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Executive Summary
Regent Education is pleased to announce Regent 6.4.0.0, the latest release of the Regent Enterprise Financial Aid Management System.
The release includes enhancements listed in the 'Enhancements' section below. This release also addresses product defects as listed in the 'Bugs' section below.
New/Updated Configuration Options
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The following configuration options were added or updated in release 6.4.0.0:TASKS
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Admin and User Guide Updates
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As part of Regent 6.4.0.0, the following Admin and User Guide pages were added/updated: Exporting Student Transactions (Est) Ready to Package (RTP) Process Year Round Pell (YRP or 150% Pell) Awarding Business Process Analysis (BPA) The following page has been updated recently, apart from the Regent 6.4.0.0 release: |
Enhancements
The following enhancements are included in this release:
Key | Product Selection | Functional Area | Release Note |
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RS-25623 | Regent Award | EST/Disbursements | Title: Updated the EST Process to Require the Student Number to Be Specified when the "Partition files by # of Students" option is Selected. Tickets: RS-25623; RS-25143; Description: See Customer Zone Knowledge Base topic: Exporting Student Transactions (Est) |
RS-25187 | Regent Award | Awarding | Title: Alphabetized dropdown list for ‘Select Fund’ field in Add Award Wizard Tickets: RS-25086; RS-25187; RS-25440; Description: |
RS-23781 | Regent Plan | Student Experience | Title: Regent Plan: Removed Parenthesis from ‘Under Direct Costs for Academic Year’ and ‘Over Direct Costs for Academic Year’ values Tickets: RS-24381; RS-23781; RS-25578; Description: Within the Academic Year of Regent Plan and My Borrowing, parentheses were removed from positive values that populate in the Under/Over Direct Costs column, and in the ‘per term’ Under/Over Direct Costs row. Where ‘Under Direct Costs for Academic Year’ or ‘Over Direct Costs for Academic Year’ are negative amounts for a term, the value will be placed in parenthesis. |
RS-8812 | Regent Review | Tasks | Title: Block Export in RTP files for Tasks that Block Packaging Tickets: RS-23968; RS-8812; RS-25597; Description: See Customer Zone Knowledge Base topics: Ready to Package (RTP) Process, Ready to Package |
Bugs
The following bugs are resolved in this release:
Key | Product Selection | Functional Area | Release Note |
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RS-25748 | Regent Award | Configuration/Setup | Problem: Cause: Fix: Testing: |
RS-25709 | Student Experience | Student Portal (SNAP) | Problem: Cause: Fix: Testing: |
RS-25702 | Student Experience | Student Portal (SNAP) | Problem: Cause: Fix: Testing: |
RS-25665 | Regent Award | Packaging | Problem: Cause: Fix: Testing: |
RS-25607 | Regent Award | Packaging | Problem: Cause: Fix: Testing: |
RS-25606 | Regent Award | Packaging | Problem: Cause: Fix: Testing: |
RS-25600 | Regent Award | Awarding | Problem: Cause: Fix: Testing: |
RS-25589 | Regent Award | Enrollment | Problem: Cause: Fix: Testing: |
RS-25587 | Regent Fund | Configuration/Setup | Problem: Cause: Fix: Testing: |
RS-25577 | Regent Award | Packaging | Problem: Cause: Fix: Testing: |
RS-25543 | Regent Review | Workflow/Questionnaire | Problem: Incorrect Text was Displayed in the Verification Worksheet Smart Form. Cause: Fix: Testing: Complete the Verification Worksheet and ensure the following items are accurate:
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RS-25537 | Student Experience | Student Portal (SNAP) | Problem: Cause: Fix: Testing: |
RS-25513 | Regent Award | Packaging | Problem: Cause: Fix: Testing: |
RS-25469 | Regent Award | Student Experience | Problem: Cause: Fix: Testing: |
RS-25468 | Regent Award | Packaging | Problem: Regent Award unexpectedly showed BP Errors - Object reference not set to an instance of an object. |
Cause: Regent Award was not able to associate some disbursements during the packaging results validation process and treated them as empty that resulted in the object refence errors. Fix: The condition was added to handle all disbursement values properly. Testing: Run BP for the affected student. Review BP results. No object reference errors should happen. | |||
RS-25455 | Regent Award | User Interface | Problem: Cause: Fix: Testing: |
RS-25454 | Regent Award | Tasks | Problem: Cause: Fix: Testing: Before testing, confirm the following Tasks are all Active and assigned to a Task Queue. Reload RNA Setup to apply any changes.
