USPS 7.0.0 Release Notes

USPS 7.0.0 Release Notes

 

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.

 

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