2020-06-17 USPS-R Completed Work Review

Releases Since Our Last Meeting

  • USPS-R 6.14.0 Release Notes

    • Bug Fixes

      • Fixed a database connection leak in the Spring Batch Job Service

      • Fixed a bug in the HSA service that allows negative and zero amounts on the submission file

      • Fixed a bug in the ODJFS Report that was not included imported adjustment journals

      • Fixed a bug in the Leave Projection Submission that could produce an 'odd' error while attempting to audit the event

      • Fixed a bug in the Employer Distributions Pay Cycle selection

    • Improvements

      • Create a patch to finish incomplete history for a district in production

      • Greatly reduced the timeout of Account Sync

      • Archived employees will no longer be included in EMIS reporting

      • Integer changes to how we send logs to SSDT server

    • Performance Enhancements

      • Greatly improve the performance of the AFFORD Report - 98% improvement

    • New Features

      • Allow all STRS Advance reports to be saved to the payroll archive

      • Added new EMIS Reports to simulate data collection for Employees and Positions

      • Added patch to discover grid preferences and saved queries

      • Created new Expenditure Account UI in the USAS Integration menu

        • Read only view

        • Displays all expenditure accounts in USPS

        • Allows column filtering

        • Always sorts by the 8 account dimensions 

        • Helps to narrow down accounts that are / aren't synced with USAS in a much more user friendly way

  • USPS-R 6.14.1 Release Notes

    • Greatly improve the performance of the Employer Retirement Share Report - 98% improvement

  • USPS-R 6.15.0 Release Notes

    • Bug Fixes

      • Fixed a bug in payroll post that was not stamping the pay date on Attendances correctly in all cases

      • Fixed a bug in the SSDT Account History v2 template report that was preventing specific pay accounts from displaying

      • Fixed a bug that preventing outstanding payables from posting if a column filter was used and payables were paid by payee

      • Fixed a bug in the classic import that was incorrectly archiving employees with invalid emails

    • Improvements

      • Added Electronic Payment flag to Outstanding Payable grids

      • Allow Payroll Item Configurations to be reportable from the grid

      • Add multiple enhancements to the Job Calendar Report

        • Page Break Options

        • Exclude archived options

        • Include calendars with no days

        • Include all days of the entered date range, even if no day codes exist

      • Changed leave balance report column lengths

      • Suppressed Compensation warnings from firing during payroll post

      • Added patch to correct wrong imported pay date for a specific district

      • Added patch to set all null electronic payment flags on Payee to false

      • Fixed slow query during payroll modify / update

    • Performance Enhancements

      • Improve the performance of STRS Advance Fiscal Year to Date Report

        • 55% improvement

      • Improve the performance of STRS Advance Positions Report

        • 38% improvement

      • Improve the performance of STRS Non-Advance Positions Report

        • 58% improvement

      • Improve the performance of STRS Report and Submission

        • 59% improvement

      • Improve the performance of Payroll Post via database indexes

        • Two indexes were added to two slow queries

        • 80% improvement to payroll post run times

    • New Features

      • Added new HSA ACH Report

      • Added ability to 'lock in' pay per period when activating new contracts

      • Added STRS Advance Configuration Values to Organization view

    • Internal

      • Archived old patches to prevent runs on demo instances

  • USPS-R 6.15.1 Release Notes

    • Bug Fixes

      • Fixed bug in HSA processing that was including non electronic payments in HSA ACH file

      • Fixed upper limit on CC Record 'Hours Per Week' to match EMIS Manual

    • New Features

      • Add Position Code 910

  • USPS-R 6.15.2 Release Notes

    • The STRS Non-Advance report was not including manual compensation adjustments for contract days work.

      • This caused the report filters to include compensations with manual adjustments in the Non-Advance report.

  • USPS-R 6.15.3 Release Notes

    • The import from classic failed during the migration of history for a specific district.

      • The District was moved into production without all the history being import.

      • This issue imports the missing history for this district.

Upcoming Releases

  • USPS-R 6.16.0

    • Bug Fixes

      • Fixed a bug in Payroll Item Max Amount withholding that continued to withhold item past the max for a very specific situation

      • Fixed a bug in Max Advance Sick Leave calculation that was not applying amounts in the correct order

      • Fixed a bug in the Outstanding Payables Detail Report that was missing payables from Refund of Payroll Item

      • Fixed a bug in Employer Distributions that prevented adjustments from being included if the employee was not paid

    • Improvements

      • Employer Retirement Share will now 'skip' SERS/STRS reporting when a value of zero is entered by the user

    • New Features

      • Employer Distributions

        • Added report parameters to the first page of the report

        • Added Excel and CSV output format options

        • Added Payroll Item summary page

        • Column totals no longer subtotal on page break, instead subtotal on end of group

      • Added new read only property to Payroll Item to show Max Amount remaining

      • Added new read only property to Payroll Account to show Max Amount remaining