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Software Release Notes

From January 2015

Project Releases are identified under Internal Reference; the remainder are Patch releases (e.g. bug fixes or small-scale enhancements to already released projects). Click here for links to previous data.

A list of upcoming software releases can be found from this link.

Date of Release

Component

Subject

Description

Student Systems Ref

         
03/03/2015 Admissions Document Upload Documents uploaded by staff through the Documents tab and now being named appropriately. I150227-0480
03/03/2015 Admissions Document Upload A new step to check the size of a document pre upload has been implemented. I150226-0460
03/03/2015 Curricula Management DRPS New Course Type of 'SLICC' added to 'Course Type' table for use with Student-Led Individually Created Courses (ie SLICCs). I150223-0567
03/03/2015 Statutory Reporting HESA The 'Original Cohort' field (SCJ_COH1) on SCJ will now be used to store a value of 'CDT' where a student is funded as part of a Centre for Doctorial Training but is not on a specific CDT programme.  This is to enable the field COLPROV (Collaborating Provider) to be populated for these students. 
I150223-0359
03/03/2015 Admissions Agents Changes to avoid timeouts for agents with ~2500 applications. I150205-1379
03/03/2015 Student Admin Funding Bursary related functionality to allow SSFS to be able to filter to find all students with a disability. I150204-1056
03/03/2015 Statutory Reporting HESA As part of the annual maintenance of the 'percentage taught in Gaelic' field the School of Scottish Studies have confirmed that CELT08012 is no longer taught in Gaelic.  The TUP that automatically populates the field on MAV has had CELT08012 removed. I150204-0280
03/03/2015 Student Admin Funding This fix resolves an issue with the Fund Management batch, where fund bid records were not being closed off when the student withdrew, successfully completed etc. I150202-1455
03/03/2015 Admissions Undergraduate Intray message replies for some UG Biomedical Sciences programmes were not going to the correct intray. I150129-0210
03/03/2015 Student Admin Intrays This release corrects an issue with the incorrect allocation of EUCLID intrays. I150128-0100
03/03/2015 Admissions Communications All review and supervisor request emails will now include the applicant's name in the email subject line and message text. An email address for a contact within Admissions will also be included in the email. I150123-1133
03/03/2015 Admissions Communications PDF Offer Letter no longer has 'accent' type errors. I150112-0652
03/03/2015 Student Admin ROU UDF / Interruptions Removal of obsolete historical data on programmes, releasing the related database fields for other uses.
and
Interruption/withdrawal reason 'Maternity Leave' updated to 'Maternity/Parental Leave'
I150109-0448
03/03/2015 Interfaces UCAS Import Applicant 'Foundation' data imported from UCAS now showing correct block data. I141217-0189
03/03/2015 Admissions VCR The ATAS flag on extending student VCRs is now working as expected. I141208-0497
03/03/2015 Admissions Postgraduate The full list of PG reasons for rejection will now be displayed in the multi view screen processes. I141114-0600
03/03/2015 Reporting Freehand SQL Report Change to the Admissions Universe to amend inner-joins on 2 tables to outer joines. I141013-1323
03/03/2015 Interfaces MyEd Channels The timeout error caused by the SRL STU.MYED_PD_HTML has now been resolved.. I140607-0094
03/03/2015 Admissions Undergraduate Fix to ensure that updates to UCAS applicants' nationality, dual nationality and/or country of birth are properly audited for fees-related purposes. I140130-0263
26/02/2015 Reporting Admissions Amendment to the spelling of 'Personal' in the Applicant class of the Admissions Universe. I150217-0107
26/02/2015 Reporting ERSMU

US Loans programme CIP code & credentials can now be reported on, and a flag now exists to denote whether or not a student is in receipt of US Loans

Bugs which prevented accurate reporting on student graduation ceremonies, and HEAR additional achievements have now been fixed

A bug which prevented accurate reporting on DLHE data (Q11) has been fixed

A flag to denote whether a student award is published or unpublished has been added, as have filters on both values

'Resit Exam Diet (April/May Sem 1 resits only)' has been added as a value to “Exam Diet Name”

“Mark upload date” and “Mark uploaded by” have been added for greater auditing of course mark uploads

I150209-1239
26/02/2015 Reporting SMARTMI Marks which are stored against a student’s course enrolments but which were entered via the “manually add a course level mark” screen, or which came from EUCLID, could not previously be use in BI reporting. This has now been fixed I150203-0904
26/02/2015 Reporting ESSMU

New objects:

Course Convenor Name,

Current session year: this can be used to create variables when users need to report only on data relating to the current session year

Dual nationality [name of country]

Dual nationality grouping (UK/EU/Overseas)

Nationality grouping (UK/EU/Overseas)

PT/Director/Supervisor School Name (previously only the code was available)

Lead Co-Supervisor?

