New, proper reference fields are introduced for 'Country': Country2. The existing Country picklist will no longer be supported in the future (see Preparation deadline).

The new Country2 business object also supports user translations. It is not possible to use both the Country picklist and the new BO Country2.

This Improved feature is to notify that you switch to using the Country2 BO.

In this way, Mobile apps, TMS and so on can prepare for using the new Country2 BO instead of the old picklist.

For the required configuration, see Using the Country2 field.

New, proper reference fields are introduced for 'City'. The old string reference fields will no longer be supported in the future.

The 'Cities' business object now supports user translations. These can only be used if the new City reference fields (system name CityRef) and Free integer fields - CityReference fields are used.

This Improved feature indicates that you are switching to the new fields. By enabling it, the mobile apps, TMS etc., can also use the new fields, instead of the old (non-translatable) reference fields.

For the required configuration, see Using the CityReference field.

Connect for Outlook will be replaced with a newer product: Connect for Calendars.

By activating this Improved feature, you will disable the usage of the product Connect for Outlook (C4O). Prior to activation, please migrate the data of C4O to Connect for Calendars (C4C) with the help of a Planon consultant.

Connect for Calendars benefits customer in the sense that:

Please prepare well in advance of activating the Improved feature - the effort of activating the solution and migrating/testing data is considerable.

A new 'Occupancy' feature was introduced in the Space & workplace management solution in L82. With this new feature, you will receive the following benefits:

1 - Improved and consistent user experience, with space and workspace occupancy assignments. You can directly assign a person to a space in the Space & workspace TSI without having to navigate to the Personnel TSI.

2 - Handling of multiple space occupancy assignments. You can assign multiple spaces to a person (employee) if that is required. For example, if the concept of 'primary & satellite' office applies.

3 - Support of temporary space occupancy assignments. For people who need to temporarily occupy a space, users can enter the occupancy start and end dates on the space occupancy record.

4 - Improved tracking of the space occupancy history. For employees who move to different spaces within the organization, you will be able to track the space occupancy history, using the reference date button.

5 - Consolidation of all space or workspace occupancy assignments in a single place, for ease of use and reporting.

The 'Space' field on the 'Personnel' business object will no longer be editable. The 'Occupancy' business object will be used to track a person's 'Space'.

This means that the 'Space' field on the 'Personnel' business object will no longer be used in the Planon business logic, for example in system reports, macros etc.

Please prepare your configuration, TMS and Enterprise Talk accordingly. For the time being (until the Improved feature is activated), Planon will automatically create an 'Occupancy' record when a space is added or changed on a 'Personnel' record.

Starting from L98, Microsoft SQL 2022 is now supported, while support for Microsoft SQL 2017 will be discontinued in one year.

L110 will be the final release with support for Microsoft SQL 2017.

Planon is ending support for Windows Server 2016.

By activating this feature, you agree that you will no longer use Windows Server 2016.

In Release 74, the new Reservations TSI has been launched, with an improved reservation planboard, a brand new design and unique quick filter options. As a result, the existing TSI Reservations will no longer be supported from release L111, November 1, 2024. You can activate the improved feature, after which the use of the old TSI Reservations will be discontinued and you will switch completely to the new Reservations TSI. For more information on how to make the most of the possibilities of this new TSI and planboard, see the Working with the new reservations planboard.

Within the 'Thresholds for terms' business object structure, a 'base' business object with subtypes has been introduced (L100). As part of this change, a new TSI step, based on the new base business object, supporting and displaying all subtypes, has been added to the Thresholds for terms TSI. By activating this feature switch, you will remove the 'old' step which was based on the 'Percentage' subtype only. For the required configuration, see Defining dynamic thresholds (threshold groups for terms).

REST was chosen as an interface to expose Planon data to other external applications. The goal is to provide an Enterprise Application Integration solution to enable integration with external applications.

The REST API is an industry standard, it is secure, light-weight, scalable, and can handle large amounts of data. Also, it is not be necessary for customers to implement custom Planon plugins (PaaP Apps) to solve integrations problems.

All tailor-made software that is installed using a 'jar file' will no longer be executed.

This switch can be activated once all tailor-made software has been implemented by a Planon Platform app.