First, prepare test data to confirm the original bug is corrected for the misfiring 'Review Manual Subsidized or Unsubsidized Loan in Same AY as Internal OAY' Tasks. Load original test data for an Undergraduate student with Subsidized and Unsubsidized loan eligibility. Package the student and clear any blocking documents and tasks. Edit both the Sub and Unsub loans to be Manual, changing the ‘New Offer’ amounts and selecting ‘Override Eligibility Rules’ so the loans have different positive amounts than the normal calculated eligibility. Package the student using Modify Academic Plan (MAP). Note the loan Academic Year End Date from the Loans tab. Load an SBL with a Program Change into a new, term-based program that starts before the loan AY end date. Process the Program Change with “Substantially Equal” set to False. Confirm Regent creates an Internal OAY for tracking the loan data, with the AY end date matching the date from the Loans tab. Review the Tasks. Confirm the system does not generate two tasks for ‘Review Manual Subsidized or Unsubsidized Loan in Same AY as Internal OAY.’ Also confirm the other, expected tasks are triggered: Confirm that two ‘Review Manual Subsidized or Unsubsidized Loan in Previous Overlapping AY’ tasks are created, one for each manual Loan. Also, only if the previous OAY crossed multiple later AYs, confirm the ‘Review Internal OAY Crossing Multiple AYs’ task is created. Confirm the Tasks are not generated for ‘Review Eligibility Change' or ‘Review Manual Award’ or ‘Review Overlapping Period for Overaward.’ Set all Tasks to Waived. Finally, confirm the Tasks are not retriggered: In the new program’s AY2, use Add Award Wizard (AAW) to add a Manual Subsidized loan and then a Manual Unsubsidized loan, overriding eligibility rules and New Offer amounts so the loan amounts do not match the Calculated Eligibility. MAP the student. Confirm the system does not trigger the new Tasks. Next, test to confirm the correct expected behavior for the task, 'Review Manual Subsidized or Unsubsidized Loan in Same AY as Internal OAY.' Prepare data for a second test student. Load the SBL and ISIR files. MAP. In Modify Award Wizard (MAW), change the Subsidized and Unsubsidized loans to Accepted status without changing any amounts, so the loans remain non-Manual. View the AY dates on the Loans tab. Load SBL and ISIR data with a future program change into a term-based program with a future program start date that starts after the loan AY end date, and also has a future program completion date that is also later than today’s date. Process the program change as Substantially Equal is False. Confirm the system does not create any OAY, because the dates are not overlapping. In MAW, edit the loans in the new, term-based program so those new loans have different New Offer amounts and become Manual. MAP. Load a third SBL, adding a new course in the previous program, so the previous program’s end date is now overlapping the start date of the new program. MAP. Re-process the program change to move the start date and create the overlap with the previous AY. MAP. Confirm the system displays the OAY banners. Test: Confirm the system creates two Tasks for ‘Review Manual Subsidized or Unsubsidized Loan in Same AY as Internal OAY,' one for each of the Manual loans in the later AY. Confirm the system does not create any ‘Review Eligibility Change’ Tasks. Confirm the system does not create new Tasks for ‘Review Internal OAY Crossing Multiple AYs.’ |
RS-25393 | Regent Award | Packaging | Problem: Cause: Fix: Testing: |
RS-25303 | Regent Award | Packaging | Problem: Cause: Fix: |
(RS-25704) |
was created to allow COA recalculation after the configured Module Freeze COA Dates. Testing: | |||
RS-25296 | Regent Award | Packaging | Problem: Packaging was blocked for some students due to ‘Federal Award Year [2023] is not valid for loan period’ error for unknown reason. Cause: Regent Award was not able to relate the declined awards to any loan period during the packaging process Fix: Logic was updated to unblock the valid packaging for awards with Declined status. Testing: Run BP/MAP for the affected students. Review BP results. No errors should occur. |
RS-25269 | Regent Award | R2T4 | Problem: Cause: Fix: Testing: |
RS-25226 | Regent Award | EST/Disbursements | Problem: Regent created duplicate student records for data views when splitting feature was used during EST-for-AR process. Cause: File names were duplicated because the IOProcessRawFile table was joined only to the IOProcess table and displayed files associated with the specific process. Fix: Joined the IOProcessRawFile table to the ESTRecordStudentTransaction to display only files associated with a specific student. Testing: Perform EST for AR with Partition Records Into Separate Files checked. Set # of Students from 1 to 600. Review dataExtract_ESTRecord_View table at DB. No duplicate entries should be visible. |
RS-25139 | Regent Award | EST/Disbursements | Problem: Cause: Fix: Testing: |
RS-25126 | Regent Award | R2T4 | Problem: |
R2T4 Wizard included loans that have never been originated in the R2T4 (Return to Title Four) calculation |
and resulted in a PWD (Post Withdrawal Disbursement). Cause: |
because of multiple loans |
in the same payment period. Fix: Testing: |
