12.0.8 - 07/16/2023

Finance

FOCUS-38954- Online Enrollments: Improve Performance on Processed

This branch improves load performance on the Online Enrollments, Processed report.

FOCUS-38812- Add a button to mark missing items disposed

System enhancement adding Dispose of Missing option to the Fixed Asset > Inventory Report that can mark missing items disposed.

See Inventory Report for details.

FOCUS-38806- feat(checks): add Manual checks to existing ACH tab

System improvement adding Manual Check Run to ACH tab allowing for Email Vendors to be visible for editing in Purchasing/Accounts Payable > Accounts Payable > Checks.

See Checks and Internal Account Checks for more information.

FOCUS-38594- Require Receiving Mass Transfer

System enhancement adding "Required Receiving" to the Mass Transfer screen.

See Manage Assets > Mass Transfer for details.

FOCUS-38873- Purchase & Pay: Recalculating Discounts does not Remove a Previously Eligible Discount

FOCUS-38697- Signatures and File Uploaders for Forms upgraded to the newer versions.

FOCUS-38628- fix(funding-sources): FS Report period balances incorrect when multiple payments exist for single allocation

FOCUS-38463- Rename CFDA > ALA

See Setup > Settings > Elements > Project Details for more information.

Payroll

FOCUS-38954- Online Enrollments: Improve Performance on Processed

This branch improves load performance on the Online Enrollments, Processed report.

FOCUS-38883- Employee/User Info: Don't Mask Employee SSN from Student Profile Permission

This branch removes the masking of employee/user SSNs predicated from the end-users profile lacking access to View Full SSNs for Students.

FOCUS-38201- Applicant Tracking - Override Position Control Allocations

System enhancement to Setup > Permissions > Profiles > Human Resources > Applicant Tracking adding a new permission "Override Position Control Allocations". When this permission is enabled the user can approve the employee action form, overriding the number of positions available.

See Applicant Tracking > District/HR Profiles Set Up and Employee Action Form for details.

SIS

FOCUS-38969- Communication Platform: Support Announcement to Message Transition

This branch ensures end-users may transition from an Announcement to a Message and leverage the student search feature as expected.

FOCUS-38966- Communication Platform: Deleting Announcements

This branch ensures end-users with edit permissions to Announcements may delete Announcements created by other users in the Communication Platform.

FOCUS-38949- Communication Platform: Add School Filter Support to Announcement & Template School Pull-Down Fields

This feature enhancement adds the new School Filter feature to the Communication Platform school selector pull-downs located on Announcements and Templates.

See Communication for details.

FOCUS-38932- CKEditor Insert Fields: Resolve Current Date Field

This branch resolves an issue where the CKEditor Insert Field of Current Date was not populating in generated documents.

FOCUS-38889- Communication Platform: District as Sender for Attendance Messages

Messages derived automatically for Attendance through the Communication Platform will now display to end users in their Inbox as being from the District vs. the configuring administrator.

See Communication for details.

FOCUS-38881- Custom Fields: New Bus Icon for Category Assignment

This feature enhancement adds a new Bus icon to the available icons for selection on Custom Field categories.

See Student Fields, User Fields, School Fields, and District Fields for the reflected changes.

FOCUS-38854- Attendance: Performance Improvement for Absences by Course and Student

This branch improves load performance for the Absences by Course and Student, By Course By Student Attendance report.

FOCUS-38842- Importing Functions: Remove AP Test Parser Menu

This branch removes the AP Test Parser screen under the Setup menu. The legacy functionality from this program has been replaced with the new Import and Importer features.

See AP Test Parser for details.

FOCUS-38839- Online Application: Improve Position of Date Picker

This branch improves the display of the Date Picker when an end-user engages a date field in an Online Application and the environment leverages the Google Translate widget.

FOCUS-38820- Transcripts: Improve Header Formation

This branch improves the header formation on generated transcripts ensuring no content is printed off-page.

FOCUS-38816- Graduation Requirements Report: Improve Display of Printed Report for Multiple Students

This branch resolves an issue where teachers were unable to print the Graduation Requirements Report for multiple students, only the first student would be generated in the PDF.

