2020-07-15 USPS-R Completed Work Review

Releases Since Our Last Meeting

  • USPS-R 6.16.0 Release Notes

    • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

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