USAS-R Releases

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• Performance improvements were made to posting pending transactions to POs and posting invoices.  
  • Posting pending transactions to POs improved 70%
  • Posting AP Invoices improved 44-50%
• Errors related to posting payables were not always being displayed to the user.  This problem has been corrected.
• The EMIS extract has been modified to remove the INFOTECIRN line from the extract file per ODE.
  • Information updated in the EMIS Manual. Specifically page 21 of this section: Organization General Information (DN) Record
  • This info was pulled from the ITC IRN field on the Core > Organization page in USAS-R. The field is still there, but is now optional to populate as it isn't being used for any reporting.
• The following improvements have been made to the Job Scheduler
  • renamed the label "Event Trigger" with "Cron Expression"
  • when scheduling a new job via the Create button on the Job Scheduler grid, the submit button will be disabled unless both fields (Job Type & Cron Expression) are populated.  Previously users would receive an error if both fields were not populated.
  • the grid will now refresh when the job is created to display the newly created job
  • corrected the view/edit display to prevent field labels from overlapping the field value.  The Description field previously overlapped the value of the job's description.
• A new role has been created to grant users permission to modify a specific set of fields on the user record.  The USAS_USER_PROFILE role grants users permission to view the User grid via the System menu option and modify the following fields for any user listed in the grid.  The permissions granted by this new role have been included with the existing USAS_MANAGER role.  This new role or "limited" permission should not be granted to users with SYSMAN_USER or ADMIN roles.
  • name
  • title
  • email address
  • filters
  • selectable group chains
  • requisition prefixes
  • restrict requisitions
  • balance checking flags: allow negative appropriation, allow negative budget and warn on negative amounts
• The canned version of the Purchase Order Detail report has been updated to show the current period remaining encumbrance when run for Outstanding POs.
• The various 1099 format options have been updated to allow selecting specific vendors.  Previously you could only select vendors if you were generating the IRS format.
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• The 2nd payee name has been added to Positive Pay.

  •  As part of this update, the Payee field was also renamed to Payee Name in order to be consistent with the way the field is named in USPS and also for consistency between the two Payee Name fields. An unfortunate side effect of these changes left the Payee field in existing Positive Pay extract definitions blank.  Districts will simply need to select the Payee Name field from the drop down to continue using the Payee field they were using previously.  This will be a one time change to the extract.

New Features

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Patches

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USPS-R Releases

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• • The Pay Group the Position is attached to will now be displayed (read-only.)
  • The Rate from the Compensation will auto populate (if a rate exists).
  • Once a Pay Type, Unit, and Rate (which auto populates if If a value on the Compensation exists), the Gross will calculate. 
• When using the new search account option, the filtering of accounts was improved.  
• The XRef Code was added as a column and filterable property to the Account Search Window.
• Errors messages for Earn Codes 01 and 02 were added to the SERS Reporting>SERS Per Pay Report were added if no hours and/or days are found.  Errors do NOT prevent the submission file from being created.
  • Error  Earnings Code '01' must include both days and hours paid -  **Error should be fixed BEFORE running/submitting the SERS Per Pay Submission File**
  • Error  Earnings Code '02' must include both days and hours paid - **Error should be fixed BEFORE running/submitting the SERS Per Pay Submission File**
• The Leave Balance Report permissions were updated to allow a read only user to run this report.
  • USPS_STANDARD_LEAVES_VIEW
• Updated the defaulting of the Units and Rate values in Payroll Payments - Future Pay when posting a Pay Type of Pay off accrued wages.  The Units will default to 1 and the Rate will equal the Pay Off Accrued will default to value in the Compensation>Accrued Wages field.

New Features

• A new System>Configuration option was added called Payroll Account Default Setup Configuration.  This will allow the district to default the Leave Projection and Employer Distribution flags whenever payroll accounts are created.
• Expenditure account selection was updated to work more like Classic did.
  • Payroll Payments - Future and Payroll Payments - Current expenditure account selection will now default to display only that positions payroll accounts.
  • A new search option was added to find new accounts if the account is not setup as an existing payroll account for that position.
  • When the account is added to a payment in Payroll Payments - Future or Payroll Payments - Current and the record is saved, the account will also be added to that positions payroll accounts.
• The Print Screen option was added when viewing a Compensation record.

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Inventory Releases

Bug Fixes

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Improvements

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New Features

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Patches

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• The Schedule of Change in Fixed Assets and Schedule of Change in Depreciation reports have been corrected to properly handle transfer and error adjustment amounts.  Previously the reports were not properly handling transfer and error adjustment amounts and therefore were not increasing and decreasing the beginning value amounts correctly.  
• Items with missing funds were preventing the GAAP reports from generating.  Items without funds will now be grouped in the Unknown/Undetermined section of the reports.
• The capitalized calculation was not using both the life expectancy and dollar limit to determine the capitalized status.  The item and the Capitalization Criteria option were modified to use both values to calculate the capitalized status properly.  If your capitalization status is incorrect, System>Capitalization Criteria needs to be run (using existing capitalization criteria values) to correct the status.
• The YTD depreciation calculation was unable to properly calculate when the salvage value or life to date depreciate were null/blank.  When trying to run the Schedule of Change in Depreciation or Book Value report, the report would not generate stating the URL might be temporarily down or may have been temporarily moved. The calculation has been updated to cope with these values, using zero in place of blank or null.  The migration importer has been updated also to prevent importing blank or null values.  
• The last fiscal year closed and current fiscal year for new Inventory instances has been corrected for non-migrating districts.  The calculation that determines the fiscal year was only looking at the year and not the month, which is why the fiscal year was not properly calculated.
• Corrected a problem that prevented location codes from extracting from the Location Codes grid.  

Improvements

• Work has begun on the audit report.  This will take a few releases to complete so there is nothing visible in the application at this point.