12.0.7 - 07/09/2023

Finance

FOCUS-38845- feat(purchase-orders): add setting to default Deliver To

System enhancement adding a setting to default the Deliver To on a Purchase Request/Order based on account strip permissions. To enable: Setup > Settings > Accounts Payable.

See Setup > Settings > Accounts Payable, Purchase Requests/Orders, and Internal Purchase Requests/Orders for details about the Deliver To pull-down and the new setting.

FOCUS-38770- feat(accounts-payable): make option for internal invoice releasing

System improvement moving Internal Accounts Release Invoices to Purchasing/Accounts Payable > Accounts Payable > Internal Accounts Release Invoices. The functionality includes a new system setup check in Setup > Settings > Accounts Payable and a profile permission in Setup > Permissions > Profiles > Purchasing/Accounts Payable.

See Setup > Settings > Accounts Payable for details about the new setting.

FOCUS-38260- Manual Entry in Location History

System improvement adding profile permission allowing update functionality to Location History on Manage Assets.

See Manage Assets > Current Asset > Location History for more information.

FOCUS-35850- Focus CR Accounts Payable Improvements

System enhancement adding a column on the new check run screen labeled 'Close PO' allowing the user to uncheck close PO checkbox to post the batch. To enable: Setup > Permissions > Profiles > Accounts Payable new profile permission 'Override Close PO on New Check Run Screen.' A prerequisite to this setting: 'Invoices can be entered before POs are released but items must be applied' must be turned on in Setup > General Ledger > Settings > Accounts Payable > Misc. > Releasing.

See Checks and Internal Account Checks for details about the new Close PO check box.

FOCUS-38605- Student Fields Form View and Edit Access

Payroll

FOCUS-38743- Add New Fields To Payroll Site Employee Verification

System Improvement adding employee's 'Hours/Day', 'Job Start' and 'Job End' to Payroll > Payroll Reports > Payroll Site Employee Verification Report.

See Payroll Reports > Payroll Site Employee Verification Report for details.

SIS

FOCUS-38844- School Choice: Resolve issues with School Year Specific Preferences on the Application

Only applicable to customers using the School Choice Module. This branch ensures all preferences defined on the School Choice Setup, Customize Application are respected for the current school year.

FOCUS-38795- School Choice: Incorrect grouping of siblings from different school levels

Only applicable to customers leveraging the School Choice Module. This branch ensures the Evaluate Placement screen accurately displays sibling information regardless of the school year selected in the session and gradelevel.

FOCUS-38774- Attendance: Ensure all Applicable Attendance Excuse Notes Display for Students

This branch ensures all applicable Excuse Notes display for students who have switched schools in the same school year regardless of the school selected in the session.

FOCUS-38679- Discipline: Expand Options Available in Category Breakdown

This enhancement expands the fields supported in the Discipline Category Breakdown report to include all Discipline Referral and Student Custom Fields.

FOCUS-38632- Communication Platform: Support Templates from Communication in Various Setup Areas

This branch adds support for selecting templates generated from the Communication Platform in Postsecondary Waitlist, School Choice, and Application Editor setup options.

See Communication > Creating Templates for details.

FOCUS-38627- Community Mobile App: Pull correct Insert Field data for Re-Enrollment Forms

Only applicable to customers using the Community Mobile App. This branch corrects an issue where re-enrollment forms displayed to parents with multiple actively enrolled students on the Communication App would display insert field information in labels for the student in the session vs. the student the parent was filling out the re-enrollment form for.

FOCUS-38610- Parent Portal: Forms Summary Display Forms for All Students

This branch returns the V11 functionality of the Forms Summary to the Parent Portal in V12, by displaying available forms to parents for all their linked children/students, not just the individual child/student selected in the session.

FOCUS-38516- Discipline: Improve Performance Linking Incident & Referral

This branch improves performance surrounding searching for an existing SESIR incident to link to a referral.

FOCUS-38334- Grades: Update Conduct Options to allow Hiding of Conduct and Conduct Comments

This branch updates the wording of the Grading System Preference from "Hide Comments, Conduct and local posting fields for all marking periods not set up as quarters" to "Hide Comments, Conduct Comments and local posting fields for all marking periods not set up as quarters" and "Conduct" to "Conduct Comments." If the customer has Conduct configured in their custom menu include, both options for "Conduct Comments" and "Conduct" will appear in the Hide Options preference for selection.

See System Preferences > Grading for the reflected changes.

FOCUS-37916- Utah Shots: Add Support for Importing Immunizations from USIIS

Only applicable to customers using Utah State Reporting. This enhancement adds support to the Focus SIS on Student Info to import immunizations from USIIS.

FOCUS-37062- Attendance: Resolve display of results when Scheduled Into search option leveraged in Average Daily Attendance Report.

This branch resolves an issue where the Average Daily Attendance report was not correctly displaying expected student results after leveraging the Scheduled Into Advanced Search Option.

FOCUS-35981- Portal: Improved Display of Translations

This branch makes improvements to the display of text in Focus' built-in translations on the parent portal.

FOCUS-38897- Teacher Menu - Move Manage Student to SSS menu

See Manage Student for the reflected changes.

FOCUS-38321- Grad Requirements not correctly counting scheduled courses on report

SSS

FOCUS-38385- Only show SSS Documents if there's at least one entry

CTE

FOCUS-38784- Scheduled Jobs: Update Assign LCPs Job for Default School Year Only

Only applicable to customers using the Postsecondary solution. This branch updates the Assign LCPs built-in scheduled job to only update schedule records for the default school year defined.

FOCUS-38758- FA Worksheet: Improve Calculation of Program Award Year

Only applicable to customers using our Postsecondary solution. This branch updates the FA worksheet calculation of the Program Award Year to leverage the Remaining Paid vs. Remaining value.

FOCUS-38667- Courses & Sections: Populate OCP Hours from Course Catalog on Section Selection

Only applicable to Florida postsecondary customers. This branch ensures that the WDIS OCP course hours field auto-populates based on the Course Catalog setting when a new section is added.