September 2024 Recap


USAS Releases

Date

Version

Type

Date

Version

Type

Sep 9, 2024

2024.15.0

Regular

Sep 13, 2024

2024.16.0

Regular

Sep 19, 2024

2024.17.0

Regular

Sep 27, 2024

2024.18.0

Regular

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed an issue where the current period wasn’t properly showing when a new posting period was created with the current flag checked.

  • Corrected the Certification and Appropriation Resolution reports to include both the CSV and Excel-data report formats.

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  • Corrected the Accounts Payable report error when generating in Excel-data format.

  • Removed “pending” from the drop down selection for the Req Approval report.

  • Account change updates

    • Corrected a problem with the account change process that prevented a valid account change due to the vendor on the canceled invoice.

    • Corrected the account change process to properly rollback changes when an error is encountered

    • Refactored account change to check for open prior fiscal years and produce error (if exists) earlier in the process.

Improvements

  • Payable performance

  • Added duration logging for the account change process

  • Updated the Http Utility to prevent thread leaks (consistent with other applications USPS/ESS)

  • Account Change Updates

    • Improved the handling of posting periods during the account change process. Posting periods will no longer be reopened as part of the account change process. Transactions affected as part of the account change process will still be updated to reflect the change in accounts. The opened and closed dates on the Posting Period grid will accurately reflect when the district has opened or closed a posting period.

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    • Improved exception handling and error logging for account change.

  • Updates to Anonymizer

New Features

Internal

  • Created REST controller for Cash Reconciliation

  • Created REST controller for Receipts


USPS Releases

Date

Version

Type

Date

Version

Type

Sep 13, 2024

2024.17.0

Regular

Sep 18, 2024

2024.18.0

Regular

Sep 27, 2024

2024.19.0

Regular

Sep 28, 2024

2024.19.1

Hotfix

Sep 30, 2024

2024.19.2

Hotfix

Bug Fixes

  • Payment Transaction Status Reported showed employees total net and gross inflated if multiple direct deposits exist for an employee

  • Attendance / Absence Import - not using rounding config for OT when posting to payroll

    • System>Configuration>Rounding Configuration>Unit Amount Decimal Positions

  • ESS - Correct database connection leak in Payslip File service

Improvements

  • Payslip Service - Handling pay date sorting

    • Used in Employee Self Service

    • Filters for Pay Date and Payment Number will now do a greater than or equals comparison

    • Sort will always be Pay Date descending

  • Allow deletion of Onboarding Workflows when an invalid date is included on an Employee record

    • ADMIN

    • STANDARD_USER

  • Compensation / Position - convert Report to EMIS custom field to native property

    • Mass Load headers -

      • reportToEmis

New Features

  • ESS - MiniOrange MFA Integration

    • https://mcoecn.atlassian.net/wiki/x/AYDZKg was created to help ITC’s that self host configure Mini Orange

  • Reports>W2 SSN Verification

    • Create Submission File

    • Results Report

Patches

  • Improve HTTP Client defaults for the USPS application

  • Add new PATCH mapping to the Employee Controller for Employee Self Service

  • Create a patch to add the SSN to employee pay history for a specific employee


Inventory Releases

Date

Version

Type

Date

Version

Type

Sep 6, 2024

2024.6.0

Regular

Sep 19, 2024

2024.7.0

Regular

Sep 19, 2024

2024.8.0

Regular

Sep 25, 2024

2024.8.1

Hotfix

Bug Fixes

  • When closing the FY, the reset depreciation process was corrected to reflect the total amount of depreciation if the transaction is flagged as a reset. This should equal the reset amount plus the YTD amount.

  • Corrected the logic on the Schedule of Change in Fixed Assets Summary to properly report beginning balances when an item has an error adjustment.

     

  • Fixed a null error when closing the fiscal year related to dispositions with a null date. This issue also contains a patch to remove erroneous data for a specific district.

Improvements

  • The following improvements have been made to the Audit report:

    • The date range fields are no longer required if the tag number field has been populated

    • The tag number parameter is no longer case sensitive

    • The fiscal year or tag number will always be shown in the appropriate column, even if the data has been deleted

    • Corrected a problem where modified fields were being shown as “NULL”

    • Corrected filtering by a username.