FOCUS-38788- Print ID Badges: Improve Layout of Header

This branch improves the layout of the header in Print ID Badges by adding vertical padding between the logo and the edge from .2 in. to 0.25 in., which should prevent overlap of the logo and hole punch.

FOCUS-38783- Ed-Fi: Update CourseOfferings for UUID

This branch updates the ED-Fi CourseOffering Resource by creating a new uuid when a change to localCourseCode (course number) is made. The updated uuid will ensure that the LocalCourseCode on the Ed-Fi side is reported correctly.

FOCUS-38782- Transcripts: Support Secondary Only Option in TX, MO, and MD.

This feature enhancement adds the "Only Secondary Courses" setting on Transcripts for the states of Texas, Maryland, and Missouri. When selected the generated transcripts will include courses taken by the student in High School only.

See Transcripts for details.

FOCUS-38780- Print Letters & Send Emails: Record Body of Email in File Upload as PDF

This branch ensures letters generated from the Student Print Letters & Send Emails program that are flagged for inclusion into the Letter Log include a physical copy of the notification as PDF in the file upload column.

FOCUS-38748- Student Info: Masking SSNs with Special Characters

This branch allows the user's profile social security number to start with CS. It also resolves an issue where users without permission to the SSN student field could not enroll new students who have had a valid SSN entered by an administrator using the Online Enrollment feature.

FOCUS-38682- Gradebook: Improve Output in Gradebook Audit Trail

This branch ensures the Gradebook Audit Trail records student assignment grade changes to a value of zero.

FOCUS-38671- Re-enrollment showing at wrong school, showing at school student withdrew from.

This branch ensures that published re-enrollment forms display on the Parent Portal associated with the student's currently enrolled school and not a school the student was withdrawn from earlier in the same school year.

FOCUS-38244- Scheduling: Master Schedule Builder Enhancements

This branch introduces three feature improvements to the Master Schedule Builder feature.

1. The Teacher Constraints Max Periods will now default to one number below the total number of periods flagged as "Used in Scheduling" in the school's period configuration.

2. The Master Schedule Builder will now execute "Assign Suggestions" prior to running the builder.

3. No Teacher ID will be assigned to sections where a Period cannot be defined.

FOCUS-37429- Attendance: Improve Cursor Navigation on Attendance Administration

This branch corrects an issue, only presented on Windows operating systems with Edge or Chrome Browsers, where end-user's cursors incorrectly jumped to a different student following an edit on the Attendance Administration screen.

FOCUS-36008- New Proficiency Gradebook Enhancements

This enhancement adds several improvements to the Proficiency Gradebook.

1. 'Most Recent Only' View Option: A new view option titled "Most Recent Only" is now presented at the top of the Gradebook. When checked, the Gradebook will only display the most recent grade under each standard. Only the Standard and not the Assignment Title is visible.

2. Standard Tab: The Proficiency Gradebook will now include a new display option titled "Standard." When selected, the Gradebook view will display all applicant standards associated with the course alongside the class average per standard (based on the most recent assignment grade).

3. Proficiency Student Grade Summary: When viewing the student's grade summary for proficiency-based courses, the summary will now show a progress bar, that when selected will navigate the end-user to the student's mastery view.

See Proficiency Gradebook (Teacher), Final Grades, GPA, & Class Rank (Teacher), and Final Grades, GPA, & Class Rank (Admin) for more information.

FOCUS-28270- Community Mobile App: Add LunchTime SSO Passthrough on Mobile

This feature enhancement adds support for the LunchTime SSO passthrough available on the interface to the Community Mobile App.

FOCUS-38951- Null call for getMaxIss and getMinIss

SSS

FOCUS-38656- SSS/Formbuilder Snapshot (June 2023)

https://focusschoolsoftware.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/16459319075227-June-2023-Updates-to-Master-Forms-Setup-Triggers

FOCUS-38636- Add order data to existing saved computer table data

This fix addresses data for previously locked events.