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Monthly release notes are now hosted on our Campus Cafe Community Portal
Campus Cafe continually deploys new versions of its platform with enhancements and fixes with upcoming changes noted below.
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Product Release Notes | Campus Cafe Community
Please reach out to Miranda Thomas if you need access to the community (miranda@campuscafesoftware.com).
Release schedule
Campus Cafe typically deploys new versions each month. No action on behalf of the customer is required. The platform will be unavailable for roughly 15 minutes during the upgrade.
Version updates
Version: November (Expected Release Date: 12/4/24-12/13/24)
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Module
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Category
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Case
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Description
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Documentation
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Academic
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Academic
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Academic
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Academic
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Academic
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Academic
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Academic
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Academic
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Accounts Payable
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Accounts Payable
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Admissions
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Admissions
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Alumni/Development
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Alumni/
Development
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Alumni/ Development
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Financial Aid
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Financial Aid
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People/Alumni Finders
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People/Alumni Finders
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Student Financials
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System/UI
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System/UI
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System/UI
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System/UI
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Third-Party Integrations
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Third-Party Integrations
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Third-Party Integrations
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Third-Party Integrations
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Workflows, Activities & Triggers
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Database Changes
Check out this video to explore the new update to the Filters feature within Campus Cafe! Listed below the video is the full list of updates in this version.
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Version: October (Expected Release Date: 11/4/24-11/8/24)
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Module
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Category
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Case
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Description
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Documentation
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Academic
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Change
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DEV-2268
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On the Course Roster Grid faculty names will no longer be abbreviated to reduce confusion when multiple professors have the same initials.
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Academic
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Change
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DEV-2351
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Update Status History Detail to use calendar date picker rather than dropdown fields for inputting dates.
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Academic
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Change
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DEV-2395
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Updated the Plan of Study Major dropdown to sort all of the inactive programs to the bottom of the list.
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Set Up Individual Plan of Study
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Academic
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Change
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DEV-2396
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Updated the Plan of Study semester/term dropdown to start from the top instead of the bottom for efficiency of assigning terms.
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Set Up Individual Plan of Study
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Academic
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Bug
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DEV-2364
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Fixed an issue where faculty that were assigned as a 2nd or 3rd faculty member on a course exception, they were not seeing course details on their faculty dashboard.
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Academic
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Bug
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DEV-11401
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Fixed an issue where degree audits were not reading the new Alternative Degree Level of a course properly.
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Academic
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Bug
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DEV-11580
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Fixed an issue where opening a course from a course schedule listing was showing an error.
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Academic
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Bug
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DEV-1595
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Fixed an issue where Minor 3 was not appearing on certain transcripts.
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Accounts Payable
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Bug
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DEV-2380
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Fixed an issue where users were unable to print ACH checks.
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Accounts Payable
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Bug
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DEV-2394
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Fixed an issue where printed check roster was not showing commas.
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Admissions
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Enhancement
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DEV-2210
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Then SSN field will no longer be pre-populated when promoting an Inquiry student to an Application or a 2nd application to prevent students from being able to submit an application without properly inputting their required SSN.
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Set up Admissions Applications and Inquiry Forms
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Admissions
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Bug
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DEV-2388
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Fixed an issue where the Session Row creation process was not respecting Custom Control AD100’s progress code configuration when using the Common App import function.
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Alumni/Development
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Enhancement
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DEV-2175
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Added PET Code filter and data column to Gift finder.
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Alumni/
Development
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Change
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DEV-2375
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Added Custom Control ALUMFINDER 1-1 = Y to allow organizations to be shown on the Alumni Finder.
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Alumni/ Development
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Bug
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DEV-1885
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Added the default ability to delete an alumni donation; and now shows a warning message that if a gift is being deleted a manual cash batch must be created to reverse the original posting.
Custom control CRTMISCBCH-1-1 must be set to 'Y' to allow deletion of gifts.
Permissions 1174 set to “NA” Removes the link that allows deletion of an Alumni/Development Donation/Payment.
