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Module

Category

Case

Description

Documentation

Academic

Enhancements

DEV-

2121

2424

Added

functionality to automatically adjust a student’s current degree/major part-time code based on the number of credit hours in the current enrolled semester.
  • This process will also update the session data semester records accordingly based on number of credit hours.

  • Credit Hour to Part-Time Code Equivalencies are defined under each major/program maintenance page.

  • The Part Time Code update is run overnight or manually when the GPA calculation processor is run.

  • Custom Control GPA_PART_TIME 1-1 = Y has been added to enable this functionality.

    • This control is disabled by default.

    • Clock-Hour institutions will most likely want to keep this disabled.

    • This will help assist with proper financial aid packaging and reporting

  • Custom Control GPA_LINE 1-2 has been added to determine which semester to use for the Line Code (class level) and the new Part Time Code update.

    • Input a specific semester code into the Custom Control for the semester used to determine the calculation.

    • Setting the control to 0 will then use the default Reg. System Control semester for the calculation.

Degrees/Majors

Academic Programs (Majors)

GPA Processor

Academic

Enhancements

DEV-2493

Added Plan of Study Action from Prospects Finder.

This now allows institutions to apply and process plan of studies for applied students to help advisors with enrollment.

This also allows for those applied students can be taken into account for Anticipated Course Scheduling Reports.

https://campuscafesoftware.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/KB1/pages/519209070/Use+Individual+Plan+of+Study#Run-Anticipated-Scheduling-Report-for-students

Academic

Enhancement

DEV-1549

Degree Status changes will now automatically trigger Degree Status Date update.

e.g. when a student graduate, withdraws, or drops from their last course, the degree status date will update accordingly to the new status.

Degrees/Majors

Academic

Enhancement

DEV-2242

Added new Custom Controls TRANS_SHOW_LDA and TRANS_SHOW_REENTRYDATE to hide/show LDA and Re-Entry Dates on a student's transcript.

Transcript

Academic

Enhancement

DEV-2504

Added new Custom Control TRANS_PAGE 1-2 to allow alternative monospaced font types.

Note: Only Monospaced font types are supported. Using a non-monospaced font type will result in the transcript to be unreadable. Currently tested fonts are: cour.ttf and consola.ttf.

Font must be installed on the institution’s environment to be used or a blank transcript will be displayed.

Campus Cafe suggests using consola.ttf for the custom control if a San Serif font type is desired.

Added new Custom Control TRANS_PAGE 1-3 to adjust Transcript Font Size.

Note: Adjusting the font too large or too small in conjunction with the selected monospaced font type could result in data being printed off the page.

Transcript

Academic

Change

DEV-2416

Updated the Semester Date Maintenance UI to the more modern format.

Semesters (Terms)

Academic

Change

DEV-2529

Upload assignment grades through spreadsheet process adjusted to accept .csv file format and support ID numbers with leading zeros.

Enter and Post Grades

Academic

Bug

DEV-2494

Fixed an issue where the bolding of headings on the 2-column transcript was incorrect.

Transcript

Academic

Bug

DEV-2466

Fixed an issue on the GPA History Listing page being sorted incorrectly.

GPA History Listing

Academic

Bug

DEV-2457

Fixed an issue where certain mid-term/deficiency grades were not showing up in the grade selection.

Enter and Post Grades

Academic

Bug

DEV-2515

Fixed an issue where certain faculty were unable to see their course schedules.

Dashboards

Academic

Bug

DEV-2534

Input change to prevent errors and page timeouts when a course scheduled dates are created with the year 3000 or beyond.

Create and Schedule a Course

Accounting/General Ledger

Bug

DEV-2325

Fixed an issue that was not allowing a G/L period to be closed.

Close Period (Month)

Accounting/General Ledger

Change

DEV-2509

Added new Custom Control APCHECK 1-8 = Y to adjust the Check Printing font to Courier New to align with “Positive Pay” anti-fraud check format checking.

Accounts Payable Check Formatting

Admissions

Enhancement

DEV-2148

Added the ability to manage multiple applications for a student at one time.

Prior to this update a former application would be archived to “read-only”.

Now admissions users have the ability to make a prior application active and usable. When making a former application active, the admissions activities associated with the active application will appear on the Application Status page accordingly.

Multiple Applications and Admission History

Admissions

Enhancement

DEV-2502

In relation to last months increase of custom question workflow length to 30 characters; the “inquirysource” Lead API field length has also been increased to 30 characters to accommodate longer source names.

Admissions OpenAPI (REST JSON)

Admissions

Change

DEV-2536

Updated the Inquiry History Listing page to be more efficient.

Multiple Inquiries and Inquiry History

Admissions

Bug

DEV-1760

Fixed an issue where 2nd and 3rd Degree Major/Minors were not populating from a student’s application when a new degree record was created.

Degrees/Majors

Advancement/
Alumni

Change

DEV-2399

Updated Alumni module terminology to “Advancement” align with industry standard terminology.

