11.0.95 - 06/10/2023

Finance

FOCUS-38427- Enhance Fixed Assets Report permissions

System improvement adding a profile permission allowing the user to edit the 'Missing' checkbox on the Fixed asset report.

See Fixed Assets Report for more information.

FOCUS-38424- Raise error when depreciating without allocations and allocations are required

System improvement to depreciation allocations, when system setting requiring depreciation allocation is set, and no depreciation allocation is identified on the asset, the user will receive and alert. Depreciation will be halted until the deprecation allocation is corrected.

FOCUS-38078- Check Out Assets without Facility validation

System improvement adding a setting to Setup > General Ledger > Settings > Fixed Assets > Fixed Assets - 'Check Out Assets to Any District Staff'. Enabling this setting will allow users to 'Check Out' assets to active staff without Facility validation.

See Setup > Settings > Fixed Assets for more information.

FOCUS-36413- CR_P-card - link to PO

System enhancement adding the ability to link an imported PCard purchase order draft to an existing approved Purchase Order.

See Purchase Requests/Orders, Internal Purchase Requests/Orders, and Setup > Settings > Accounts Payable.

FOCUS-38268- Refunding customer credit doesn't reduce credit balance

Payroll

FOCUS-38401- ERP Uploaded Files Report Filter Fields

System enhancement adding two new filters to Setup > Utilities > Uploaded Files Report.

FOCUS-38367- Access Permissions on Payroll Reports

System enhancement adding a new profile permission allowing the user to view Direct Deposit account numbers on the Payroll > Reports > Payroll Reports > Check Register report and Human Resources > Employee > Check History. To enable: Setup > Profiles > Human Resources > Staff > Direct Deposit 'Can View Account Number'.

See Employee > Pay History and Payroll > Payroll Reports > Check Register Report for more information.

FOCUS-38350- Allow adjustments to skip federal withholding

System improvement adding a new column to skip Federal withholding on an adjustment to Payroll > Pay Runs > Run Payroll > Adjustments.

See Run Payroll > Adjustments for more information.

FOCUS-38202- Allow adjustments to wage change retro

System enhancement allowing retro adjustments on Payroll > Pay Runs > Run Payroll > Wage Change Retro.

See Run Payroll > Wage Change Retroactive Pay for more information.

FOCUS-38033- Applicant Tracking Job Posting Replacement

System improvement adding current staff name to the Position dropdown for Job Postings. If there is no staff in the position it will display 'Vacant'.

See Applicant Tracking for more information.

SIS

FOCUS-38524- Parent Portal: Resolve Download Issue for Report Cards

This branch resolves an issue where a parent received an error message when attempting to download the report card.

FOCUS-38443- Student Final Grades: Resolve Display of Gradelevel

Only applicable to customers using Florida State Reporting. This branch resolves an issue where the grade level field in Student Final Grades, GPA, and Class Rank would display as an asterisk when the grade was entered manually on this screen with hidden Florida fields.

FOCUS-38442- Form Builder: Respect"Can View" on Child Components

Previously, the Can View dropdown at the Component Level pulls from the list of who Can Edit the form. With this improvement to the Form Builder, profiles that have been selected as Can View on Form Level are able to be selected on the Can View on component Level as well

FOCUS-38421- Post Final Grades: Resolve Portal Alert Link when Posting

This branch resolves an issue where the "Full Year" post final grades alert link when leveraged caused duplicate grades to be issued for teachers with active schedules in multiple schools.

FOCUS-38415- Fix Incorrect Graduation Met Status in Grad Req Report for Students Not Passing Algebra 1 EOC

Only applicable to customers using Florida State Reporting. This branch makes an update to the Graduation Requirements Report, Graduation Met logic to only factor in the Algebra 1 EOC requirement for applicable students by Cohort (Year Entered Ninth Grade).

FOCUS-38411- Post Final Grades: Schedule Override Students Counting Towards Teacher Completion Report

This branch ensures teachers are not still appearing on the Teacher Completion Report due to students who are inactive in their classes with a schedule override vs. schedule end-date.

FOCUS-38402- ISP: New Print Option

Only applicable to customers using Focus Postsecondary. This enhancement adds a new Print Option of Test Results to the ISP page.

FOCUS-38382- Scheduled Job: Resolve Updating Settings on Populate Graduation Requirements Summary Scheduled Job

This branch resolves an issue where updates to the selected grades on the setup page for Populate Graduation Requirements Summary scheduled job were not saving as expected.

FOCUS-38366- Re-Enrollment: File Uploads Saving in Session

This branch ensures file upload fields included in a re-enrollment form are saved regardless of the session ending prior to the parent/student clicking save or next page in the application.

FOCUS-38300- Graduation Requirements Report: Better Prioritization on Scholar Equally Rigorous courses

Only applicable to Florida State Reporting customers. This improvement ensures the highest credit courses enrolled or in course history are counted toward the Scholar Designation for Equally Rigorous courses in the Graduation Requirements Report.

