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March 2022 Major Release - 20.11.30

The 20.11.30.0 release is expected for the following dates:

  • On-premise - March 3, 2022

  • Cloud - March 04, 2022

New Features

Reference

Area

Release Note

EFIN-78512

Forms Manager Changes to have additional fields for Emailing Statements and Invoices

A new tab is created in Forms Manager called Email for Invoice and Statement type formats and added the fields email address, email subject, and email body that can be used for emailing Invoices and Statements.

EFIN-77946

Negative gross pay from non-docking pay codes will now update docking arrears

Previously, only docking pay codes used to update docking arrears. If there were other pay codes with negative pay that resulted in a negative gross situation besides docking pay codes, the employee used to be skipped and docking arrears were not updated.

Now, if the site uses the Adjust Negative Gross feature, it will not skip these employees. Docking arrears will be updated for the full amount of the negative gross pay, irrespective of which pay codes had the negative pay.

EFIN-76291

New EAC related Security Items for Attachment Security

The following EAC related Security items are added under Attachment Security:

  • EAC_EMPLOYEE_PHOTO

  • EAC_FEDERAL TAX FORM

  • EAC_STATE TAX FORM

  • EAC_LOCAL TAX FORM

EFIN-75719

Added functionality to email invoices

The Online Invoice option has been enhanced to include the ability to email invoices to customers.

EFIN-75717

Forms Manager Changes to have additional fields for Statements and Invoices

Modified Forms Manager mailer and non-mailer formats for statements and invoices to have Logo, District Name, Address, and Positioning.

EFIN-75073

Add Copyright and Privacy Statement Link to Vendor Punchout login page

The Privacy Statement link is displayed after the copyright statement on the Vendor Punchout login page. When a user clicks on the privacy statement link, the PowerSchool privacy link page opens.

EFIN-71708

Interfund changes for Payroll Register Report

Changes to have Interfund Accounting entries also displayed in the Payroll Register Report for instances where Interfund Balancing flag is enabled.

EFIN-69167

EAC - Reauthentication for a new tab

Every time a user tries to open an EAC session in a new window or in a new tab within the same window by using a SSO link. the screen for login credentials will appear for re-authentication. This will make sure that the user unknowingly does not access some other user's session.

Resolved Issues

The following issues have been resolved:

Reference

Area

Release Note

EFIN-78245

Organization chart remove default for Disbursement Fund

When adding a new fund record (level 1) to the organization chart, the disbursement fund will no longer be assigned a default value. Users will need to enter the disbursement fund. because they did not confirm that the appropriate value was assigned as the default.

EFIN-77866

Fixed fatal error when looking up Substitute Information

Fixed a fatal error that occurred when looking up Substitute Information within Attendance. The error was caused by an error in the SQL syntax of the query.

EFIN-77683

Budget Iteration Drop Downs

Removed duplicated records from drop-downs on the iteration screens. This fixes the checking of the boxes.

EFIN-77629

EAC Direct Deposit Account Type now displays correctly

The Direct Deposit sections now display the proper Account Type in EAC when the type is “Savings”.

EFIN-77222

Expense Details Screen Updates

The following updates have been made to the Expense Details screen:

  • The Name field will be populated with both the First and Last name.

  • A new Vendor Number field will be displayed.

  • Location Field will be populated with the Base Location value from the Employment Information > Employment tab.

  • The Cost value on the Totals line is removed.

EFIN-77145

Fixed 'Earnings' section of PDF Paychecks 

In the Employee App, the paycheck display was missing earnings entries when there was more than one entry for the same pay code and amount. The display has been corrected.

EFIN-77144

Attendance Pending Leave Balance 

The Attendance pending leave balance calculation has been corrected and it now displays properly.

EFIN-75796

AP check validation fixed to consider system voided checks in subsequent check runs for the entire fiscal year

When looking in the chkstat table for multi-stub checks or vouchers, an incorrect date range was being used. As a result, the check validation worked correctly only in the second half of the fiscal year. The validation is changed to use the fiscal start date as the beginning run date in the chkstat table when looking for the voided check (or voucher) stubs.

EFIN-75401

In A/P, do not force the profile cash account to be set up for the disbursement fund

The batch accounts payable and post accounts payable entry are modified to ensure that if the fund is equal to the disbursement fund, an error message will no longer occur if there is no balance sheet record set up for the profile cash account in the disbursement fund.

