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v52 What's New & Corrections


This page contains the release notes for software updates completed in Version 52 in 2020.


v01.052.8.136

Release DateSep 17th, 2020

What's New?

Nature

Module

Menu

Details

Customer

IMS Ref.

Enhancement


TASS.web > Community PlusCheck Community Data

Enhancements have been made to check for enrolled mothers and enrolled fathers with no family record where the enrolled parent is marked as current.

A correction has also been applied to 'Employee: Person's Employee Entity references an employee code that does not exist' to change the Community record to a Standalone person.

N/A191868


v01.052.8.135

Release DateSep 14th, 2020

What's New?

Nature

Module

Menu

Details

Customer

IMS Ref.

Enhancement

TASS.web > Attendance.web

Attendance Setup

An enhancement has been made to the 'Contact Info' tab which provides a validation check on the number of digits supplied for the 'STATS Location Details' 'Contact Phone' number (10 digits are expected).

N/A

191537

Enhancement

TASS.web > Community Plus

Check Community Data

Enhancements have been made which add a new report option 'Repair Critical Data Issues' for pre v53 data checks.

N/A

191397

Corrections

Nature

Module

Menu

Details

Customer

IMS Ref.

Correction

TASS.web > Accounts Payable.web

Supplier Details Report

A correction has been applied to resolve an issue where the user would be presented with a blank screen when printing a report.

STL01

190910

Correction

TASS.web > Student

Student Attend. – STATS (Aus)

A correction has been applied to resolve two issues that occurred when reports were exported to XML:

  • The commas included with some data were causing problems and have been removed.

  • The 'StatsCohortYearLevel' structure is now only included in the XML output for year groups that contain data.

CEO01

191514

Correction

TASS.web > Users.web

User Maintenance

A correction has been applied to resolve an issue that occurred when adding a new user.

N/A

190763


v01.052.8.132

Release DateSep 8th, 2020

What's New?

Nature

Module

Menu

Details

Customer

IMS Ref.

Enhancement

TASS.web > Attendance.web

Attendance Setup

Enhancements have been made which add a 'STATS Location Details' section to the 'Contact Info' tab. A requirement for the STATS 2020 enhancements.

N/A

190942

Enhancement

TASS.web > Student.web

Student Attend. - STATS (AUS)

Enhancements have been made which include User Interface changes to the 'Process' tab required for the STATS 2020 enhancements.

N/A

190944

Enhancement

TASS.web > Student.web

Student Attend. - STATS (AUS)

Enhancements have been made which include:

  • Changes to the weighting values used to calculate absence (as recommended by ACARA).

  • The addition of a new 'Cohort ID' column in the report (used for identification purposes for all report types).

  • A new option to generate the STATS output in XML format (in readiness for the 2020 STATS submission).

N/A

190983

Corrections

Nature

Module

Menu

Details

Customer

IMS Ref.

Correction

TASS.web > Extra Curricular.web

Activity Groups

A correction has been applied to resolve an issue where Mail Merge was not including 'Email2' addresses for parents.

STA06

187483

Correction

TASS.web > General Ledger.web

Accounts

A correction has been applied to ensure 'Asset' and 'Liability' account balances are calculated correctly when rolled over from the previous year.

MAI01

190914


v01.052.8.126

Release DateAug 25th, 2020

What's New?

Nature

Module

Menu

Details

Customer

IMS Ref.

Enhancement

TASS.web > Accounts Payable.web

Supplier Details Report

Enhancements have been made to the 'Supplier Payment Info Audit Report' to always show the date range sub-heading (even when none are specified) and to generate an empty report where no audit records are found for the date range.

N/A

189839

Enhancement

Staff Kiosk > Kiosk Portal

Class Rollcall

Enhancements have been made to prefix an Extra Curricular Event eDiary conflict with 'CANCELLED' when the session or fixture is cancelled.

N/A

187101

Enhancement

Staff Kiosk > Kiosk Portal

Extra Curricular Groups

Enhancements have been made to make the 'Cancelled' checkbox in the 'Activity Session' modal inactive in 'Add' mode (i.e. It will only be active and editable in 'Edit' mode).

N/A

186586

Enhancement

Staff Kiosk > Kiosk Portal

My Calendar

Enhancements have been made to prefix the Extra Curricular 'Event Title' with 'CANCELLED' when the session or fixture is cancelled.

N/A

187085

Enhancement

Parent Lounge > Parent Lounge (Portal)

eDiary

Enhancements have been made to prefix the Extra Curricular 'Event Title' with 'CANCELLED' when the session or fixture is cancelled.

N/A

187079

Enhancement

TASS.web > Payroll.web

Employees

Enhancements have been made to the 'Bank Details Audit' report option to change the formatting of the date range sub-heading and to generate an empty report where no audit records are found for the date range.

N/A

189842

Enhancement

TASS.web > Utilities.web

API Gateway Maintenance

Enhancements have been made to include ' tassversion' in return of all API requests.

N/A

189768

Corrections

Nature

Module

Menu

Details

Customer

IMS Ref.

Correction

TASS.web > Academic Reporting.web

Generate Student Reports

A correction has been applied so that the 'Summary Grid' on the cover page of the report correctly displays the max value of range based assessment methods when the 'Max Value' option is selected.

CAN001

186297

Correction

TASS.web > API

Online Enrolments

A correction has been applied to resolve issues where the current year level limits set for Digistorm 'setEnrolledStudents' were preventing successful online enrolments. These limits have been changed to minValue = -3 and maxValue = 16 value.

STJ01

188194

Correction

TASS.web > General Ledger.web

Trial Balance

A correction has been applied to resolve a calculation issue where the balance reported was incorrect when large values were entered.

STA04

175111

Correction

TASS.web > Parent Accounts.web

Payment Schedule Reports

A correction has been applied to resolve issues where 'Retry' instalments were distorting the 'Amount Due' and 'Overdue'.

MAR02

189385

Correction

TASS.web > Payroll.web

Timesheets

A correction has been applied to resolve an issue which occurred while trying to import an online timesheet that had the same PayCode, Position Code and GL account as a record already in the system.

STH01

190208

Correction

TASS.web > Payroll.web

Timesheets

A correction has been applied to resolve an issue where while importing in a Pay Run, leave timesheets were being duplicated.

STH01

190283

Correction

TASS.web > Student

Enter DOL for Seniors

A correction has been applied to resolve an issue that occurred when a DOL was entered for seniors, caused by a problem with the distance_ed column.

LIV01

189039

Correction

Student Cafe > Student Cafe

eDiary

Enhancements have been made to prefix the Extra Curricular 'Event Title' with 'CANCELLED' when the session or fixture is cancelled.

N/A

187076

Correction

TASS.web > Student.web

QCAA Grid (QLD)

A correction has been applied to resolve issues where the QCAA Grid was not generating 'Non-Current' students when filtering on Date of Leaving (DOL).

SPR01

182890

Correction

TASS.web > TASS Cloud

Generate/Send SMS Notifications

A correction has been applied to resolve an issue where SMS messages for absences were not being sent out to parents, rather were stuck in the queue.

STJ19

189556

Correction

Staff Kiosk > Teacher

Learning Support

A correction has been applied to resolve an issue where 'Notes' were sorting by oldest at the top of the list.

KIN01

188518


v01.052.8.103

Release DateAug 6th, 2020

What's New?

Nature

Module

Menu

Details

Customer

IMS Ref.

Enhancement

TASS.web > Student.web

Census (Aus)

Enhancements have been made to the Student Census Data Extract:

  • To replace the 'Boarding' and 'Distance Ed' columns in the report output with the NEW 'Education Type' column.

  • To add a NEW 'Ageing Date' picker on the 'General' tab.

Both enhancements are a requirement from Census (Aus).

N/A

189742

Enhancement

TASS.web > Utilities.web

TASS Software Update

Enhancements have been made to the pre-checking mechanism which applies v53 pre-checks to ensure Community data is valid, in preparation for Gender Fluidity.

N/A

186363

Corrections

Nature

Module

Menu

Details

Customer

IMS Ref.

Correction

TASS.web > Enrolments.web

Enrolments

A correction has been applied to resolve an issue that occurred when a new parent record was created using the 'New' button.

LAK03

189480

Correction

TASS.web > Student.web

Census (Aus)

A correction has been applied to prevent looping messages occurring when a Census Data Extract is processed.

KEN01

189324

Correction

TASS.web > Student.web

Census (Aus)

A correction has been applied to resolve an issue where reports were not filtering using the 'Campus' filter option on the Student tab.

TOW01

189825


v01.052.8.098

Release DateJuly 23rd, 2020

What's New?

Nature

Module

Menu

Details

Customer

IMS Ref.

Enhancement

Student.web

Disability Processing (Aus)

Enhancements have been made to enable Learning Support Plans to be created from Disability Processing records.

N/A

187461

Enhancement

Utilities.web

API Gateway Maintenance

Enhancements have been made which add two NEW v3 endpoints, 'getTeacherSubjects' and 'getStudentSubjects' to the Library Management API.

N/A

187269

Corrections

Nature

Module

Menu

Details

Customer

IMS Ref.

Correction

Academic Reporting.web

Generate Student Reports

A correction has been applied to resolve an issue where generated reports were not including non-current students, even when the 'Include non-current students' option was selected.

CAN001

185386

Correction

Academic Reporting.web

Generate Student Reports

A correction has been applied to prevent subjects (linked as target subjects) from inheriting the subject code when the student does not take them during the reporting year/period which caused activities not to print.

CON01

186561

Correction

Academic Reporting.web

Generate Student Reports

A correction has been applied to resolve an issue that occurred when a page break was inserted into a multi-subject report resulting in the last page displaying an incorrect header.

FRA01

188048

Correction

Enrolments.web

Enrolment Worksheet

A correction has been applied to resolve an issue that occurred while trying to generating a mail merge that included additional 'Email 2' address data.

STJ16

187554

Correction

Enrolments.web

Enrolments

A correction has been applied which provides a 'New' link, in Add and Edit modes, so that it is possible to create a new 'person' record when a name search finds no matches.

KNO01

186302

Correction

Parent Lounge (Portal)

Forgot Password

A correction has been applied to resolve issues that occurred when trying to reset a password for 'Email 2' designated users, using the 'Forgot Password' link.

CAN001

185645

Correction

Student Cafe

Calendars

A correction has been applied to resolve an issue that occurred while trying to save newly created Extra Curricular Activity Sessions.

SWA01

188487

Correction

Teacher Kiosk

Extra Curricular Groups

A correction has been applied to resolve issues that occurred if permissions were enabled for 'Edit Groups' but not for 'Add Groups'.

SHE02

187453

Correction

Teacher Kiosk (Portal)

Learning Support

A correction has been applied to resolve issues with opening attachments, caused by an incorrect permission setting.

MED01

187798


v01.052.8.085

Release DateJuly 16th, 2020

What's New?

Nature

Module

Menu

Details

Customer

IMS Ref.

Enhancement

Academic Reporting.web

Copy data to Archive

Enhancements have been made to include two NEW fields, 'Distance Ed' and 'FFPOS', in the 'Copy Data to Archive' process. These changes are a requirement for Census (Aus).

N/A

187063

Enhancement

Employee/HR

Employee Grid Entry

Enhancements have been made which add two NEW selection options, 'Indigenous Status' and 'Main Activity', to the list of 'Employee Fields' on the Process tab. These changes are a requirement for Census (Aus).

N/A

186503

Enhancement

Employee/HR

Employees

Enhancements have been made which add two NEW fields, 'Indigenous Status' and 'Main Activity', to the Employee Record. These changes are a requirement for Census (Aus).

N/A

186502

Enhancement

Employee/HR

Employees

Enhancements have been made to add two NEW 'Additional Fields', 'Indigenous Status' and 'Main Activity', to the Employee Listing (accessed via the print icon). These changes are a requirement for Census (Aus).

N/A

186956

Enhancement

Employee/HR

Employees

Enhancements have been made to include two NEW fields 'Indigenous Status' and 'Main Activity' when creating Employee Change Log records. These changes are a requirement for Census (Aus).


Note: This change will affect all programs that create Employee Change Log records.

