USPS 7.0.0 Release Notes
- Andy Hoiles
Date | Sep 8, 2023Â |
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Issues | Getting issues... |
Build Date | 2023-09-05 04:08:25 |
Summary
This release of USPS-R contains bug fixes, improvements and new features. See highlights below.
Important highlights from this release
Bug Fixes
Fix problem with converting personal leave to sick leave when amount to accumulate would be negative
Improvements
Use compensation calendar stop date when determining how many days are paid in a payroll period
Update employee dashboard to use new employee photo database tables
Add EMIS changes for FY24
Improve validation for corrected SSN on W2C
New Features
Create Attendance Journal Mass Loader
Create Eligible to Retire report
Internal
Add imported flag to Historical Payroll Item
Patches
Migrate Employee Photos from custom fields
Add an imported flag to all historical payroll items
Add a startup patch to clear invalid funding source values from Positions
Important Information about 7.0.0
The 7.0.0 release of USPS will run 3 different patches at start up.
The first patch will remove an invalid funding source data from Position records.
The second patch will migrate all employee photo custom fields to a new database structure.
All employee photo custom fields will be removed.
Employee photo custom field definition will be disabled.
This patch will fail silently on error. Please see logs to verify the patch applied correctly.
The final patch will add a new property to historical employee pay and historical payroll item named imported.
This patch will prevent startup on error.
These patches will take time to apply. Large districts could see a delay in start up time up to 1 hour.
When scheduling the installation USPS 7.0.0, it is recommended that you create a backup of the database prior to installation. If you run into any problems installing 7.0.0 please contact SSDT through the service desk.