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New Year - New Wave!

Happy New Year!  The wave implementation is going strong with Wave 5 starting this month.  We are almost half-way through are implementation schedule with the last wave (Wave 10) scheduled for July-December 2022.  And what a difference a year makes!  At the end of December 2018, we had 16 districts migrate and a year later, that number increased to 121!   SSDT has worked closely with ITCs in planning their districts implementation schedule through Wave 10.  Over 600 districts have been organized into one of the remaining six-month implementation waves.  For Wave 5,  approximately 113 districts are scheduled to migrate!

SSDT would like to thank the ITCs for their tremendous effort and dedication.  We would also like to thank the districts for their unwavering support and feedback on the software.  We take your feedback very seriously and the results have produced some amazing features and improvements this past year.  Our most recent releases have included the addition of the report bundles and the dynamic sort options in the template reports.  And we aren't slowing down any time soon.  Here are just a few of the enhancements taking place in 2020:

• USAS-R: improving budget scenarios, grid performance, canned and template report additions and improvements, invoice balance checking, mass loading vendors/merging vendors as well as the highly anticipated accounts receivable module. 
• USPS-R: ODJFS direct submission, payroll posting performance improvements, new feature to replace Classic's Tax Tab, EMIS reporting enhancements, new mass load features and a collection of enhancements to various canned reports.

Both applications will also undergo a migration to a new version of the user interface framework (a.k.a Vaadin).  This update will enhance the current applications views and provide a better user experience.

The State Software Steering Committee, whose purpose is to work with ODE and SSDT to solicit feedback from the field and represent district needs relative to the future of the state software applications, has also assisted in the migration effort.  The Committee meets four times a year and between these meetings, three working groups comprised of steering committee members meet to 1) prioritize software development; 2) satisfy reporting needs; and 3) meet training, documentation and support needs.

Thank you everyone for your continued efforts and support! 

New Sort Options Available in USXS-R Template Reports

Easy as 1 - 2 - 3!  The display window has changed when using the 'Generate Report' option ... it now contains three separate tabs in order to accommodate the new sort options.  The information on the first and second tabs you are already familiar with... the third tab features the new Dynamic Sort options.  Click on the tabbed section or use the  located at the bottom of each section to move from tab to tab.  You can also  on any section .  Please refer to the Report Generation and Dynamic Sort Options documentation in the USAS and USPS manuals for further information. 

 Click here for a brief video clip on how to use the new sort feature.

1. Report Options tab includes the general format settings and report title.  .

2. Query Options tab contains query parameters in order to filter the information included on the report.

3. NEW Sort Options determine how the information is sorted, subtotaled and if there will be page breaks. 

Sortable Properties - Any Properties included in the report definition (including suppressed properties) are available to use as a Sortable Property.  In order to choose properties to sort on, click and drag the property to the 'Selected Properties' box.  You can move multiple Sortable Properties at once by checking the box in front of each property then click and drag the properties together. When dragging and dropping properties into the list of Selected Properties, the property being added can be inserted anywhere within the list. 

Selected Properties - The properties displayed in this section determines the order in which the report will be sorted. The property listed highest in the list will determine the first sort priority. By default, the report will show the Selected properties based on the Sort Priority order defined on the report definition (see below). In the example below, the full account code appears twice.  When hovering over the property label , a pop-up box will display the first 'full account code' is the cash account code while the second 'full account code' is the budget account code.  This is the default sort order on the Budget Summary Report.

Example of changing my sort options:   If I want to change my sort to Fund-SCC, then Object 1 digit significance, then budget account code, I will use my mouse to drag and insert the 'Object One Digit Level' property in between the Cash Account 'Full Account Code' and Expenditure Account "Full Account Code' under Selected Properties.  Check 'control break' on the object to subtotal on Cash Account and Object One Digit within cash account. (see below)

TIP: To save your newly created sort options so you can run this report in the future with the same sort selection, enter a name in 'save and recall'.

The resulting Budget Summary Report sorts and subtotals first by Fund-SCC, then within Fund-SCC by object level (first digit).  And then within object level, it sorts by full expenditure account code.