N/A

187164

Enhancement

Enrolments.web

Enrolments

Enhancements have been made to add the 'Distance Ed' and 'FFPOS' fields to the Enrolled Student Record. These changes are a requirement for Census (Aus).

N/A

186839

Enhancement

Enrolments.web

Enrolments

Enhancements have been made to allow an enrolled Parent to edit their 'Person Name' even if they do not have a 'Person Number' defined.

N/A

187477

Enhancement

Enrolments.web

Reinstate an Enrolment

Enhancements have been made to include the 'Distance Ed' and 'FFPOS' fields when reinstating a current Student to Enrolments. These changes are a requirement for Census (Aus).

N/A

186842

Enhancement

Enrolments.web

Transfer to Current

Enhancements have been made to include two NEW fields, 'Distance Ed' and 'FFPOS', when transferring an enrolled student to current. These changes are a requirement for Census (Aus).

N/A

186841

Enhancement

Payroll.web

Employees

Enhancements have been made to add two NEW fields, 'Indigenous Status' and 'Main Activity', to the Payroll Employee Listing. These changes are a requirement for Census (Aus).

N/A

186899

Enhancement

Payroll.web

Year End Reset

Enhancements have been made which updates both 'Year End Reset' and 'Reinstate Terminated Employee' programs to include two NEW fields 'Indigenous Status' and 'Main Activity', used when archiving and reinstating terminated employees. These changes are a requirement for Census (Aus).

N/A

186855

Enhancement

Student.web

Census (Aus)

Enhancements have been made which provide a NEW Census landing page and a NEW 'Student Census Data Extract' program (with a menu option to select it).

N/A

186859

Enhancement

Student.web

Census (Aus)

Enhancements have been made to provide a NEW 'Employee Census Data Extract' program, with a menu option to select it.

N/A

186878

Enhancement

Student.web

Countries/Languages/ResStatus

Enhancements have been made which make the 'Australian Citizen' field mandatory for Residency Status, a new requirement for Census (Aus).

N/A

186613

Enhancement

Student.web

Details Listing

Enhancements have been made to add two NEW fields, 'Distance Ed' and 'FFPOS', to the 'Additional Fields' list on the Student Details Listing. These are new requirements for Census (Aus).

N/A

186950

Enhancement

Student.web

Students

Enhancements have been made to add a NEW 'Distance Ed' field to the Student Record to meet Census (Aus) requirements.

N/A

186499

Enhancement

Student.web

Students Grid Entry

Enhancements have been made to add two NEW selection options, 'Distance Ed' and 'FFPOS', to the list of Student Fields on the Process tab which are new requirements for Census (Aus).

N/A

186501

Enhancement

Student.web

Transfer Students to Past

Enhancements have been made to include the two NEW fields, 'Distance Ed' and 'FFPOS', when transferring a student to the Past Student database. These changes are a requirement for Census (Aus).

N/A

187849

Enhancement

Users.web

Security Role Permissions

Enhancements have been made which provide a NEW user security permission point named 'Employee Census Data Extract' on the Student Record.

Access to the 'Employee Census Data Extract' option on TASS.web program Student Admin > Students > Student Records > Government Returns > Census (Aus) is controlled by this user permission.

N/A

186858

Corrections

Nature

Module

Menu

Details

Customer

IMS Ref.

Correction

Extra Curricular.web

Activity Groups

A correction has been applied to resolve an issue where the option to 'Clone Students' was not updating the destination 'Term' field.

STA06

188565

Correction

Parent Lounge (Portal)

School Fees Account

A correction has been applied to ensure the 'End by date' is validated correctly when choosing a monthly payment schedule.

N/A

188233

Correction

Payroll.web

Single Touch Payroll Processing

A correction has been applied to resolve an issue where STP Update Events for the last financial year were incorrectly including the pay runs completed in the current financial year. The logic that determines the last period end date of the financial year has been changed to prevent this from happening.

RIV01

188557

Correction

TASS.web (General)

LDAP/SAML Maintenance

A correction has been applied to resolve an issue where the SP Private Key button was not saving the private key into the database.

VIC01

187931

Correction

Utilities.web

API Gateway Maintenance

A correction has been applied to introduce a NEW 'SetStudentUDAreaDataUploadUtility' endpoint to overcome issues with importing Student UD Area data, using the Enrolments API.

AUS05

186735

Correction

Utilities.web

Data Upload Utility

A correction has been applied to remove an obsolete option which allowed Parent Name Tokens to be uploaded but now causes issues if used.

MAT01

187649


v01.052.8.050

Release DateJune 10th, 2020

What's New?

Nature

Module

Menu

Details

Customer

IMS Ref.

Enhancement

Student.web

BOS Grid (NSW)

Enhancements have been made to change the outdated TASS reference for the Board of Studies (BOS) to the NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA) which has replaced it.

LIN01

186480

Enhancement

TASS.web (General)

Security Role Permissions

Enhancements have been made which provide NEW security permissions to 'View' and 'Edit' data on the MCEECDYA tab on Student Records.

Note: All users and security roles that currently have permission to view and edit Student Records will gain these new MCEECDYA tab permissions.

N/A

186322

Enhancement

Timetable.web

Define Subject / Class Translations

Enhancements have been made which add a filter toggle button to the Subject Translations list, with options to 'Include Inactive' or display 'Active Only'.

HIL01

180624

Enhancement

Utilities.web

API Gateway Maintenance

Enhancements have been made to the 'Student Details' TASS API to include a NEW V3 endpoint named getMCEECDYA which will return data as per the Student Records > Student Information > Students 'MCEECDYA' tab.

Note: This endpoint requires a Security Role with the new MCEECDYA 'View' permission assigned.

N/A

185518

Enhancement

Utilities.web

API Gateway Maintenance

An enhancement has been made to the 'Apple School Manager' External API to rename the column header 'year_level' to 'grade_level' in the students.csv file.

KIN01

186134

Corrections

Nature

Module

Menu

Details

Customer

IMS Ref.

Correction

Academic Reporting.web

Reporting Setup

A correction has been applied to resolve an issue that prevented users from setting a minimum range when adding a New Assessment via the 'Assessment Methods' tab.

CAN001

185538

Correction

Attendance.web

Attendance Setup

A correction has been applied to allow Absentee Reasons to be created or changed without issue, on the 'Absentee Reasons' tab.

MTS01

186726

Correction

Attendance.web

Bulk Absentee Entry

A correction has been applied to resolve a conflict issue when submitting a Bulk Absentee Entry caused by the URL request being too large.

KIN01

186877

Correction

Commercial Debtors.web

Invoices

A correction has been applied to provide a validation check to prevent users from unintentionally distributing an invoice amount to the Control Accounts.

KIN01

142258

Correction

Enrolments.web

Online Enrolment Applications

A correction has been made to accommodate Online Enrolment Applications where the parent full name exceeds 30 characters.

SPR01

186012

Correction

Parent Lounge (Portal)

Academic Reports

A correction has been applied to resolve an issue where Academic Reports were not being sorted as expected on the home page. They are now sorted using a numeric value, rather than a string.

KIN01

185740

Correction

Past Students.web

Extra Curricular Listing

A correction has been applied to resolve report issues that occurred when sorting the Past Students Extra Curricular Listings by Surname.

BRI02

184768

Correction

Teacher Kiosk (Portal)

Class Lists/Emails

A correction has been applied to ensure search reports are not returned blank when using the Subjects search mode with its default search criteria.

TRI02

181306

Correction

Teacher Kiosk (Portal)

Parent Teacher Interviews

A correction has been applied to resolve an issue that occurred when clicking the email icon within the 'Notes' of an active PTI appointment.

HIL01

186007

Correction

Teacher Kiosk (Portal)

Rollcall

A correction has been applied to prevent staff from accidentally creating duplicate absence records when details are entered via multiple browser tabs, at the same time.

IPS01

184760

Correction

Teacher Kiosk (Portal)

Student Details (List / Emails)

A correction has been applied to resolve a user permission issue that prevented Student Details (Lists/Emails) from being loaded. Note: This issue occurred only when the user had both Teacher Kiosk 'Extra Curricular (All Students)' AND 'Extra Curricular (My Students)' permissions configured.

KIN01

183350


v01.052.8.029

Release DateMay 5th, 2020

What's New?

Nature

Module

Menu

Details

Customer

IMS Ref.

Enhancement

Attendance.web

Bulk Absentee Entry

Enhancements have been made so that now all Bulk Absentee entries come preconfigured with a single weekday recurrence. This allows events to be changed at a later date without having to delete individual entries retrospectively.

When using the Student Lookup screens, an alert will now display if conflicting absences are detected. The details can be inspected using the associated 'View Conflicts' button.

Also, warnings will be given when adding or editing students if conflicting absences are detected — a mechanism is provided to resolve them.

Finally, if a student's attendance needs to be changed, and they are part of a bulk recurring absence, they can be removed from the recurrence series when it is edited.

N/A

185825

Enhancement

Community Plus

Past Student Ancestry Report

Enhancements have been made to the 'General' tab to introduce searching by name token fields, mirroring the way searches are performed on the Past Student Details Listing.

N/A

185769

Corrections

Nature

Module

Menu

Details

Customer

IMS Ref.

Correction

Academic Reporting.web

Generate Student Reports

A correction has been applied to prevent objective groups (used to print activity results) from being reordered during Academic Reporting, for companies using a unitised timetable.

MAR02

185724

Correction

Extra Curricular.web

Activity Groups

A correction has been applied to resolve an internal server error which occurred when cloning an Activity Group.

BRI02

184938

Correction

Parent Accounts.web

Payment Schedules

A correction has been applied to resolve an issue where the Action Required Flag was not being set for declined or failed payments via the School Easypay API call.

GRA03

185565

Correction

School Shop.web

Sale Entry

A correction has been applied to help reduce time-consuming data input. The 'Line Description' will now be auto-populated with the 'Stock Item' description.

ISL02

184905

Correction

Student Cafe

Curricular

A correction has been applied to resolve an issue where the Final Teacher Feedback file for an activity cannot be viewed before its due date, even when the 'Show comments in Student Cafe immediately' option is enabled in Teacher Kiosk.

ROC01

183377

Correction

Student.web

Labels/Letter Merges

A correction has been applied to resolve issues with SMTP emails where UD filters were not being utilised as expected.

KIN01

184383

Correction

Student.web

SCSA Processing (WA)

A correction has been applied to ensure that all necessary request parameters are included to process Teacher Registration reports (for SCSA) without error.

SWA02

185502

Correction

Teacher Kiosk (Portal)

Extra Curricular Groups

A correction has been applied to ensure that the total in the 'Non- Curr Students' column is correct and that non-current students are identified in the 'View' screen with the date they left, appended to their name (in brackets).

SHE02

184485

Correction

Teacher Kiosk (Portal)

Homepage

A correction has been applied to prevent background timetable functions from affecting the performance of the system.

MUE01

185887

Correction

Teacher Kiosk (Portal)

LMS Assessment

A correction has been applied to prevent MS Word special characters from causing annotation issues on student assessments.

STJ01

184935

Correction

Teacher Kiosk (Portal)

Student Profile

A correction has been applied to resolve slow response issues when viewing student records.

KNO01

185894


v01.052.8.015

Release DateMay 22nd, 2020

What's New?

Nature

Module

Menu

Details

Customer

IMS Ref.

Enhancement

Extra Curricular.web

Activity Groups

Enhancements have been made to the 'Extra Curricular Activity Details' screen to include 'Print' and 'Mail Merge' options in the hamburger menu.

N/A

185359

Enhancement

Extra Curricular.web

Extra Curricular Setup

Enhancements have been made to the 'Activity Details' setup screen, adding two NEW fields 'Nett Price' and 'Tax'. So now, a Net amount and Tax amount can be recorded for extracurricular activities.

Note: The 'Total' field is now named 'Total Price'.

N/A

184283

Enhancement

Parent Accounts.web

Electronic Receipt Processing

Enhancements have been made to allow for GST when processing Extra Curricular payments.

N/A

184285

Corrections

Nature

Module

Menu

Details

Customer

IMS Ref.

Correction

Enrolments.web

Enrolments

A correction has been applied to Student Enrolments so that the relationship tags on the 'Address and Communication Rules' tab can be edited as expected.

