Releases Since Our Last Meeting

• USPS-R 6.14.0 Release Notes

  • Bug Fixes

    • Fixed a database connection leak in the Spring Batch Job Service

    • Fixed a bug in the HSA service that allows negative and zero amounts on the submission file

    • Fixed a bug in the ODJFS Report that was not included imported adjustment journals

    • Fixed a bug in the Leave Projection Submission that could produce an 'odd' error while attempting to audit the event

    • Fixed a bug in the Employer Distributions Pay Cycle selection

  • Improvements

    • Create a patch to finish incomplete history for a district in production

    • Greatly reduced the timeout of Account Sync

    • Archived employees will no longer be included in EMIS reporting

    • Integer changes to how we send logs to SSDT server

  • Performance Enhancements

    • Greatly improve the performance of the AFFORD Report - 98% improvement

  • New Features

    • Allow all STRS Advance reports to be saved to the payroll archive

    • Added new EMIS Reports to simulate data collection for Employees and Positions

    • Added patch to discover grid preferences and saved queries

    • Created new Expenditure Account UI in the USAS Integration menu

      • Read only view

      • Displays all expenditure accounts in USPS

      • Allows column filtering

      • Always sorts by the 8 account dimensions 

      • Helps to narrow down accounts that are / aren't synced with USAS in a much more user friendly way

• USPS-R 6.14.1 Release Notes

  • Greatly improve the performance of the Employer Retirement Share Report - 98% improvement

• USPS-R 6.15.0 Release Notes

  • Bug Fixes

    • Fixed a bug in payroll post that was not stamping the pay date on Attendances correctly in all cases

    • Fixed a bug in the SSDT Account History v2 template report that was preventing specific pay accounts from displaying

    • Fixed a bug that preventing outstanding payables from posting if a column filter was used and payables were paid by payee

    • Fixed a bug in the classic import that was incorrectly archiving employees with invalid emails

  • Improvements

    • Added Electronic Payment flag to Outstanding Payable grids

    • Allow Payroll Item Configurations to be reportable from the grid

    • Add multiple enhancements to the Job Calendar Report

      • Page Break Options

      • Exclude archived options

      • Include calendars with no days

      • Include all days of the entered date range, even if no day codes exist

    • Changed leave balance report column lengths

    • Suppressed Compensation warnings from firing during payroll post

    • Added patch to correct wrong imported pay date for a specific district

    • Added patch to set all null electronic payment flags on Payee to false

    • Fixed slow query during payroll modify / update

  • Performance Enhancements

    • Improve the performance of STRS Advance Fiscal Year to Date Report

      • 55% improvement

    • Improve the performance of STRS Advance Positions Report

      • 38% improvement

    • Improve the performance of STRS Non-Advance Positions Report

      • 58% improvement

    • Improve the performance of STRS Report and Submission

      • 59% improvement

    • Improve the performance of Payroll Post via database indexes

      • Two indexes were added to two slow queries

      • 80% improvement to payroll post run times

  • New Features

    • Added new HSA ACH Report

    • Added ability to 'lock in' pay per period when activating new contracts

    • Added STRS Advance Configuration Values to Organization view

  • Internal

    • Archived old patches to prevent runs on demo instances

• USPS-R 6.15.1 Release Notes

  • Bug Fixes

    • Fixed bug in HSA processing that was including non electronic payments in HSA ACH file

    • Fixed upper limit on CC Record 'Hours Per Week' to match EMIS Manual

  • New Features

    • Add Position Code 910

• USPS-R 6.15.2 Release Notes

  • The STRS Non-Advance report was not including manual compensation adjustments for contract days work.

    • This caused the report filters to include compensations with manual adjustments in the Non-Advance report.

• USPS-R 6.15.3 Release Notes

  • The import from classic failed during the migration of history for a specific district.

    • The District was moved into production without all the history being import.

    • This issue imports the missing history for this district.

Upcoming Releases

• USPS-R 6.16.0

  • Bug Fixes

    • Fixed a bug in Payroll Item Max Amount withholding that continued to withhold item past the max for a very specific situation

    • Fixed a bug in Max Advance Sick Leave calculation that was not applying amounts in the correct order

    • Fixed a bug in the Outstanding Payables Detail Report that was missing payables from Refund of Payroll Item

    • Fixed a bug in Employer Distributions that prevented adjustments from being included if the employee was not paid

  • Improvements

    • Employer Retirement Share will now 'skip' SERS/STRS reporting when a value of zero is entered by the user

  • New Features

    • Employer Distributions

      • Added report parameters to the first page of the report

      • Added Excel and CSV output format options

      • Added Payroll Item summary page

      • Column totals no longer subtotal on page break, instead subtotal on end of group

    • Added new read only property to Payroll Item to show Max Amount remaining

    • Added new read only property to Payroll Account to show Max Amount remaining