields being copied from the cloned or extended placements, the below Configuration Items need to be updated accordingly:
- EXCLUDE_FIELDS_CLONE_PLACEMENT
- EXCLUDE_FIELDS_EXTEND_PLACEMENT
- There are two new Configuration Items that relate to editing Placements at specified statuses.
- PREVENT_PLACEMENT_EDIT_AT_STATUS: here you specify the Placement Status(es) that make the placement fields read-only for users without a particular role.
- ROLES_ALLOWED_PLACEMENT_EDIT_AT_STATUS: here you specify the Security Role exceptions for users that can edit the placement fields that are locked for most users.
- Actual End Date
- Likely to Extend
- Candidate Docs Issued
- Candidate Docs Received
- Client Docs Issued
- Client Docs Received
- Within a Placement Validation the Finalised toggle is no longer viewable. Instead there is a new Finalised ribbon button.
Shortlist form enhancements
Related to development item numbers: 54103, 54141, 58237, 64778
We have added some functionality to the Shortlist form within Mercury to make it easier to manage shortlisting and arranging interviews for shortlisted candidates including:
- We’ve added the ability to email a hiring manager when submitting a candidate via “update”.
This will make it easier and quicker to send a CV by email as part of your workflow.
- You can now search for an interviewer in alphabetical order and shown first Client contacts from the client and then any associated contacts from within the hierarchy.
- Phone numbers are now brought through from the record if they exist and are also available from a drop down. If there is a phone number in the record you are able to type one in.
This makes it easier to arrange and manage interviews.
- You now have the ability to show or hide the Progress Candidate button
This will mean that you can decide which version of progressing a candidate you would like to use.
Click to see Knowledge Base article
Software fixes
Here is a list of fixes we’ve put in place in Mercury v32.| 28456: | Contact not hierarchy (New Placement Form) |
| The Invoice/Paperwork Contact was previously not working as expected on Mercury Placement Form with users unable to select a Client Contact from within the Client hierarchy. This has now been resolved. | |
| 66382: | Commission Split Lines - Vacancy progressed to Placement, Fee/GP Amount not updating |
| When a temp or contract Vacancy was progressed to Placement, active Commission Split Lines copy to the Placement but Fee/GP Amount = 0 and End Date was also blank. Even when this was populated, the Commission Split Lines did not update with the True Gross Profit in the Fee/GP Amount column, therefore calculations did not occur so Split Total and Split Total Percentage remained at 0. This has now been resolved. | |
| 66387: | Calculated Values not updating when Placement Extended |
| Extending a Temp or Contract Placement did not always recalculate Calculated Values for the new duration stipulated, instead it retained values from the original Placement. This has now been changed so that the Calculated Values recalculate on the Extension, taking into consideration the Start and End dates | |
| 72287: | Placement V2 form - States filter not working correctly |
| An error was identified where the Mercury Placement form displayed random states under the state field when Country US is selected. This has now been resolved. | |
| 38371: | Placement Rates are copied from original Placement on extended Placements |
| When extending a Placement the 'Rates' had a Start Date from the original Placement and so when checking the “Placement Rate” on extended Placements the dates, pay, etc are the same as the original Placement. Now the Placement Rates are taken from the Start Date of the new extended Placement | |
| 57947: | Shortlist Gross Profit not Calculating for Fixed / Staged |
| An error meant that Gross Profit was not calculating automatically on Shortlist or Placement when ‘Fee Based On’ field was ‘Fixed’ or ‘Staged’. This has now been resolved | |
| 73168: | Placement Status Flow failing |
| The Placement Status flow was failing due to an error. This has now been resolved. | |
| 69621: | Activity Grid not preserving selected environment Phone Calls |
| There was an error where the new Activity Grid was showing error screens / no Phone Calls for certain Individuals. This has now been resolved. | |
| 74480: | Upload CV button appearing when it shouldn't |
| We identified an issue where the Ribbon Button for on-demand parsing was appearing when it should not have. This has now been resolved. | |
| 56038: | Latest Source on Contact not being updated new application is created |
| Previously the “Latest Source” field on contact records was not updated when emails received from subsequent sources i.e. an application. This has now been resolved. | |
| 59843: | Compliance Statuses for Offboarding are created incorrectly where no Agreement exists |
| Where a Compliance Criterion is set to "Client Specifiable?" and "Yes" it should only be applied to Placements that have an Agreement AND that Agreement is included in the Compliance Criterion. For Offboarding Compliance Criterion, if Client Specifiable is set to "Yes", it results in Compliance Statuses getting created for all placements without an Agreement. This has now been resolved. | |
| 60242: | Country not showing on Contact Address |
| We have fixed an issue that when opening an Address for a Contact, Country was not showing | |
| 62888: | Vacancy Currency |
| Previously, when changing the main Currency on the Vacancy, the hidden Currency fields, Gross Profit Currency, for example was not updated. This has now been resolved. | |
| 71980: | Standard Rate Type not updating on Placement Extension |
| We identified an issue where when a Placement was extended and a different Extension standard rate had been selected in the Extension modal, the Extended Placement still had the Standard Rate Type from the original Placement and not the one selected in the extension modal. This has now been resolved. | |
Mercury Assist – icons
We have created a range of new icons that you will soon start to see appear in Mercury Assist. These are designed to help you easily identify where there is additional support available for you to access directly in the Mercury Platform.This shows that there is a smart walk-through available which will take you step by step through a particular area of Mercury.
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This indicates that there is a video that will show you more information about a particular feature or function within Mercury.
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This shows that there is an article that supports this part of Mercury. You can view this to find out more information.
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This indicates that this is a new item or feature enhancement within Mercury.
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Important additional information for Mercury System Admins
If you are a Mercury System Admin of an organisation using bespoke customisations, please see the additional information here.