ROC01

184907

Correction

Extra Curricular.web

Activity Groups

A correction has been applied to allow current students to be added to an Activity Group rather than return 'No Records Found'.

HEI01

185128

Correction

Extra Curricular.web

Activity Groups

A correction has been applied to enable bulk entry of students via the 'Actions' column of the 'Extra Curricular Groups' screen using the "+" option.

EMM01

185260

Correction

Parents.web

Payment Schedules Reports

A correction has been applied to ensure that even if a parent has a declined payment for their first instalment, a 'Summary Payment Scheduled Report' can still be generated.

MAR02

184307

Correction

Teacher Kiosk (Portal)

Staff Timesheets

A correction has been applied to correct some of the logic associated with timesheet approval. Now, if an approver is in a different payroll number to the submitter, they can still approve/edit those timesheets, even if the payroll number they are part of does not have 'Timesheets' enabled.

STH01

183631

Correction

Utilities.web

API Gateway Maintenance

A correction has been applied to the 'setEnrolment' method so that it validates single-parent families correctly.

N/A

184781


v01.052.8.000

Release DateMay 5th, 2020

What's New?

Nature

Module

Menu

Details

Customer

IMS Ref.

Enhancement

Attendance.web

Student Attendance

Enhancements have been made to the 'Student Picker' to display a student's 'Preferred Name' (displayed in brackets) in the search results if it differs from their 'First Name'.

N/A

184147

Enhancement

Community Plus

Check Community Data

Enhancements have been made to include three NEW data checking options, available for both 'Summary' and 'Detailed' reports:

  • Critical Data Issues

  • Relationship Data Issues

  • Possible Data Issues

N/A

184409

Enhancement

Enrolments.web

Enrolments

Enhancements have been made to the 'General' tab so that the 'Last Update By' and 'Last Update On' fields include a 'View' link to display highlighted details of the last update.

N/A

184104

Enhancement

Medical.web

Medical Setup

Enhancements have been made to the 'Medical Records (Parent Lounge tab)' which add new options to support email notifications from Parent Lounge for medical updates. The new options utilise Communication Rules on both the Parents record and Student record to govern who will receive confirmation emails once the updates are processed.


New 'Parent Lounge - Medical Options' include:

  • Send an email notification to parents when a Medical Update is accepted or rejected

  • Send Medical Update notifications to the other parent for Split Family arrangements

  • Communication types for Medical Update notifications (*this becomes mandatory if one of the above are ticked)

N/A

183792

Enhancement

Medical.web

Student Illness/Daily Log

Enhancements have been made to the 'Illness Log' to display a student's 'Preferred Name' (displayed in brackets) in the results if it differs from their 'First Name'.

N/A

184150

Enhancement

Medical.web

Student Medical

Enhancements have been made to the 'Student Picker' to display a student's 'Preferred Name' (displayed in brackets) in the search results if it differs from their 'First Name'.

N/A

184148

Enhancement

Medical.web

Updates from Parent Lounge

Enhancements have been made to generate email notifications to parents when medical updates are accepted or rejected. Includes the facility to enter a reason for rejection which can be included in the email generated.

N/A

183922

Enhancement

Parent Lounge (Portal)

Homepage

An enhancement has been made to the 'Absences' section (accessible via the left menu) to include new tooltips for the View and Trash icons.

N/A

184675

Enhancement

Parent Lounge (Portal)

Tours & Excursions

Enhancements have been made to display tours based on the value of three NEW Autohide parameters set in Teacher Kiosk.


NOTE: This change affects the data displayed in both the left menu option 'Tours & Excursions' and the top menu option 'Accounts & Payments > Tours & Excursions'.

N/A

184176

Enhancement

Student Cafe

Homepage

Enhancements have been made to the Student Café Homepage to make it 'Mobile Responsive'. Updates to the user interface include:

  • A new top banner and toolbar section. Those familiar with Parent Lounge will see a likeness.

  • A new vertical menu. The vertical menu replaces the previous SC homepage gadget layout, providing single-click navigation to relevant sections in the scrolling display.

N/A

184124

Enhancement

Student.web

Labels/Letter Merges

Enhancements have been made to the Print tab 'Generate Emails' function to enable sending emails using a Word Merge File.


NOTE: This option requires:

  • The PDF Conversion API has been enabled

  • A Word Merge File be defined for the email template being used. These can be reviewed via 'System Admin > Utilities > Email Settings' on the 'Email Templates' tab.

N/A

184294

Enhancement

Student.web

Student Information

Enhancements have been made to the 'Student Picker' to display a student's 'Preferred Name' (displayed in brackets) in the search results if it differs from their 'First Name'.

N/A

184145

Enhancement

Teacher Kiosk (Portal)

Learning Support

Enhancements have been made to add a 'Back' button to the 'Class Plan Detail' and 'Support Plan Detail' screens.

N/A

184517

Enhancement

Teacher Kiosk (Portal)

Tours Parameters

Enhancements have been made to the 'Parameters (Setup)' screen to include a NEW 'Parent Lounge Parameters' section with three Autohide options:

  • Autohide Past

  • Autohide Declined

  • Autohide Closed


These autohide options control (hide/show) how tours are displayed on the Parent Lounge portal.

N/A

184174

Enhancement

Utilities.web

API Gateway Maintenance

A new TASS API has been developed for the Apple School Manager (ASM) program.

N/A

183850

Enhancement

Utilities.web

API Gateway Maintenance

An enhancement has been made to 'Microsoft School Data Sync (SDS) Integration Gateways' to include a 'Download' button which creates a .zip file containing SDS formatted CSV files.

N/A

184144

Corrections

Nature

Module

Menu

Details

Customer

IMS Ref.

Correction

Accounts Payable.web

Generate Student Reports

A correction has been applied to resolve an issue with activities not loading when using the 'non-unitised' timetable mode. Reports now generate by ignoring the student's current year group when loading activities.

ORM01

184056

Correction

General Ledger.web

Journals

A correction has been applied to prevent a scenario where system-generated journals can be changed before they are posted. To prevent this from happening, the 'Edit' link from the Action column on 'Closing Journals' has been removed.

SUN01

181324

Correction

Parent Accounts.web

Electronic Receipts Processing

A correction has been applied to ensure that 'Scheduled Payment Surcharge' cash book entries take into consideration the TAX code. A separate journal line for tax will be added if a surcharge is subject to GST.

MAR02

182398

Correction

Parent Lounge (Portal)

Tours & Excursions

A correction has been applied to resolve an issue preventing parents from declining a tour when another tour had exceeded its maximum number of acceptances.

SST01

182133

Correction

Parents.web

Parent Address Listings

A correction has been applied to resolve an issue that prevented an 'Extra-curricular mode search' from being performed.

STJ11

181518

Correction

TASS.web (General)

Important Notifications

A correction has been applied to resolve an issue where the TASS.web 'Important Notifications' dialogue may cause degraded performance of subsequently loaded programs.

KNO01

184058

Correction

Utilities.web

Product UI Maintenance

A correction has been applied to allow the horizontal position of a 'Login' image to be changed via the 'Action' column of the 'Images' tab.

NOTE: This applies to all login pages: CD Online, Parent Lounge, Student Cafe, Teacher Kiosk, and WebBook.

SCO02

179064


v01.052.7.000

Release DateApril 23rd, 2020

What's New?

Nature

Module

Menu

Details

Customer

IMS Ref.

Enhancement

Attendance.web

Attendance Setup

An enhancement has been made to the 'Parent Lounge' tab to add a new parameter field 'Is an Absence Notification Comment required?'. When ticked, the 'Comment' field in the 'Student Absence Notification' screen in Parent Lounge will be mandatory.

N/A

183894

Enhancement

Attendance.web

Generate/Send SMS Notifications

Enhancements have been made to support the sending of SMS Notifications for Absent Types other than 'Absent from School'. To do this, click the 'Re-select' option and make selections from the new 'Absence Search Criteria' fields.

N/A

183958

Enhancement

Attendance.web

Notifications from Parent Lounge

Enhancements have been made to introduce a bulk acceptance capability by including a checkbox against all records. There will be an 'All' option and an 'Accept Selected' button. This bulk acceptance process is limited to 300 records at a time.

NOTE: It will not be possible to bulk accept Notifications in the following scenarios:

  • The notification spans multiple days

  • The notification is for a non-school day

  • The notification clashes with an existing absence

N/A

183896

Enhancement

Parent Accounts.web

Payment Schedules

Enhancements have been made to the 'Parents without Payment Schedule' Grid screen (accessed from the Dashboard by clicking the 'Details' link) to include a new Email button to generate emails to the parents displayed on this screen.

The email process allows selection of an email template from the 'Parent Accounts' category (these are setup in the 'Email Settings' program) and the emails are logged in the Parent Communication Log.

N/A

182550

Enhancement

Parent Lounge (Portal)

Homepage

An enhancement has been made to the 'Absences' left menu to include an 'Absence Notifications pending' sub-section which will list all pending notification with a View and Cancel option against each.

N/A

183915

Enhancement

Parents.web

Parent Lounge Licences

An enhancement has been made to the 'Update Parent Licences' Grid screen to include a new 'Generate Emails' button to generate emails to the parents in the Grid.

The email process allows selection of an email template from the 'Parents' category (these are setup in the 'Email Settings' program) and the emails are logged in the Parent Communication Log.

TAM01

183458

Enhancement

Teacher Kiosk (Portal)

Staff Timesheets

Enhancements have been made to include a new Dashboard button to view Timesheet statistics by School Area and Status. There will be a link on each statistic which loads those Timesheet records into the Grid screen.

N/A

183332

Enhancement

Utilities.web

API Gateway Maintenance

Enhancements have been made to the 'Library Management' TASS API to add two new fields (Alternate ID and Year Group) to the data returned by the 'getUser' and 'getUsers' endpoints.

N/A

183455

Enhancement

Utilities.web

API Gateway Maintenance

Enhancements have been made to introduce a new 'Identity Management' TASS API with V3 endpoints that will adhere to TASS Security Permissions - includes:

  • Endpoints to extract User's Names, Email Addresses, User ID's, Basic Student Details and Split Family Access Identifiers

  • Endpoints to update Portal Access, User's Names and Email Addresses (except Parents)

N/A

183771

Enhancement

Utilities.web

Change Logs Grid

An enhancement has been made to include change log records for Enrolled Students.

N/A

184098

Corrections

Nature

Module

Menu

Details

Customer

IMS Ref.

Correction

Parent Accounts.web

Ledger Trial Balance

A correction has been applied to resolve an issue that prevents credit reports being generated when 'Print Credit Accounts Only' is ticked on the Print Tab of 'Ledger Trial Balance'.

KIN01

181975

Correction

Parent Lounge (Portal)

Forgot Password

A correction has been applied to resolve an issue with the 'Forgot Password' screen that caused it to automatically redirect to the Parent Lounge 'Login' screen.

AUS10

183651

Correction

Payroll.web

Employees

A correction has been applied to resolve an error that occurred when performing a search where the search criteria included name fields.

SST01

184456

Correction

Student.web

Multi Coy Student Details Listing

A correction has been applied to resolve an error in the scenario where the 'Other Names' field is selected from the 'Additional Fields' list on the 'Print' tab.

AUS10

183509

Correction

Student.web

Student Records Setup

A correction has been applied to resolve an intermittent issue (dialogue message unresponsive) when adding a Note Category on the 'Note Cat' tab.

CAL02

181090

Correction

Student.web

Transfer Students to Past

A correction has been applied to resolve missing student name details on 'Past Students' records that occurred when using this program.

N/A

184443

Correction

TASS.web (General)

Data Migration

A correction has been applied to restore Name Token data that may not have been migrated correctly during the upgrade, or may not have been applied correctly to certain entity types during specific processes.

N/A

184713

Correction

Teacher Kiosk (Portal)

Class Rollcall

A correction has been applied to resolve an intermittent issue when saving changes in the 'Detailed Entry' screen after adding a reason.

CHA03

183762

Correction

Teacher Kiosk (Portal)

Extra Curricular List - Student

A correction has been applied to resolve an issue that prevented 'Extra Curricular' searches from being performed.

TCS01

184822



v01.052.6.000

Release DateMarch 25th, 2020

What's New?

