2021-04-21 USPS-R Completed Work Review
Releases Since Our Last Meeting
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
Bug Fixes
Corrected a bug in the ODJFS Report that could create database connections and never close them, causing a database connection leak.
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.
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