11.0.56 - 08/06/2022

Finance

FOCUS-34415- Fixed Assets Report - Added By

System enhancement adding two new columns to the Fixed Asset Report. 1. Added By 2. Created Date

FOCUS-34254- Add comment field to FA transfers

System enhancement adding a comment field to the Fixed Asset Transfer Request.

FOCUS-34100- Import for Take Inventory

System enhancement to add Import functionality to the Fixed Asset Take Inventory Screen.

FOCUS-33977- Accounts Receivable> Receipts> Current Receipt> Request ability to modify "Reference Number" after Receipt is Posted

System enhancement to allow edits to the reference number on the Accounts Receivable Receipt after the receipt has been posted. The edit is tied to the profile permission and must be enabled.

FOCUS-33853- Add field to deposit slip for numeric value

System enhancement to add reference field to Accounts Receivable Deposits.

Payroll

FOCUS-34234- File Field Fix For iPhone

This branch makes several improvements when using the upload file and view file features in Focus on an iOS device.

FOCUS-34231- Time & Attendance Human Resources

System enhancements to Time and Attendance: 1. Human Resources Position Control - Add a Timekeeper functionality to positions in addition to Managed By. When the timekeeper is designated and assigned to a position, all timecards will flow to the timekeeper for approval. When approved, timecards will then flow to Managed By for approval. 2. Human Resources > Time and Attendance Approval - Allow edits to the timecard by the Timekeeper and/or Managed By that are not requested by the employee. 3. Human Resources > Time and Attendance Approval - Allow the Timekeeper and Managed By to add a timecard on behalf of the employee.

FOCUS-34127- Ability to manually add wage recovery to a current payroll

System enhancement to Payroll > Run Payroll > Wage Recovery adding the functionality to add a New Debt.

SIS

FOCUS-34470- Elementary Scheduler: Optimize not working for One Gradelevel

A database error occurred within the Elementary Scheduler when end-users would lock a student within another student who was locked to a teacher, but the teacher was not selected when optimizing. This branch prevents the database error from occurring.

FOCUS-34467- Portal Messages: Resolve Database Error

This branch corrects a database error on Portal Messages when the Focus instance does not have any parent profiles defined.

FOCUS-34462- School Choice Setup: Resolve Database Error

This branch resolves a database error on School Choice Setup using the "Remaining Seats" feature.

FOCUS-34461- Elementary Scheduler: Improve Schedule Students Performance

This branch prevents a database error from occurring within the Elementary Scheduler if a student was scheduled with a teacher who had been removed from the section.

FOCUS-34452- Community App: Unable to view Terms and Conditions in the Android app

Only applicable for customers using the Community Mobile App. This branch resolves an issue where the Terms & Conditions PDF was not visible to some Android end-users.

FOCUS-34438- School Choice: Evaluate Placement not displaying future enrolled siblings

Only applicable for customers using the School Choice module. This branch resolves an issue where siblings whose enrollment for the default school year was in the future were not displaying as expected on the Evaluate Placement screen.

FOCUS-34413- Resolve Database Error Downloading Empty File from Student Info

This branch adds a check for the existence of a file within Student Info, and if it does not exist will send back a 404 code. This branch also adds the mime type for an empty file to the list of acceptable mime types; end-users will be able to download the empty file.

FOCUS-34406- Gradebook: Assignments in Categories of Null Percent Should Not Count Towards Overall Grades in a Weighted Gradebook

Before the branch, when a teacher had a category that had null for the weight in a weighted gradebook, assignment grades for that category would count towards students' final grade as if the gradebook was not weighted. With the branch, null percent categories no longer count. This is expected because these categories appear at zero percent in the user interface unless edited to a numeric value.

FOCUS-34399- Requests Report: Resolve database error

This branch resolves a database error when running the Scheduling Requests report when quote characters were present in the course title.

FOCUS-34383- Copy School: Copy the FTE Period

Only applicable for customers using the Texas state reporting module. This branch resolves an issue where when using 'copy school' to copy attendance calendars the copy function does not copy the FTE period.

FOCUS-34382- Student Address & Contacts: Resolve Address Suggestion from Catalog.

This branch resolves an issue where when using the Address suggestions, the system inserted the student's existing address vs. the new one selected in the three dots button.

FOCUS-34376- Attendance: Don't display Take Attendance alert for non-attendance sections

This branch ensures teachers will not see the Take Attendance portal alert reminder if the section is not marked to Take Attendance.

FOCUS-34374- Lunch assignment doesn't print on student schedule

This enhancement adds Lunch Assignment, when configured, to the Student Schedule screen and when printing student schedules.

FOCUS-34372- Master Schedule Builder: Fix Consecutive Periods Allowed

This branch corrects an issue where the scheduler within the Master Schedule Builder is not respecting the teacher constraints for consecutive periods allowed.