Updated “Alumni” term to “Constituents.”

https://campuscafesoftware.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/KB1/pages/454788409/Introduction+to+Alumni+Development

Advancement/
Alumni

Bug

DEV-2513

Fixed a permission that allowed a user to add a constituent from the gifts page even if they did not have permission to do so.

Constituents

Financial Aid

Enhancement

DEV-1757

Added the Monthly SAS “Reconciliation” comparative report tab to the F/A COD Documents page.

After uploading a SAS reconciliation file (fixed length or comma-separated file), it will review the amounts that are listed in the file to the amounts disbursed in the financial aid module specifically and not to the A/R Ledger.

Please note that this will look for a match based on student SSN, Award, Award Year, and Sequence number for comparing amounts.

It’s possible that a user can make an adjustment or a pending adjustment to a disbursement, which will increment the sequence number to a non-matching sequence number; this will cause it to be reported as a sequence number mismatch to the reported SAS file.

School Account Statement (SAS) Reconciliation Review

Financial Aid

Enhancement

DEV-2451

Added the ability to create a non-ISIR based manual packaging record for a batch of students from the student finder. A user can now pull a list of students from the student finder, use the “To a F/A Packaging” to then create a batch a non-ISIR packaging records to be able to package a student before an ISIR is received.

Auto Packaging & View ISIR

Financial Aid

Change

DEV-2469

Constrained the SQL query functions on the advanced Scholarship/Other Packaging rules to prevent errors.

Scholarship/Other Aid Packaging Rules

Financial Aid

Bug

DEV-2468

Fixed a packaging page display error when an advanced Scholarship/Other Packaging rule runs into a conflict trying to award a duplicate award.

Scholarship/Other Aid Packaging Rules

Financial Aid

Bug

DEV-2466

Fixed an issue where Single-Term/Half Year Unsub loan packaging was being prorated incorrectly.

Disbursement Term Rules

Financial Aid

Bug

SP-12263

Fixed an issue where acceptance of financial aid was not saving.

Student Financing Review and Acceptance

Financial Aid

Bug

DEV-2520

Fixed an issue with the F/A Upload by Spreadsheet process not allowing awards to be changed to zero dollar amounts.

Upload F/A Awards Non-PowerFaids

Student Financials

Enhancement

DEV-2523

Added new AR Override CC-GL-Fund field to Billing Transaction Code Maintenance page to specifically assign the transaction’s AR account that it should be associated with; this field will override the default G/L receivables account listed on the General Ledger Funds detail page for the associated fiscal year.

This allows for alternative Receivable GL’s to be used for specific transactions.

Configure Transaction Codes

General Ledger Funds

System/UI

Enhancement

DEV-1841

Updated the Email Authentication detail page to be more user friendly.

SMTP Authenticated Emailing

System/UI

Enhancement

DEV-2206

Support for individualized Gmail Email address authentication has been added.

SMTP Authenticated Emailing

System/UI

Change

DEV-2535

Updated the Audit Log page to process more efficiently.

Audit Log

System/UI

Bug

SP-12444

Fixed an issue where sometimes it would require a user to login twice.

Permissions

Third-Party Integrations

Bug

DEV-2522

Fixed an issue where Brightspace integration was not properly creating a course when the adjusted begin date was crossing over into a different year.

Brightspace (LMS)

Third-Party Integrations

Bug

DEV-2492

Fixed an issue where the manual Time Attendance upload button for CourseKey was not showing.

CourseKey (Attendance)

Third-Party Integrations

Bug

SP-12428

Fixed a Blackboard password creation issue.

Database Changes

Fields Added/Changed:

Expanded ALRELA.SEQ_NUMBER field to allow for more characters

Added the following fields to STMAJR:

  • PART_TIME_CODE_FOR_CREDITS_1

  • PART_TIME_CODE_FOR_CREDITS_2

  • PART_TIME_CODE_FOR_CREDITS_3

  • PART_TIME_CODE_FOR_CREDITS_4

  • PART_TIME_CODE_FOR_CREDITS_5

  • CREDIT_FOR_PART_TIME_CODE_FROM_1

  • CREDIT_FOR_PART_TIME_CODE_FROM_2

  • CREDIT_FOR_PART_TIME_CODE_FROM_3

  • CREDIT_FOR_PART_TIME_CODE_FROM_4

  • CREDIT_FOR_PART_TIME_CODE_FROM_5

  • CREDIT_FOR_PART_TIME_CODE_TO_1

  • CREDIT_FOR_PART_TIME_CODE_TO_2

  • CREDIT_FOR_PART_TIME_CODE_TO_3

  • CREDIT_FOR_PART_TIME_CODE_TO_4

  • CREDIT_FOR_PART_TIME_CODE_TO_5

Added the following fields to BILCOD

  • AR_OVERRIDE_SITE_NUMBER [numeric](2, 0) DEFAULT '0'

