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Version Updates
Version: June (Expected Release Date: 7/1/24-7/11/24)
Module | Category | Case | Description | Documentation |
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Academic | Enhancement | DEV-2051 | Added Transfer course fields to Batch Enrollment/Final Grade by Spreadsheet feature. In order to make the transfer of courses more efficient, institutions are now able to upload a batch of transfer courses using the spreadsheet upload function. | |
Academic | Enhancement | DEV-1835 | Added the ability to display a student's current degree start date on the Post Secondary Two Column Transcript. To display set Custom Control/MSPARM TRANS_DATE 1-2 = Y and RG350DB 77-1 = Y | |
Academic | Bug | DEV-2050 | Fixed an irregular message appearing on an unofficial transcripts. | |
Academic | Bug | DEV-2005 | Fixed an issue where term dropdown was showing duplicate terms when a sub-term was created. | |
Accounting | Enhancement | DEV-1999 | Cost Center Permissions page has been updated to modern code and UI. This allows the page to load more quickly and also allows for quick editing and searching capabilities. | |
Accounts Payable | Bug | DEV-2073 | Fixed an issue where Cancelled/Void Checks upload process was incorrectly showing a success message when the process was erroring out and not clearing the checks. | |
Admissions | Enhancement | DEV-2063 | Religious Preference can now be re-labeled to be used for additional purposes. Using Custom Control/MSPARM LABEL_RELIGIOUS_PREF 1-1 the Religious Preference field can be re-labeled in the system for additional purposing. (e.g. Native Tribal Affiliation, Sponsoring Affiliations, School Districts for professional development institutions, etc.) | |
Financial Aid | Enhancement | DEV-1972 | Added new “Enrolled in Term” filter option to the F/A Disbursement Roster. Added “Enrolled Hours” to disbursement roster data grid to show the summed number of hours for selected term(s) filter. Please note that if you select more than one term it will sum all credits for the selected terms. Current Degree Status has also been added to the roster data grid. | |
Financial Aid | Enhancement | DEV-1997 | Added Degree Start Date range configuration option to Disbursement Term Rules for borrower-based institution which many starts per year. This also matches the Degree Start Date range configuration option for Cost of Attendance generation. | |
Financial Aid | Change | DEV-1933 | Changed packaging functionality to use Dependency Status field rather than SAI Dependency Formula field to package dependent/independencies to prevent incorrect packaging when the SAI Formula is blank or rejected on the imported ISIR. | |
Financial Aid | Change | DEV-2041 | F/A Packaging records will now be placed in a “H” holding status when an ISIR has a blank, rejected, or -9999 SAI. “H” holding status will also be applied if an ISIR’s dependency status is “X” or “Y” for a rejected dependency status. | |
Financial Aid | Bug | DEV-2019 | The manual disbursement warning notification will no longer show for manually marking a payment plan as disbursed (“paid”). | |
Financial Aid | Bug | DEV-2042 | Fixed an issue where F/A Packaging grid was not saving a user’s customized grid field orientation and state. | |
Student Financials | Bug | DEV-2027 | Fixed an issue when exporting the data grid from the F/A Packaging page where the dates were not populating. Fixed an issue where Entered/Changed Date filter range were not filtering the range properly. | |
Student Financials | Enhancement | DEV-1993 | Added Toggle checkbox to the billing statement page to show/hide unposted transactions. These are transactions that are either in the billing batch, cash batch, or have been generated by real-time billing. (Ask support in meeting about MSPARM 1 time) | |
Student Financials | Enhancement | DEV-2039 | Added current Degree Major to bill batch grid to assist an institution with analyzing batch data. | |
Student Financials | Bug | DEV-2036 | Added validation to cash batch that will prevent a batch to be posted if an invalid ID Number on a transaction does not exist in the system. | |
Student Financials | Bug | DEV-1989 | Fixed an error when posting a bill batch with an apostrophe in the member name. | |
Student Financials | Bug | DEV-2024 | Fixed and issue on the billing charges interface where sometimes a configuration field would be hidden or cut off. | |
