2020-07-15 USPS-R Completed Work Review
Releases Since Our Last Meeting
Bug Fixed
Corrected the calculation and query of Advance Sick Leave to process the transactions in the correct order
Fixed a bug in Employer Distributions to include adjustments when there is no payroll history for the employee
Fixed a bug 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
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
This release of USPS-R corrects a problem with the layout of the STRS Ad Submission file
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
This release fixes a bug in the Import from Classic post processor that caused the job to hang
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
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.
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
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
Upcoming Releases
USPS-R 6.18.0
Bug Fixes
W2 Report failing due to a rare Medicare Tax Item situation
Fixed a null pointer exception in queryEmployeeDate method of the SOAP-Bridge
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