Nature

Module

Menu

Details

Customer

IMS Ref.

Enhancement

Enrolments.web

Enrolments

Enhancements have been made to introduce a change log which will be maintained automatically when fields on Enrolled Student records are edited by the following programs:

  • Enrolments

  • Student Enrolments Grid

  • Enrolments Worksheet

  • Transfer to Current

  • Reinstate an Enrolment

  • Online Enrolment Applications

  • Online Enrolments API

N/A

182335

Enhancement

Extra Curricular.web

Extra Curricular Setup

Enhancements have been made to the 'Activities' tab to provide a new 'Pay at Sign-up' and 'General Ledger Account' field on the Activity record. When in use, parents will be able to sign students up to participate in Activities and pay in one step using Parent Lounge.

IMPORTANT: Requires a Payment Gateway to be configured for 'Extra Curricular' in program 'API Gateway Maintenance'

N/A

183189

Enhancement

Parent Accounts.web

Electronic Receipts Processing

Enhancements have been made to display web batches for Extra Curricular online payments (made by parents in Parent Lounge). Each web batch will have a 'Print Batch' option and a 'Generate Extra Curricular Receipts' option.

N/A

183178

Enhancement

Parent Accounts.web

Parent Accounts Setup

A change has been made to the 'Parent Lounge' tab to allow Parent Lounge Payment Schedules to be enabled.

N/A

181509

Enhancement

Parent Accounts.web

Payment Schedules

Enhancements have been made to the Payment Schedules Dashboard to provide a new View link on the 'Parents Without Payment Schedule' modal screen. This link will load a new 'Parents without Payment Schedule' Grid screen populated with the parents and it will have a Print option and a View link against each record.

N/A

181745

Enhancement

Parent Lounge (Portal)

Extra Curricular

*** NEW *** Enhancements have been made to introduce a Student sign-up facility for Extra Curricular activities in Parent Lounge. The following functionality is available:

  • Parents can sign multiple students up to multiple activities in one process.

  • The school can configure Activity specific UD fields to be populated at sign-up, including making specific fields mandatory.

  • Where payment for participation is required, integration with the currently supported Payment Gateways is available.

N/A

180366

Enhancement

Parent Lounge (Portal)

Extra Curricular

Enhancements have been made to the Activity Sign-up process to integrate with existing payment platforms where an Activity is flagged for 'Pay at Sign-Up'.

N/A

183173

Enhancement

Payroll.web

Employees

Enhancements have been made to the 'Permanent Pays' tab to add a new 'Online Timesheets' panel for the display and maintenance of Online Timesheets setup data.

This is an important setup for Online Timesheets which allows payroll users to specify the Position Roles, Position and Paycode combinations that will be available to the employee to choose from when adding Timesheet Entries in Staff Kiosk.

N/A

179265

Enhancement

Payroll.web

Employees

Enhancements have been made to the Print option on the Employee List screen to include a new option to print Online Timesheet Details.

N/A

182460

Enhancement

Payroll.web

Online Timesheet Rules

*** NEW *** This is a new program for maintaining Rules for Online Timesheets including mapping to Positions.

These rules are suitable for use where the hours paid will be different to the hours worked. For example - where a minimum number of hours must be paid. A rule can be configured to apply 'Per Session' or 'Per Day'. A rule will be referenced and applied when an employee adds a Timesheet Entry for a Position that has a mapped Rule.

N/A

180582

Enhancement

Payroll.web

Payroll Setup

Enhancements have been made to the 'Payrolls' tab to add new parameter fields to the Payroll setup record for Online Timesheets. These are mandatory parameters to enable Online Timesheets for a Payroll Number. The new fields are:

  • Online Timesheets Cut-off expressed as the number of days prior to the pay run Period End Date.

  • Online Timesheets Deadline expressed as the number of days before or after the pay run Period End Date.

  • The Time Interval available when employees are adding Timesheet Entries.

  • Time Interval override (Yes / No).

IMPORTANT: These parameters will be disabled for the initial V52 Release.

N/A

180583

Enhancement

Payroll.web

Payroll Setup

Enhancements have been made to introduce a new 'Online Timesheet Emails' tab for displaying the system generated emails that are available for Online Timesheets.


NOTE: These emails are setup with default subject and message text and are not enabled by default.

N/A

183060

Enhancement

Payroll.web

Position Roles

*** NEW *** This is a new program for adding and maintaining School Areas and Position Roles including assigning Approvers and Positions to Position Roles.

Position Roles are required for Online Timesheets and are used to define the actual roles or activities performed by employees who are required to submit Timesheets to get paid. A Position Role includes the following details:

  • a School Area.

  • a General Ledger Account that will be used when the timesheet is imported into Payroll.

  • the Approver or Approvers who must approve timesheets for this Role.

  • the Position or Positions that are relevant for this Role.

N/A

179745

Enhancement

Payroll.web

Single Touch Payroll Processing

Enhancements have been made to the 'Employee Event Listing' when exported to PDF or Word to include a Total for all Amount columns on the report.

N/A

181759

Enhancement

Payroll.web

Timesheets

Enhancements have been made to add a bulk import option for importing Online Timesheets that have been entered and approved in Staff Kiosk. New features include:

  • an 'Import Online Timesheets' button (in the toolbar) where there are approved Online Timesheets available for import.

  • a review screen with drilldown to the Online Timesheet prior to import and a print option.

  • a report of imported timesheets is automatically generated upon completion.

N/A

182062

Enhancement

Payroll.web

Timesheets

Enhancements have been made to the 'Normal Envelope' tab to cater for Online Timesheets by:

  • disallowing editing of timesheets that are linked to Online Timesheets (to maintain data integrity)

  • providing a View link for drilldown to the Timesheet Entries in Staff Kiosk.

N/A

182892

Enhancement

Payroll.web

Timesheets

Enhancements have been made to the 'Clear / Hold Pays' tab to update the 'Clear' option (for 'Normal Envelope') so that the logic caters for clearing Online Timesheets imported from Staff Kiosk.

N/A

182893

Enhancement

Student.web

Students

Enhancements have been made to include a new 'Edit Photo' icon that will enable the student's photo to be added, changed or removed.

N/A

182471

Enhancement

TASS.web (General)

LDAP/SAML Maintenance

Various enhancements have been made to the LDAP Maintenance program to support LDAPS connections. These changes include:

  • A new program to install and manage custom SSL Certificates in the Java KeyStore

  • Support for configuring LDAP Secure connections through new UI options where a "Client Certificate" is required

N/A

182107

Enhancement

TASS.web (General)

Scheduled Task

Enhancements have been made to the daily scheduled task program to cater for 2 new Online Timesheet reminder emails:

  1. A 'Timesheet Submit Reminder' email, sent to employees who have a Timesheet that is not yet submitted.

  2. A 'Timesheets Approval Reminder' email, sent to approvers who have one or more Timesheets to approve.

N/A

183326

Enhancement

Teacher Kiosk (Portal)

Class Rollcall

Enhancements have been made to display an Alert against students who have an Extra Curricular fixture or session that clashes with the roll call period. The Alert includes a hover-over with details of the Session or Fixture.

N/A

182718

Enhancement

Teacher Kiosk (Portal)

Homepage > Timesheets to Action

Enhancements have been made to introduce a new 'Timesheets to Action' left menu on the Homepage. It will display a list of Online Timesheets that are awaiting approval and includes a link on each for one-click navigation to the Approval screen.

N/A

182541

Enhancement

Teacher Kiosk (Portal)

My Payroll/HR

*** NEW *** Enhancements have been made to introduce a new 'Timesheets' left menu which allows employees to:

  • view Timesheets added and submitted

  • view Timesheet status (Unsubmitted; Unapproved; Approved; Rejected; Processing; Paid)

  • add Timesheet Entries for each work day/session, includes:

    -- Work Date

    -- Position Role

    -- Position and Paycode (auto filled if possible)

    -- Start and Finish times

    -- Comment

  • submit Timesheets for approval by the pay period deadline

  • access full history of Timesheets and Timesheet Entries via the 'See All' option.

N/A

180715

Enhancement

Teacher Kiosk (Portal)

Staff Timesheets

*** NEW *** This is a new program under the 'Payroll/HR' top menu. It is designed for Online Timesheet Approvers and Payroll users to view, edit and approve Online Timesheets. There are 3 additional permissions available for users who have access to this program:

  • An extra permission for adding Timesheet Entries to existing Timesheets (Timesheet status must be Unapproved or Approved only).

  • An extra permission for editing Timesheet Entries (Timesheet status must be Unapproved or Approved only).

  • An extra permission that gives access to all employees.

N/A

182584

Enhancement

Utilities.web

API Gateway Maintenance

Enhancements have been made to the 'Payment Gateways' External API to introduce support for 'Extra Curricular'. This will support online payments via Parent Lounge in conjunction with the existing Payment Gateways (NAB, CBA and WBC).

N/A

178764

Enhancement

Utilities.web

Email Settings

Enhancements have been made to email templates to support a 'Parent Accounts' category including Parent Account specific keywords.

N/A

182549

Enhancement

Utilities.web

Email Settings

Enhancements have been made to the 'System Email Templates' tab to display the system generated emails that are available for Online Timesheets.


NOTE: These emails are setup with default subject and message text and are not enabled by default

N/A

183058

Enhancement

Utilities.web

TASS Software Update

Changes have been made to run the following prechecks before providing access to run the V52 upgrade:


-- all companies must be Community Enabled or be flagged as permanently disabled

-- all companies with students must have Communication Rules Enabled or be flagged as permanently disabled.

N/A

183291

Enhancement

Webbook (Portal)

Markbook

Enhancements have been made to the 'Print Markbook' report options to include 'Student Code' and 'LUI Number' (Qld Schools only) in the Additional Fields list.

N/A

183167


v01.052.5.000

Release DateMarch 18th, 2020

What's New?

Nature

Module

Menu

Details

Customer

IMS Ref.

Enhancement

Accounts Payable.web

Invoices

An enhancement has been made to the Invoice screen (view and edit modes) to display Approval Details (user, date/time) for invoices that have been approved (where 'Hold Payment' = "NO"). This option is only available where 'Hold Payment Processing' mode is enabled.

N/A

182834

Enhancement

Accounts Payable.web

Invoices

An enhancement has been made to the Invoice Listing print options screen to introduce a new option 'Include Approval Details'. This option is only available where 'Hold Payment Processing' mode is enabled.

N/A

182840

Enhancement

Accounts Payable.web

Payment Calculator

An enhancement has been made to the Payment Register Listing print options screen to introduce a new option 'Include Approval Details'. This option is only available where 'Hold Payment Processing' mode is enabled.

N/A

182842

Enhancement

Employee/HR

PD Activities Report

Enhancements have been made to the layout and formatting of the report when exported to Excel to ensure it is 'Excel Friendly'.

N/A

178646

Enhancement

Medical.web

Student Medical

Enhancements have been made to the 'Parent Lounge Updates' tab to include Immunisation Register updates from Parent Lounge.

N/A

181427

Enhancement

Medical.web

Student Medical

Enhancements have been made to update the logic for the 'Unprocessed Medical Updates from Parent Lounge' notifications to include Immunisation Register updates.

N/A

181454

Enhancement

Medical.web

Updates from Parent Lounge

Enhancements have been made to include Immunisation Register updates from Parent Lounge in the Review screen including standard Accept/Reject options.

N/A

181426

Enhancement

Parent Accounts.web

Flag Transactions

Enhancements have been made to the 'General' tab to add a new filter field 'Parent Code'. This will enable the flagging process to be run for a single parent.

N/A

181772

Enhancement

Parent Accounts.web

Parent Account Inquiry

Enhancements have been made to the 'Communication Log' tab to display system generated Payment Schedule emails.

N/A

182545

Enhancement

Parent Lounge (Portal)

Medical Details

Enhancements have been made to the 'Immunisation Register' left menu to enable updating on these details including attaching an immunisation statement/form file.

N/A

181393

Enhancement

Parent Lounge (Portal)

Medical Details

Enhancements have been made to include Immunisation Register data in the Medical Verification logic and Verification Modal screen.

N/A

181411

Enhancement

Teacher Kiosk (Portal)

Custom Rolls

Enhancements have been made to introduce the ability to link Custom Rolls to Extra Curricular Sessions and Fixtures.