Third-Party Integration | Enhancement | DEV-2038 | Added additional extension method to support legacy non-authenticated emailing from the system. As warned over the last year, Microsoft has sunset the original pathing for non-authenticated emailing through Port 25. To continue to use the legacy unauthenticated method of emailing with Microsoft email accounts, your institution must whitelist the additional IP addresses listed in the in the legacy method documentation. Again, we urge institutions to adopt authenticated SMTP emailing instead of unauthenticated emailing for security purposes; using unauthenticated emailing leaves your system vulnerable for users at your institution to imitate/spoof institutional email addresses. | |
Third-Party Integrations | Bug | DEV-1972 | Fixed a Brightspace error where courses were not integrating when spaces were incorrectly included in course numbers. | |
Third-party Integrations | Bug | DEV-2023 | Fixed an issue where an OpenAPI inquiry/lead creation was erroring out when the inquirySource data value was too long. Upon the value being too long the value will be truncated, and the inquiry/lead will now proceed to be created. | |
User Interface | Change | DEV-2026 | Changed “Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander” to “Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander” label to match IPEDS terminology. | |
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Workflows, Activities & Triggers | Bug | DEV-2057 | Fixed an issue with high school grad month field when mail merging from All People finder. | |
Workflows, Activities & Triggers | Enhancement | DEV-1890 | Added ADDREC as triggerable field on Database Triggers | |
Database Changes | Added Table - DELETED_ARMAST_BATCH Added field DEGREE_STATUS to FA_DISB_WITH_COD_STATUS view Added field START_DATE and END_DATE to FA_DISBURSEMENT_TERM_RULES table Added new MSPARM FA_RULEKEY 1-5 for degree start dates Moved Permission 1277 from RG (registration) module to AV (student) module. |
Version: May (Expected Release Date: 6/3/24-6/7/24)
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Module | Category | Case | Description | Documentation |
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Academic | Enhancement | DEV-1825 | Added the ability on the 2-Column Default Transcript type to move the page number to the right of the page using MSPARM/Custom Control TRANS_CUST 1-1 = Y. Please see documentation page for all formatting options. | |
Academic | Enhancement | DEV-1869 | Added Course titles to Plan of Study for clarity. | |
Academic | Enhancement | DEV-1870 | Added functionality to “exclude from degree audit” checkbox on enrollment history detail page to also hide a course from the Individual Plan of Study. | |
Academic | Enhancement | DEV-1829 | Added Advisor 3 and 4 to batch update advisor process on the student finder actions. | |
Academic | Change | DEV-1847 | Added functionality map multiple Advisor’s to a dashboard type with Custom Control/MSPARM: DASHADVISE 1-1 - Student Services Dashboard DASHADVISE 1-2 - Financial Aid Dashboard DASHADVISE 1-3 - Student Finances Dashboard DASHADVISE 1-4 - Placement Dashboard These Custom Controls accept one advisor number or multiple in a comma separated value (e.g. 1,4) See documentation for details. | |
Academic | Change | DEV-1898 | Updated Copy Classroom information pop-up and directions. | |
Academic | Bug | DEV-1855 | Fixed an issue when editing a gradebook group “Calculate by Objective” was unchecked after saving. | |
Academic | Bug | DEV-1852 | Fixed an issue on the final grade report where the course instructor name was showing in the wrong column. | |
Academic | Bug | DEV-1863 | Fixed an error on the course roster page when trying to view the comment listing or use the batch add comment functions. | |
Academic | Bug | DEV-1816 | Fixed an issue where Sub-semester dropdown was still being shown on students' portals even when permission was set to hide. | |
Academic | Bug | DEV-1862 | Fixed the export to excel button on Degree Audit X-Reference Listing results list. | |
Academic | Bug | DEV-1879 | Fixed an issue where Custom Control/MSPARM SHOWCRSDAT 1-1 default option to show start/end dates on enrollment history was not being respected. | |
Admissions | Change | DEV-1889 | Updated Application Status page to be more user friendly. | |
Admissions | Bug | DEV-1900 | Fixed an issue where an inquiry form was being blocked from being submitted because a field that was marked as “required” was set as hidden on the form. | |