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Financial Aid
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Enhancement
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DEV-2250
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Added new financial aid funding estimate (award letter) format that show disbursements horizontally, calculates remaining need and remaining cost of attendance, splits aid by type, and splits costs by direct/indirect.
FA_LETTER 3-3 = Y - Use the new-style award letter (Y) or the old-style award letter (N)
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Funding Estimate (Award Letter/Aid Offer)
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Financial Aid
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Bug
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DEV-2257
DEV-2101
SP-11285
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Updated Financial Aid Review Page for acceptance of aid.
Accepted aid fields will no longer be cleared out if aid is being reduced either by the student or the administrator.
Fixed an issue with timestamps not getting added properly due to the IPv6 addresses being too long.
COD Disbursement Cycle Flags will no longer be marked incorrectly when a student accepts their aid, placing the disbursement in an un-editable state.
Acceptance will no longer be cleared incorrectly when reverting an adjustment for originated or disbursed aid.
A few other edge case scenarios have been cleaned up to prevent acceptance from being cleared or disbursements being locked in an incorrect state that prevents editing.
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Student Financing Review and Acceptance
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People/Alumni Finders
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Enhancement
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DEV-2363
DEV-2357
DEV-2301
DEV-2337
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Added ability to search of Major 2 and 3; added ability to search of Degree Minor 2 and 3.
The new field is labeled “Degree Majors” and “Degree Minors” that will search of both field 1, 2, and 3 altogether to get a complete list of students.
A combination of Degree Major/Minor (for primary degree) + Degree Majors/Minors (for 2nd majors/Minors) can be used to narrow down the query of students.
Added Filters for Academic status “End Dates”; “Start date” filters for academic status previously existed. This gives the user the ability to find students on when their status will end. (e.g. ending LOA students)
Alumni Finder now has cross-filtering of gift amounts so a range of dollar amounts can be searched on.
Office Location, work phone, department, hire code, hire date, separation dates have been added to the Faculty Finder.
Added Session Major code to student finder.
Please note that tracking of a major in the session record was implemented earlier this year and not all students for prior terms will have this field filled out by default.
Added action button to send selected ID numbers from the Alumni Finder to the Student Finder.
Corresponding data grid fields have also been added to accommodate these filter additions.
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People/Alumni Finders
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Enhancement
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DEV-2389
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When ALUMFINDER 1-1 = Y to include organizations in the results, organizations will now have the employer name field shown in the “Last name” field for clarity if the employer name field is hidden. It also then allows you to sort the whole list of constituents properly.
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Student Financials
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Enhancement
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DEV-2319
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Added new Custom Control WEBPAYMENT 4-1 to constrain the “Make a Payment” dropdown transaction codes to “P-Payment” codes only to prevent incorrect non-payment transaction codes from being used on the Make a Payment screen
Description of WEBPAYMENT 4-1: “On the make a payment screen, the bill codes available for a Cash Payment should be limited to having account type P”
Default: Y
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System/UI
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Enhancement
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DEV-2231
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Header Quick Search now supports the following search options:
“First Last”
“Last, First”
“Nick Last” (CRSRSTNICK = Y to use nicknames)
“Last, Nick” (CRSRSTNICK = Y to use nicknames)
Home Phone number (without dashes)
Mobile Phone number (without dashes)
ID Number
Custom Control SEARCHBOX 1-2 = Y has been added to remove student images from the search results to speed up the query if desired.
SEARCHBOX 1-1 = N restricts the search to only allowing ID numbers
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System/UI
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Bug
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DEV-2368
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Fixed a size scaling issue on the Make a Payment page cutting off fields on certain mobile phone sized.
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System/UI
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Bug
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DEV-2362
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System/UI
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Bug
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DEV-2345
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Fixed an issue on the pop-up instructions being cut off on the Spreadsheet Gift Upload page.