  • AR_OVERRIDE_FUND_NUMBER [numeric](2, 0) DEFAULT '0'

  • AR_OVERRIDE_GL_ACCOUNT [numeric](5, 0) DEFAULT '0'

  • AR_OVERRIDE_FUNCTION_NUMBER [numeric](3, 0) DEFAULT '0'

  • AR_OVERRIDE_COST_CTR_NUMBER [numeric](4, 0) DEFAULT '0'

Added ADM_PORTAL_CONFIG.SIGN_UP_NOW_SKIP_PAYMENT_PAGE

Custom Control Added/Changed:

Added MSPARM GPA_PART_TIME 1-1

Added TRANS_SHOW_LDA

Added TRANS_SHOW_REENTRYDATE

Added TRANS_PAGE 1-2

Added TRANS_PAGE 1-3

Changed description for MSPARM GPA_LINE 1-1

Version: November (Expected Release Date: 12/4/24-12/13/24)

Module

Category

Case

Description

Documentation

Academic

Enhancements

DEV-2145

A New Plan of Study - Anticipated Scheduling (Reverse Plan of Study) report has been deployed to allow institutions to review how many students need what courses in an upcoming term. The list of students is processed from the Student Finder using the Plan of Study Action Button.

https://campuscafesoftware.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/KB1/pages/519209070/Use+Individual+Plan+of+Study#Run-Anticipated-Scheduling-Report-for-students

Academic

Change

DEV-2416

Updated the UI on the Semester/Term Date Maintenance page.

Semesters (Terms)

Academic

Bug

DEV-2440

Fixed an issue where the update UI date pick on a Status History record was requiring an end date, where it did not use to require an end date.

Student Status History

Academic

Bug

DEV-2430

Fixed an issue where a faculty’s schedule’s courses were being duplicated if the instructor was added to multiple exception courses as an additional instructor.

Exam Scheduling and Listing

Academic

Bug

SP-12084

Fixed an issue where Waitlisted courses were not showing up on a student’s schedule listing page.

View Student Class Schedule

Academic

Bug

DEV-2455

Fixed an issue where updating a Leave of Absence Status History date range did not save when an absence exists within the selected date range.

It will now properly show a message that states that any attendance records within the LOA period will be deleted including absent records, and it will save.

Semester Status Codes

Academic

Bug

DEV-2496

Fixed an error when trying to print a gradebook from a course roster.

/wiki/spaces/CON/pages/274694258

Academic

Bug

DEV-2501

Fixed an error that was shown when attempting to navigate to a course roster from a faculty’s schedule listing page.

Course Rosters

Admissions

Enhancement

DEV-2365

The “Text Allowed” checkbox has now been duplicated to the Address/Phones page so that students can be allowed to Opt-in/Opt-out from their portals.

MessageMedia (Text Messaging)

Admissions

Enhancement

DEV-2341

Increased the Trigger Name Field to 30 characters on the Admissions Quick Custom Admissions Portal Question builder to accommodate more descriptive tracking triggers.

/wiki/spaces/Implementa/pages/431292518

Admissions

Change

DEV-2401

Updated the School Lookup pop-up page on the admissions portal forms to use the new UI field formatting.

Set up Admissions Applications and Inquiry Forms

Admissions

Bug

DEV-2233

Fixed an issue where Inquiry Cadence’s were not properly merging login information when clicking “Show Details and Merge” from the holding table.

Holding Table

Alumni/
Development

Enhancement

DEV-2290

Added Home Phone to Add Non-Student creation function to properly fill in home phone numbers upon creation to save a user time.

Users

Alumni/
Development

Bug

DEV-2366

When creating a reciprocal relationship, both relationship records will now properly be created with the begin/end dates so they are able to be filtered through the finders.

Relationships

Alumni/ Development

Bug

DEV-2452

When creating a soft credit of a gift, purpose, campaign and appeal all copy over to the soft credit the PET# will also now copy over for proper reporting and filtering.

Record Soft Credit

Financial Aid

Enhancement

DEV-2018

Borrower-Based Academic Year 2 and AY3 PELL packaging for the same ISIR year has now been enhanced to properly allow for packaging separately from Academic Year 1. Prior to this update, institutions would need to create a disbursement rule that would package AY1 and AY2 at the same time; which was very tricky to setup and difficult to package.

This update allows a borrower-based institution to set up AY1 rules to package to package a student; then later on in the year they can package AY2 rules separately for the same ISIR Award Year without crossover Pell packaging issues or accidentally clearing out/deleting prior AY1 Pell or Loans.

The AY2 Pell will be added to the original AY1 PELL award code since COD only allows for the use of 1 Award Code per ISIR Award Year.

AY2 Sub/Unsub/Plus for the same Award Year should be set up as separate award codes (e.g. SUB2, USU2, PLU2, etc.)

This significantly reduces the complications of setting up Borrower-Based Institution’s 2nd AY packaging.

