USAS v8.71.0 Release Notes

Summary

This release of USAS-R contains performance improvements and bug fixes as detailed in the release notes below.  Please keep in mind these release notes only reflect the changes included in this release.  There are many other features of the software that were previously released that will not be reflected in these release notes.  General information about all of the features available in USAS-R can be found in our USAS-R Documentation.  There is a section in the documentation that also details the significant changes between USAS-R and Classic USAS. 

Important Highlights

Improvements

• We have removed the obsolete "SSDT Auditor Report Bundle" with this release.  The report bundle was replaced last year with the following jobs: the District Audit Job and SOC1 Audit Job.  Details on how to use the audit jobs can be found in the Job Scheduler user documentation.

• Implemented the ability to import vendor adjustments via the Vendor grid Import option.  Previously the only way to post vendor adjustments was via the individual vendor.  Using the new import option, the ability to mass post vendor adjustments is available.  Please note, the user documentation for this new feature will be available soon and will include a template CSV file to assist users.

  • From the Vendor grid select the Import button.  The popup will now display two options, "Add or Update Vendor(s)" and "Add Vendor Adjustment(s)".   

  • The "Add or Update Vendor(s)" option works as it did previously.

  • The "Add Vendor Adjustment(s)" option will post adjustments for vendors based on the data in the upload file.  This will only post new adjustments, it will not modify or remove existing adjustments.  

• Added fields to the canned version of the Financial Detail Report to replicate the available data generated by the template reports when selecting report format CSV or Excel-data.  These changes should help districts generate reports requested by third party vendors and Indirect Cost reports as well.

  • The newly available fields include the individual account code dimensions, 1 digit and 2 digit reporting levels for function, receipt, object, subject and OPU as well as the forecast line number.

Patches

• Patch for a district who had account change jobs in progress that did not restart when the application was restarted.  This patch is specific to a single district.

Issues included on this release