New Features

Internal

  • Add a rest/version endpoint that includes the organization name and ID


Employee Self Service Releases

Date

Version

Type

Date

Version

Type

Sep 5, 2024

2024.7.1

Hotfix

Sep 6, 2024

2024.8.0

Regular

Sep 10, 2024

2024.8.1

Hotfix

Sep 13, 2024

2024.9.0

Regular

Sep 18, 2024

2024.10.0

Regular

Sep 24, 2024

2024.10.1

Hotfix

Sep 28, 2024

2024.11.0

Regular

Sep 30, 2024

2024.11.1

Hotfix

Sep 30, 2024

2024.11.2

Hotfix

Bug Fixes

Employee Profile

  • Employee Data Change validation failures should not be clearing fields 868

  • Correct order of conditionals when handling Ethnicity checks for Data Changes 962

Leave Requests

  • Leave Request Form - handle missing user profile causing exception 922

  • Leave Request Form - Sub Category may not exist causing errors on the form 908

  • Leave Expense Details - allow users to edit the budget accounts and other expense details after approval 620

  • Correct permissions in Leave Request Form 958

  • District Leave Request view using current employee when loading forms 960

Leave Management

  • Improve blackout date validations 878

  • Leave Request Export - handle missing appointment type 915

  • Correct sorting for Export Leave History and Revert Leave Details grids 933

Timesheets

  • Correct null pointer exception when storing automatically created timesheets 901

  • Handle Timesheet configuration options 851

  • Period Close Job does not always create the next Period 862

  • Handle exclusion of timesheet holidays when creating line items 844

Miscellaneous

  • Prevent thread leak from HTTP connections 902

    • Kiosk Sub Category Loader - handle blank value in the Required column 880

    • Reset password dialog overflows form on mobile 744

    • Supervisor Leave Calendar entries should filter based on Job Status configuration 881

    • Sub Category selection showing on LR form when blank and no sub categories are available for the leave request 959

Improvements

Leave Related

  • Leave Calendars - change color to soft black when entry is exported 911

  • Leave Request Form - change column length of Leave Expense Purpose of Leave property and update user interface component to a text area 906

  • Leave Request - increase column lengths of Reason, Comments, and Sub Comments 905

  • Leave Analysis - add employee archived flag to grids 891

  • Blackout Dates - account for time when updating or canceling leave requests 818

  • Add appointment type and sub category columns to Leave Request CSV export 939

  • Add Approval Trail tab to Leave Approval form 924

  • Improve label for district leave request extract button 907

  • Blackout Date escalated flag will cause leave request to notify Leave Managers 846

Users

  • Add Group Chain to Workflows automated resubmission note 892

  • User Form - add Sync to Absence Management property 917

  • Group - add validation to require one APPROVER member 508

  • Improve User Form validations to prevent multiple users from being linked to the same user 669

Timesheets

  • Clean up Timesheet emails 894

  • Timesheet Form - When adding a new line item, default to EXC activity 855

  • Timesheet Holiday internal changes 845

  • Allow automatic period generation to run weekly 784

  • Timesheet Export Grid - show period start / end dates 857

  • Timesheet Shift - improve validations and error reporting 854

  • Combine Timesheet Staff Supervisor and Timesheet Approver roles 893

  • Filter positions available for timesheet creation / generators by timesheet required flag in USPS 885

  • Timesheet Export Exceptions option should only export exception hours 858

  • Group and Chains - Users can now copy leave request groups and chains into timesheet groups and chains 856

Absence Management

  • Absence Management Sync Views 825

    • Absence Reason Improvements

    • School Improvements

  • Remove Absence Management Configuration Loader 930

Miscellaneous

  • Change Forgot Password email when account is lock to inform the User 869

  • Improve default in HTTP Utils configuration 914

  • Position Details View - add job status to accordion panel headers 874

  • Add new configuration option to restrict new data change requests 935

  • Format compensation details on mobile based on configurations 931

  • Internal change to USPS Position cache to use USPS Employee reference 406

New Features

  • MiniOrange Integration

  • Add new Timesheet Configuration option to email users when their timesheet is updated 900

Patches

  • Write a patch to remove duplicated leave requests from Absence Management for two specific districts 938

  • Add a patch to correct a sub category on a leave request for a specific district 912

  • Remove a district from the Patch that is applying as part of the 2024.11.0 release 957


Workflows Releases

Date

Version

Type

Date

Version

Type

Sep 6, 2024

1.4.0

Regular

Sept 10, 2024

1.4.1

Hotfix

Bug Fixes

Improvements

  • Correct thread leak from HTTP connections

  • Improve defaults for HTTP configuration

New Features

Patches

 


ITC Management Releases

Date

Version

Type

Date

Version

Type

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bug Fixes

Improvements

New Features

Patches