App Marketplace, Calendar Integration & Enhanced Leave Management

🚀 New Features

• App Marketplace for Custom Business Solutions: Administrators can now browse, install, and manage marketplace apps through a dedicated App Marketplace interface—enabling businesses to extend their workforce management capabilities with specialized tools like project tracking, classified listings, and custom forms tailored to their specific industry needs.

• AI-Powered App Creation Wizard: Create custom business applications using natural language descriptions through an intelligent wizard interface—allowing administrators to generate forms, workflows, and data collection tools by simply describing what they need, with automatic field generation and business logic suggestions.

• Two-Way Calendar Integration: Employees can now sync their work schedules with Google Calendar and Outlook in both directions—automatically pushing shifts and time-off to personal calendars while detecting conflicts from external appointments, ensuring better work-life balance and schedule coordination.

• Advanced Leave Coverage Management: Managers can now set and monitor leave coverage limits by department, location, and time period—preventing understaffing during critical periods while providing clear visibility into coverage requirements and automatic notifications when limits are approached.

• Enhanced Form Builder with Smart Fields: Create sophisticated data collection forms with advanced field types including date ranges, file uploads, multi-select options, and conditional logic—enabling businesses to build custom workflows for incident reporting, feedback collection, and compliance documentation.

🔧 Improvements

• Streamlined App Configuration Interface: Marketplace apps now feature intuitive configuration panels with guided setup wizards—making it easier for administrators to customize app settings, manage permissions, and deploy new functionality across their organization without technical expertise.

• Modernized Icon System: Replaced the Feather icon library with FontAwesome throughout the application—providing a more consistent visual experience, better accessibility support, and improved loading performance across all interface elements.

• Enhanced Calendar Sync Controls: Calendar integration now includes granular sync settings for different event types—allowing businesses to control which information syncs to external calendars while maintaining privacy for sensitive scheduling data and personal information.

• Improved Leave Management Dashboard: The leave management interface now provides consolidated views of coverage limits, pending requests, and team availability—giving managers better oversight tools for workforce planning and time-off approval decisions.

• Marketplace App Organization: Apps are now organized by category with featured app highlighting and business-specific recommendations—making it easier to discover relevant tools and understand which apps provide the most value for specific industries or use cases.

�bug Fixes

• Resolved Calendar Sync Authentication Issues: Fixed OAuth token refresh problems that were causing calendar sync failures—ensuring reliable, continuous synchronization between work schedules and external calendar applications without requiring frequent re-authentication.

• Corrected App Installation Dependencies: Addressed issues where marketplace apps with dependencies weren't properly checking prerequisites—preventing installation failures and ensuring all required components are available before enabling new functionality.

• Enhanced Form Field Validation: Improved validation handling for complex form fields including date ranges and file uploads—providing clearer error messages and preventing data submission issues that could affect workflow completion.

• Fixed Leave Coverage Calculation Accuracy: Resolved calculation errors in leave coverage limits that were affecting availability reporting—ensuring accurate workforce planning data and reliable coverage monitoring for critical business periods.

🎯 What This Means for You

• Expanded Customization Capabilities: Your organization can now extend the platform with custom apps and workflows tailored to your specific business needs—whether you need project tracking, equipment management, or specialized reporting tools, the App Marketplace provides solutions without requiring external systems.

• Seamless Calendar Integration: Your team members can maintain unified schedules by syncing work shifts with their personal calendars—reducing scheduling conflicts, improving work-life balance, and ensuring everyone stays informed about upcoming commitments across all their calendar applications.

• Proactive Workforce Planning: The enhanced leave management system helps prevent understaffing situations by providing clear visibility into coverage requirements and automatic alerts—enabling better planning for busy periods and ensuring adequate staffing levels are maintained at all times.