Alumni/Development | Bug | DEV-1899 | Fixed an issue where uploading of gifts from a spreadsheet was not properly populating the constituent code. | |
Financial Aid | Enhancement | DEV-1860 | Printable ISIR now shows CUI//SP-TAX Data on page 4 with labeling. | |
Financial Aid | Enhancement | DEV-1826 | When inputting Disbursement Date, Gross, or Net amounts on manual Disbursement Detail edit page, a warning message will now appear to prevent accidental manual disbursements of federal aid. | |
Financial Aid | Enhancement | DEV-1848 | Added optionally packaging validation checking to “Include Doc Status” option to Block Packaging if students have outstanding “F” (Financial Aid) member Required documents without a “Completed Date” for the current Award Year. | |
Financial Aid | Change | DEV-1913 | Added grade level 7 back to Packaging detail page to match COD’s grade levels as COD is still using grade level 7 for graduate level loans. Until COD updates their system, students with grade level 4 on the 24-25 ISIR will show grade level 4 on the printed ISIR, but the grade level field will be automatically populated at grade level 7 to match COD’s origination value. | |
Financial Aid | Change | DEV-1851 | Added new Custom Control/MSPARM FA_ISIR_SKIP 1-2 - If set to "Y" the ISIR Import will NOT promote subsequent ISIR revisions to Active and will NOT update already packaged awards to the subsequent revision. Setting this option will also not copy Cost of Attendance forward to the new subsequent ISIR. | |
Financial Aid | Bug | DEV-1068 | Fixed an issue where COD Released Pell Corrected amounts from response edit codes 067 & 201 were not properly disbursing to the billing batch. | |
Financial Aid | Bug | DEV-1888 | Fixed an import error that appeared if an ISIR had a blank SAI or Provisional SAI. | |
Student Financials | Change | DEV-1818 | Added validation to Fast Cash to prevent a user from accidentally double clicking and creating duplicate transactions. | |
Student Financials | Change | DEV-1675 | Added ability to refund “Flat Fee on All” rate amounts through the group billing process. Flat rate adjustment is now based upon the current degree having a Degree Status of W-Withdrawn and also upon the Degree Status Date being non-blank. For the refund to take place the charge must be a true flat fee and not be a charge that is per course, per credit, or by enrollment; it must have a refund code of B-Both, S-Semester, or C-Course. | |
Student Financials | Change | DEV-1875 | Removed old hidden billing statement page from system. Added Custom Control/MSPARM BILLSTMT 3-1 if the billing statement should default to “select by semester” (Y) or “Select by date” (N) Removed “Total Amount Due” from Payment box on the Billing Statement page. | |
Student Financials | Bug | DEV-1648 | Fixed an issue where the printed bill batch summary was timing out on very large batches | |
Student Financials | Bug | DEV-1865 | Fixed an issue where Authorize.net transactions were being duplicated in the Cash Batch. | |
Student Financials | Bug | DEV-1874 | Fixed an issue where the Printable Billing Statement button was incorrectly linked to the Show/Hide Payment Custom Control BILLSTMT 1-9 | |
Student Financials | Bug | DEV-1683 | Fixed an issue where some non-reversable course fees were still being reversed if a course was dropped. | |
Student Financials | Bug | DEV-1897 | Fixed issue with Billing Upload from Spreadsheet function not reading .csv files properly. | |
Third-Party Integrations | Enhancement | DEV-1902 | Added functionality to allow non-integers in description field inside Authorize.net’s reoccurring payments for manually adding transaction meta-data tracking. | |
User Interface | Enhancement | DEV-1806 | Updated “impersonate user” link to be a more stylish icon. | |
User Interface | Change | DEV-1912 | Added clarification to Merge/Delete user page on which user would be deleted and retained. | |
User Interface | Change | DEV-1839 | Removed depreciated fields on adjustable appearance and branding page. | |
Workflows, Activities & Triggers | Enhancement | DEV-1832 | Added functionality to batch delete Activity Tracking/Workflow items. | |
Workflows, Activities & Triggers | Bug | DEV-1858 | Fixed an issue where some activity finder saved grid options were not showing data. | |
Workflows, Activities & Triggers | Bug | DEV-1843 | Fixed an issue where the Student Financials Dashboard item permission was incorrectly linked to Placement Dashboards permission 1229. |
