11.0.81 - 02/25/2023

Finance

FOCUS-36979- Room report filters

System improvement adding Building and Room dropdown filters to the Fixed Assets > Reports > Room Report.

See Room Report for details on the new Building and Room filters.

FOCUS-36977- Rename 2 cols on FA report for consistency

System Improvement to the fixed asset report renaming Original Value column to Purchased Price and Sold Value to Sold Amount.

See Fixed Assets Report for details on the new columns.

FOCUS-36651- TPS ER: TKL Field

System enhancement to allow the user to override the time keeping location. To enable: Setup > General Ledger > Government Code > TLK tab. This will display in Human Resources > Staff > Employee > Jobs tab.

See TKL Codes for details on adding and using TLK codes.

FOCUS-36793- Make 'Allow Changes to Taxable' Profile-specific

See Point of Sale for information about enabling the new Profile based permission that allows users to edit the Taxable check box.

Payroll

FOCUS-36852- ESS | Leave request - Multiple entries

System enhancement to allow multiday leave requests to process in School/Dept. Payroll Entry as individual entries. To enable: Setup > General Ledger > Settings > ESS > Employee Requests 'Dis-Allow Date Spanning Leave Requests' = No and 'Break down leave requests into multiple entries in School/Dep' = Yes.

See ESS for details on how to enable multiday leave requests using the settings listed above.

FOCUS-36651- TPS ER: TKL Field

System enhancement to allow the user to override the time keeping location. To enable: Setup > General Ledger > Government Code > TLK tab. This will display in Human Resources > Staff > Employee > Jobs tab.

See TKL Codes for details on adding and using TLK codes.

FOCUS-36056- On wage change retro allow them to use earlier rate changes

System enhancement to compare pay rates as of a specific run in Payroll > Pay Runs > Run Payroll > Wage Change Retro. This will allow the user to select 'Pay Rates After' from a prior run in the dropdown.

See Wage Change Retroactive Pay for details on the new "Pay Rates After" pull-down.

SIS

FOCUS-36945- Test Score Reports: New FAST Score Report Titles appearing on Parent Portal

Only applicable to Florida State Reporting customers. This branch provides additional support for FAST Test Score Reports. Publishing Test Score Reports to the Parent Portal feature now recognizes the original and newly updated FAST score report file names, which the FLDOE updated in December 2022.

Original FAST file naming convention: {FLEID}_PM22022-23_{TEST (e.g., FASTGrade5ELAReading)}{YEAR_RANGE}_StudentISRs_124237018 PM.pdf

Newly updated FAST file naming convention: {FLEID}_PM22022-23_{TEST (e.g., Grade5FASTELAReading)}{YEAR_RANGE}_StudentISRs_124237018 PM.pdf

See Publishing Test Scores and Reports to the Student/Parent Portal for details on FAST Test Score Reports.

FOCUS-36931- Scheduled Job: Add Effective Date field in Process Assessment setup

Only applicable to Florida State Reporting customers. This enhancement adds an effective date field with the built-in Scheduled Job Process Assessments setup, specifically for the ESOL Graduation Pathway/ESE Test Waiver students. This enhancement aligns the setup features from the Florida Reports Process Assessments interface functionality and scheduled job when checking for ESOL Graduation Pathway/ESE Test Waiver and updating the FSA ELA graduation student fields.

See Processing Florida Standard Assessments (FSA) & Assessments for English and Language Arts (ELA) for details on the new "Effective Date (Used for ESOL Graduation Pathway" setting.

See Built-In Scheduled Jobs Explained for details on the new "Effective Date (ESOL Graduation Pathway/ESE Test Waiver) setting.

FOCUS-36925- Before & Aftercare: Resolve Annual Registration Billing Frequency

Only applicable to customers using the Focus Before & Aftercare module. This branch resolves an issue where the registration fee was billed each time a program was invoiced when the once per program was selected in the Manage Fee Template setup.

FOCUS-36917- Choice: Late Application not Respecting Choice Selection Preference

Only applicable to customers using the School Choice module. The branch resolved an issue where the Late Application number of choices preference was not respected when the parent had more previously selected programs than the Late Application preference setting.

FOCUS-36896- Form Builder: Improve Standard Header Format Rendering in PDF

This branch resolves an issue where standard headers in the Form Builder, which are laid out dynamically, can appear differently between HTML and PDF.

FOCUS-36872- Print ID Badges: New Options to Exclude Student Photo & Name

This enhancement adds two new Other Options on Print ID Badges. Now, end-users can remove the Student Name and/or Student Photo when generating batches.

See Print ID Badges for more information on the new "Exclude Student Names on Badge" and "Exclude Student Photos on Badge" options.

FOCUS-36860- Form Builder: Resolve Display Issue When Multiple Blank Pages Present

Within the Form Builder, if blank pages are inserted into a form, and the form is saved after adding each page, this branch will ensure the existing components are placed correctly.

FOCUS-36805- Grad Requirements Report: Personal Fitness Waiver Showing Incorrect Course Numbers

This branch ensures the course 1500480 will display on the Graduation Requirements Report ahead of other ROTC waivers next to the Personal Fitness Performing Fine Arts ROTC waiver credit.

FOCUS-36751- My Calendar: "Can set availability to students" permission should respect profile school restrictions

This branch resolves an issue where in My Calendar, Availability Settings, the school tied to the user's profile permission was not being respected, and therefore students in other schools were able to request a conference.

FOCUS-36649- Tardy Scanner- Connection Error

Only applicable to customers using the Handheld mobile device. This branch resolves a database error received on handheld devices when opening the Focus application.

FOCUS-36427- Community Mobile App: Do Not Switch User Roles Between Devices

Currently, if an end-user with more than one role (admin, parent, or teacher) switches roles on one device (mobile app), then the next time a page loads on another device (interface), it automatically switches to that role. This branch prevents that from happening.

FOCUS-35914- Grad Requirement Report: Credit doubling FY Courses Unnecessarily

This branch corrects the Graduation Requirement Report when using the future course system preference to display appropriate credits remaining for Full Year courses based on the course history term on scheduled courses.

SSS

FOCUS-36944- Hiding and then showing a step may cause a 404 error

This fix addresses an issue if a step on an event is hidden and then shown again via form or event triggers, the step may display a 404 error. This only happens if the step in question is linked to a formbuilder form, custom screens steps are not affected.

FOCUS-36919- SSS/Formbuilder Snapshot (February 2023)

https://focusschoolsoftware.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/12928306503963-February-2023-Updates-to-Focus-Forms

See Manage Student: ESE Events for updated IEP Meeting Participants form.

FOCUS-36893- Users without permission to initiate any events can still see the Create New Event table

This fix addresses an issue where the user only has view permissions, the table to create a new event instance should be hidden. The new "Select One" option is confusing the check determining whether there are any events to display.

FOCUS-36727- Some administrators may not display in the "Person Responsible" dropdown

This fix addresses an issue where if the user is an administrator but is marked as an administrator only through profiles (rather than on their user record), they will not be included in the list when they should be.

FOCUS-36081- Selected PMP strategies may not be visible if out of the strategy's date range

This fix addresses an issue when a strategy's max syear is in the past from when the event locked, the option will not be visible when viewing the PMP step.