N/A

182374

Enhancement

Teacher Kiosk (Portal)

Extra Curricular Scheduler

*** NEW *** This is a new program under the 'Extra Curricular' top menu which provides teachers, coaches and tutors with a facility to schedule one-off or recurring events (eg. music lessons or sport training sessions) for one or more students through a calendar style interface with the ability to overlay Teacher and Student eDiary feeds.

N/A

180607

Enhancement

Utilities.web

API Gateway Maintenance

Enhancements have been made to introduce a new 'General Ledger Analytics' TASS API with endpoints for extracting the following data:

-- Chart of Accounts

-- Account Balances for a Year/Period

-- Account Responsibilities

-- Reporting Codes setups and mappings

-- Ledger Transactions for a Year/Period or a Year/Account All endpoints are V3 which includes Security Role definition.

NOTE: This is a licensed API that is available at no charge with Premium Licences.

N/A

181798

Enhancement

Utilities.web

API Gateway Maintenance

Enhancements have been made to the 'LMS Integration' TASS API as follows:

  • New V3 endpoints introduced to enable a Security Role to be defined.

  • Existing endpoints backwards compatible

  • 5 new V3 only endpoints now available for extracting Timetable data (Teacher, Student and Setups).

N/A

182405

Enhancement

Utilities.web

Email Settings

Enhancements to the 'System Email Templates' tab to introduce 'Learning Support' keywords which will be available when editing email templates in the 'Learning Support' category.

N/A

181964

Corrections

Nature

Module

Menu

Details

Customer

IMS Ref.

Correction

Commercial Debtors.web

Customer Grid Entry

A correction has been made to resolve an issue that prevented entry of more than one word in the 'Town/Suburb' field.

CHR01

181103


v01.052.4.000

Release DateMarch 9th, 2020

What's New?

Nature

Module

Menu

Details

Customer

IMS Ref.

Enhancement

Academic Reporting.web

Generate Student Reports

Enhancements have been made to add a 'Stylesheet' icon to the 'Saved Configurations' tab screen (landing page). This option will open a new screen which displays all the stylesheet files that are in the "tassweb\reportconfigtylesheets" folder on your TASS server. There will be a 'Download' action against each file.

WHI02

172729

Enhancement

Academic Reporting.web

Generate Student Reports

Enhancements have been made to support the use of specific keywords embedded in 'Objective Group' descriptions. The keywords supported include [NAME], [NAME'S], [SUBJECT] and a set of gender based keywords.

N/A

180570

Enhancement

Community Plus

Setup Information > Display Name Setups

Enhancements have been made to add a new 'Global Update' button to the 'General' tab. This option would typically be used where 'Community Display Name' or 'Parent Display Names' setups have been changed and you would like to update all display names based on the changed setups.


There is a Trial Report mode and a Global Update mode. The Global Update mode includes a before and after report and an audit trail of the update (date/time; user; before/after report). The 'Audit History' tab gives access to the audit details.

N/A

177418

Enhancement

Medical.web

Immunisations Summary/Listings

Enhancements have been made to the Summary (Bar Chart) landing page to display Alerts where there are students with no or incomplete Immunisation Register data. (Requires the 'Enable Alerts on Immunisation Register data' parameter in 'Medical Setup' to be enabled).

N/A

181302

Enhancement

Medical.web

Immunisations Summary/Listings

Enhancements have been made to the Print option in this program to include the new Immunisation Register fields in the 'Additional Fields' list.

N/A

181346

Enhancement

Medical.web

Medical Setup

Enhancements have been made to the 'Parent Lounge Permission Setup' section of the 'Parent Lounge' tab to include a new 'Immunisation Register' permission.

N/A

181371

Enhancement

Medical.web

Student Medical

A change has been made so that the 'Immunisation Statement / Form As At Date' is mandatory when an 'Immunisation Statement / Form' file is attached.

N/A

181607

Enhancement

Parent Lounge (Portal)

Medical Details

Enhancements have been made to include a new 'Immunisation Register' left menu section to this screen.

N/A

181382

Enhancement

Student.web

Details Listing

Enhancements have been made to include the new Immunisation Register fields into the 'Additional Fields' list on the 'Print' tab (requires "View" permission on the '---Immunisations tab' security point).

N/A

181325

Enhancement

Student.web

SCSA Processing (WA)

Enhancements have been made to the following data exports available in this program (WA schools only):

  • the ENCOS extract:

    --- the teacher's Given Name and Surname will be from the new person name token fields.

    --- the student's First Name will be from the new student first name field.

  • the OFCOS extract:

--- the teacher's Given Name and Surname will be from the new person name token fields.

N/A

182618

Enhancement

Teacher Kiosk (Portal)

Extra Curricular Groups

*** NEW *** Enhancements have been made to introduce substantial new functionality to the Extra Curricular module in Teacher Kiosk including capabilities for Sports and Music management.

This is now a multi-purpose program designed for use by Business Unit staff members (eg. Director of Sport), Activity Coordinators (eg. Head of Basketball), as well as Activity Staff members (eg teachers or staff member who coach a specific team). It enables teams, groups or individual student activities to be created and managed and caters for the tracking of students and schedules.

The enhancements include:

  • Extra Curricular Groups can now be setup and defined with students attached later

  • Grid Entry screen for Activity level/team editing

  • Rounds and Fixtures are now maintained in this program

  • Scheduling of Individual lessons and Group sessions

  • Assigning staff members (one or more) to an Activity

  • Configuring parent sign-up options for Parent Lounge

  • Creating recurring Custom Rolls for the Activity (static or dynamic student option available)

  • Clone option to copy Activity Groups to another Year/Semester

  • Screen includes Activity statistics and new filter options

    NOTE:

  • A new 'Extra Curricular' top level menu has been added and the Extra Curricular Groups program is now accessed from here.

  • The 'Sports' top menu has been removed and those programs are now accessed from the 'Extra Curricular' top menu.

N/A

180604

Enhancement

Teacher Kiosk (Portal)

Learning Support

*** NEW *** This is a new program under the 'Teacher' top menu which provides an integrated solution for managing information for students requiring learning support - including NCCD information and Students with a disability.

It is a multi-purpose program designed for use by Learning Support administrators as well as teachers and staff who interact with learning support students. It enables student Support Plans and Class Plans to be created and managed and caters for the efficient recording of information for complying with audits.

The following functionality is available:

  • Administrator view that provides Support Plan level data and statistics with filters and print option

  • Teacher/Staff view that provides Class Plan level data and statistics

  • Email notification to class teacher when Class Plan is assigned to a class

  • Support Plan screen includes:

    -- NCCD Category and Level of Adjustment

    -- User Defined fields (flags, codes, text, dates, attachments)

    -- Adding Adjustments relevant to the student's Plan

    -- Creating Class Plan for the student's classes

    -- Adding, editing and viewing of Notes

    -- Viewing Communication

  • Class Plan screen includes:

-- Adding Adjustments relevant to the class

-- Adding Evidence against these Adjustments

-- Adding, editing and viewing of Notes

N/A

180057

Enhancement

Teacher Kiosk (Portal)

Learning Support (Setup)

*** NEW *** This is a new program under the 'Teacher' top menu for maintaining the setups required for the new Learning Support functionality.

The following setups are maintained in this program:

  • User Defined Fields

  • Email Categories

  • Adjustment Categories

  • Note Categories

N/A

180915

Enhancement

Teacher Kiosk (Portal)

Student Medical (Lists/Emails)

Enhancements have been made to this program when generating the Listing to include the new Immunisation Register fields in the 'Additional Fields' list.

N/A

181343

Enhancement

Teacher Kiosk (Portal)

Student Profile

Enhancements have been made to introduce a new permission 'Students - Extra Curricular (My)' which will limit the students who can be accessed (using the programs/screens below) to only those students who are in the Extra Curricular Groups where the user is either the Activity Coordinator or Activity Team Staff member or a Business Unit staff member.

This new permission controls access to students in the following programs/screens:

  • Student Profile

  • eDiary

  • Extra Curricular Groups

  • Extra Curricular Scheduler

  • Custom Rolls

NOTE: There is a new 'Student Details Access' permission section for Teacher Kiosk in TASS.web program 'Users > Portal Security Permissions'

N/A

181935

Enhancement

Utilities.web

API Gateway Maintenance

Various enhancements have been made to the 'LISS Integration' External API to improve error handling and to add new data validations.

GRE01

180382

Corrections

Nature

Module

Menu

Details

Customer

IMS Ref.

Correction

Academic Reporting.web

Generate Student Reports

A correction has been applied to resolve a formatting issue (Y axis description was truncated) with the Charts generated by this report.

STJ11

173582

Correction

General Ledger.web

Bank Reconciliation

A correction has been made to resolve a display issue when using the 'Split' option.

STP01

177651


v01.052.3.000

Release DateFebruary 24th, 2020

What's New?

Nature

Module

Menu

Details

Customer

IMS Ref.

Enhancement

Academic Reporting.web

Generate Exit Statements

An enhancement has been made to the 'First Name + Surname' option (Refer to 'Student Name format' field on the 'First Page' tab) to use the new 'First Name' field on the student record (was previously using first token of 'Given Names' field).

N/A

180576

Enhancement

Academic Reporting.web

Generate Interim Reports

An enhancement has been made to the 'First Name + Surname' option (Refer to 'Student Name format' field on the 'Options' tab) to use the new 'First Name' field on the student record (was previously using first token of 'Given Names' field).

N/A

180575

Enhancement

Academic Reporting.web

Generate Student Reports

An enhancement has been made to the 'First Name + Surname' option (Refer to 'Student Name format' field on the 'First Page' tab) to use the new 'First Name' field on the student record (was previously using first token of 'Given Names' field).

N/A

180574

Enhancement

Employee/HR

Employee/HR Setup

Enhancements have been made to the 'Titles' maintenance screen on the 'Titles' tab to cater for titles up to a maximum of 15 characters and to allow the full stop (period) character within the title.

N/A

180722

Enhancement

Extra Curricular.web

Extra Curricular Setup

Enhancements have been made to the 'Activity Details' modal screen on the 'Activities' tab to expand the User Defined fields as follows:

  • 5 additional Text fields

  • 10 new Date fields

  • 10 new Attachment fields

N/A

180606

Enhancement

General Ledger.web

Cash Flow Statement

Enhancements have been made to add a new 'Include YTD column' option on the 'Print' tab. When this option is selected, the year to date values will be included on the Cash Flow Statement.

N/A

179366

Enhancement

Medical.web

Medical Setup

Enhancements have been made to the 'Medical' tab to add a new field 'Enable Alerts on Immunisation Register data'. When this parameter is enabled, specific Alerts will be displayed on various screens in TASS.web and Parent Lounge where students have missing or out of date data.

N/A

180525

Enhancement

Medical.web

Student Medical

Enhancements have been made to the 'Student Selection' page to display Alerts where there are students with no or incomplete Immunisation Register data.


IMPORTANT: The new 'Enable Alerts on Immunisation Register data' must be enabled for these Alerts to be displayed.

N/A

180530

Enhancement

Medical.web

Student Medical

Enhancements have been made to expand the Security Permissions for this program so that there is a separate Permission for each tab.

N/A

180733

Enhancement

Parent Lounge (Portal)

eDiary

Enhancements have been made to the student eDiary to include a new Calendar Feed for Extra Curricular data.

N/A

180407

Enhancement

Student Cafe

Calendars

Enhancements have been made to the student eDiary to include a new Calendar Feed for Extra Curricular data.

N/A

180406

Enhancement

Student Cafe

My Activities

Enhancements have been made to the Extra Curricular Activity modal screen to display the new Date and Attachment User Defined Fields.

N/A

181012

Enhancement

Student.web

Labels/Letter Merges

Enhancements have been made to include MCEECDYA data fields in the 'Additional Fields' list on the 'Print' tab.

N/A

180795

Enhancement

Teacher Kiosk (Portal)

My Calendar

Enhancements have been made to the teacher calendar to include a new Calendar Feed for Extra Curricular data.

N/A

180405

Enhancement

Users.web

Portal Security Permissions

For Teacher Kiosk, enhancements have been made to include a new 'User Permissions' Print option. There will be a filter field for selecting one or more Permission Areas and the report will be exported to Excel.

