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July 27, 2026 Release Notes

· 6 min read
Marcus Deans
Marcus Deans
Software Engineer

This is a big one: project and job time gain new ways to review where hours landed, department filters reach three busy pages, and scheduling tools help you close out stale work. Apprenticeship penalties, form accessibility, payroll mapping search, and a newly public TypeScript client round out the release.

Added​

⏱️ Review project and job time from new angles​

Project Time now has a Tabulate option. It opens time from the project's jobs in a spreadsheet-style grid, with the same grouping presets and paid-time controls available on job time grids. Financial columns still follow each viewer's permissions.

Project Time shown in a spreadsheet-style grid with worker, job, pay-period, date, paid-hours, and prevailing-wage columns

Jobs that track feature allocations also gain a By Feature tab on the Time page. It groups entries under each site feature, keeps unallocated time visible, and lets you inspect the same entries without opening each worker's time card.

A job Time page grouped by feature, including allocated feature rows and an Unallocated section

🧭 Keep long-running positions under control​

Ongoing positions now show when they last recorded time. Positions that have gone unused for more than two weeks stand out with a warning and a Trim End Date action, while bulk editing lets you trim several selected positions to the end of their last active day.

Ongoing job positions with last-time-entry ages, timeline bars, and Trim End Date actions

The Bulk Edit Positions form with Trim to last logged time selected

🗂️ Filter People, Time, and Forms by department​

The People page, pay-period Time page, and Forms Inbox now share a Department filter. Use it to focus on one crew or business unit without scanning names individually; Time uses the department each worker belonged to during the selected pay period.

The People page filtered to the Civil department

The pay-period Time page filtered to the Civil department

The Forms Inbox filtered to the Civil department

💵 Schedule pay-rate changes ahead of time (beta)​

In the Pay Rates admin beta, custom rates on a rate sheet now have a Schedule a rate change action alongside immediate editing. Choose today or a future effective date, review the pending value in the rate's history, and cancel the scheduled change before it takes effect. System-resolved rates remain read-only.

🧰 See apprenticeship-only penalties​

Jobs and projects that track apprenticeship requirements without prevailing wage now have access to the Penalties dashboard. The page shows participation and labor-hours exposure while leaving out federal and regional backpay cards that do not apply.

The Penalties dashboard for an apprenticeship-only job showing participation and labor-hours penalties without backpay

📦 Use the public TypeScript client​

The generated DSPTCH API client is now publicly available on npm as @dsptch-work/api-client. Install it with npm install @dsptch-work/api-client—no GitHub account or package-registry token required—and use its typed operations and request/response models with your DSPTCH API key. The new TypeScript Client guide covers installation, authentication, a first request, and pagination.

🔌 API​

  • Company directory — GET /api/v1/companies lists company profiles with name search and pagination, and GET /api/v1/companies/{id} reads one profile. Sandbox-company visibility stays tenant-scoped.
  • Historical reads — versioned External Maps, Timecodes, Pay Schedules, Job Wage Determinations, and Rate Rules now accept as_of[valid]; bitemporal External Maps and Timecodes also accept as_of[transaction].
  • Job status filtering — the jobs list gains a multi-value filter[status] that accepts concrete or grouped statuses.
  • Pagination controls — paginated lists now document page[limit], with a default of 20 and a server cap of 100.

Changed​

🧭 Close completed jobs safely​

Completing a job now closes its schedule at the end of the current day and shortens any positions that extend beyond it. DSPTCH blocks completion when time has already been recorded in the future, preventing the job from closing before its existing entries.

A completed job's position list with position end dates shortened to the job's completion date

♿ Clearer forms for assistive technology​

Form fields now connect tips, helper text, validation errors, and unavailable-action explanations to screen readers. Hours and minutes are announced as one related group, and toggle switches use a single clear label. Visual layouts stay familiar while keyboard and assistive-technology users receive more of the context already visible on screen.

🔎 Search payroll mappings by the details you know​

Compensation mapping search now looks beyond the payroll provider's raw code. You can search by the mapped DSPTCH element's name, category, or tax treatment, so terms such as "health" or "pre-tax" find the mappings that use them. Common name searches across People, Forms, Certifications, and Contacts also handle accented names more consistently.

🔌 API​

  • Breaking: lifecycle filters — lifecycle-aware lists now use filter[state] instead of their previous filter names.
  • Breaking: list response envelopes — seven previously unpaginated list operations now use the standard meta, links, and data response envelope.

See the API changelog for the full contract delta, including required fields, renamed parameters, stable UID routes, and schema corrections.

Fixed​

  • Company founding year accepts historical years back to 1000 instead of rejecting organizations founded before 1800.
  • Form feature choices appear once per feature instead of repeating for every matching job, position, or employer.

A form feature selector before the fix, with the same site features repeated several times

The same form feature selector after the fix, with each site feature listed once

  • Single-select fields keep the text caret beside the selected value instead of stranding it at the far edge of the field.
  • Compact Atlas maps keep the base-map and filter controls at their own widths, and the Full map link stays clear of the map attribution.

A compact Atlas map with independently sized controls and an unobstructed Full map link

  • PWA actuals now use the same per-job outstanding, interest, backpay, and balance figures on time cards, compliance pages, and CSV exports. An overpayment on one job no longer hides a shortfall on another.
  • PWA forecasts floor and total expected balances per job, so federal and regional obligations from different jobs no longer offset each other on a time card.
  • Legacy PWA cards omit wage- or fringe-line compliance tooltips when that detailed split is unavailable, while keeping their combined outstanding and balance figures.
  • Current wage determinations no longer include a determination whose effective date is still in the future.
  • Verified contact details cannot be replaced through an ordinary API profile update. Verified email addresses and phone numbers remain locked to their confirmation flows.

This release brings clearer time review, safer scheduling, and more consistent compliance figures across DSPTCH.

The DSPTCH Team