Releases Since Our Last Meeting

• USPS-R 6.42.0 Release Notes

  • Bug Fixes

    • Fixed a bug in payroll initialization due to a timing issue

    • Fixed a bug in payroll posting that show job failed, even when posting completed correctly

    • Fix exception causing W2 Report View navigation to fail

    • Correct the tooltip on Payroll Initialization Component to description the pay group selection

    • Fix null pointer exception in queryDeductions SOAP bridge service call

  • Improvements

    • Improve the performance of STRS Monthly Report

      • 85% improvement to runtime

    • Implement caching of reportable properties for template reports

    • Add last pay in contract warning

    • Remove recently added STRS Advance warning that stated calculations included archived compensations

      • This warning was causing more confusion than it was helping

  •  New Features 

    • Convert personal leave to sick leave - Add employee and pay group selections

    • Prevent users from saving a retirement payroll item with a rate type of Tax Tables

  • Internal

    • Service layer improvements

• USPS-R 6.42.1 Release Notes

  • Bug Fixes

    • Payroll Initialization fails when unexpected exception occurs

      • Exceptions will now be caught and reported on the error report

    • Employee Master report fails when no payroll accounts are found for a historical payroll

      • Update report to check for this condition and continue to process

    • STRS Advance

      • Add messages to the FY report and Position Report

        • INFO - No active position level or employee level STRS item found for position #: #

        • ERROR - Job Calendar is not assigned for compensation with code ######. Please assign a job calendar to get corrected values on the report.

• USPS-R 6.42.2 Release Notes

  • Correct bug in the SERS Surcharge Report that was preventing the report from completing when no payroll accounts were found in history for fixed payroll accounts.

• USPS-R 6.43.0 Release Notes

  • Bug Fixes

    • Employee Distributions - Pro-rating is not correctly excluding pay items withheld at the position level.

      • The pro-rating function has been corrected to filter position level amounts with calculating employee level amounts.

    • Position Code, Status, and other position properties have been added back to the EMIS Position Entry view.

    • Fix casting exception in the Monitor / App Log view.

    • STRS Report - Amount Withheld adjustments are now included in the STRS Member Deposits field.

    • Pay Report - Updated current totals to include items from current payroll, not just contract amounts.

    • Payroll Item Refund - exclude Social Security withholding when it do not apply.

  • New Features

    • Warn the user when they save a Position with no retirement code, or a retirement code of None. 

  • Internal

    • Service layer improvements.

• USPS-R 6.43.1 Release Notes

  • Bug Fixes

    • Correct a bug in the Auditor of State extracts where missing data in Refunded payments could cause the report to fail

    • Correct a bug in the Employee Master Report that would cause report failure if an employee was missing the Marital Status or Number of Exemptions on a federal payroll item.

• USPS-R 6.44.0 Release Notes

  • Bug Fixes

    • SERS Reporting

      • SERS Surcharge updated to account for rehired date when an employee is a rehired retiree

      • SERS Surcharge date range for reporting has been updated to include the pay group date ranges from payroll

      • SERS Per Pay validated user entered values to prevent too many characters in the submission file

    • Benefit Personal to Pay fails when not including partial days and posting to current, process will no longer attempt to create future pay amounts for $0

    • W2 Report View showing all options before first user selection

  • Improvement

    • Payroll Initialization

      • New changes all pay group date ranges to all be included when initializing payroll

      • Please see the documentation for more information

      • Payroll Processing

    • Pay Amount History Import - Update to import description field from extract

      • This requires a change to the UDMS extract. This UDMS change will need to be installed before extracting from classic to import into this version of USPS-R.

  • Internal

    • Service layer improvements.

Upcoming Releases

• USPS-R 6.45.0

  • Bug Fixes

    • SERS Per Pay

      • Better error handling added when incorrect begin / ending dates are entered

      • Correct the sorting of SERS Per Pay when sorting by name

    • SERS New Hire

      • Add validations to the SERS New Hire report for birth date and gender when creating the submission file

  • Internal

    • Add report to generate api keys for the workflows configuration

    • Add a menu item for the new API Key view

    • Update security filters on api

    • Service layer improvements