FOCUS-38275- Change Requests: Resolve Portal Alert Display

This branch resolves an issue where the Change Request Portal Alert was displaying when no change requests needed to be processed.

FOCUS-38267- Transcripts: Improve Sort of Courses

This branch ensures when generating a one-page transcript, the courses consistently are ordered in alphabetical order.

FOCUS-38261- Scheduling: Copy all applicable Period Options in Section

This branch ensures that when copying sections, the entirety of the parent's sections periods is copied to the child section. This issue only occurred in configurations with the system preference of "Sections can have multiple non-consecutive periods" enabled.

FOCUS-38235- Hide Effective Date for FCAT/FSA ELA Depending on FL District Option

Only applicable to Florida State Reporting customers. SB 1108 allows students who have been enrolled in an ESOL program for less than 2 years eligible to meet the ELA graduation assessment requirements with an alternative pathway. The two years are based on the last day of the school year. This branch updates the built-in scheduled job Process Assessments to only display the effective date picker when the Florida Reports Setup, District Options "Default Effective Date" is set to "No Default Effective Date."

See Florida Reports Setup > Setting Options in the District Options Tab for the reflected changes.

FOCUS-37995- Attendance: New Portal Alert for Excuse Notes Inactive Students

This enhancement adds a new Portal Alert for Excuse Notes indicating the number of notes needing to be processed for Inactive Students. When clicked, the end user is directed to Absence Summary for processing.

FOCUS-37961- Custom Fields | Support {LOGGED_IN_STAFF_ID} in Computed/Suggestions Query

This branch adds support for leveraging {LOGGED_IN_STAFF_ID} variable in queries associated with Custom Field Computed Fields and Suggestion Queries.

FOCUS-37770- Online Enrollments: Performance Improvements

This branch improves the overall performance of loading the Online Enrollments Report, Unprocessed Applications.

FOCUS-37704- Add a Student: New Setting to Require Contact Entry

This enhancement adds a new system preference under enrollment titled "Contact Required." When enabled, end-users would be required to enter a contact when adding a new student through Add a Student. The preference will be installed in the off position to maintain existing functionality.

FOCUS-37670- Form Builder: New Rich Text on Text area Components

This enhancement adds an option for rich text input on text area components in Formbuilder. When enabled, the user can input rich text and upload images that will be printed in line with the rest of the form. The new functionality will default to disabled.

See Form Builder > Setting Up a Text Area for the reflected changes.

FOCUS-37476- School Choice: Add 'ESE' / 'Spec. Ed.' column to School Choice Reports

Only applicable to customers using School Choice. This enhancement adds a new column to the School Choice Report to display the student's applicable ESE/Spec Ed Code.

See School Choice Reports > Viewing the Student List Tabs and Verifying Application Information for the reflected changes.

FOCUS-35345- Scheduling: Updated Minutes for Pull-Outs (FL)

Only applicable to customers using Florida State Reporting. This branch ensures when adding a pull-out section to the student schedule either individually or through Mass Add Course, the minutes from a pull-out section will be subtracted from the minutes of the core course that is also scheduled into the same period. Please note that adding the minutes back to the primary section if the pull-out section is dropped either individually or en masse is not currently supported.

SSS

FOCUS-38444- Computed tables' columns lose their ordering after locking

This fix addresses an issue where computed tables were out of order when the event was locked.

FOCUS-38341- Users may be able to edit PMP steps if they don't have permission to edit

This fix addresses an issue when a user has view but does not have edit permissions to SSS PMP Events, the user still is able to edit the custom PMP screens.

FOCUS-38147- Clones of step that used "Mark as Complete" still show as complete

This fix addresses an issue when the "Mark as Complete" button is used in testing. The cloned steps display as complete. Cloned steps should always show as incomplete.

FOCUS-38098- Hypotheses on PMP steps might not be from the correct PMP type

This fix addresses an issue where the hypotheses in the PMP custom screen are not filtered by PMP Type, causing the dropdown to show options from both Academic and Behavior PMPs.

FOCUS-37883- Caseload & Services - Set Service Date to Today by default

On the Caseload and Groups tabs of Caseload & Services, this branch changes the Service Date to only being required upon form submission. If left blank, it will automatically default to the date of submission (today). If a service date is input, it will use that date and validate it. These changes should also fix any instances of a '12/31/1969' Service Date. This fix also includes a slight speed improvement to the initial page load. NOTE: If the User already has a Template with a Service Date saved, they will need to delete that Service Date value from the Template to enable the automatic use of today's date.

See Caseload & Services for the reflected changes.

CTE

FOCUS-38423- ISP: New Print Options

Only applicable to customers using Focus Postsecondary. This enhancement adds two new elements to Print Options (Industry Certifications and Address) on the ISP Page.

FOCUS-38310- Rollover: Resolve Error Postsecondary Fees

This branch resolves an issue when rolling Postsecondary Fees in the Rollover process.

FOCUS-38284- Attainment of Basic Skills is not accurately showing waiver W for passed students who were allowed this code