Disbursement Term Rules

Financial Aid

Bug

DEV-2443

Updated the F/A Upload/PowerFaids through spreadsheet function to not halt entire process if there is an invalid record in the file. The file will skip the invalid record and continue processing other records in the file, the process will then report the records that failed to be created/updated.

Upload F/A Awards Non-PowerFaids

Financial Aid

Bug

DEV-2378

Fixed an issue where Disbursement Term Rules were not copying from one year to the next.

Disbursement Term Rules

Financial Aid

Bug

DEV-1122

Added “OUTSIDE_COD” search field to the COD actions search options in Disbursement Roster.

Financial Aid Disbursements

People/Alumni Finders

Change

DEV-2441

DEV-2472

Changed how the new first/last name/phone number quick user search feature searches for users to be more accurate.

When typing in digits, ID numbers are prioritized over Phone Numbers in search results (e.g. ID 1234 will appear at the top of the results over any phone number with 1234 in order in the result).

Similarly, start and end of first/nick name and last name will be prioritized over the same string found within a name (e.g. a search for Liam will preference names Liam and William over Williamson.) Emails are always prioritized below First/Nick/Last name results (e.g. John will preference a person named John/Johnson over the email address john@email.net).

Fixed Permission 935 to properly restrict the quick search accordingly.

Navigation, Search and Help

People/Alumni Finders

Change

DEV-2418

Changed the text description of “Register Listing” to “Enrollment Listing” action button for clarity of its function.

Student Finder

Student Financials

Enhancement

DEV-2320

Added Today’s Date to the Printed Payment Receipt (Printable “Make A Payment” page) so users could print with a date for historical filing purposes.

Receive Payments

Student Financials

Bug

DEV-2173

Fixed an issue where the “Blank Rule Code Testable” checkbox was not properly copying over when copying rules from one term to another.

Billing Charges Interface

Student Financials

Bug

DEV-2471

Fixed an issue where the Make a Payment page’s automatic billing recalculation was sometimes not properly calculating on a student’s correct degree major if the student changed majors mid-term.

Self-Service Payments

Student Financials

Bug

DEV-2398

Fixed an issue with the Make a Payment page was showing incorrect charges for students with sponsored billing.

Billing Charges Interface

System/UI

Change

DEV-2171

External Description (EXTERNAL_DESC) field increased to 60 on a user’s permission settings page to accommodate SSO provisioning for students with longer names (e.g. Canvas, SSO, Brightspace, etc.).

Permissions

System/UI

Bug

DEV-2400

Fixed an issue where spreadsheet upload processes would not work if there was a period in the file name.

Third-Party Integrations

Enhancement

DEV-2128

Added new fields to the Admissions API function:

genderIdentity, pronoun, alternateID, collegeCeeb1 - 5, hsCeeb1

Admissions OpenAPI (REST JSON

Custom Control LABEL_CREDITS 1-1 to re-term academic units, such as Credit Hours to Clock Hours, throughout the system.

Added Custom Control LABEL_CREDITS 1-2 to re-term abbreviated academic units, such as the Credit Hour abbreviation of Crd to Clk, throughout the system.

https://campuscafesoftware.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/KB1/pages/448364618/Academic+Programs+Majors#Set-Earned-Unit-Label

Academic

Enhancements

DEV-2538

Updated the Plan of Study page UI and Color scheme to increase readability.

Use Individual Plan of Study

Academic

Enhancement

DEV-2526

Added two new Custom Controls (WEBPAYMENT 2-9 and WEBPAYMENT 2-10) that will define a specific billing code used in a Credit Card or ACH transaction based on the student’s site.

If values exist in these controls, it will override the default billing code values in WEBPAYMENT 2-1 and/or the credit card code directly on the bill code.

https://campuscafesoftware.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/KB1/pages/454657127/Receive+Payments#Student-Self-Service-Credit-Card-Payment

Academic

Bug

DEV-2581

Fixed an issue when copying a Session Data record to a new semester, when the source term had a blank major, it was not properly copying the major code into the new session record.

Student Session Data

Academic

Bug

DEV-2517

Added new custom controls TRANS_IMOF, TRANS_IMUN, TRANS_IMOF_LAND, TRANS_IMUN_LAND for the Post-Secondary Two Column transcript format to control the transcript background image positioning (X,Y).

Transcript

Academic

Bug

SP-12667

Fixed an issue where invalid degree level values were causing the GPA Processor to not calculate students' GPA’s properly.

GPA Processor

Academic

Bug

DEV-2567

Added the permission 2023 for the issue where an administrator with permission to see a students' degree audit or enrollment history page could not see the links on a students profile if a student had a hold restricting it.

Student Holds

Accounting/General Ledger

Change

DEV-2557

G/L Control to open and close periods will always show when a user has permission to do so. The open/close functionality will no longer be dependent based on a specific year input.

