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Portal Release notes - 29th July 2026
This page outlines the new functionality and changes included in the Portal update available on Wednesday 29th July 2026.
Device and Access Manager
Duplicate Users
What have we done?
New functionality has been added to User Admin and People Connect to prevent the initial duplication of Users. Along with a new User resolution feature added to User Admin to reduce the time required to correct the data by support and consultants.
Why have we done this?
Several datasets have been found to contain duplicate users. These duplicates have caused the link between Time & Attendance and Device & Access Manager to be broken for some users. This has led to users not being synchronised between systems and support calls to be raised. Once the cause has been established it also requires many hours of manually editing multiple systems to remove the duplication.
How will you benefit?
Changes have been made to prevent the initial duplication of Users.
Details of the change
User will not see any material changes as these have been made in the background, the new user resolution feature will only be available to users flagged as consultants, this will be used by colleagues bade in services or support at OneAdvanced.
Add Badge Number to User Export.
What have we done?
We have added the badge number to the user export.
Why have we done this?
To improve the user export data extract.
How will you benefit?
This change allows the badge number to be included on the user export and can be used to cross reference between the users and badge numbers.
Details of the change
The Badge number will now be included in a separate field on the user export.
Access the Users option from the Device and Access Manager menu and select the option 'Download User List', once the user list had been download the badge number will now be included as the final column on the exported file.
Security enhancements
What have we done?
We are committed to ensuring that the product remains secure and have made any necessary changes for potential vulnerabilities.
Why have we done this?
To ensure our product remains secure.
How will you benefit?
Users can be re-assured that we regularly test and update our product inline with the relevant guidance to ensure that any potential vulnerabilities are mitigated.
Details of the change
Security updates required have been actioned.
PEOPLE CONNECT Version 2026.07.29.0
User Tags causing excessive service bus messages for large data sets
What have we done?
We established that for large business' with a lot of devices the terminals were accumulating in the region of 300,000 pending messages on the Device & Access Manager Service Bus queue. Every tag resync cycle was dispatching events for every employee-tag association regardless of whether they had already been sent.
Why have we done this?
We have introduced a mechanism to track which user-tag associations have already been communicated to downstream devices.
How will you benefit?
Improvements in message queues for large data sets will now avoid any delays to other messages on the service bus, such as clocking's.
Details of the change
These changes have been made to PeopleConnect and the latest version of PeopleConnect Version 2026.07.29.0 will need to be installed onto the server.