N/A

176344

Enhancement

Utilities.web

API Gateway Maintenance

Enhancements have been made to the 'Student Details' TASS API as follows:

  • New V3 endpoints introduced to enable a Security Role to be defined.

  • Existing endpoints backwards compatible.

  • 6 new V3 only endpoints now available for extracting Notes and Confidential Notes.

N/A

181048

Corrections

Nature

Module

Menu

Details

Customer

IMS Ref.

Correction

Academic Reporting.web

Generate Student Reports

A correction has been applied to resolve an intermittent issue with Extra Curricular data on the report (some Activity data could be duplicated in specific scenarios).

RED20

176617

Correction

Payroll.web

Single Touch Payroll Processing

A correction has been applied to resolve a possible issue with employee data in the scenario where an employee has been moved between Payroll Numbers during the tax year.

MAR02

173425



v01.052.2.000

Release DateFebruary 10th, 2020

What's New?

Nature

Module

Menu

Details

Customer

IMS Ref.

Enhancement

Medical.web

Medical Setup

Enhancements have been made to introduce a new 'Immunisation Status' tab for maintaining status setup records required by the new Immunisation Register in Student Medical.

N/A

180090

Enhancement

Medical.web

Student Medical

Enhancements have been made to the 'Immunisations' tab to introduce an 'Immunisation Register' section with 4 fields:

  • Immunisation Statement / Form attachment

  • Statement As At Date

  • Immunisation Status

  • Immunisation Next Due Date

N/A

180507

Enhancement

Parent Accounts.web

Ledger Trial Balance

Enhancements have been made to introduce the 'Parent UD' tab to provide more filtering options when generating this report.

N/A

180441

Enhancement

Teacher Kiosk (Portal)

Parent Teacher Interviews

Enhancements have been made to the 'Print Appointment Schedule' option as follows:

  • the 'Parent Attended' field has been added to the Additional Fields list

  • when exported to Excel, the layout has been changed so it is Excel friendly.

STM06

176303

Enhancement

Utilities.web

API Gateway Maintenance

Enhancements have been made to the 'TASS API Application Details' modal screen on the 'TASS APIs' tab to add a new 'Security Role' field to cater for V3 API methods.

This new field provides a picklist of the Security Roles setup and is maintained in program 'System Admin > Users > Security Role Permissions.

N/A

180473

Enhancement

Utilities.web

API Gateway Maintenance

Enhancements have been made to the 'Boarding' TASS API as follows:

  • New V3 endpoints introduced to enable a Security Role to be defined.

  • Existing endpoints backwards compatible.

  • 18 new V3 only endpoints now available for extracting Medical data.

N/A

180723

Enhancement

Utilities.web

API Gateway Maintenance

Enhancements have been made to the 'Student Details' TASS API as follows:

  • New V3 endpoints introduced to enable a Security Role to be defined.

  • Existing endpoints backwards compatible

  • 4 new V3 only endpoints now available for extracting UD data and UD Areas data.

N/A

180870

Corrections

Nature

Module

Menu

Details

Customer

IMS Ref.

Correction

Academic Reporting.web

Upload Academic Reports

A correction has been applied to resolve an issue that prevented the upload from completing in the scenario where the zip file was created on a Mac

LIN01

177091

Correction

Enrolments.web

Enrolments

A correction has been applied to resolve a permission issue that prevented the viewing of Confidential Notes.

SHE02

177850

Correction

Medical.web

Medical Setup

Changes have been made to optimise the performance of this program when loading a student record.

KNO01

178905

Correction

Parents.web

Updates from Parent Lounge

A correction has been applied to ensure that the 'update by' and 'update on' details are recorded when an Address update is reviewed and accepted.

VIL01

177367

Correction

Public Calendar.Web

Public Calendar

A correction has been applied to resolve an intermittent error when accessing the Public Calendar.

STH01

176870

Correction

School Shop.web

User/Shop Access

A correction has been applied to resolve an issue where users with access to a company were not available when adding user access to a Shop.

AUS12

175503

Correction

Student.web

Students

A correction has been applied to the ordering of search results when using the 'Search' field. The primary sort will be Surname.

MAR02

177449

Correction

Teacher Kiosk (Portal)

Extra Curricular List - Student

A correction has been applied when exporting to Excel by applying text formatting to some columns which resolves intermittent issues caused by the default Excel formatting.

RIV02

177383

Correction

Teacher Kiosk (Portal)

School Calendar (View)

A correction has been applied to ensure that the Print option available with the 'Month' view includes the whole month in the generated report.

STA06

177473

Correction

Teacher Kiosk (Portal)

Student Profile

A correction has been applied to the 'Currently' indicator so that a student with an Early Departure absence entry will be shown as Absent.

GOO02

178284

Correction

Teacher Records.web

Daily Substitutions

A correction has been applied to resolve an issue (email not sending) when editing a Substitution and ticking the 'Email Notification' option.

VIL01

178342

Correction

Utilities.web

API Gateway Maintenance

A correction has been applied to the 'EmployeeHR' TASS API to resolve an issue when inserting an employee record in the scenario where payroll is not enabled.

AUS05

179469

Correction

Utilities.web

API Gateway Maintenance

A correction has been applied to the 'Online Enrolments' TASS API to resolve an issue with the validation of the student code submitted with UD Area data.

AUS05

179770


v01.052.1.000

Release DateJanuary 28th, 2020

What's New?

Nature

Module

Menu

Details

Customer

IMS Ref.

Enhancement

Employee/HR

Employee/HR Setup

Enhancements have been made to the 'Titles' tab to expand the titles field to a maximum of 15 characters.

N/A

179723

Enhancement

TASS.web (General)

TASS.web - Menu

An enhancement has been made to introduce User Interface (UI) design elements for TASS.web menu structure and navigation. This enhancement includes new colours as well as functional enhancements to the Bookmarks system.

N/A

180054

Enhancement

Teacher Kiosk (Portal)

Generate Emails

An enhancement has been made to add a new lowercase [his/her] keyword.

ABB01

178245

Enhancement

Utilities.web

API Gateway Maintenance

Enhancements have been made to the 'Online Enrolments' TASS API to include a new endpoint to insert Enrolment Receipt Online Payments. This endpoint is suitable for use where the enrolled parent and student are already in TASS.

N/A

179151

Corrections

Nature

Module

Menu

Details

Customer

IMS Ref.

Correction

Attendance.web

Daily Inquiry

A correction has been applied to resolve an issue causing late slips to generate as a PDF to the screen instead of printing directly to the slip printer when editing an absence record.

STJ17

160775

Correction

Commercial Debtors.web

Invoices

A correction has been applied to resolve an issue when editing the Line Description that contains line breaks to ensure they are preserved.

FOR01

179071

Correction

Enrolments.web

Enrolments

A correction has been applied to remove leading and trailing spaces from the Parent Name field in add and edit modes.

ABP01

177483

Correction

Parent Lounge (Portal)

Medical Details

A correction has been applied to resolve a cosmetic issue with the display of the User Defined Text field names.

SHE02

178024

Correction

Parent Lounge (Portal)

Tours & Excursions

A correction has been applied to resolve an issue when accepting Tours when one of the Tours has exceeded the 'Max Acceptances Via Parent Lounge' parameter.

SHA01

179235

Correction

Payroll.web

Employee Grid Entry

A correction has been applied to resolve an intermittent issue when editing data into the 'Town/Suburb' field.

GOO04

179255

Correction

Student.web

Details Listing

Corrections has been applied when using the 'Transfer Notes (WA)' export option to remove parent keywords and to resolve an issue when using the Campus keyword.

AUS09

179405

Correction

Student.web

Details Listing

A correction has been applied to the 'Transfer Notes (WA)' export option to resolve an issue when using the Year Group keyword.

AUS10

179851

Correction

Student.web

Labels/Letter Merges

A correction has been applied when using the 'Generate Emails' option to ensure that emails are generated correctly when there are email addresses that contain the apostrophe character.

TCS01

178887

Correction

Student.web

Student Subject Grid Entry

A correction has been applied to resolve an issue causing the timetable picklist to be hidden when it contains timetables with long descriptions.

CHA03

179397

Correction

Student.web

Students

A correction has been applied to resolve an intermittent issue with the display of Notification modal screens when the browser screen is not in full screen mode.

HIL02

177913

Correction

Student.web

Students

A correction has been applied to ensure that students with a Date of Leaving set to the current date are included in search results for Current Students.

KIM01

179652

Correction

Teacher Kiosk (Portal)

Assessment Planner

A correction has been applied to resolve an issue when generating analytics for assessment activities that have results with decimal values.

LOU01

178606

Correction

Teacher Kiosk (Portal)

Daily Notices

A change has been applied so that the hover over on the 'Details' column stays visible whilst the mouse pointer is on the field.

STB01

177866

Correction

Teacher Kiosk (Portal)

Event Categories (Setup)

A correction has been applied to ensure correct ordering of records on this screen.

CHR01

179937

Correction

Teacher Kiosk (Portal)

Meetings/Communications

A correction has been applied to resolve an intermittent issue causing free periods to not be visible when arranging a meeting.

EMM02

178078

Correction

Teacher Kiosk (Portal)

Requsitions

A correction has been applied to ensure that only valid supplier codes can be entered when creating a new requisition.

SOU06

178376

Correction

Teacher Records.web

Update Teacher Passwords

A correction has been applied to ensure that the columns in the 'Update Teacher Passwords' grid are set to an appropriate width when the screen is loaded.

FAI01

178050


v01.052.0.000

Release DateJanuary 10th, 2020

What's New?

Nature

Module

Menu

Details

Customer

IMS Ref.

Enhancement

Academic Reporting.web

Copy Data to Archive

An enhancement has been made to include the following fields in the student data that is copied to archived: IDM, First Name, Other Names and Preferred Surname.

N/A

178213

Enhancement

Academic Reporting.web

Result Formats

A correction has been applied to the Clone option to exclude inactive subjects from the 'Target' list.

TAM01

178051

Enhancement

Accounts Payable.web

GST on Expenditure Report

An enhancement has been made to include a new 'Detailed with transaction description' layout option.

COV01

177920

Enhancement

Attendance.web

Absentee Letter Merge

An enhancement has been made to include the email address from the 'Email 2' field on the parent record when generating a Word Merge file.

N/A

177053

Enhancement

Attendance.web

Daily Inquiry

An enhancement has been made to resolve a Late Slip printing issue caused by changes in the Chrome browser.

IMPORTANT: The Chrome setting 'Download PDF files instead of automatically opening them in Chrome' must be disabled.

N/A

177598

Enhancement

Attendance.web

Student Absence Entry

An enhancement has been made to resolve a printing issue when using Google Chrome.

IMPORTANT: The Google Chrome setting 'Download PDF files instead of automatically opening them in Chrome' must be disabled.

N/A

177601

Enhancement

Attendance.web

Student Attendance

An enhancement has been made to resolve a printing issue when using Google Chrome.

IMPORTANT: The Google Chrome setting 'Download PDF files instead of automatically opening them in Chrome' must be disabled.

ORM01

177318

Enhancement

Commercial Debtors.web

Credit

An enhancement has been made to resolve a printing issue when using Google Chrome.

IMPORTANT: The Google Chrome setting 'Download PDF files instead of automatically opening them in Chrome' must be disabled.

N/A

177603

Enhancement

Commercial Debtors.web

Invoices

An enhancement has been made to resolve a printing issue when using Google Chrome.

IMPORTANT: The Google Chrome setting 'Download PDF files instead of automatically opening them in Chrome' must be disabled.

N/A

177602

Enhancement

Community Plus

Check Community Data

This is a NEW program in the Community 'Setup Information' menus that will check the data integrity of Person and Entity records and their data relationships. Where issues are found, a report will be generated with either summary Statistics or with details of each data integrity issue.

IMPORTANT: It is recommended that this program is run immediately after upgrading to V52 and on a regular basis thereafter.

N/A

178413

Enhancement

Community Plus

Display Name Setups

This is a new setup program for defining the name tokens that the system will use when updating the following fields on the parent, enrolled parent and person records:

  • Parents & Enrolled Parents: The 'Mother/Parent 1' and 'Father/Parent 2' Name fields.

