January 21, 2022 Release

The Employee Timesheets login page now contains a link to the PowerSchool Privacy Statement that is located after the copyright statement.

The Employee Access Center login page now contains a link to the PowerSchool Privacy Statement that is located after the copyright statement.

On the Core PowerSchool ERP login page, the “Privacy Statement” link will be visible below the copyright statement and it will point to https://www.powerschool.com/privacy/.

When posting attendance records that were created by the SmartFind Express interface, the budget code will be validated when creating the substitute’s timecard record. If an incorrect or null budget code value exists, then the warning message will be displayed in the posting report.

PDS Wow header has been implemented in the following pages:

• Talent and SFE integration pages
• .Net pages including Start Page
• Advanced workflow forms
• Dashboard
• Core PowerSchool ERP pages

System Administration -> Administration -> Integration -> Integration Setup

The Budget Code coming from SFE will be validated. When an incorrect or null budget code value is coming from SFE and if the Business rule is applicable, the charging account based on the account mask will be picked up. If no Business Rule applies, then the charging account from the Primary Pay Rate record of the Employee will be taken. If the budget code value is correct, then the charging accounts will be taken directly from it.

The following enhancements have been made:

• The bank reconciliation load has been modified to include payroll checks.
• New summary report, payroll checks report, and payroll void checks report are created.
• The Summary at the bottom of the Bank Reconciliation page displays a column to assist in reconciling the bank balance to the General Ledger cash account balance.

When the full account format is enabled, then the Budget Code Field in the business rule will accommodate the full account format of up to 45 characters.

The Full Account Number is displayed in the account number fields on the attendance/substitute screens in the format specified in the Expenditure ledger Translation.

The Account number coming in the SFE Budget Code Object will be in the Full Account Format as per the Expenditure ledger.

The Bank Reconciliation Summary Page includes fees and interest in the GL Balance variance calculation as unposted interest and fees that results in changes in the GL balance.

Removed the error message that the cash account does not exist from displaying on screen while creating vendor batch liability payment creation.

The Open Payables Report is enhanced to display the Account in Full Account Format for instances where Full Account Format is enabled in the profile.

General Ledger Transactions Report displays the General Ledger, Expenditure, and Revenue accounting transactions for a date range and other search criteria provided.

This report displays the Account in the Full Account format for instances where Full Account is enabled in the profile.

The “Reconcile” process for Bank Reconciliation has been modified to update the appropriate record when the Fund Accounting profile option Print Checks by Bank is checked.

The load process for Bank Reconciliation has been modified to select the appropriate record when the Fund Accounting profile option Print Checks by Bank is checked.

The bank table setup for 20.11 must include the disbursement fund and account(s) plus the fees and interest accounts.

The following features are included:

• The screen includes the period and year, which is used to pull the GL balance.

• Payroll checks load in addition to A/P based on the payroll fund and payroll cash in the Fund Accounting profile. This must match bank account set up.

• Voided Payroll checks load.

• On the Reconciliation page, checks will come in as cleared if they are cleared in Payroll or Fund Accounting, but users can also clear checks on the reconciliation page as needed. A cleared date can be entered.

• GL Balance has been added to the summary section of the page.

• New report options for Payroll, Payroll Voids, and Summary.

• The Outstanding Payroll Check report has been modified to include an option to run with an As Of date.

The full account number is reflecting correctly in the timecard and the full account number and title are displayed in the report output after posting of Attendance/Vacancy Records.

A new field, Enable PDF Copy Watermark, is added to the Purchase Order form within Forms Manager flags to allow districts print the watermark on the purchase order attachment. If this flag is unchecked, then the watermark will not be displayed on the purchase order attachment that is created during the Purchase Order print process.

The SFE Employees and Substitute Identifier Setup page can be updated and saved without any error.

In Student Activities, title overlapping issue for Activity Detail Register Report is fixed.

Prevented a fatal error about a temp table in the attendance posting and post preview report.

When a user ran the Student Activities Activity Detail Register report with a selection criteria and then without exiting, cleared the selection criteria and ran the report again, the second report was using the selection criteria entered for the first report run. This has been corrected.

In Human Resources, the Effective Date Changes menu option was missing from the Periodic Processing menu under Periodic Routines. This has been corrected.

Within Notifications, when the leave request approval notification contains a link to the Approval page, the link is now active and will take the user to the approval page. In addition, HTML tags within notifications are implemented.

In Budget Prep, the Load Expenditure Iterations and Load Revenue Iterations options have been modified to support the flexible account structure.

The EAC Identifier 2710 - Display Pending Balance in Leave Bank Information is made to work to hide/show the Pending Balance Column.

The Expenditure Audit Trail can now be run using special characters in the search criteria without getting an error.

When using the the eForms & Tools upload option, the following file types will be allowed for upload:

• .mp4
• .tsv,
• .tdf,
• .imp
• .prn

After saving the adjustment, a fatal error occurred during the adjustment billing posting if the invoice had more than 9 line items. This is fixed now.

The RECEIVE header field data on the Batch Receipt report was merging with the data of the previous field, Budget Unit. The alignment has been modified to ensure that there is a space between the two columns to identify data easily.

The Attendance module was modified to properly display leaves in the Pending Leave Balance column.

The Comments field value on the adjustment entries in Bank Reconciliation will no longer be overwritten with the comment on the previous line.

The Bank Reconciliation report summary page is renamed to Reconciliation Summary.

Tooltip messages have been added for the icons on the Dashboard header.

In the Position Control Status Detail Report in the sort window, the user was unable to click on the check boxes in the Page column to select/deselect for the page break. This has been corrected.

The Year drop-down in the Post Cleared AP Checks option now displays 30 prior years instead of 20 prior years.

In the Fixed Assets module, under Communicator > Review, when you selected an asset and then edited that record, the Salvage Value label on the Financial tab was misspelled. This has been corrected.

The rule members will be displayed without any errors when the user accesses the Workflow Group Detail screen.

When a user closes the document configuration page, then the related cookie will be cleared from the browser and the user will be redirected to the login screen of the recruitment application.