12.0.3 - 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-38426- Include fully deferred students in Receivables Report

See Receivables Report for more information.

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

FOCUS-38232- Uploaded Files Receiving "File Not Found" Message

Payroll

FOCUS-38401- ERP Uploaded Files Report Filter Fields

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

See Uploaded Files Report for more information.

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.

FOCUS-38538- Duplicate Pending Applicants

FOCUS-38509- Fix Resend reference email

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-38482- Communication Platform: Better Positioning of Use Template in Messages

This branch adjusts the placement of the Use Template button when composing a message in the new Communication Platform.

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-38437- Communication Platform: Use Template from New Message Placeholder

This enhancement adds a "Type your message here or use a template" placeholder in the text area when composing a message in the Communication Platform. This allows end users to quickly access saved or published templates.

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-38413- Communication: Add Log Entries By Default System Pref

This enhancement adds a new system preference "Add student Log Entries by default when using Communication." When enabled, the "Add Log Records" setting will be auto-checked for end users when sending a message through the Communication Platform.

See Setup > System Preferences > General for more information.

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-38409- Communication Platform: Remove Phone Number in Import Modal w/o Call-Out Expansion

This branch removes the phone number option in the Import Modal for customers without the Call-Out System Expansion to the Communication Platform.

See Communication for more information.

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-38349- Communication Platform: Mobile App Public Announcements

Only applicable to customers with the Community Mobile App. This enhancement adds a checkbox to Announcements called "Public (Mobile App)" in the Communication Platform. When selected, the announcement will be visible to users in the mobile app who are not logged in.

See Communication for more information.

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-37983- Communication Platform: Support for Reply To in Email to Inbox

This enhancement adds support for responses to messages from the Communication Platform via email to be tracked in the centralized inbox for end users. When allowing students/parents to reply to is enabled in the message, email responses will be sent to a centralized [email protected], which will ensure the response is tracked in the appropriate inbox.

See Communication for more information.

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.

FOCUS-36187- Gradebook: New System Preferences

This enhancement adds five (5) new gradebook-related System Preferences:

1) Round Assignment Grades to X Decimal Places: This setting allows customers to select between 0 to 9 decimal places for assignment rounding. The default will be 2.

2) Custom Name for "Points" Entry: This text field allows customers to customize the terminology Focus will use for "Points." The default will be "Points"; however, if the customer changes the setting, that text will replace all instances of "Points" in the Focus Gradebook.

3) Custom Name for "Letter Grade" Entry: This text field allows customers to customize the terminology Focus will use for "Letter Grade." The default will be "Points"; however, if the customer changes that text will replace all instances of "Letter Grade" in the Focus Gradebook.

4) Grades are Entered By: Options include Allow teachers to select, Points, Percentage, or Letter Grades. This setting gives customers better control over what entries are allowable by a school in the Gradebook.

5) Prevent Saving Gradebook Grades Below Minimum (zeroes still permitted): This setting works in conjunction with the minimum percentage for gradebook grade preference and allows the district, by school, to define a minimum entry for teachers per gradebook assignment. Please note this does not eliminate a teacher from entering a 0 or NA.

See Setup > System Preferences > Grading for more information.

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-38439- Supplemental forms with parent signable signatures cannot be saved

This fix addresses an issue with supplemental forms with parent signable signatures not being saved and error displays.

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