Return to the workplace 09-30-2021 11:10 AM

[narpad]

(Updated 9/9/2020)

Hi Team,

We’re delighted to announce v1.1 of the Power Platform Return to the workplace solution. We’ve heard your feedback and incorporated many of the requirements our customers have been asking for with this release. The new solution will be released on AppSource today. Summary is here but please also see below for more details.

• Enhancements for Location Readiness and Care Management including phase transitions and updates to the leadership and case manager dashboards
• Employee Health and Safety updates including booking a daily pass by floor and area along with arrival time.
• New Location Management app including capability to manage and report on capacity, arrival windows, and integration capabilities for building entry systems.

APSOURCE REL 1.1 links

App

https://aka.ms/rtw-app

Power BI

Location Readiness Dashboard

https://aka.ms/rtw-leadershippbi

Workplace Care Management Dashboard

https://aka.ms/rtw-workplacepbi

Facility Management Dashboard

https://aka.ms/rtw-facilitypbi

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Reopen responsibly, monitor intelligently, and protect continuously with solutions for a safer work environment. Equip facility managers and task force leaders to make informed decisions to safely reopen locations. Empower employees to return confidently with self-service tools for working safely and productively. Help health and safety leaders ensure the care and well-being of your workforce.

Learn more about the solution , watch the video and read the documentation to understand capabilities and working with the solution.

[bpayst]

Thanks for the helpful video @AbrahamSaldana . We're trying to use the newly released vaccination attestations, but it's not appearing for us after following the instructions. Any ideas why we're not seeing that?

[BSCC_MChung]

@Ian_Bourne did you ever figure out a solution to 'check in' users?

[ved]

@BSCC_MChungand @Ian Bourne, I am the PM responsible for Return to Workplace. Check-in is emerging as a growing priority for RTW customers. Would love to understand how your organizations are thinking of the Check-in process and how the data is utilized. We can get on a call if that works better, please let me know.

Thanks,

Vedang  

[ved]

@bpayst , As always, thank you for highlighting the issue. 

For the group, RTW dashboards are linked to external sources (e.g., USAFacts) to pull COVID-data at a state/county level. When one of these sources updates their data schema or the connected URL, the refresh does not function as expected. In this case, USAFacts changed their source URL for the data. Here are the instructions for the fix for the facility safety management dashboard.  

[bpayst]

I can confirm that this does resolve the problem. Note that you have to make the same changes to the Leadership dashboard as well as the Facility Manager one. @ved thanks for the quick turn around on the fix. Any word on my question about the vaccination attestation not appearing?

[nitingupta4u]

Hi Narpad,

Seems like the deployment step 5 has changed as I am stuck on the step where it is mentioned that look for section in the customizations.xml file but no such section exists in the file. 

"Open the customizations.xml file and look for the section similar to the XML code specified in this example: /powerapps/maker/model-driven-apps/embed-powerbi-report-in-system-form#embed-without-contextual-filtering"

Appreciate if you can please verify that this is a valid step or any alternatives available to fix the power bi report on the form.

Thanks

Nitin

[ved]

@nitingupta4u , Here is a short demo video on how the dashboard can be embedded in the facility safety management model-driven app: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0B1hGBBfWmE

[bpayst]

Following up on my own question - the issue with vaccinations not appearing was due to a customization we had made (and subsequently forgot about as it was minor and early on in the releases). Removing the unmanaged layer from the solution corrected that.

[BSCC_MCHUNG1]

@EdreiMpanduki was this ever answered/resolved? we are also facing the same issue where we want to change some of the language on the app but are unable to find where to do this in the lookup table. 

[DevMonkey]

Documentation update request:
Please include licensing requirements under the prerequisites section of the Prerequisites sub-heading in "Deploy the Return to Workplace Solution" at Deploy the Return to Workplace solution | Microsoft Docs

Currently, licensing requirements are provided in the Overview, but not all users require an overview and go immediately to Deploy. Given that the licensing is a prerequisite, it would seem appropriate to include this in the deployment documentation.