Attendance Confirmed by [name of member of staff confirming student attendance]

“Mark upload date” and “Mark uploaded by” have been added for greater auditing of course mark uploads

Changes

SCJ code now stripped of leading zero in instance (i.e. now shows S1234567/1 instead of S1234567/01). This allows joining of Universes

Registered? This now flags Tier 4 students who have registered online but not yet uploaded documentation

I141222-0241
29/01/2015 Courses Bulk Engagement Fix to the Bulk Engagement Amendment / Deletion Screen to allow correct events to be returned when querying on an individual course code. Issue was that the screen was returning rows which were not related to the course being looked at. I150127-0862
27/01/2015 HESA UDF Additions The following UDFs have been configured to support the production of the 2014/5 HESA Student Return. 
1) PRS_UDFB (UKPRN) to store the UKPRN for external supervisors from UK institutions or a generic code where there is no UKPRN.
2) HEN_UDF3 to temporarily hold the value of SOC2010 (Occupational Code) until Tribal provide the relevant field.
3) HRA_UDF2 to temporarily hold the UKPRN for external supervisors from UK institutions or a generic code until Tribal provide the relevant field.
I150126-0329
27/01/2015 Student Admin Funding After discussions with the business users it has been agreed to disable automated routines which were designed to update the end session of bursary marker records on the withdrawal, interruption or completion of a student. These routines were found to have fundamental flaws in their logic and have been superseded by functionality introduced by SAC021 for Access Bursaries. I150123-0302
27/01/2015 Admissions Rejection Codes New rejection code “RSQ- Unqualified for this PG programme but may qualify for another PG programme” will be available for PG use. The wording to the applicant will be “we regret that we are unable to consider you for a place on this programme because the qualifications you have achieved or are predicted to achieve do not meet the specific subject requirements for entry. As you meet or are predicted to meet our entry requirements for other programmes, please contact us if you would like to be considered for another degree programme which does not have this subject requirement: http://www.ed.ac.uk/studying/postgraduate/degrees I150122-0651
27/01/2015 Admissions MSW Applications Resolves the issue where clearance check intray messages to applicants are not being generated for the PG Social Work applicants who apply through UCA. I150121-1133
27/01/2015 Admissions UG late applications UCAS store several dates related to when applications are received and released. The date shown in EUCLID on the detail view will be changed to the UCAS choice referral date ie when the choice was submitted to UCAS by the applicant. I150119-1274
21/01/2015 Reporting Update to existing report Fee status - applicant details I141211-0182
21/01/2015 Admissions UG Due to a change in IDM, the source of the start date in SRL XML_BTCHAPF had to be changed from CBO to CAP I150114-0122
21/01/2015 BIS Reporting Amend Report Additional fields added to an existing report I141211-0182
20/01/2015 Courses Patch for SAC038 Fix to re-allow CCAM users to edit Learning Outcome Proposals created prior to 7/1/2015. I150119-0891
07/01/2015 SAC039-I6 Course Marks Upload Performance enhancements I150105-0892
07/01/2015 SAC033 Engagement Monitoring Phase 2 Small Fixes Release. I150105-0626
07/01/2015 SAC038 CCAM Screens As part of the Programme Course Information Management (PCIM) project, the CCAM View and Amend course screens have been redesigned to deliver enhanced course descriptor information to staff. The Course proposal screens have been aesthetically enhanced ahead of redesign at the start of 2015, to be delivered in early April 2015. I141223-0276
07/01/2015 SAC039-I16 New Reporting Universe Implementation of the Programme universe I141223-0230
07/01/2015 Admissions UG Rejection Codes New rejection code added. I141222-0166
07/01/2015 SAC039-I12 Exam Numbers An intermittent and non-replicable issue has been identified whereby SCN records were found to have different Exam Numbers from STU_UDF6. SAC039-I12 will add a check into each point we know an update to STU_UDF6 occurs: this will check SCN against the UUN and if SCN exists will back-populate this to STU_UDF6 rather than allocating a new number. I141219-0675
07/01/2015 Admissions UG Change to the population of the bulk reject list from hard coded to dynamic. I141217-0794
07/01/2015 SAC021 BI Implementation Promotion of universes and Info Spaces for the Bursaries and Scholarships project. I141211-0966
07/01/2015 Student Admin Batch Amendment to the automated nightly batch that interupts student marked 'XA' I141209-0371
07/01/2015 Student Admin US Loans Reporting Phase 1.1 of the development to support SSFS US loans reporting. I141110-1519
07/01/2015 Admissions UG Change to previous UoE attendance. Addition of expected end date. I141104-0194
07/01/2015 Reporting SAAS Report Amendment to SAAS report. I140916-2085
07/01/2015 Admissions Other Admissions SSFS now have access to Other Admissions information I140729-0062

 

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Closed Other Admissions JIRA Issues Sep to Nov 2009

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Closed PG Admissions JIRA Issues Jan to Nov 2009

 

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