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Module | Category | Description | Documentation |
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Academic | Enhancement | Added new Custom Control/MSPARM GPASTYLE 1-3 to allow for truncating GPA to 2 decimals instead of rounding. | |
Academic | Bug | Fixed an issue where cross listed courses would sometimes ignore the section number and link to the wrong section within a semester. | |
Academic | Change | Remove the "LDA" field from the transcript format 5_1 | |
Academic | Bug | Batch Transcript process will now obey permission 295 to suppress tracking options. | |
Academic | Bug | Fixed course rosters from breaking when a student had quotation marks in their name. | |
Academic | Bug | Fixed an issue where waitlisting students removed from the list were not calculating properly into the course counts. | |
Academic | Bug | Fixed an issue where repeated courses were not calculating correctly on some transcript formats. | |
Academic | Bug | Fixed an issue where the Excel/Print action buttons were not working on the Faculty Dashboard. | |
Academic | Bug | Increased the character limit on the Individual Plan of Studies to fix an issue where an error message appeared when saving when the name was too long. | |
Academic | Bug | Fixed an issue where exporting the Session Date summary page would produce error messages when opening the file. | |
Admissions | Bug | Fixed an issue with the round robin functions where students were not being re-assigned if a student re-applied. | |
Accounting/ | Enhancement | Added search function to GL Codes Lookup. | |
Accounting/ | Bug | Fixed an issue related to closing a Fiscal Year. | |
Accounts Payable | Bug | Fixed an issue where some ETF payments were not being processed through the ECSI payment integration. | |
Accounts Payable | Bug | Fixed an issue where AR Aging process was not taking sponsored billing into account. | |
Alumni/Development | Enhancement | Added new Alumni/Development Gift Cash batch from spreadsheet process. | |
Alumni/Development | Bug | Fixed an issue where gift batches were sometimes doubling as a pledge. | |
Financial Aid | Enhancement | Added functionality where the save prompt will appear automatically when exporting a COD export file from the Disbursement Roster. | |
Parent | Bug | Fixed an issue where the Parent module had access to manual cash payments options when they should not have. | |
Student Financials | Change | Changed the Billing Statement date filter logic to be "Less/more than" to Less/more than or equal to" to include transactions as of the date filtered upon. | |
Student Financials | Change | For Authorize.net e-checks student names will be truncated at 22 characters to match Auth.net's character limit. | |
Student Financials | Bug | Fixed an issue with allowing an invalid sponsor ID number to be inserted in a cash batch detail. | |
System | Change | Added the ability to have dynamic HTML portal home pages based on student or faculty permission groups. This means that you can have dynamically different HTML links, pictures, and visuals based on a users' permission group. For example, an applied student could have a different portal page from an accepted or enrolled student based on their permission group. | |
Third-Party Integrations | Enhancement | Brightspace import will now also import IsActive and LastAccessed into the database for future reporting. | |
Third-Party Integrations | Change | Added new Custom Control/MSPARM GFAS_START_DATE = Y to use the student's most recent enrollment course start date as the "B Date" for the Global Financial Aid integration. | |
Third-Party Integrations | Bug | Fixed an issue where open API leads were failing to send tracking emails when the lead's birthday field was missing. | |
Third-Party Integrations | Bug | Fixed an error issue when setting up reoccurring auto-debit payment plans through http://authorize.net | |
Workflows, Activities & Triggers | Bug | Fixed an issue where access to a student document portal was intermittent even if the permission was enabled. | |
Workflows, Activities & Triggers | Enhancement | Added support for Microsoft's shared inboxes for authenticated emailing processes. | |
Workflows, Activities & Triggers | Bug | Fixed an issue where creating tracking items were producing an error on some inquiry accounts. |
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