FOCUS-34371- Master Schedule Builder: Set Periods Spanned when importing sections

Importing courses in the Master Schedule Builder does not respect spanned periods from the Master Schedule Report. This branch corrects that problem.

FOCUS-34366- Logging Letters with One per Family

This branch ensures all applicable students are logged when sending a letter via email with "One per Family" selected.

FOCUS-34343- Student Requests - Add Date/Time to Last Modified

This enhancement adds the date and time stored in schedule_requests.updated_at to the Last Modified Column in Student Requests.

FOCUS-34339- Form Builder: Error when previewing forms with collections that include page variables

If a collection contains a page variable, such as page.event_instance_id, and that form is previewed in the form builder, a collection error will be thrown because the variable is not properly replaced. This branch corrects that issue.

FOCUS-34335- Adjust default on Inclusion scheduling Report to DOE

This branch adjusts the default setting on Schedule Inclusion

FOCUS-34320- Use District Logo in Place of School Logo at Schools Without a Logo Setup

In Print Badges and the Virtual ID on mobile app, the district logo will now appear on the badge when using the school setting and the current school does not have a logo.

FOCUS-34272- Elementary scheduler does not remove the schedule once a scheduled student is moved to unassigned

The Elementary Scheduler does not remove the schedule once a scheduled student is moved to unassigned. This branch resolves this issue.

FOCUS-34251- Fixed issue with Course Catalog Sort Order to be Alphabetical

This branch ensures courses are sorted alphabetically on the Purchase & Pay screen.

FOCUS-34244- Print ID Badge Improvements

This enhancement adds an option to select the student's Preferred Name on Print ID Badges.

FOCUS-34072- Ed-Fi: Add Florida Programs and StudentProgramAssociations

This enhancement adds the following Programs and StudentProgramAssociations for Florida Ed-Fi: Community Service Program, English as a Second Language (ESL), Homeless, Immigrant Education, Migrant Education, Section 504 Placement, Special Education, Student Retention/Dropout Prevention, Student School Food Service, and Title I Part A.

FOCUS-34071- Export District Report to CSV is not working

This branch resolves an issue when exporting a District Report to csv.

FOCUS-34000- Elementary Scheduler reports an error that is misleading.

This branch improves the description of the error messaging within the Elementary Scheduler.

FOCUS-33914- Update Basic Skills job for 21-22

Only applicable for Postsecondary customers. This branch updates the built-in Scheduled Job, Update Basic Skills, for 21-22.

FOCUS-33905- Term disappears when teacher enters a grade change request after screen refresh.

When creating a new grade change request after the screen is refreshed or when you come back to this screen, the dropdown does not get populated with the proper value. This branch corrects this issue.

FOCUS-33253- Mass Add Log Records for Users and Students

The enhancement adds a new feature for Mass Add Log Records for Users. This feature mimics the functionality of Mass Add Log Records for Students. The branch also includes improvements to Mass Add Log Records for Students.

FOCUS-33126- File Uploads from the pending applicant are not being overlaid on the new student.

This branch ensures that all uploaded documentation is transferred to the student when processing an application through the Online Enrollments report.

FOCUS-32727- Unprocessed Applications Cannot Delete Application

When the school selected on the application is selected at the top-right, Unprocessed Applications and Unsubmitted Applications cannot be deleted after clicking the red negative. This branch corrects this issue.

FOCUS-33803- Speed Improvement for Standards-based District published Report Cards

SSS

FOCUS-34319- SSS/Formbuilder snapshot for July 2022

https://focusschoolsoftware.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/7602984284827-July-2022-Forms-and-Event-System-Updates

FOCUS-34204- Update trigger for Participation in State and District-Wide Assessments to push more data to SIS

Currently the Push Participation In State District Assessment trigger pushes data to log fields 1 through 8 of FSA Test Accommodations in SIS. It is now updated to push log fields 9 through 11 as well.

FOCUS-33992- Add Category Column to Event Permissions

Branch adds a Category Column to the SSS>User Profile Permissions>Event Permissions Tab. It reflects the Category (Program) the event is tied to. Users also have the ability to filter on this column.

FOCUS-33929- Past progress comments may not display if the school year changes in the middle of the event

Past progress comments are now displaying correctly in printed IEP Goals Progress Reporting Event if the school year changes in the middle of the event. Example: If the school year changes after a progress period other than the one with the highest number (e.g. Q4, Q1 and Q2 are in 2022, but Q3 is in 2023), past progress comments will not display for periods with a higher number than the latest period chronologically (e.g. Q3 has the highest start date and Q4 is in the previous year. Q4 comments will not display).

FOCUS-32623- Create the Mass Add PMP Data Points screen

This enhancement creates a new PMP Data Collection screen in SSS that allows users to enter data points for student individual PMP graphs as well as tracks the amount of times the student received the intervention.