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Gift Upload From a Spreadsheet
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Third-Party Integrations
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Enhancement
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DEV-11198
Added new Web App Config CANVAS_SEND_USER_CONFIRMATION_EMAIL = Y
To have Canvas send a confirmation email to user after creation (see canvas documentation on pseudonym[send_confirmation]).
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Third-Party Integrations
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Enhancement
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DEV-2237
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ECM Export file has been updated to the new 2024-2025 format to send data to ECM’s system.
We are still awaiting direction from ECM on an import file change for disbursements.
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Third-Party Integrations
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Change
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DEV-10686
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Updated Clearinghouse Export to support degree level 99 to not be cleared out.
Custom Control CH_USEPCD 1-2 will need to be set to use this.
Description = “If set to Y, credential level 99 does not have its program cleared out in the Clearing House Run.“
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National Student Clearinghouse Report
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Third-Party Integrations
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Bug
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DEV-2309
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Fixed an issue where the PayPal integration was not properly separating out convenience fees (Custom Control PAYCONVFEE) to a separate transaction.
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Workflows, Activities & Triggers
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Bug
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DEV-2406
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Fixed an issue where Permission 928 was causing an error message to appear on the workflow definition page.
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Database Changes
Fields Added:
Added FVT/GE field to STMAJR:
STMAJR.LIBERAL_ARTS_BACHELORS_DEGREE
Added View:
FISAP_LATEST_MAJOR
Custom Control Added:
WEBPAYMENT 4-1 - ON THE PAYMENT SCREEN, THE BILL CODES AVAILABLE FOR A CASH PAYMENT SHOULD BE LIMITED TO HAVING ACCOUNT TYPE P
ALUMFINDER 1-1 = Y to allow organizations to be shown on the Alumni Finder
FA_LETTER 3,3 - Use the new-style award letter (Y) or the old-style award letter (N)
Permissions Added:
The following permissions have been adjusted into more appropriately named, and also placed in more fitting permission categories:
--update sypobj set short_name='Filter: Course Prefix-Public' where object_id=263
--update sypobj set short_name='Workflow Definition Edit',DESCRIPTION='Workflow Definition Create, Read, Update, Delete' where object_id=928
--update sypobj set module='SY' where object_id=97
--update sypobj set description = 'Major/Concentration Maintenance Screen',SHORT_NAME='Concentration/Major Maintenance'where object_id=97
--update sypobj set description = 'Reg System Control (RGCONT)',SHORT_NAME='Reg System Control', CONTAINER_GROUP='Registrar' where object_id=399
--update sypobj set description = 'Registration Semester Control (RGWCON)',SHORT_NAME='Registration Semester Control', CONTAINER_GROUP='Registrar' where object_id=226
--update sypobj set CONTAINER_GROUP='Registrar' where object_id=476
--update sypobj set CONTAINER_GROUP='Registrar' where object_id=990
--update sypobj set CONTAINER_GROUP='Registrar' where object_id=950
--update sypobj set CONTAINER_GROUP='Registrar' where object_id=321
--update sypobj set CONTAINER_GROUP='Registrar' where object_id=351
--update sypobj set description = 'NA removes the ability to add hold codes and define the functions that are restricted by hold codes.',SHORT_NAME='Student Holds', CONTAINER_GROUP='Registrar' where object_id=412
--update sypobj set description = 'Maintenance to the Semester Status Codes values (RGSTCD) for use in the Status History.',SHORT_NAME='Semester Status Codes', CONTAINER_GROUP='Registrar' where object_id=270
--update sypobj set description = 'Degree Audit Requirement screen',SHORT_NAME='Semester Status Codes', CONTAINER_GROUP='Registrar' where object_id=270
--update sypobj set CONTAINER_GROUP='Registrar',SHORT_NAME='Dorm Listing and Entry' where object_id=158
--update sypobj set CONTAINER_GROUP='Registrar',SHORT_NAME='Dorm Room Listing and Entry' where object_id=158
Web App Config Added:
GOOGLE_CLIENTID
GOOGLE_CLIENTSECRET
GOOGLE_PROJECTID
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