Close Fiscal Year

Admissions

Enhancement

DEV-2497

Added a new checkbox for Sign-Up-Now (one stop shop) on Admissions Form configuration page to Skip the payment page and direct the user to their permission groups default dashboard portal page.

Sign-Up Now - One Stop Registration

Advancement/
Alumni

Enhancement

DEV-2560

When a gift is received for a constituent; if a reciprocal relationship exists for the donor a soft credit will be added to the reciprocal account. (e.g. If a Wife has a reciprocal relationship created with a husband WIF:HUS or WIF:HUS; if a gift is created on the wife’s account a soft credit will be added to the husband’s account.)

https://campuscafesoftware.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/KB1/pages/454788329/Relationships#Relationship-Reciprocals

Activity Tracking/CRM

Enhancement

DEV-2525

When adding a new activity to a group of students through the finders, a user can now add/override a “Due Date” to the newly added activity for all students. If left blank, it will default to the original due date logic.

Associating Activities with Individuals

Activity Tracking/CRM

Bug

DEV-2575

Fixed an error message relating to the new Multi-Application Admissions support feature when adding a new activity template to an inquiry when no application existed for the inquiry.

Multiple Applications and Admission History

Financial Aid

Enhancement

DEV-2481

Redesigned Disbursement Term Rules to be rule based with creation of disbursements all on one page, rather than record-by-record to increase ease of creating and editing new rules.

New filtering options have also been added to the Term Rules page to more easily find rules to edit.

Quick editing of individual fields in the data gird has been added to all fields for a specific term rule and all disbursements for that rule.

Updated year-to-year copy function that copies rules more quickly.

Disbursement Term Rules

Financial Aid

Enhancement

DEV-2284

Links to Cost of Attendance and F/A Transaction Listing pages have been added to the F/A Packaging data grid to more quickly navigate through a student’s packaging pages to increase efficiency of workflow.

When a student is U-Unpackaged it will show a link to Launch Person.

When a student has been P-Packaged it will show a link to the Aid Listing page directly.

A link from the F/A Listing page to the FinAid Packaging page has been adjusted to be more visible to link back to the packaging page for a student.

COA link has been added to the data grid to quick view and manually adjust a calculated COA budget for a student.

Package Detail Page

Financial Aid

Enhancement

DEV-2546

When adding an award manually, the academic year start/end dates for disbursement #1 of the new award will now copy to the Award Dates field to prevent missing award/loan period dates that cause errors when originating/disbursing.

Manually Award Individual Award

Financial Aid

Enhancement

DEV-2583

Increased the Award Code Description to allow for 30 characters; up from 20 character limit.

Create Award Code

System/UI

Change

DEV-2549

Updated Person Header Quick Search to prevent it from searching for text previously searched while typing new text to increase efficiency.

Navigation, Search and Help

System/UI

Change

DEV-2542

Updated G/L Lookup page UI to system standard format.

General Ledger Lookup

Third-Party Integrations

Enhancement

DEV-2576

Added SSO login support for dual Microsoft email Active Directory Tenants running in tandem.

Cost is associated with this customized setup.

Third-Party Integrations

Bug

DEV-2572

Adjusted Authorize.net auto-payment processing to more accurately handle invalid commands that Authorize.net sends periodically to Campus Cafe causing transactions to not be processed.

  • Also, inquiry with Customer Success Department about how to implement the new Stripe.com payment processor and the additional features, payment options, and also the cost savings on ACH transactions.

Authorize.net (Payment Processor)

Third-Party Integrations

Bug

DEV-2591

Fixed an issue with the GFAS where when a student was at a withdrawn degree status, in some instances it was populating the withdraw date on the GFAS export with the degree end date instead of the Degree Status Date

Global Financial Aid Services Connection

Database Changes

Fields Added/Changed:

FA_SCHEDULE_PELL & FA_SCHEDULE_STAFFORD have been updated with 2026 packaging limit schedules

FAWCOD – Expand description to 30 characters

Added Table TRK_STRIPE_TXLOG

Added Table TRK_STRIPE_EVENTLOG

Custom Control Added/Changed:

Added:

TRANS_IMUN, Seq 1, Parms 5-8

TRANS_IMUN_LAND, Seq 1, Parms 5-8

TRANS_IMOF, Seq 1, Parms 5-8

TRANS_IMOF_LAND, Seq 1, Parms 5-8

WEBPAYMENT 2-9 = COMMA SEP LIST OF SITE-BILL CODE FOR CREDIT CARD PAYMENT OF COURSES (E.X. 1-CC1,2-CC2),BLANK DEFAULTS TO WEBPAYMENT 2,1

WEBPAYMENT 2-10 COMMA SEP LIST OF SITE-BILL CODE FOR ACH PAYMENT OF COURSES (E.X. 1-ACH1,2-ACH2) IF NOT SET DEFAULTS TO WEBPAYMENT 2,1

Updated:

WEBPAYMENT 4-2 description updated to 'PAYMENT API NAME OPTIONS - PAYPAL_FORM, PAYPAL_REST, HEARTLAND_ECSI_ASYNC_FORM, AUTHORIZE_NET_FORM, STRIPE_FORM'

Web App Config:

Added:

'STRIPE_PUBLISHABLE_KEY' - 'Publishable Key generated in Stripe web interface and used this key, when application ready to launch Stripe payment element'

'STRIPE_SECRET_KEY' - 'Secret Key used to generated in Stripe web and used this to authenticate requests on your server.'

