2021-04-21 USPS-R Completed Work Review

Releases Since Our Last Meeting

  • USPS-R 6.36.0 Release Notes

    • Bug Fixes

      • Prevent voided or reconciled payment transactions from being reissued

    • Improvements

      • Add the Employee Hire Date to ODJFS New Hire selection

      • Added a new informational message to Payroll Item Create Window

        • This will better explain when the Position option should be selected

      • Benefit Accrual

        • Sort employee select component by Name

        • Added Specific Accrual Date to first page of the pdf report

        • Added new option to process Sick and Vacation leave in the same run

    • New Features

      • Add new Compensation Field 'Code'

        • Unique constraint added to compensation, Position + Code

        • Allow for easier mass loading of compensations

          • No longer need to know the Database Id

        • Code field is defaulted at startup, can be changed by the user if desired

      • Add new USAS Integration option to post Voided Payments to USAS

  • USPS-R 6.36.1 Release Notes

    • Bug Fixes

      • Corrected a bug in the ODJFS Report that could create database connections and never close them, causing a database connection leak.

  • USPS-R 6.37.0 Release Notes

    • New Features

      • Mass Load Future Pay Amounts

        • This is a new mass load option, separate from the Attendance Import.

        • You will not be able to load attendance with this new option, you will only be able to load Future Pay Amounts.

        • You can continue to use the Attendance Import.

        • Please see the Mass Load documentation for more information

      • New Permissions for Compensations

        • All roles that had Position permissions will be updated to include the new Compensation permissions at start up

        • Permissions added include

          • USPS_STANDARD_COMPENSATION

          • USPS_STANDARD_COMPENSATION_CREATE

          • USPS_STANDARD_COMPENSATION_VIEW

          • USPS_STANDARD_COMPENSATION_UPDATE

          • USPS_STANDARD_COMPENSATION_DELETE

          • USPS_STANDARD_COMPENSATION_REPORT

        • Please see the Role documentation for more information

      • Added new Save and Recall functionality to the Quarter Report

      • Created new Legacy Data File Archive folder

        • This is a new general archive option that users can load files into

        • See documentation for more information

      • Added funding source F to CRDC reporting options.

  • USPS-R 6.37.1 Release Notes

    • Bug Fixes

      • Corrected a bug in the W2 Report that would prevent the report from completing if mismatched payroll item types were found.

        • The error will now be trapped and a warning will be included on the report.

Upcoming Releases

  • USPS-R 6.38.0 Release Notes

    • Bug Fixes

      • Save STRS Report files to the archive with the correct file extension if the user selects anything other than PDF

    • Improvements

      • Performance Improvements

        • ODJFS Report

        • Employer Distribution Report

        • USAS Employer Distribution Submission

      • Refund Payment <name> token in XML print file will now be First Name Last Name

    • New Features

      • Save and Recall Report Parameters

        • Perfect Attendance Report

        • STRS Advance Reports

    • Internal

      • Service Layer improvements

    •  Patch

      • Import the payroll history that was missed for a single employee for a specific district

  • USPS-R 6.39.0 Release Notes

    • Bug Fixes

      • Fix permission for Census Report View to allow read only user access

    • Improvements

      • Internal Payroll Refactoring Performance  

      • Improve accrued wages warning to only appear when wages will go from positive to negative as a result of current payroll

    • New Features

      • Save and Recall Report Parameters

        • STRS Advance Reports

        • EMIS Reports

        • Job Calendar Report

        • Leave Balance Report

        • New Contract Report

        • ODJFS Report

        • W2 Reports

    • Internal

      • Service Layer Improvements