April 2024 Recap


USAS Releases

Date

Version

Type

Date

Version

Type

Apr 5, 2024 

v2024.5.0

Regular

Apr 12, 2024 

v2024.6.0

Regular

Apr 18, 2024 

v2024.6.1

Hot Fix

Apr 26, 2024 

v2024.7.0

Regular

Improvements

  • Financial Detail Report (canned) performance improvement (average of 68%)

  • Update Subject Codes for FY 24

  • Implement the ability to import users

    • System > Users Grid

    • Import Criteria and Template Spreadsheet added to documentation: Import Users

  • Work to implement posting encumbrance adjustments has been done.  The option will be available in the application on a later release.

    • To be used by ITCs for corrections in specific situations only. Primary use is to correct persisting encumbrance balancing issues from the Classic Migration.

  • Improve intrusion detection behavior

  • Improvements to the USAS anonymizer which include dropping log files, audit tables and performance improvements.

  • Research Spring Batch for use in the Fund Change implementation.  

Bug Fixes

  • Hotfix: corrected problems with the recent improvements to the canned Financial Detail report.  We previously missed allowing the report to be sorted/subtotaled by 1 digit object code.  We also introduced a problem that resulted in access denied errors for some users. These problems have been corrected.




USPS Releases

Date

Version

Type

Date

Version

Type

Apr 5, 2024 

2024.5.0

Regular

Apr 8, 2024 

2024.5.1

Hotfix

Apr 12, 2024 

2024.6.0

Regular

Apr 26, 2024 

2024.7.0

Regular

Bug Fixes

  • ABS 103 and Perfect Attendance Report

    • Report parameter changes breaking user interface when old report parameters are found.

  • STRS Report - Removed Board Amount Adjustments from Employer Pickup totals

    • 450 Board Error adjustment and Core>Adjustment>Board Amount of Payroll Item will not be included on the STRS Per Pay report

  • Payroll Validation (behind the scenes)- cache payroll calculations when validating payroll.

Improvements

  • New Contract calculated unit amounts calculation using original compensation workdays.

    • If the Workdays were wrong from the beginning of New Contract and a Mid-year change was used to correct this, it was using original workdays in calculation, now it will use the new Workdays entered

  • Expenditure Accounts - rename properties.

    • Expenditure Account and USAS Expenditure Account were storing account dimensions as accountDimension1, accountDimension2, accountDimension3, accountDimension4, accountDimension5, accountDimension6, accountDimension7, accountDimension8. To help make the grids and other user interfaces easier to understand, these properties have been renamed to match the USAS Expenditure Account properties (i.e. fund, func, etc...

    • This change requires a patch to update any existing advance queries or reports using the old account dimension properties.

  • Payroll Account View

    • Remove old payroll account view menu item.

    • Add reporting feature to payroll account view.

    • Update filters to use the new properties discussed in the item above.

  • Perfect Attendance Report and ABS103 can now be run for multiple Pay Types/categories

  • Job Calendar Report - improve styling to print on two pages

  • ODJFS Report - handle legal and name merge the same as W2 report.

  • Add a new predefined role CUSTOM_FIELD_MANAGER

    • Grants full control over System>Custom Field Definitions and Core>Date Codes.

      • MODULE_CUSTOMFIELD

        MODULE_CUSTOMFIELD_CREATE

        MODULE_CUSTOMFIELD_DELETE

        MODULE_CUSTOMFIELD_REPORT

        MODULE_CUSTOMFIELD_UPDATE

        MODULE_CUSTOMFIELD_VIEW

        • Create

        • Update

        • Delete

        • Report on any custom field definition / date code

  • Historical Payroll Account - split account dimensions into new columns on the historical payroll account database table

    • SSDT Account History Report Can now run it in CSV

    • Have a Jira issue open to create a canned report USPSR-6674 for SSDT Account History report 

New Features

Patches

Internal REST API Improvements




Inventory Releases

Date

Version

Type

Date

Version

Type

Apr 26, 2024 

2024.1.1

Hotfix

Improvements

  • Improved intrusion detection behavior.




ITC Management Releases

Date

Version

Type

Date

Version

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Bug Fixes

Improvements

New Features

Patches