Releases Since Our Last Meeting

• USPS-R 6.12.0 Release Notes

  •  Improvements

    • Performance 

      • Payroll Report

      • Posted Payroll Report

      • Direct Deposit XML 

      • Payroll Account Distribution Detail Projection / Actual

      • Budget Distribution Projection / Actual

      • Payroll Item Detail Projection / Actual

      • Pay Amount Summary

      • Outstanding Payables user interface and Posting

    • Internal

      • Moved Anonymizer to it's own module

  • Bug Fixes

    • Changed how account charging is validated to allow payroll init / posting while accounts are not synced with USAS

    • Outstanding Payables reports will now be saved to the file archive

    • Payroll Update / Modify will not lock the user interface while processing

  • New Features

    • Added new Payee 2 Name to Pay Rec import / extract

• USPS-R 6.12.1 Release Notes

  • Bug Fix / Improvements

    • 6.12.0 of USPS-R introduced multiple performance changes inside of payroll reporting. These changes also introduced a bug in a query related to Payroll Item Max Amounts.

    • This bug caused an increase in the run times of 

      • Pay Report

      • Budget Dist Report

      • Pay Account Detail Report

      • Pay Summary Report

      • Pay Item Detail Report

      • Payroll Post

      • Payroll Unpost

    • This release of USPS-R fixes the query in question and the above areas should be performing as expected

• USPS-R 6.12.2 Release Notes

  • Bug Fix

    • 6.12.1 introduced a bug in that would prevent HSA submission file generation from completing. 

    • This has been corrected on this release

  • Performance Improvement

    • Improved the query that gathers the information necessary to Post Payroll to USAS

    • This will improve the loading times of the Post Payroll to USAS Detail View

• USPS-R 6.12.3 Release Notes

  • Bug Fix

    • Fixed a null pointer exception in the Outstanding Payables Detail Grid

    • Fixed a bug resulting in the incorrect max amount calculations for payroll items

• USPS-R 6.12.4 Release Notes

  • Bug Fix

    • Fixed a race condition in the Budget Distribution Report that could lead to inconsistent data for the report

    • Fixed incorrect account error reporting in Leave Projection Reports

    • Fixed internal exceptions when attempting to run W2 report

• USPS-R 6.13.0 Release Notes

  • Bug Fixes

    • Fixed bug in Position Import from Classic that will handle an invalid FTE property and load the position / compensation information

    • Fixed null pointer exception in Leave Balance Report

    • Fixed bug in STRS Advance that will give employees 1% service credit if they have any service days but less than the required earnings or total service days for reporting

    • Fixed a bug in Employee Import from Classic that will correctly handle a missing work phone number when an employee has a work phone extension

  • Improvements

    • Added filtering to the Outstanding Payables grids

    • Added tooltip to Payroll Item Detail Report View that explains how selection of Payroll Items works

    • Added Employee Number to Employee Dashboard menu under the Employee Photo

  • Performance Enhancements

    • Improved performance of direct deposit PDF printing - 85% improvement

    • Improved performance of payroll update / modify - 50% improvement

    • Improved Performance of Outstanding Payables reports

      • Summary Report - 78% improvement

      • Detail Report - 95% improvement

  • New Features

    • The word ERROR will now display in red on the Payroll Error Report

    • Implement a small internal change to allow the Organization Name to be displayed on all template reports

Upcoming Releases

• USPS-R 6.14.0

  • 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 6.15.0

  • Bug Fixes

    • Max Advance Sick Leave and Advanced Used not working as expected

    • Payroll Post not stamping pay date on Attendances in all cases

    • Patch to fix history so Account history v2 works as expected

    • Fix but in employee import from classic where an invalid 

  • Performance Enhancements

    • Improve Performance of all STRS Advance Reports

  • Improvements

    • Add Electronic Payment Flag to the Outstanding Payables Grid

    • Allow Payroll Item Configurations to be reportable

    • Add patch to fix a pay date for a specific district

  • New Feature

    • Rewrite the Job Calendar Report

      • Allow page break on new calendar

      • Include all days for the entered date range, even if no date code for this day

      • Allow the exclusion of archived job calendars

      • These changes require Start / Stop dates be entered