  • Person: The 'Person Name' field.

NOTE: The default records for each comprise First Name and Surname tokens

N/A

177416

Enhancement

Community Plus

Person

Enhancements have been made to the Community Person record to introduce 7 new name token fields:

  • Title

  • Initials

  • First Name

  • Other Names

  • Preferred Name

  • Surname

  • Name Suffixes

The 'Person' tab has been re-designed and the existing Display Name field has been renamed 'Person Name' and it will be a non- editable field that is automatically updated (based on a new parameter) when the Person name token fields are edited.

NOTE:

  1. These new name token fields on the Person record will be the single repository of names for all TASS Entities except Students and Enrolled Students.

  2. Name tokens for Students and Enrolled Students are on their Entity record and the system will automatically maintain their 'Person Name' field in the format First Name and Surname.

  3. For all other TASS Entities, when a name is changed when editing an Entity record the change is applied to the name fields on their Person record.

N/A

177500

Enhancement

Community Plus

Person Grid Entry

As a result of the new name token fields on the Person record, the 'Person Name' field (previously 'Community Name') will not be editable in the Grid.

N/A

177718

Enhancement

Community Plus

Person Search / Search Results

Enhancements have been made to the Person Search and Search Results screens to add the new name token fields.

A new Person Names listing has also been added. Where the person is a parent, this listing will also include their name from the relevant name field on the parent record.

IMPORTANT: It is recommended that this report is run immediately after the V52 upgrade for Parents and Enrolment Parents to check the data migration into the new Name Token fields.

N/A

177688

Enhancement

Employee/HR

Employees

Enhancements have been made to the 'Export to Excel' layout option so that the data formats applied are Excel Friendly.

N/A

178647

Enhancement

Enrolments.web

Enrolment Details Listing

Enhancements have been made to the 'Additional Fields' list on the 'Print' tab to include the new name token fields: First Name, Other Names and Preferred Surname.

N/A

178678

Enhancement

Enrolments.web

Enrolment Details Listings

An enhancement has been made to include the email address from the 'Email 2' field on the parent record when using the 'Student based Listing with Addresses (Excel Only)' and 'Parent based Listing' options.

N/A

177051

Enhancement

Enrolments.web

Enrolments

A new 'QCAA' tab is now available on the student record to display and maintain specific QCAA data (Qld Schools only).

N/A

176649

Enhancement

Enrolments.web

Enrolments

Enhancements have been made to the Enrolled Student record to add new name fields: First Name, Other Names and Preferred Surname

N/A

177063

Enhancement

Enrolments.web

Enrolments

Enhancements have been made to add mode to include 'First Name' and 'Other Name' fields on the 'Child Details' tab.

N/A

177064

Enhancement

Enrolments.web

Enrolments

Enhancements have been made to the 'General' tab to cater for the introduction of name token fields on the Person record.

Changes include a re-designed 'Edit Name' screen that will allow direct editing of all 7 name token fields.

The existing 'Mother/Parent 1' and 'Father/Parent 2' name fields will be non-editable fields that are automatically updated (based on a new parameter) when the name token fields are edited.

NOTE: The name token fields for 'Mother/Parent 1' and 'Father/Parent 2' are now stored only on their Person record. Therefore, any change to these name fields on their Person record will automatically be applied to the person's Parent record.

N/A

177726

Enhancement

Enrolments.web

Enrolments

An enhancement has been made to the search index for Enrolments to include the new Student name token fields: First Name, Other Names and Preferred Surname.

N/A

178130

Enhancement

Enrolments.web

Enrolments

** Enterprise Mode **

Enhancements have been made when processing new enrolments from group schools to include Student and Parent name token fields when creating the new enrolment records.

N/A

179368

Enhancement

Enrolments.web

Enrolments Worksheet

Enhancements have been made to the 'Additional Fields' list when using the 'Mail Merge' option to include the new name token fields: First Name, Other Names and Preferred Surname.

N/A

178679

Enhancement

Enrolments.web

Enrolments Worksheet

Enhancements have been made to the SMTP Emailing Step 2 screen to include the new name token fields (First Name, Other Names and Preferred Surname) in the list of Student Keywords.

N/A

178682

Enhancement

Enrolments.web

Online Enrolment Applications

Enhancements have been made to the Upload file format to support the new Student and Parent name token fields.

N/A

178173

Enhancement

Enrolments.web

Online Enrolment Applications

Enhancements to add the new name token fields when reviewing Online Enrolments and adding parent and student Enrolment records using this program.

N/A

178640

Enhancement

Enrolments.web

Reinstate an Enrolment

An enhancement has been made to include the new name fields (First Name, Other Names and Preferred Surname) in the copy process when an enrolled student is re-instated from current.

N/A

178216

Enhancement

Enrolments.web

Students Enrolments Grid

An enhancement has been made to the 'Process' tab, to add the new Student name token fields to the Field Selection list: First Name, Other Names and Preferred Surname.

N/A

177463

Enhancement

Enrolments.web

Transfer to Current

An enhancement has been made to include the new name fields (First Name, Other Names and Preferred Surname) when transferring an enrolled student to current.

N/A

178211

Enhancement

Equipment Hire.web

Equipment

A new 'Upload Equipment' option is now available for uploading equipment records from a correctly formatted CSV file.

N/A

176477

Enhancement

Fundraising.web

Donors

Enhancements have been made to the Donor record to cater for the introduction of name token fields on the Person record. Changes include re-designed screen layout for the 'General' and 'Donor Links' tabs.

NOTE: The name fields for Donors are now stored only on the donor's Person record. Therefore, any change to these name fields on their Person record will automatically be applied to the person's Donor record.

N/A

178042

Enhancement

General Ledger.web

GST on Cash Book Report

An enhancement has been made to include a new 'Detailed with transaction description' layout option.

COV01

177915

Enhancement

Parent Accounts.web

Building Fund Report/Merge

An enhancement has been made to include the email address from the 'Email 2' field on the parent record when generating a Word Merge file.

N/A

176936

Enhancement

Parent Accounts.web

Print Receipts

An enhancement has been made to exclude 'Fax' from the Receipt header where there is no Fax Number setup on the Company record.

VIL01

176811

Enhancement

Parent Accounts.web

Receipts

An enhancement has been made to support GL Distribution Lines with negative amounts when adding a receipt.

COV01

177851

Enhancement

Parent Lounge (Portal)

General Details

This is a NEW facility for parents to submit updates to student MCEECDYA data.


It requires a new permission to be enabled.

N/A

176353

Enhancement

Parent Lounge (Portal)

Login History

An enhancement has been made to not display the Remote IP Address for Ghost Login records.

N/A

178192

Enhancement

Parent Lounge (Portal)

Parent Details

An enhancement has been applied to include the email address from the 'Email 2' field on this screen.

ORM01

176432

Enhancement

Parent Lounge (Portal)

Parent Details

This is a NEW facility for parents to submit updates to their Occupation data.


It requires a new permission to be enabled.

N/A

176696

Enhancement

Parent Lounge (Portal)

Various Programs

Enhancements to multiple programs in Parent Lounge to cater for Multiple Campus Timetable mode.

When this mode is enabled, the Campus defined on each student record is used to find their matching timetable.

N/A

179324

Enhancement

Parents.web

Parent Address Listing

An enhancement has been made to include the email address from the 'Email 2' field on the parent record when generating the listing to Excel.

N/A

176939

Enhancement

Parents.web

Parent Details Listing

An enhancement has been made to include the email address from the 'Email 2' field on the parent record when generating this report.

N/A

176938

Enhancement

Parents.web

Parent Records Setup

Enhancements have been made to the 'Occupation' tab to introduce an 'Active' flag on occupation records. Upon load, only active records will be displayed and a toggle button is available to display/hide Inactive records.

N/A

176715

Enhancement

Parents.web

Parents

A new 'Communication Log' tab has been added to provide a holistic view of communications sent to parents. The 20 most recent communications are displayed with a 'See All' button which loads a Grid screen with filters, a print option and tracking details. The communications included are:

  • Emails sent using SMTP Email facility in Teacher Kiosk and the 'Enrolments Worksheet' program

  • Emails to parents from Parent Lounge Payment Schedules

  • SMS messages sent from Teacher Kiosk, Attendance and Parent Records modules

  • Alerts created and displayed in Parent Lounge

  • Notes against specific note categories flagged for inclusion (existing note permissions still apply)

NOTE: The viewing of emails is based on Role permissions at the Email Category level.

N/A

176906

Enhancement

Parents.web

Parents

Enhancements have been made to the 'General' tab to cater for the introduction of name token fields on the Person record.

Changes include a re-designed 'Edit Name' screen that will allow direct editing of all 7 name token fields.

The existing 'Mother/Parent 1' and 'Father/Parent 2' name fields will be non-editable fields that are automatically updated (based on a new parameter) when the name token fields are edited.

NOTE: The name token fields for 'Mother/Parent 1' and 'Father/Parent 2' are now stored only on their Person record. Therefore, any change to these name fields on their Person record will automatically be applied to the person's Parent record.

N/A

177644

Enhancement

Parents.web

Updates from Parent Lounge

Enhancements have been made to include the review and processing of updates for MCEECDYA data submitted via Parent Lounge.

N/A

176600

Enhancement

Past Students.web

Details Listing

Enhancements to the 'General' tab to include the new name token fields for searching.

N/A

179110

Enhancement

Past Students.web

Extra Curricular Listing

Enhancements to the 'General' tab to include the new name token fields for searching.

N/A

179106

Enhancement

Past Students.web

Labels/Letter Merges

Enhancements as a result of new name token fields - including:

  • the 'General' tab includes the name token fields and an updated layout

  • the Additional Fields list on the 'Process' tab includes the new name token fields

N/A

179111

Enhancement

Past Students.web

Past Student Grid Entry

Enhancements have been made to the 'General' tab to add the new name token fields for searching. The 'Process' tab and Grid have had minor changes to display the new name token fields.

N/A

178037

Enhancement

Past Students.web

Past Students

Enhancements have been made to the Past Student record to cater for the introduction of name token fields on the Person record.

Changes include a re-designed screen layout for the 'General' and 'Links' tabs.

NOTE: The name fields for Past Students are now stored only on the past student's Person record. Therefore, any change to these name fields on their Person record will automatically be applied to the person's Past Student record.

N/A

178020

Enhancement

Past Students.web

Past Students

An enhancement has been made to the search index for Past Students to include the new name token fields.

N/A

178021

Enhancement

Payroll.web

Employees

Enhancements have been made to the Employee record to cater for the introduction of name token fields on the Person record. Changes include a re-designed screen layout for the 'General' tab.

NOTE: The name fields for Employees are now stored only on the employee's Person record. Therefore, any change to these name fields on their Person record will automatically be applied to the person's Employee record.

N/A

178040

Enhancement

Purchasing.web

Purchasing Setup

An enhancement has been made to the 'Approval Limits' tab. The 'Approvers Level' modal screen (access by clicking the No Users link) has been enhanced to include an alert icon against the Approvers who are not current employees.

CAM02

177229

Enhancement

School Shop.web

Sale Entry

An enhancement has been made to resolve an Invoice printing issue caused by changes in the Chrome browser.

IMPORTANT: The Chrome setting 'Download PDF files instead of automatically opening them in Chrome' must be disabled.

N/A

177596

Enhancement

Student Cafe

Login History

An enhancement has been made to not display the Remote IP Address for Ghost Login records.

N/A

178191

Enhancement

Student Cafe

Various Programs

Enhancements to multiple programs in Student Cafe to cater for Multiple Campus Timetable mode.

When this mode is enabled, the Campus defined on each student record is used to find their matching timetable.

N/A

179327

Enhancement

Student.web

Details Listing

Enhancements have been made to the Additional Fields list on the 'Print' tab to include a new section 'Previous School Info'. The fields available for selection are those defined on the feeder schools that are setup in 'Enrolment Setup' on the 'Feeder Schools' tab.

N/A

176272

Enhancement

Student.web

Details Listing

Enhancements have been made to the 'Additional Fields' list on the 'Print' tab to include the new name token fields: First Name, Other Names and Preferred Surname.

