Published March 2016

Welcome to the inaugural issue of the SSDT newsletter.  As we continue to push frequent releases and draw closer to release candidate stage (see Matt’s article below) keeping in constant contact with you will become more important. We hope this publication is one means by which we can keep you better informed. 

By now I hope each of you have had an opportunity to see or experience the second preview release of both USAS and USPS and have seen what the future of state software will look like. We are excited about many of the modern features our redesigned software provides. We will detail some of these features, particularly those “under the hood” (such as rules and custom fields), in subsequent issues. There is a lot of power built into the new software that may not be immediately apparent.  All of this was done with an eye on the long term to meet both the immediate and future needs of our user community.

Our current focus is to recreate the functionality of the classic state software packages. Once this is done we have many ideas about where to go next, but we will look to you to guide us and help make state software what you want it to be.  

If you have questions or comments about the preview releases, this newsletter or anything else the SSDT does please send us a message at ssdt-feedback@nwoca.org.

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The USXS-R redesign is well underway and we wanted to share with you what you can expect to see when you access the websites.

USPS-R

When logging into the payroll web application you will see the following :

Each Menu contains options that are listed alphabetically.

USAS-R

When logging into the accounting web application you will see the  following :

Each Menu contains options that are listed alphabetically.

There is currently documentation for both the USPS and USAS applications and this is on the SSDT WIKI page and can be found at the following links:

                     USPS-R                                                                                             USAS-R

https://wiki.ssdt-ohio.org/display/uspsrdoc                                     https://wiki.ssdt-ohio.org/display/usasrdoc

We have also started creating videos for the USPS and USAS applications and they can be found on our SSDT You Tube page which is located at the following link:

https://www.youtube.com/user/ssdtohio

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Many of the USXS-R menu options are displayed in a grid format in order for the user to query existing data.   You can customize the grid columns, adding/removing columns using the “More” icon.  Using your mouse, you can drag columns left to right, changing the order of how they appear on the grid.  You can also sort within each column by clicking on the column, sorting them in ascending or descending order.  Sorting multiple columns is available as well by holding down SHIFT and clicking on the successive columns.  Grid results are "lazy-loaded", meaning you can scroll down through all of the data and it gets loaded as you go. This means there is no limit on maximum records that can be returned, and no "page numbers" to deal with to see your results. Clicking on a row in the grid brings up a highlight view of the record you are on.

You are able to filter grid results via the "filter row" which is directly under the column header descriptions.  For alphanumeric columns, use % as a wildcard. Use booleans such as <, >, =, etc) to filter numeric columns.  In addition, the advanced query icon  Image Added  allows querying against virtually any field related to the type of data being queried. The advanced queries can be saved and recalled later, and are also available as filters in the Report menu.

In order to view a specific record, click on Image Added.  To edit a record, click onImage Added and to delete a record, click on Image Added.  A short video on how the grid works can be seen on our SSDT YouTube Channel.