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Releases Since Our Last Meeting

  • USPS-R 6.1618.0 Release NotesUSPS-R 6.17.
    • Bug Fixes
      • W2 Report failing due to a rare Medicare Tax Item situation
      • Fixed
      • Corrected the calculation and query of Advance Sick Leave to process the transactions in the correct order
      • Fixed a bug in Employer Distributions to include adjustments when there is no payroll history for the employee
      • Fixed a bug preventing refund of payroll items outstanding payables to be included on the Outstanding Payables detail report
      • Default 'voluntary' flag to false when creating a payroll item configuration
      • Set all 'null' voluntary flags on payroll item configs to false
      • Fixed a missing method exception in the Account History importer
      • Fixed a bug in Payroll Item Max Amount withholding calculations that would allow items to withhold past max if employer / employee amounts were to keep withholding
      • Added error condition to Non Contract Mass Loader if a position is not found
    • Improvements
      • Updated Employer Retirement Share to 'skip' SERS / STRS when zero amount is entered
      • Employer Distributions
        • Added new page break and sub totaling options
        • Added parameters to the first page of the report
        • Added excel and CSV export option
        • Added new summary page to include totals for payroll item codes
    • New Features
      • Added new Payroll Account Max Remaining property
      • Added new Payroll Item Max Amount Remaining property
  • USPS-R 6.16.1 Release Notes
    • Patch
      • Added a patch that marks payables as unprocessed that should not have been included in original payee payment for a specific district
    • New Features
      • Added new Rehired Retiree gross, withholding, and employer amounts to the Retirement Payroll Items
  • USPS-R 6.16.2 Release Notes
    • This release of USPS-R corrects a problem with the layout of the STRS Ad Submission file
  • USPS-R 6.16.3 Release Notes
    • Bug Fixes
      • Corrects a problem in outstanding payables that could mark payables as processed, even if the amount were not included on a check.
    • Performance Improvement
      • Improve the performance of the Employee Master Report
  • USPS-R 6.16.4 Release Notes
    • This release fixes a bug in the Import from Classic post processor that caused the job to hang
      • a null pointer exception in queryEmployeeDate method of the SOAP-Bridge
    • Improvements
      • Improve the performance of the Payee Payments view
    • New Features
      • Service Layers (Internal components to be used in the user interface grids in the future)
        • ACH Destination
        • ACH Source
        • Bank Account
        • Organization
        • Pay Group
        • Payee
        • Employee
      • Create a new Canned Audit Report
  • USPS-R 6.19.0 Release Notes
    • Bug Fixes
      • Fixed a bug preventing Manual Payment Creation
      • Fixed the Hire Date on the SSDT Employee Hire report to use the position hire date 
      • Fixed a bug in the calculations of *TD values displayed in the Employee Dashboard
      • Fixed a bug that allowed archived compensations to be paid via current payroll
      • Fixed a null pointer exception in the queryEmployeeDeductions SOAP-Bridge call
      • Fixed sorting for Building and Check Distribution to included the employee full name in the sort ordering
      • Fixed the error message displayed when loading a non contract mass load without a valid position number
      • Fixed a null pointer exception in EMIS Contract Import from classic
      • Included payroll item adjustments in the calculations for combined pay items on Direct Deposits
    • Improvements
      • Add validation to the EMIS Contractor (CJ) IRN field
      • Suppress compensation calculation warnings when voiding  / unvoiding a payment
      • Added Organization Configuration implementations to the following Configurations
        • If the permission "MODULE_CONFIG_ORGANIZATION" is granted, the user will have access to the following configurations
        • Account Mapping Configuration
        • Advanced Sick Leave Configuration
        • Check Void Message Configuration
        • Deferred Absence Posting Configuration
        • EMIS Reporting Configuration
        • Employee Number Automatic Generation Configuration
        • Employer Retirement Share Configuration
        • ODJFS Configuration
        • Overtime Object Code Configuration
        • Payment Printing Configuration
        • STRS Advance Configuration
        • Transaction Configuration
    • New Features
      • Service Layer (Internal Changes)
        • Added service for Payroll Accounts
        • Added service for Users
