Release 6.72.0 March 30, 2023

Updated the system to close the server connection after the file upload process.

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N/A

Tuned and optimized the internal process that calculates and updates faculty thresholds, resulting in a reduced amount of system messages written to the log. 

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N/A

Improved the validation messages and added helpful hints to the earnings/effort reporting popup. Improvements include guidance for fiscal and academic faculty and listing the fields that failed validation.

Faculty

All

Added a faculty Annual Certification URL link tag that can be included in Annual Certification notification emails that takes them to their AC submission page.

Faculty

All

Added a highlighted section and instructions on top to draw attention when a submit action is needed to complete the Annual Certification process. Also, the initial entry and submission from the popup dialog has been moved to the Annual Certification page to reduce the number of clicks.

Faculty

All

Added a "Start Date" column to the pages under the Reviewers' "FORMS" tab. This value is only applicable for Category I forms; other forms will display "N/A".

Reviewer

N/A

Added additional fields to the student involvement form to collect additional information concerning students and activities.

Faculty

All

Filter selections on Reviewers and Approvers pages now persist when switching between main areas (DASHBOARD, FACULTY, FORMS, etc..) and fiscal years. Also, a "Clear Filter" button has been added to reset filters for an area.

Reviewer, Approver

All

Administrative faculty (240 & 246) hours on Category III activities are now counted against the threshold. The 240 & 246 report now omits uncompensated Category III activity hours.

Faculty

APM-240, APM-246

A new section has been added under the Approver and Reviewer dashboards that report when Annual Certifications cannot be completed due to request forms being en route in the review/approval process.

Reviewer, Approver

All

Code has been added to address edge cases when user has no staff roles after the system has processed the staff ingest file.

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Fixed a bug that arose in a special case that prevented submission of exceeding threshold forms.  This bug arose when a faculty also held the role of Approver.

Faculty, Approver

All

Added a required validation for the fiscal year field on the report activity form. The faculty year selection displays when a faculty has not submitted their Annual Certification in prior fiscal years.

Faculty

All

Fixed an issue with the Category I form dialog not displaying for the Firefox browser.

Faculty, Historical Data Manager

All