EFIN-75398

Move TLS1.2 enablement

Moved TLS1.2 enablement from global.asax.vb to global.asax because some servers IIS were not calling application_start, which was causing EAC What If Calculator web service call to fail.

EFIN-75377

Add Direct Deposit to Paycheck Worksheet

Employee Information’s Paycheck Worksheet was modified to add an “Exclude Direct Deposit” checkbox, which is unchecked by default. If the checkbox is not checked, direct deposit deductions (including HSA deductions) will now be included in the paycheck worksheet calculation.

EFIN-75343

Substitute charging

Corrected the substitute charging posts to attendance to ensure that the values on the attendance record are used if they exist.

EFIN-75317

Project Status Reports

Clarifications to the header of the reports.

EFIN-74948

Cosmetic issue in ACA Maintenance Screen Header

Corrected ACA screen header display where extra characters were seen.

EFIN-74409

Alignment Issues on Batch AP Edit List

Fix Alignment Issues on Batch AP Edit List.

EFIN-74196

Attendance preview post

Corrected fatal error that was occurring while trying to use employee lookup on the attendance preview post.

EFIN-73395

Printing error in Contract type table report.

The contract type table record was not printing if the related / associated job class was not present. Corrected now and is able to print all the data without missing.

EFIN-71700

ETS Timesheet Posting Error

Corrected the ordering of the clock in/clock out records to match up to prevent the error message indicating there was a problem posting the time because clock in/out records were missing.

EFIN-71615

Photo size issue for TX has been corrected

Photo for Texas districts now displays in the proper size.

EFIN-71494

Corrected Handling of Adjustment Checks for Social Security Detail report

Adjustment checks were being handled incorrectly on the Social Security Detail report. This has been corrected.

EFIN-71168

Fixed fund titles on detail expenditure status report when printed to excel 

When the detail expenditure status report was printed to excel, sometimes the fund titles were carried over from the previous row. This issue has been fixed.

EFIN-70616

Blank assignment code was being added when processing pending employee details

While adding a pending employee, blank assignment code was being added if users clicked Finish without entering the assignment code. This has been fixed.

EFIN-70493

Modified Balance Sheet transaction display to fix debit/credit issue with G/L cash account for receipts

The balance sheet display of transactions is fixed to show G/L cash for receipts (transaction code 24) as a debit when the account is a liability account. Previously both assets and liabilities were showing as credits, which was correct for asset accounts but not for liability accounts.

EFIN-69316

ENTER key in Power User mode to move across the columns rather than down the rows

In User Preferences, when the user's Keyboard Mapping is set to P - Power User (Enter = TAB, ESC = OK), if the user was in a page that had an entry type table with multiple rows (such as Budget Entry), pressing the enter or return key moved the cursor to the next row rather than across the columns. This has been fixed to ensure that the cursor will move across the columns first before moving to the next row.

EFIN-68407

Set spi_commodity so the Commodity/Classification saves to the database

The field spi_commodity is define in the cXML but was missed. This is fixed now. 

EFIN-67903

Salary and Deduction Report

There was an issue where the Local Tax FTD Blank field was not printing on the Salary and Deduction report. This has been resolved.

EFIN-61380

Group box and button size PDS issue

PDS caused sizing changes, and the full text of a button was not visible because the button size was limited by the group box size. This has been corrected.

EFIN-60417

Payout screen was not showing if the records were more than 10

Payout screen flashes and closes if employee has more than 10 total active/inactive pay rates. Corrected and now its able to display all the records/payrates.

EFIN-56679

Views

The way original 20.11 rebuilds the organization views is corrected as it relates to total and fund logic.

EFIN-56129

Dynamic Leave Request

Changes made to prevent the Not In Enumeration error on the dynamic leave request.

EFIN-55463

Fixed to greyed out buttons on employee information

Employee information screen has buttons like EAC, ETS that are reserved for support to troubleshoot user issues with EAC, ETS and must not be accessible for other users. This update will not show these buttons for any user other than support accounts.

Federal Reporting

The following issue has been resolved:

Reference

Area

Release Note

EFIN-74076

FED W2C Maintenance - Box 12 and 14 data defaulting, and should not

In the W2C maintenance, when changing other fields, the box 12 and 14 fields were defaulting in a value, indicating a change to those fields. In this situation, no changes were intended, and this caused incorrect information to appear on the W2C printed and electronic file. This has been corrected.

State Reporting

This release includes updates and resolved issues for the following states:

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