‘STRIPE_WEBHOOK_SIGNING_KEY’ - 'Secret Key used to in Webhook to authenticate requests on your server.'

Adjustable Text Maintenance Fields:

Added:

‘STRIPE_PAYMENT_FORM' - 'STRIPE PAYMENT FORM LOOK AND FEEL CSS ’

'STRIPE_RECEIPT' - 'STRIPE RECEIPT FORM LOOK AND FEEL CSS '

Version: December (Expected Release Date: 1/8/25-1/17/25)

Module

Category

Case

Description

Documentation

Academic

Enhancements

DEV-2121

Added functionality to automatically adjust a student’s current degree/major part-time code based on the number of credit hours in the current enrolled semester.

  • This process will also update the session data semester records accordingly based on number of credit hours.

  • Credit Hour to Part-Time Code Equivalencies are defined under each major/program maintenance page.

  • The Part Time Code update is run overnight or manually when the GPA calculation processor is run.

  • Custom Control GPA_PART_TIME 1-1 = Y has been added to enable this functionality.

    • This control is disabled by default.

    • Clock-Hour institutions will most likely want to keep this disabled.

    • This will help assist with proper financial aid packaging and reporting

  • Custom Control GPA_LINE 1-2 has been added to determine which semester to use for the Line Code (class level) and the new Part Time Code update.

    • Input a specific semester code into the Custom Control for the semester used to determine the calculation.

    • Setting the control to 0 will then use the default Reg. System Control semester for the calculation.

Degrees/Majors

Academic Programs (Majors)

GPA Processor

Academic

Enhancements

DEV-2493

Added Plan of Study Action from Prospects Finder.

This now allows institutions to apply and process plan of studies for applied students to help advisors with enrollment.

This also allows for those applied students can be taken into account for Anticipated Course Scheduling Reports.

https://campuscafesoftware.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/KB1/pages/519209070/Use+Individual+Plan+of+Study#Run-Anticipated-Scheduling-Report-for-students

Academic

Enhancement

DEV-1549

Degree Status changes will now automatically trigger Degree Status Date update.

e.g. when a student graduate, withdraws, or drops from their last course, the degree status date will update accordingly to the new status.

Degrees/Majors

Academic

Enhancement

DEV-2242

Added new Custom Controls TRANS_SHOW_LDA and TRANS_SHOW_REENTRYDATE to hide/show LDA and Re-Entry Dates on a student's transcript.

Transcript

Academic

Enhancement

DEV-2504

Added new Custom Control TRANS_PAGE 1-2 to allow alternative monospaced font types.

Note: Only Monospaced font types are supported. Using a non-monospaced font type will result in the transcript to be unreadable. Currently tested fonts are: cour.ttf and consola.ttf.

Font must be installed on the institution’s environment to be used or a blank transcript will be displayed.

Campus Cafe suggests using consola.ttf for the custom control if a San Serif font type is desired.


Added new Custom Control TRANS_PAGE 1-3 to adjust Transcript Font Size.

Note: Adjusting the font too large or too small in conjunction with the selected monospaced font type could result in data being printed off the page.

Transcript

Academic

Change

DEV-2416

Updated the Semester Date Maintenance UI to the more modern format.

Semesters (Terms)

Academic

Change

DEV-2529

Upload assignment grades through spreadsheet process adjusted to accept .csv file format and support ID numbers with leading zeros.

Enter and Post Grades

Academic

Bug

DEV-2494

Fixed an issue where the bolding of headings on the 2-column transcript was incorrect.

Transcript

Academic

Bug

DEV-2466

Fixed an issue on the GPA History Listing page being sorted incorrectly.

GPA History Listing

Academic

Bug

DEV-2457

Fixed an issue where certain mid-term/deficiency grades were not showing up in the grade selection.

Enter and Post Grades

Academic

Bug

DEV-2515

Fixed an issue where certain faculty were unable to see their course schedules.

Dashboards

Academic

Bug

DEV-2534

Input change to prevent errors and page timeouts when a course scheduled dates are created with the year 3000 or beyond.

Create and Schedule a Course

Accounting/General Ledger

Bug

DEV-2325

Fixed an issue that was not allowing a G/L period to be closed.

Close Period (Month)

Accounting/General Ledger

Change

DEV-2509

Added new Custom Control APCHECK 1-8 = Y to adjust the Check Printing font to Courier New to align with “Positive Pay” anti-fraud check format checking.

