FOCUS-47347- feat(accounts-payable): commodity class line data auto-population

This system enhancement introduces additional columns to the commodity codes page within the Setup menu. The newly added columns include: Vendor, Item Number, Item Description, Unit Price, Unit of Measure, Threshold Limit, and Buyer. These new columns will display information in vendor setup when configured with a commodity code. Furthermore, vendors associated with commodity codes can be utilized in purchase orders, streamlining the purchasing process.

See Commodity Codes for more information.

FOCUS-47279- feat(fixed-assets): add default salvage value to FA category

This system enhancement introduces a salvage column to the Categories screen within the Fixed Assets menu. Additionally, this salvage column can be imported or updated with other information through the Import Assets tab on the Manage Assets screen.

See Categories for more information about the new Salvage field.

FOCUS-47013- Add commodity code to PO line report

This system enhancement adds a commodity code column to the Purchase Request/Order Report.

FOCUS-47543- Add Section 125 to W2 Adjustments

System update adding a new column Section 125 in Payroll > W2 Reporting > Adjustments.

FOCUS-47524- Account Strips Permissions and Applicant Tracking

System enhancement to Human Resources > Applicant Tracking restricting access to account strip permissions using the posting facility.

FOCUS-47468- Job Posting - Remove Approval Message

This System Improvement adds a setting to remove the pending application message on the job posting page.

FOCUS-47381- Add system setting for the rehire popup

System improvement adding a setting to Setup > Settings > Payroll tab > Misc Settings section allowing the district the option to show the rehire deduction popup.

FOCUS-47615- Assessment: Improve Alignment Display in College Readiness Report (FL)

This update improves the Assessment College Readiness Report for Florida customers by addressing an alignment issue caused by the FLEID column. The FLEID column has been relocated next to the student's name in the static columns, ensuring better alignment of test history information throughout the report.

See College Readiness Report for more information.

FOCUS-47580- Add a Student: Improve Partial Student Match Results when Student's Name Hyphenated

This update improves the behavior of the Add a Student feature by refining how partial matches are returned. Previously, hyphenation was ignored, causing students with hyphenated names not to appear as partial matches when the hyphen was omitted in the search. With this update, students with hyphenated names will now be correctly included in partial match results, ensuring more accurate search functionality.

FOCUS-47562- Form Builder: Resolve Error Submitting Forms for Approval Flow

This update resolves an error in Form Builder Approval Flow that occurred when an invalid staff ID was passed into the user tasks creation, resulting in an invalid ID exception. With this update, if a Form Approval Flow substitute record exists without a user, the record will be ignored, preventing the error and ensuring smooth processing of approval flows.

FOCUS-47552- Gradebook: Transfer Grade Marking Period Error for Semester Gradebooks

This update improves the Teacher Gradebook by resolving an issue that occurred when transferring grades for students who joined a class mid-term. Previously, if a teacher had a semester or full-year gradebook, attempting to transfer grades for a newly enrolled student would result in an invalid marking period error. With this update, the transfer grade assignment now imports correctly, ensuring a smooth transition for students changing classes.

FOCUS-47551- Parent Auth: Add Scrolling Feature to Page

This update improves the display on the second page of Parent Auth. Previously, if a parent had several linked students, the buttons would become inaccessible. This update adds a scrolling feature to the screen, ensuring that parents in this scenario can still access the buttons and complete the necessary next steps.

FOCUS-47535- Graduation Requirements Report: Resolve Personal Fitness Requirement with Waivers Entered (FL)

This update improves the Graduation Requirements Report for Florida by refining the logic used when the Use Personal Fitness Waiver Option on Graduation Requirements Report (For JROTC Only) preference is selected. With this update, if a student has a Personal Fitness course in Course History or is currently scheduled into one, Focus will grant 0.5 PE credits and 1 PA credit when either 1500480 or 1500460 and 1500450 are present in Course History. Additionally, to align with district expectations, the system will now recognize both JROTC waivers or both Inter-Scholastic waivers as fulfilling the Personal Fitness requirement, allowing the other credits to be applied accordingly.

See System Preferences > Grading for more information.

FOCUS-47532- Standard Grades Report Cards: Ensure "Letters and Sounds Knowledge" Print Correctly

This update resolves an issue in Standard Report Cards related to the Display Letters and Sounds Knowledge Skill Table and sorting options. Previously, when sorting by Homeroom Teacher or by Period/Teacher, the letters and sounds checkmarks did not appear on the report card. With this update, the checkmarks now display correctly, ensuring accurate representation of student progress. Additionally, the setup options now include the ability to display the Letters and Sounds Knowledge Skill Table and sort report cards by Homeroom Teacher.

FOCUS-47523- Teacher Portal: Restore Top-Right Selectors on Mobile

This update improves the Teacher Portal's functionality when accessed on a smaller device. Previously, teachers using a mobile browser could not see the top-right selectors. With this update, the dropdowns are now visible on mobile devices for teachers, ensuring full access to navigation options. Student, parent, and admin views remain unchanged.