N/A

178673

Enhancement

Student.web

Details Listing

Enhancements have been made to SMTP Emails when using the 'Transfer Notes (WA)' option to include the new name token fields (First Name, Other Names and Preferred Surname) in the list of Student Keywords.

N/A

178685

Enhancement

Student.web

Labels/Letter Merges

Enhancements have been made to introduce a new 'Generate Emails' button on the 'Print' tab for generating SMTP Emails - includes:

  • standard 2 step modal screen as used in Teacher Kiosk.

  • supports Email Templates.

  • emails are logged in the Student Communication Log.

NOTE: Requires the new 'Enable SMTP Emails' parameter in 'Student Records Setup' to be enabled.

N/A

176772

Enhancement

Student.web

Labels/Letter Merges

Enhancements have been made to the SMTP Emailing Step 2 screen to include the new name token fields (First Name, Other Names and Preferred Surname) in the list of Student Keywords.

N/A

178683

Enhancement

Student.web

Labels/Letter/Merges

Enhancements have been made to the 'Additional Fields' list on the 'Print' tab to include the new name token fields: First Name, Other Names and Preferred Surname.

N/A

178674

Enhancement

Student.web

SES Export (Aus)

Enhancements have been made so that parent names for inclusion in the SES Data will be from the new name token fields (First Name and Surname fields).

N/A

179037

Enhancement

Student.web

Student Records Setup

An enhancement has been made to the 'Student Records' tab to introduce a new 'Enable SMTP Emails' option.

When enabled, there will be a new 'Generate Emails' button in program 'Labels/Letter Merges' for generating SMTP Emails. Note - emails generated using this option will be added to the Student Communication Log.

N/A

176769

Enhancement

Student.web

Students

A new 'Communication Log' tab has been added to provide a holistic view of all communications sent to a student and/or their parents.

The 20 most recent communications are displayed with a 'See All' button which loads a Grid screen with filters, a print option and tracking details. The communications included are:

  • Emails sent using SMTP Email facility in Teacher Kiosk and the 'Labels/Letters Merges' program

  • SMS messagess sent from Teacher Kiosk, Attendance and Parent Records modules

  • Alerts created and displayed in Student Cafe

  • Notes against specific note categories flagged for inclusion (existing note permissions still apply)

NOTE: The viewing of emails is based on user/role permissions at the Email Category level.

N/A

176546

Enhancement

Student.web

Students

A new 'QCAA' tab is now available on the student record to display and maintain specific QCAA data. This tab will display in place of the 'SDCS' tab where the student does not have SDCS data (Qld Schools only).

N/A

176648

Enhancement

Student.web

Students

Enhancements have been made to the Student record to add new name fields: First Name, Other Names and Preferred Surname

N/A

177062

Enhancement

Student.web

Students

A correction has been applied to the 'Visa Subclass' field on the 'General' tab to allow the entry of 6 characters.

RED20

177522

Enhancement

Student.web

Students

An enhancement has been made to the search index for Students to include the new Student name token fields: First Name, Other Names and Preferred Surname.

N/A

178117

Enhancement

Student.web

Students Grid Entry

An enhancement has been made to the 'Process' tab, to add the new Student name token fields to the Field Selection list: First Name, Other Names and Preferred Surname.

N/A

177447

Enhancement

Student.web

Transfer Students to Past

Enhancements have been applied to populate the Person name token fields when a student is transferred to Past.

N/A

178233

Enhancement

Teacher Kiosk (Portal)

Homepage

Enhancements have been made to introduce a new 'My Custom Rolls' left menu on the Homepage. It will display a list of pending Custom Rolls for the next two week period with a link for one-click navigation to mark the Roll.

N/A

176330

Enhancement

Teacher Kiosk (Portal)

My Payroll/HR

Enhancements have been made to the 'See All' Grid screen (within the 'Leave / Other Applications' left menu) to introduce a new 'Add Attachment' option. This option will be available to employees after a Leave Application has been approved (eg. to attach a medical certificate).

KNO01

178781

Enhancement

Teacher Kiosk (Portal)

My Payroll/HR

Enhancements have been made to the 'Leave / Other Applications' left menu screen to introduce a new 'Add Attachment' option. This option will be available to employees after a Leave Application has been approved (eg. to attach a medical certificate).

KNO01

178782

Enhancement

Teacher Kiosk (Portal)

My Payroll/HR > Leave / Other Applications

An enhancement has been made so that Leave Applications with status 'Approved not yet taken' will always be displayed in this Left menu screen.

N/A

178808

Enhancement

Teacher Kiosk (Portal)

Resource Bookings

This is a NEW program under the 'Teacher' top menu.

It provides a Grid style interface for displaying and printing existing resource bookings. There are options to filter the bookings by Date, Booked for Staff Member, Category and Campus (if used).

N/A

176372

Enhancement

Teacher Kiosk (Portal)

SMTP Emails

Enhancements have been made to the SMTP Emailing Step 2 screen to include the new name token fields (First Name, Other Names and Preferred Surname) in the list of Student Keywords.

N/A

178691

Enhancement

Teacher Kiosk (Portal)

Student Medical (Lists/Emails)

A correction has been applied to include the email address from the 'Email 2' field on the parent record when generating the listing to PDF.

N/A

177105

Enhancement

Teacher Kiosk (Portal)

Student Profile

An enhancement has been made to the 'Communication Log' so that emails sent to external recipients will be displayed. This means that emails generated using the 'Transfer Notes (WA)' facility will be available in the student's Communication Log.

N/A

176211

Enhancement

Teacher Kiosk (Portal)

Student Profile > Notes

An enhancement has been made to enable the note category to be changed when editing a Note.

N/A

179330

Enhancement

Teacher Kiosk (Portal)

Various Programs

Enhancements to multiple programs throughout Teacher Kiosk to cater for Multiple Campus Timetable mode.

When this mode is enabled, the Campus defined on each student record is used to find their matching timetable.

N/A

179326

Enhancement

Teacher Records.web

Daily Substitutions

An enhancement has been made to display the 'Application Status' of the linked Leave Application on the Teacher Leave record.

N/A

176208

Enhancement

Timetable.web

Timetable Setup

Enhancements have been made to provide a new parameter for enabling Multiple Campus Timetable mode. This mode is only available to schools with Multiple Timetables enabled and with two or more Campus' defined.

N/A

178987

Enhancement

Timetable.web

Various Programs

Enhancements to multiple programs throughout TASS.web to cater for Multiple Campus Timetable mode.

When this mode is enabled, the Campus defined on each student record is used to find their matching timetable.

N/A

179328

Enhancement

Utilities.web

API Gateway Maintenance

Enhancements have been made to the 'Online Enrolments' TASS API to support the new name token fields now available for Students and Parents.

N/A

178174

Enhancement

Utilities.web

API Gateway Maintenance

Enhancements have been made to the 'Student Details' TASS API to include the new Student name token fields in the getStudentDetails method and to include the new Parent name token fields in the getCommunicationRulesDetails method.

N/A

178184

Enhancement

Utilities.web

API Gateway Maintenance

Enhancements have been made to the 'Boarding' TASS API to include the new Student and Parent name token fields in the getStudents method.

N/A

178186

Enhancement

Utilities.web

API Gateway Maintenance

Enhancements have been made to the 'Data Upload Utility' TASS API to include the new Student name token fields in the setStudentDataUploadUtility method.

N/A

178188

Enhancement

Utilities.web

API Gateway Maintenance

Enhancements have been made to the 'Library Integration' TASS API to include the new Parent and Student name token fields in the getUser and getUsers methods.

N/A

178193

Enhancement

Utilities.web

API Gateway Maintenance

Enhancements have been made to the 'LMS Integration' TASS API to include the new Student name token fields in the getStudents method.

N/A

178200

Enhancement

Utilities.web

Change Logs Grid

An enhancement has been made to include change log records for Community Persons.

N/A

177547

Enhancement

Utilities.web

Data Upload Facility

An enhancement has been made to the 'Student' Record Type to support the new Student name token fields: First Name (mandatory), Other Names and Preferred Surname.

N/A

178171

Enhancement

Utilities.web

Product Activation Maintenance

An enhancement has been made to support company specific URLs for TASS.web in non-Enterprise mode.

IMPORTANT: If this is setup for one Company by adding a TASS.web Product Activation record then it will be mandatory to setup a Product Activation record for all Companies.

N/A

177595

Corrections

Nature

Module

Menu

Details

Customer

IMS Ref.

Correction

Attendance Self Registration

Attendance Self Registration

A correction has been applied to resolve an issue that prevented the display of the background image.

RIV01

177302

Correction

Commercial Debtors.web

Receipts

A correction has been applied to ensure that only active Bank Accounts are available when entering Receipts.

CAN001

168794

Correction

General Ledger.web

Account Responsibility Grid

A correction has been applied to resolve a display issue where multiple departments are applied to a teacher.

SPR01

166000

Correction

Parent Accounts.web

Receipts

A correction has been applied to resolve a permission issue that prevented a Receipt being added where the user had Add permission but not Edit permission.

ROC02

176665

Correction

Parents.web

Updates from Parent Lounge

Enhancements have been made to include the review and processing of updates for Occupations data submitted via Parent Lounge.

N/A

176730

Correction

Purchasing.web

Purchase Orders

A correction has been applied to ensure that the 'PO Date' and 'Due Date' can be updated to any date within an open period.

IPS01

179307

Correction

Teacher Kiosk (Portal)

Custom Rolls

A correction has been applied to resolve an issue that prevented the creation of a custom roll using 'Subject Class' mode. (Unitised mode only).

ABP01

177149

Correction

Teacher Kiosk (Portal)

Learning Objects (Maintain & Assign)

A correction has been applied to the 'Self Source' button so that it works as expected.

ROC01

177495

Correction

Teacher Kiosk (Portal)

Learning Objects (Maintain & Assign)

A correction has been applied to resolve an issue when attempting to resize the Learning Objects Repository panel.

LOR02

177673

Correction

Teacher Kiosk (Portal)

Resources /Venues (Setup)

A correction has been applied to resolve an issue that caused an error when adding a new resource.

MAT01

176003

Correction

Teacher Kiosk (Portal)

SMTP Emails

A correction has been applied to prevent the sending of an email where the attached file is larger than the limit defined in 'Email Settings'.

TCS01

179174

Correction

Timetable.web

Timetable Grid Entry

A correction has been applied to prevent changes being made that will result in the edited record being a duplication of an existing record.

HIL02

174836

Correction

Utilities.web

Bulk Attachment/Note Upload

A correction has been applied to resolve a permission issue that prevented uploading of Enrolled Student Notes in this program.

LAU01

176698

Correction

Utilities.web

Product UI Maintenance

A correction has been applied to resolve an issue that causes an error when uploading a Student Cafe 'Login' image.

TAM01

176910

v01.052.1.000

Release DateJanuary 28th, 2020

What's New?

Nature

Module

Menu

Details

Customer

IMS Ref.

Enhancement

Employee/HR

Employee/HR Setup

Enhancements have been made to the 'Titles' tab to expand the titles field to a maximum of 15 characters.

N/A

179723

Enhancement

TASS.web (General)

TASS.web - Menu

An enhancement has been made to introduce User Interface (UI) design elements for TASS.web menu structure and navigation. This enhancement includes new colours as well as functional enhancements to the Bookmarks system.

N/A

180054

Enhancement

Teacher Kiosk (Portal)

Generate Emails

An enhancement has been made to add a new lowercase [his/her] keyword.

ABB01

178245

Enhancement

Utilities.web

API Gateway Maintenance

Enhancements have been made to the 'Online Enrolments' TASS API to include a new endpoint to insert Enrolment Receipt Online Payments. This endpoint is suitable for use where the enrolled parent and student are already in TASS.

N/A

179151

Corrections

Nature

Module

Menu

Details

Customer

IMS Ref.

Correction

Attendance.web

Daily Inquiry

A correction has been applied to resolve an issue causing late slips to generate as a PDF to the screen instead of printing directly to the slip printer when editing an absence record.

STJ17

160775

Correction

Commercial Debtors.web

Invoices

A correction has been applied to resolve an issue when editing the Line Description that contains line breaks to ensure they are preserved.

FOR01

179071


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