Accounts Payable Check Formatting

Admissions

Enhancement

DEV-2148

Added the ability to manage multiple applications for a student at one time.

Prior to this update a former application would be archived to “read-only”.

Now admissions users have the ability to make a prior application active and usable. When making a former application active, the admissions activities associated with the active application will appear on the Application Status page accordingly.

Multiple Applications and Admission History

Admissions

Enhancement

DEV-2502

In relation to last months increase of custom question workflow length to 30 characters; the “inquirysource” Lead API field length has also been increased to 30 characters to accommodate longer source names.

Admissions OpenAPI (REST JSON)

Admissions

Change

DEV-2536

Updated the Inquiry History Listing page to be more efficient.

Multiple Inquiries and Inquiry History

Admissions

Bug

DEV-1760

Fixed an issue where 2nd and 3rd Degree Major/Minors were not populating from a student’s application when a new degree record was created.

Degrees/Majors

Advancement/
Alumni

Change

DEV-2399

Updated Alumni module terminology to “Advancement” align with industry standard terminology.

Updated “Alumni” term to “Constituents.”

https://campuscafesoftware.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/KB1/pages/454788409/Introduction+to+Alumni+Development

Advancement/
Alumni

Bug

DEV-2513

Fixed a permission that allowed a user to add a constituent from the gifts page even if they did not have permission to do so.

Constituents

Financial Aid

Enhancement

DEV-1757

Added the Monthly SAS “Reconciliation” comparative report tab to the F/A COD Documents page.

After uploading a SAS reconciliation file (fixed length or comma-separated file), it will review the amounts that are listed in the file to the amounts disbursed in the financial aid module specifically and not to the A/R Ledger.

Please note that this will look for a match based on student SSN, Award, Award Year, and Sequence number for comparing amounts.

It’s possible that a user can make an adjustment or a pending adjustment to a disbursement, which will increment the sequence number to a non-matching sequence number; this will cause it to be reported as a sequence number mismatch to the reported SAS file.

School Account Statement (SAS) Reconciliation Review

Financial Aid

Enhancement

DEV-2451

Added the ability to create a non-ISIR based manual packaging record for a batch of students from the student finder. A user can now pull a list of students from the student finder, use the “To a F/A Packaging” to then create a batch a non-ISIR packaging records to be able to package a student before an ISIR is received.

Auto Packaging & View ISIR

Financial Aid

Change

DEV-2469

Constrained the SQL query functions on the advanced Scholarship/Other Packaging rules to prevent errors.

Scholarship/Other Aid Packaging Rules

Financial Aid

Bug

DEV-2468

Fixed a packaging page display error when an advanced Scholarship/Other Packaging rule runs into a conflict trying to award a duplicate award.

Scholarship/Other Aid Packaging Rules

Financial Aid

Bug

DEV-2466

Fixed an issue where Single-Term/Half Year Unsub loan packaging was being prorated incorrectly.

Disbursement Term Rules

Financial Aid

Bug

SP-12263

Fixed an issue where acceptance of financial aid was not saving.

Student Financing Review and Acceptance

Financial Aid

Bug

DEV-2520

Fixed an issue with the F/A Upload by Spreadsheet process not allowing awards to be changed to zero dollar amounts.

Upload F/A Awards Non-PowerFaids

Student Financials

Enhancement

DEV-2523

Added new AR Override CC-GL-Fund field to Billing Transaction Code Maintenance page to specifically assign the transaction’s AR account that it should be associated with; this field will override the default G/L receivables account listed on the General Ledger Funds detail page for the associated fiscal year.

This allows for alternative Receivable GL’s to be used for specific transactions.

Configure Transaction Codes

General Ledger Funds

System/UI

Enhancement

DEV-1841

Updated the Email Authentication detail page to be more user friendly.

SMTP Authenticated Emailing

System/UI

Enhancement

DEV-2206

Support for individualized Gmail Email address authentication has been added.

SMTP Authenticated Emailing

System/UI

Change

DEV-2535

Updated the Audit Log page to process more efficiently.

Audit Log

System/UI

Bug

SP-12444

Fixed an issue where sometimes it would require a user to login twice.

Permissions

Third-Party Integrations

Bug

DEV-2522

Fixed an issue where Brightspace integration was not properly creating a course when the adjusted begin date was crossing over into a different year.

Brightspace (LMS)

Third-Party Integrations

Bug

DEV-

2397

2492

Fixed an issue where

texting would fail if the text message would include invalid characters such as MS Word formatted M-dashes, Curly commas, quotes, & apostrophes.