        • Added service for Roles
        • Added service for Payroll Items
      • Internal
        • Added / Updated docker configuration files for USPS anonymizer
  • USPS-R 6.19.1 Release Notes
    • Bug Fix
      • If a district created New Contracts that included expenditure accounts that were then changed in USAS, the Account Sync could fail to process the account transition.
      • This release of USPS-R corrects this issue and will now update the underlying expenditure accounts in New Contract as well as Payroll Accounts.
  • USPS-R 6.20.0 Release Notes
    • Bug Fixes
      • Fixed a bug in the Benefit Obligation Report filter that incorrectly removed employees with no balance transaction
      • Fixed a bug in Current Payroll that added errors to the Payroll Error report. These errors would then cause a message of 'Job Failed' when the payroll was posted, even if everything was correct.
      • Fixed a bug during payroll posting that was incorrectly adding Last Pay Accrued and Pay Off Accrued to the compensation amounts. 
      • Correct the option 'D' of Convert Personal Leave to Sick Leave to match classic
    • New Features
      • Add ability to Mass Load Accumulation Transactions
      • Add new AOS User Listing report
    • Improvements
      • Import from classic post processor will now file the post process import job before changing the model state
      • Employer Distributions
        • Add new sorting and subtotaling options
        • Allow the selection of voided payments to be included in the Employer Distributions
  • USPS-R 6.17.1 Release Notes
    • 6.17.0 of USPS-R changed permission checks on the Mass Load view. After implementation is was discovered that the Compensation Journal option was no longer available. The check now includes this option once more.
  • USPS-R 6.17.2 Release Notes
    • Bug Fixes 
      • Corrected an STRS Advance withholding issue when payroll item by job is used, with pick up and the employee has an STRS Annuity item at the Employee level
      • Corrected a null pointer error in the Import From Classic pay amount history
    • Patches
      • Added patches to correct outstanding payables for two specific districts
  • USPS-R 6.17.3 Release Notes
    • Bug Fixes 
      • STRS Advance withholding calculations were not correctly including dock amounts when they were included in the pay
    •  Patches
      • Added a patch to correct a type mismatch for Payroll Item ↔ Payroll Item Configuration that occurred during importLeave Projection Submission View that incorrectly reported accounts were not synced with USAS
      • Refresh the container for New Contract Grid after each activation
      • Fixed the leave balance query to return 0.00 instead of null when no transactions are found
      • Fixed a rounding issue in Convert Personal to Pay service related to payroll account rounding
      • Fixed a bug in how Leave Projection Report was handling Holidays
      • Prevented an Auditing error when submitting Employer Distributions to USAS
    • Improvements
      • Disabled filter in Payee Payments Grid that could cause larger performance issues
      • Combined LPA and LPE into a single pay amount on DD and Check Stubs
    • New Features
      • Added the ability to Mass Load Compensations
      • Internal
        • Created service layer for Date Codes
        • Created service layer for Pay Distributions
        • Created service layer for Payroll Item Configuration

Upcoming Releases

  • USPS-R 6.1821.0
    • Bug Fixes
      • W2 Report failing due to a rare Medicare Tax Item situation
      • Fixed a null pointer exception in queryEmployeeDate method of the SOAP-Bridge
    • Improvements
      • Improve the performance of the Payee Payments view
    • New Features
      • Service Layers (Internal components to be used in the user interface grids)
        • ACH Destination
        • ACH Source
        • Bank Account
        • Organization
        • Pay Group
        • Payee
        • Employee
      • Create a new Canned Audit ReportCorrect calculation of YTD amounts for Pay Items in DD notifications
        • Correction will make the calculations match how we handle this in other areas of the system
    • Improvements
      • Add time to the Audit Report 'timestamp' column
      • Import classic Health Insurance from Federal Tax Record as an Adjustment Journal
    • New Features
      • Create service layer for Attendance
      • Create service layer for Compensation
      • Create service layer for Job Calendar
      • Allow Pay Report to be sorted by Pay Group
      • Remove 'active compensation' validation from Benefit Accrual and Reset Personal Leave
      • Update EMIS Reporting to be easier to maintain for the users
      • Default ACH /HSA submission to 'Employee SSN will NOT be included'