FOCUS-47500- Advanced Reports: Resolve Inconsistent Display vs. Exported Search Results

This update resolves an issue in Advanced Reports where exporting reports and displaying search results included incorrect inactive profiles due to a selection override. With this fix, inactive profiles are now correctly filtered, ensuring accurate report exports and search results.

FOCUS-47497- Custom Fields: New "File has header row" Checkbox when Importing

This update improves the Imports feature for Custom Fields when using Select-One and Select-Multiple options. A new pop-up window now appears before the import process, allowing the end-user to specify whether the imported file includes a header row. This enhancement ensures better handling of data during imports.

See Student Fields, User Fields, Referral Fields, Incident Fields, School Fields, District Fields, and Employee Fields for more information.

FOCUS-47489- Communication Platform: Resolve Include Student Name/ID on Each PDF Page Not Appearing on 1st Page

This update resolves an issue in the Communication Platform where selecting "Include Student/User Name/ID on each PDF Page" when generating a communication letter template from Student Info or User Info did not properly display the name and ID on each page. With this update, the name and ID now generate correctly on every page of the PDF as expected.

FOCUS-47483- School Choice Report: Display Custom Fields Values if 'Show On Report' Checked

This update resolves an issue in the School Choice Report where custom fields were not displaying. With this update, custom fields will now appear on the report when the "Show on Report" setting is enabled, regardless of whether the "Show on Application" setting is selected.

See School Choice Setup > Setting Up Custom Fields for more information.

FOCUS-47473- Site Administration: Resolve "Something Went Wrong" Error Updating State Reporting

This update enhances the Site Administration process when updating or installing a State Reporting revision. Previously, if an end-user bypassed the Release Notes, they were redirected to Site Administration, where a Resume Update button appeared. In some cases, clicking this button resulted in a "Something Went Wrong" error because the update request was not fully reinitiated. This update ensures the update process resumes correctly, preventing errors and improving the overall installation experience.

FOCUS-47448- Teacher Portal: Correct Student Requests Needing Approval Count Portal Alert

This update corrects the behavior of Student Requests needing approval from teachers. Previously, when the "Teachers approve course requests" scheduling system preference was enabled, the teacher alert incorrectly included student requests from previous school years in the approval count. With this update, only requests for the current school year will be counted, ensuring that past requests do not appear in the approval queue.

FOCUS-47439- Ed-Fi: Add GradingPeriodName Field to Session and GradingPeriod Resources

This update improves the behavior of Ed-Fi in Arizona by addressing an issue with the GradingPeriodName field. Recently, this field was added to the Session and GradingPeriod resources, but the data was not populating correctly. With this update, GradingPeriodName now pulls as expected for both resources and is visible in the Ed-Fi Debug menu.

FOCUS-47429- Post Final Grades: Resolve 'Teacher Completion' Issue

This update improves the behavior of Post Final Grades. Previously, if a user manually entered grades and then clicked the "Use Gradebook" button, they were not prompted to save, causing the manually entered grades to be lost and not posted. With this update, users must enter manual grades after clicking "Use Gradebook," ensuring a prompt to save and correctly removing the teacher from the Completion Report.

See Post Final Grades for additional information.

FOCUS-47427- Student Info: Add Quick Link to Student Documentation Category

This update adds a link to the Student Context Menu that redirects users to the Student Documentation category on the student's Student Info page. A migration updates the existing student field category with the title Student Documentation to have a specific alias of student_documentation. If the category exists, the Student Context Menu will display this new option for users with the necessary permissions. If the Student Documentation category does not exist, no changes are made.

See Searching for Students for more details.

FOCUS-47414- School Choice Report: Ensure Refresh Choice Data updates Current Grade Accordingly

This update enhances the Refresh Choice Data feature in the School Choice Report and Scheduled Job. Previously, the Current Grade field was only updated if it was null or set to NG. With this update, the Current Grade will be updated whenever it differs from the student's current grade level as defined in their primary default school year enrollment record, ensuring more accurate and up-to-date data.

FOCUS-47411- Student Groups: Fix Incorrect Display of Groups in 'All Groups'

This update resolves an issue in Student Groups by refining the visibility criteria for users. Previously, a group was visible if the user had one of the group profiles and the selected school was one of the group schools. With this update, a group is now only visible if the user has one of the group profiles specifically at the selected school and the selected school is one of the group schools. This ensures more accurate access control.

FOCUS-47383- Scheduling Builder Reports: Rotation Day Filter for Overlapping Singletons

This update improves Scheduling Reports when Advanced Rotation is in use. A new rotation dropdown has been added to Scheduling Builder Reports and Overlapping Singletons. If a user selects a specific rotation day, only sections from that day will be displayed. By default, the option is set to All, ensuring flexibility in report filtering.

See Builder Reports > Viewing the Overlapping Singletons Report for more information.

FOCUS-47311- Addresses: Add US Territories and Military Bases to State Lists Across Focus

This update ensures that US territories and state options, including PR, AA, AE, AP, AS, FM, GU, MH, MP, PW, and VI, are consistently available across Focus for a more streamlined experience. While these options were previously available for Student and Contact information, they are now also included in Ed-Fi Setup, Address Catalog, and Employee Information.