a date that falls in the reported payment periods where issue happened. After reversing and adding R2T4, confirm only the 2023 originated loans |
are included in the PWD. | |||
RS-25085 | Regent Award | COD | Problem: |
did not update COD Pell LEU on History Tab based on |
a new COD Response File. The Pell amount was incorrect. Cause: Fix: |
COD data and uses that value as the Pell LEU value in awarding calculations. Testing: | |||
RS-25081 | Regent Award | Packaging | Problem: Programs disappeared from Academic Plan when the new loan period was added into the Academic Year. Cause: Regent Award broke the relation between program term and Course Enrollment Program record during the manual modification of AY after program was completed. That made the program change banners disappear as program data was replaced by new records. Fix: The validation logic was improved for program change process to match existing Course Enrollment Program records and avoid program data replacement. Testing: Find the affected student. Review existing program change banners on Academic Plan. Run packaging. Review the data on Academic Plan again. No program change records should disappear. |
RS-25009 | Regent Award | EST/Disbursements | Problem: |
a nonterm to a Subscription Period program change took place. Cause: |
and updating the new |
program’s disbursements after |
the program change. Fix: |
Disbursement Schedule for each program's payment periods after the program change. Testing: |
Navigate to the affected student |
with a pending program change. Perform the |
nonterm to term-based program change. Run |
packaging. |
View disbursement details |
. Verify that after the program change, the Pell disbursements are split |
based on the disbursement schedule associated with |
the new program. | |||
RS-24924 | Regent Award | Awarding | Problem: Cause: Fix: Testing: |
RS-24678 | Regent Award | COD | Problem: |
COD Document ID values were generated when the COD Export process happened simultaneously. Cause: |
Document Id' entity values. Fix: |
Regent updated the COD Export process to ensure each COD Export process runs for at least one second to prevent another COD Export process from running within the same second and creating the same Document ID. Testing: |
Confirm no duplicate documentIds |
are present. | |||
RS-24505 | Regent Plan | Student Experience | Problem: Cause: Fix: Testing: |
RS-24499 | Regent Award | Packaging | Problem: Cause: Fix: Testing: |
RS-24282 | Regent Award | Runbook | Problem: |
Some Scheduled Processes were unexpectedly not running. The processes were configured to run Multiple Times Daily. Cause: |
The screen was not saving the ‘Multiple Times Interval' field to the database. Fix: |
and saving valid |
values and updating existing records from the |
screen. Testing: |
, confirm an affected Scheduled Process is configured to run hourly for multiple times per day. Run the process as a scheduled process. Confirm the scheduled process runs successfully. | |||
RS-24138 | Regent Award | Reports | Problem: |
displayed by the system. Cause: |
an expression which selected too much data and it caused slowness. Fix: |
system uses a stored procedure that |
speeds up the data retrieving |
for the report. Testing: |
Navigate to Reports tab |
. Click Pell LEU Report |
. Select the required parameters and click View Report button. |
Confirm the system |
generates the report. | |||
RS-24127 | Regent Award | Program Change | Problem: |
a Not Substantially Equal (NSE) program change for a student. Cause: |
sometimes incorrectly |
set up the Academic Year and Payment Period start date after |
a nonterm NSE program change. Fix: Testing: |
, complete a nonterm NSE program change. Check if the new program is anchoring correctly |
to the start date. Confirm the student’s progression is tracked correctly. |
Scripts
Terminology for understanding Script Release Notes:
- Build Script: These scripts are automatically run when an environment is upgraded to a new release; no special request is needed and all customers receive the scripted change.
- Data Cleanup Script: These scripts modify specific data, and may or may not be included with a new release; the release note provided below will specify. If they are not included with the release, they need to be requested by the customer.
- Custom Script: These scripts may perform a variety of functions, which will be specified in the release note and must be requested by the customer as needed.
The following scripts relate to this release:
Key | Functional Area | Release Note |
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RS-25752 | Configuration/Setup | Purpose of Script: Data Changed by the Script: How to Access the Script: How to Test the Script: |
RS-25735 | Scripts | Purpose of Script: Data Changed by the Script: How to Access the Script: How to Test the Script: |
Data Views
The following scripts relate to this release:
Key | Functional Area | Release Note |
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RS-25738 | Data Views | Title: Data View Updates per 6.4.0.0 Release Tickets: RS-25738; Description: The following Data Views were created per changes to tables:
See the Customer Zone Knowledge Base topic Regent Award Data View Data Dictionary |
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