Releases Since Our Last Meeting
- USPS-R 6.1416.0 Release Notes
- Bug FixesFixed
- Corrected the calculation and query of Advance Sick Leave to process the transactions in the correct order
- Fixed a database connection leak in the Spring Batch Job Servicebug in Employer Distributions to include adjustments when there is no payroll history for the employee
- Fixed a bug in the HSA service that allows negative and zero amounts on the submission file
- Fixed a bug in the ODJFS Report that was not included imported adjustment journals
- Fixed a bug in the Leave Projection Submission that could produce an 'odd' error while attempting to audit the event
- Fixed a bug in the Employer Distributions Pay Cycle selection
- Improvements
- Create a patch to finish incomplete history for a district in production
- Greatly reduced the timeout of Account Sync
- Archived employees will no longer be included in EMIS reporting
- Integer changes to how we send logs to SSDT server
- Performance Enhancements
- Greatly improve the performance of the AFFORD Report - 98% improvement
- New Features
- Allow all STRS Advance reports to be saved to the payroll archive
- Added new EMIS Reports to simulate data collection for Employees and Positions
- Added patch to discover grid preferences and saved queries
- Created new Expenditure Account UI in the USAS Integration menu
- Read only view
- Displays all expenditure accounts in USPS
- Allows column filtering
- Always sorts by the 8 account dimensions
- Helps to narrow down accounts that are / aren't synced with USAS in a much more user friendly way
- Bug FixesFixed
- USPS-R 6.14.1 Release Notes
- Greatly improve the performance of the Employer Retirement Share Report - 98% improvement
- USPS-R 6.15.0 Release Notes
- Bug Fixes
- Fixed a bug in payroll post that was not stamping the pay date on Attendances correctly in all cases
- Fixed a bug in the SSDT Account History v2 template report that was preventing specific pay accounts from displaying
- Fixed a bug that preventing outstanding payables from posting if a column filter was used and payables were paid by payee
- Fixed a bug in the classic import that was incorrectly archiving employees with invalid emails
- Improvements
- Added Electronic Payment flag to Outstanding Payable grids
- Allow Payroll Item Configurations to be reportable from the grid
- Add multiple enhancements to the Job Calendar Report
- Page Break Options
- Exclude archived options
- Include calendars with no days
- Include all days of the entered date range, even if no day codes exist
- Changed leave balance report column lengths
- Suppressed Compensation warnings from firing during payroll post
- Added patch to correct wrong imported pay date for a specific district
- Added patch to set all null electronic payment flags on Payee to false
- Fixed slow query during payroll modify / update
- Performance Enhancements
- Improve the performance of STRS Advance Fiscal Year to Date Report
- 55% improvement
- Improve the performance of STRS Advance Positions Report
- 38% improvement
- Improve the performance of STRS Non-Advance Positions Report
- 58% improvement
- Improve the performance of STRS Report and Submission
- 59% improvement
- Improve the performance of Payroll Post via database indexes
- Two indexes were added to two slow queries
- 80% improvement to payroll post run times
- Improve the performance of STRS Advance Fiscal Year to Date Report
- New Features
- Added new HSA ACH Report
- Added ability to 'lock in' pay per period when activating new contracts
- Added STRS Advance Configuration Values to Organization view
- Internal
- Archived old patches to prevent runs on demo instances
- Bug Fixes
- USPS-R 6.15.1 Release Notes
- Bug Fixes
- Fixed bug in HSA processing that was including non electronic payments in HSA ACH file
- Fixed upper limit on CC Record 'Hours Per Week' to match EMIS Manual
- New Features
- Add Position Code 910
- Bug Fixes
- USPS-R 6.15.2 Release Notes
- The STRS Non-Advance report was not including manual compensation adjustments for contract days work.
- This caused the report filters to include compensations with manual adjustments in the Non-Advance report.
- The STRS Non-Advance report was not including manual compensation adjustments for contract days work.
- USPS-R 6.15.3 Release Notes
- The import from classic failed during the migration of history for a specific district.
- The District was moved into production without all the history being import.
- This issue imports the missing history for this district.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
- The import from classic failed during the migration of history for a specific district.
- 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
- Patch
- 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
- Bug Fixes
- 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
- USPS-R 6.17.0 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
- Bug Fixes
- 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
- Bug Fixes
- 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 import
- Bug Fixes
Upcoming Releases
- USPS-R 6.1618.0
- Bug Fixes
- Fixed a bug in Payroll Item Max Amount withholding that continued to withhold item past the max for a very specific W2 Report failing due to a rare Medicare Tax Item situation
- Fixed a bug in Max Advance Sick Leave calculation that was not applying amounts in the correct order
- Fixed a bug in the Outstanding Payables Detail Report that was missing payables from Refund of Payroll Item
- Fixed a bug in Employer Distributions that prevented adjustments from being included if the employee was not paid
- Improvements
- Employer Retirement Share will now 'skip' SERS/STRS reporting when a value of zero is entered by the user
- New Features
- Employer Distributions
- Added report parameters to the first page of the report
- Added Excel and CSV output format options
- Added Payroll Item summary page
- Column totals no longer subtotal on page break, instead subtotal on end of group
- Added new read only property to Payroll Item to show Max Amount remaining
- Added new read only property to Payroll Account to show Max Amount remainingnull pointer exception in queryEmployeeDate method of the SOAP-Bridge
- Employer Distributions
- 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 Report
- Service Layers (Internal components to be used in the user interface grids)
- Bug Fixes