USAS v8.67.0 Release Notes

Summary

This release of USAS-R contains performance improvements and bug fixes as detailed in the release notes below.  Please keep in mind these release notes only reflect the changes included in this release.  There are many other features of the software that were previously released that will not be reflected in these release notes.  General information about all of the features available in USAS-R can be found in our USAS-R Documentation.  There is a section in the documentation that also details the significant changes between USAS-R and Classic USAS. 

Important Highlights

Improvements

• Improvements have been made to the User view

  • The component that displays the Roles (available and granted) has been made larger so the value of the role is entirely visible.

  • The email address field has been made larger so that the value of the email address is entirely visible.

• The Federal Assistance Detail view has been updated to exclude transfer and advance amounts in the received and expenditures values for 500 level funds.

• A previous change that included adding a warning message when closing a posting period if report bundles are disabled was corrected.  The warning message will now properly display if report bundles are disabled when closing a posting period.

• The ability to delete reports from the File Archive has been implemented.  The entire archive entry can be deleted from the File Archive grid, as well as the ability to select individual reports to delete.  For example, with the proper permissions an entire month's reports can be removed via the grid.  Or, once a month is selected, a user can select individual reports from the highlight view and delete them via the Delete button. 

  • As part of this change we also made the following changes to the specified Roles:

    • A new role has been created that grants the permission to delete from the file archive: USAS_FILEARCHIVE_MANAGER

    • The existing USAS_FILEARCHIVE role no longer includes the permission to delete from the archive.  

    • The USAS_MANAGER role has been updated to remove the permission to delete from the file archive.  

  • The importance and timing of these changes are related to the Document Management and Archival project currently in progress.  Once completed, we will begin phase 1 which is to migrate the data stored in the File Archives for USAS and USPS out of the separate USAS and USPS databases into one database.  ITCs may want to clean up duplicate entries and/or other unneeded reports from these file archives in anticipation of the upcoming document archival and management changes.  Any files in the archive when the migration to the document store takes place will be migrated as is. This migration is projected to begin in the second quarter, so ITCs and districts should have ample time to review and remove unneeded files prior to that point.  Each report has a version number, so you can easily keep the desired version and remove any others that are no longer needed.

Patch

• A patch for a specific district to correct a transaction related to a previously corrected account change bug, as well as several POs with incorrect remaining encumbrance values as a result of the Classic migration.  District was imported prior to the availability of the manual encumbrance adjustments.

Internal 

• Corrected legacy build dependency issues.

• Added a project version controller.

Issues included on this release