MessageMedia (Text Messaging)

Workflows, Activities & Triggers

Bug

DEV-2426

Fixed an issue when downloading the Activity Tracking data to excel the dates were showing HTML code

Activity Tracking

Database Changes

Fields Added/Changed:

ADFMRQ -  TRIGGER_NAME & TRIGGER_NAME2 increased to 30 characters

TRK_TEMPLATE_HEADER. TRIGGER_REQUEST increased to 30 characters

DELETED_TRK_TEMPLATE_HEADER. TRIGGER_REQUEST increased to 30 characters

Expanded FAWARD to 9,2 for

  • AWARD_AMOUNT

  • AMT_PAID_TO_DATE

  • GROSS_AWARD_AMT

FA_SCHEDULED_DISBURSEMENT – expand ACCEPTANCE_SRC_IP to char(45)

Update any admast record without an ADWHLD_TOKEN and set that token to B+id_number

Update TRK_ACTIVITY_TRACKING and set ADWHLD_TOKEN to ADMAST.ADWHLD_TOKEN where admissions_ent_sem=current_semester

 Update TRK_ACTIVITY_TRACKING and set ADWHLD_TOKEN to ADHIST.ADWHLD_TOKEN where admissions_ent_sem=current_semester and TRK_ACTIVITY_TRACKING.ADWHLD_TOKEN is blank.    If there are more than 1 ADHIST record with the same semester, it will tie the record with the highest sequence number to TRK_ACTIVITY_TRACKING.

Table POWER_BI_FIELDS

RGENRL.SECTION_TO_PRINT to 5

Added View:

ALD_PAYMENTS_DESC – Set date to rebuild view and add to SYNMAP to rebuild when ALARMA changes

Custom Control Added/Changed:

Added TRANS_PAD 1-2

MSPARM CH_USEPCD 1,2 - If set to Y, credential level 99 does not have its program cleared out in the Clearing House Run

Update SYWCFG set DESCRIPTION='Brightspace Learning Platform (lp) API version (test before changing)' where PARAMETER='BRIGHTSPACE_API_VERSION';

Adding back system parm RCRPET - rgcrse.Can_be_repeated parms 1-4 & 9

Permissions Added:

External Description (EXTERNAL_DESC) field increased to 60 to accommodate SSO provisioning for students with longer names.

Webapp Config:

Update SYWCFG set DESCRIPTION='Brightspace Learning Platform (lp) API version (test before changing)' where PARAMETER='BRIGHTSPACE_API_VERSION';

 INSERT INTO SYWCFG (PARAMETER,  DESCRIPTION,ENTERED_USERID,  RECORD_INPUT_DATE) VALUES (   
'BRIGHTSPACE_LE_API_VERSION', 'Brightspace Learning Environment (le) API version (test before changing)', 'SCAN', '20241108');

 

the manual Time Attendance upload button for CourseKey was not showing.

CourseKey (Attendance)

Third-Party Integrations

Bug

SP-12428

Fixed a Blackboard password creation issue.

Database Changes

Fields Added/Changed:

Expanded ALRELA.SEQ_NUMBER field to allow for more characters

Added the following fields to STMAJR:

  • PART_TIME_CODE_FOR_CREDITS_1

  • PART_TIME_CODE_FOR_CREDITS_2

  • PART_TIME_CODE_FOR_CREDITS_3

  • PART_TIME_CODE_FOR_CREDITS_4

  • PART_TIME_CODE_FOR_CREDITS_5

  • CREDIT_FOR_PART_TIME_CODE_FROM_1

  • CREDIT_FOR_PART_TIME_CODE_FROM_2

  • CREDIT_FOR_PART_TIME_CODE_FROM_3

  • CREDIT_FOR_PART_TIME_CODE_FROM_4

  • CREDIT_FOR_PART_TIME_CODE_FROM_5

  • CREDIT_FOR_PART_TIME_CODE_TO_1

  • CREDIT_FOR_PART_TIME_CODE_TO_2

  • CREDIT_FOR_PART_TIME_CODE_TO_3

  • CREDIT_FOR_PART_TIME_CODE_TO_4

  • CREDIT_FOR_PART_TIME_CODE_TO_5

Added the following fields to BILCOD

  • AR_OVERRIDE_SITE_NUMBER [numeric](2, 0) DEFAULT '0'

  • AR_OVERRIDE_FUND_NUMBER [numeric](2, 0) DEFAULT '0'

  • AR_OVERRIDE_GL_ACCOUNT [numeric](5, 0) DEFAULT '0'

  • AR_OVERRIDE_FUNCTION_NUMBER [numeric](3, 0) DEFAULT '0'

  • AR_OVERRIDE_COST_CTR_NUMBER [numeric](4, 0) DEFAULT '0'

Added ADM_PORTAL_CONFIG.SIGN_UP_NOW_SKIP_PAYMENT_PAGE

Custom Control Added/Changed:

Added MSPARM GPA_PART_TIME 1-1

Added TRANS_SHOW_LDA

Added TRANS_SHOW_REENTRYDATE

Added TRANS_PAGE 1-2

Added TRANS_PAGE 1-3

Changed description for MSPARM GPA_LINE 1-1