2020-08-19 USPS-R Completed Work Review

Releases Since Our Last Meeting

  • USPS-R 6.18.0 Release Notes

    • Bug Fixes

      • W2 Report failing due to a rare Medicare Tax Item situation

      • Fixed a null pointer exception in queryEmployeeDate method of the SOAP-Bridge

    • Improvements

      • Improve the performance of the Payee Payments view

    • New Features

      • Service Layers (Internal components to be used in the user interface grids in the future)

        • ACH Destination

        • ACH Source

        • Bank Account

        • Organization

        • Pay Group

        • Payee

        • Employee

      • Create a new Canned Audit Report

  • USPS-R 6.19.0 Release Notes

    • Bug Fixes

      • Fixed a bug preventing Manual Payment Creation

      • Fixed the Hire Date on the SSDT Employee Hire report to use the position hire date 

      • Fixed a bug in the calculations of *TD values displayed in the Employee Dashboard

      • Fixed a bug that allowed archived compensations to be paid via current payroll

      • Fixed a null pointer exception in the queryEmployeeDeductions SOAP-Bridge call

      • Fixed sorting for Building and Check Distribution to included the employee full name in the sort ordering

      • Fixed the error message displayed when loading a non contract mass load without a valid position number

      • Fixed a null pointer exception in EMIS Contract Import from classic

      • Included payroll item adjustments in the calculations for combined pay items on Direct Deposits

    • Improvements

      • Add validation to the EMIS Contractor (CJ) IRN field

      • Suppress compensation calculation warnings when voiding  / unvoiding a payment

      • Added Organization Configuration implementations to the following Configurations

        • If the permission "MODULE_CONFIG_ORGANIZATION" is granted, the user will have access to the following configurations

        • Account Mapping Configuration

        • Advanced Sick Leave Configuration

        • Check Void Message Configuration

        • Deferred Absence Posting Configuration

        • EMIS Reporting Configuration

        • Employee Number Automatic Generation Configuration

        • Employer Retirement Share Configuration

        • ODJFS Configuration

        • Overtime Object Code Configuration

        • Payment Printing Configuration

        • STRS Advance Configuration

        • Transaction Configuration

    • New Features

      • Service Layer (Internal Changes)

        • Added service for Payroll Accounts

        • Added service for Users

        • Added service for Roles

        • Added service for Payroll Items

      • Internal

        • Added / Updated docker configuration files for USPS anonymizer

  • USPS-R 6.19.1 Release Notes

    • Bug Fix

      • If a district created New Contracts that included expenditure accounts that were then changed in USAS, the Account Sync could fail to process the account transition.

      • This release of USPS-R corrects this issue and will now update the underlying expenditure accounts in New Contract as well as Payroll Accounts.

  • USPS-R 6.20.0 Release Notes

    • Bug Fixes

      • Fixed a bug in the Leave Projection Submission View that incorrectly reported accounts were not synced with USAS

      • Refresh the container for New Contract Grid after each activation

      • Fixed the leave balance query to return 0.00 instead of null when no transactions are found

      • Fixed a rounding issue in Convert Personal to Pay service related to payroll account rounding

      • Fixed a bug in how Leave Projection Report was handling Holidays

      • Prevented an Auditing error when submitting Employer Distributions to USAS

    • Improvements

      • Disabled filter in Payee Payments Grid that could cause larger performance issues

      • Combined LPA and LPE into a single pay amount on DD and Check Stubs

    • New Features

      • Added the ability to Mass Load Compensations

      • Internal

        • Created service layer for Date Codes

        • Created service layer for Pay Distributions

        • Created service layer for Payroll Item Configuration

  • USPS-R 6.20.1 Release Notes

    • Fixed a null pointer exception in the Audit Report

Upcoming Releases

  • USPS-R 6.21.0

    • Bug Fixes

      • Correct calculation of YTD amounts for Pay Items in DD notifications

        • Correction will make the calculations match how we handle this in other areas of the system

    • Improvements

      • Add time to the Audit Report 'timestamp' column

      • Import classic Health Insurance from Federal Tax Record as an Adjustment Journal

    • New Features

      • Create service layer for Attendance

      • Create service layer for Compensation

      • Create service layer for Job Calendar

      • Allow Pay Report to be sorted by Pay Group

      • Remove 'active compensation' validation from Benefit Accrual and Reset Personal Leave

      • Update EMIS Reporting to be easier to maintain for the users

      • Default ACH /HSA submission to 'Employee SSN will NOT be included'

    • Internal

      • Refactor how the anonymizer works