FOCUS-47261- Hall Pass: Change Teacher Kiosk to Classroom Kiosk

This update enhances the Hall Pass module by allowing administrators to access the Classroom Kiosk box within Hall Passes, enabling them to sign in on behalf of teachers. This functionality is particularly useful for districts utilizing SSO. Additionally, both admin and teacher Classroom Kiosk logins will no longer be restricted to rostered students, allowing any student to have a pass created.

See Hall Pass Setup > Setting Up Locations, Hall Passes > Using the Classroom Kiosk (Admin), and Hall Passes > Using the Classroom Kiosk (Teacher) for more information.

FOCUS-47244- Grades: Resolve Incorrect Display of Duplicate Grade Values in Progression Plans

This update resolves an issue in the Progression Plan where duplicate grade values would appear for a student who withdrew from a course and later re-enrolled in the same course. With this update, grades will now display correctly without duplication.

FOCUS-47222- Graduation Req. Report: Improve "Successfully Completed at Least Three Year-Long..." Requirement in Fine Arts Seal (FL)

This update improves the Graduation Requirements Report for the Fine Arts Seal in Florida. Specifically, it refines the logic for the requirement stating that a student must complete at least three year-long courses in dance, music, theater, or visual arts with a grade of "A" or higher in each course. Previously, the system's logic was too broad, allowing students to meet the requirement by combining courses across different disciplines. This update adds an additional check to ensure that courses are grouped correctly based on their titles, preventing unrelated courses from being bundled together and ensuring accurate fulfillment of the requirement.

FOCUS-47081- Discipline: New 'Duplicate Referral' Permission for Teachers

This branch introduces a new permission, Duplicate Referral, allowing teacher profiles to duplicate student referrals under specific conditions. The permission is located under Referrals in the Discipline menu and is disabled for teachers by default, maintaining current functionality unless explicitly granted.

Teachers can only duplicate a referral if:

• The referral has not been processed (discipline_referral.processed = NULL).
• The referral was originally created by the teacher (discipline_referral.staff_id matches the teacher's staff ID).

If these conditions are not met, the Duplicate button will be disabled.

See Profiles > Permissions Explained and Referrals > Duplicating a Referral (Teacher) for more information.

FOCUS-46191- SSS: Resolve Radio Buttons Set as "Enabled for Parents" in Form Builder being Accessible to Parents

This update resolves an issue in the SSS module where radio buttons enabled for parents could not be selected or saved. With this update, parents can now properly select and save radio button options as expected. It was also confirmed that clearing the cache or using a private window temporarily resolved the issue before this fix.

FOCUS-44648- Address & Contacts: New Optional Birthdate Data Collection for Contacts

This update enhances the storage of contacts in the Address & Contacts screen by introducing a new system preference, "Display Contact Birthdate Field." When enabled, a Birthdate field is added to the Contact detail card, allowing for the collection of additional information. This field can also be included in online applications and re-enrollment forms. The optional birthdate field helps support Parent/Guardian visitor management systems and reunification efforts.

See System Preferences > Enrollment and Student Info > Adding a Contact for more information.

FOCUS-47681- Hours ADA column displaying incorrect data

FOCUS-47440- SSS: Schedule of Service Related Service Concurrent Time

This update improves the SSS module by ensuring that the concurrent checkbox for Related Services in the SOS step of the IEP Event is displayed correctly. Previously, if the concurrent checkbox was selected, it would only appear in the popup and not on the main screen. With this update, a new column is added next to the Minutes or Frequency Type column, displaying a checked checkbox to clearly indicate concurrent minutes.

FOCUS-47380- SSS: Resolve IEP Progress Report Bug Issue

This update resolves an issue in the SSS module where the locked IEP Goals Progress Report was not retrieving the correct IEP goals. With this update, the report now accurately reflects the correct goals as expected.

FOCUS-47331- SSS: Add Edit Checkbox to Enable Teachers to Dismiss Tasks

This update improves Task Lists in the SSS module by allowing teachers assigned as evaluators to dismiss their own tasks. A new edit profile permission has been added to enable this functionality. By default, the permission is unchecked, maintaining the current behavior until it is granted.

See Profiles > Permissions Explained and Task List (Teacher) for more information.

FOCUS-47318- SSS: Ensure Name Displays Correctly in IEP Progress Report

This update resolves an issue in the SSS module where parents viewing their child's IEP Progress Report saw an incorrect name at the top of the report. With this update, the correct student name now displays as expected.

FOCUS-46307- SSS: Markup Visible when Printing Schedule of Services Descriptions & Goals

This update improves the SSS module by correcting how blank goal or description fields are displayed in the printout for the SOS step of the IEP Event. Previously, if these fields were empty, "" would appear in the printout. With this update, blank fields will now remain empty as expected.

FOCUS-45722- SSS: Resolve Frequency of Sessions Visibility in Print Media

This update resolves an issue in the SSS module where Frequency of Session and Frequency of Minutes were visible in the printout despite being disabled in the SOS Setup screen. With this update, these fields will now be hidden in the printout when they are disabled, ensuring the printout accurately reflects the configured settings.