Hello Fellow Concur Admins!
I for one am glad to see the end of the icons. Although I find them useful, and can tell with a glance what is what, it has been incredibly painful to help my users to understand them. Having actual words will be much easier for them. I will, however, miss being able to hover over them to see the details.
The improved hotel itemizations are AMAZING. Unfortunately, it's a bit late, as our users complained so vociferously about it after Concur implementation that management opted to remove the requirement entirely.
A couple of things I do NOT like...
- The "view receipts in new window" is an incredibly helpful tool for any admin, so the lack of it in the new UI is a problem for me. I use it all the time, and move the receipt window to my second monitor so that I can view the receipts while looking at expense lines. Since the window stays open even after you exit the expense report, it makes it so easy to compare receipts on potential duplicate expenses.
- Where is the option to add an approver to an expense report, or even see the approval flow? Due to some oddities with how our HR system imports employee details into Concur, we have many employees who show one manager as their approver, but their actual expense approver is a different manager. These people have to add the second manager to the flow for every report they submit. Cumbersome, yes, but until we can get our HR system to play nice, it is the only option for us.
So far, those are the only things I have a real issue with. I was planning on rolling out the new UI to our company admins next week, but without the mass edit option for expense lines, I think I'll be holding off.
I've seen quite a few comments about this mythical fall release, when many unavailable features will become available. Can anyone tell me what the date on that will be?
Thanks!
Torie Hightower
REI Concur Ninja
