SDSHOWTO:SDS 5 Series Changelog

SDS 4.103.0 (August 24, 2013)

Admissions

• Move log entries on Decision tab of workflow (SMUS RT #2341)
• Fix event error on leads page
• Improve person duplicate reporting during application import

Canned Reports

• Sort PR label courses alphabetically by MOE code (SMUS RT #4255)

Online Application

• Improve text on student questionnaire to encourage Interest responses (SMUS RT #2182)
• Encourage students and admission agents not to create accounts for the online application (SMUS RT #3763)

Reports

• Spell check has been removed from report writing page (redundant with browser spell check) (SMUS RT #4018)

SDS 4.102.0 (July 27, 2013)

Calendar

• Export calendar (breaks, timetable days, period overrides) includes next school year's data as well (SMUS RT #4235)
• Allow exporting next year's lessons during the current school year (SMUS RT #4235)

Lesson Planner

• Correct issue when displaying all lessons

Mark Collections

• Add teacher name to export for Trevlac report (SMUS RT #4153)

MIS

• Add UPS monitor port from ASP script on VMUtility

Online Forms

• Correct vaccination name typo (SMUS RT #4189)
• Add new form for parent consent to AUP (SMUS RT #4217)

Parent Portal

• If school year is outside of course dates, display the previous year's student directory (SMUS RT #4196)
• Add extra check for parent_view_preselections if a student is enrolled but grade does not do preselections
• Pop up course selection guide in a new window

System

• Add ability to specify an override date for StudentFilter
• Update AUP for 2013/2014 (SMUS RT #4217)

Transcripts

• Add post-processing step to remove interim courses where a final mark exists for the same school year (SMUS RT #4177)

SDS 4.101.0 (June 29, 2013)

Attendance

• Add teacher name to unexplained absence emails (SMUS RT #4096)

Awards

• Allow award administrators to view award data with changed date (SMUS RT #4138)

Course Administration

• Add seat count to course list by grade page (SMUS RT #4142)

Reports

• Fix "Write reports" menu item not displaying for courses that start at exactly the same time as the school year
• Code to determine whether to use "I" now uses the mark collection end date rather than the attendance end date
• Allow middle school director signature on reports if enabled (SMUS RT #4173)

Students

• Add ability to batch modify experiential program flag (SMUS RT #4146)

SDS 4.100.0 (June 1, 2013)

Admissions

• Provide year/campus filtering to application import centre (SMUS RT #3974)

Awards

• Change senior school director's signature (SMUS RT #3971)
• Add StudentFilter functionality to awards printing page (SMUS RT #3972)
• Remove ability to alter nomination phase by changing viewing date (SMUS RT #4002)
• Add student photo to nomination details page (SMUS RT #3986)
• Show student photo on nominations page when mouse is hovered over student name (SMUS RT #3986)
• Add "Are you sure" prompt for deleting award nominations (SMUS RT #4015)
• Add new page to list awards available to a selected list of grades (SMUS RT #4024)

Calendar

• Set default "display to parents" for announcements to unchecked (SMUS RT #3808)

Online Application

• Prompt for parent birth dates (SMUS RT #3312)
• Fix issue where unknown birth dates were being set to the date the app_person was created

Parent/Teacher

• Add ability to schedule PT meetings with breaks between each one (SMUS RT #4052)

Reports

• Hide the "Enter marks" course link if the course has marks disabled (SMUS RT #3564)

Search

• Add student enrolment date and finish date as advanced search fields (SMUS RT #3960)
• Add student email output to advanced search advanced output fields
• Fix advanced search email output for multiple parents of same gender
• Add student board/day and mother/father name and address to advanced search advanced output fields

Student SDS

• Significantly speed up the "upcoming tests" page
• Add "upcoming tests in the next week" to Student SDS front page (SMUS RT #3661)

Students

• Correctly set junior school grade groups in network account sync script (SMUS RT #3590)

System

• Fix issue on edit_person page where unknown birthdates were being set to December 31, 1969
• Fix fatal error when viewing student info for old historical students imported from Trevlac

Transcripts

• Correct final marks of type "letter grade" being represented as "F" on transcript (SMUS RT #4069)

SDS 4.99.0 (May 4, 2013)

Attendance

• Course conflicts are still displayed for the incomplete date range even if a course is dropped or completed (SMUS RT #3841)
• Fixed PLOs output in lesson section of daily attendance page

Consolidated Health Form

• Fix several pre-processing steps when form is accessed before year rolls over (SMUS RT #3872)
• Form meister page collects correct list of parents to add to the campaign even if accessed outside of proper CSY (SMUS RT #1920)

Markbook

• Fix sorting by final mark column on student marks page

Parents

• Implemented new mother/father auditing page (SMUS RT #3883)

Students

• Free students page can export student list as CSV (SMUS RT #3696)
• Correct behaviour of Student::filterByIsDay function when searching for "N" (SMUS RT #3807)
• Implement new Special Needs Category value for MOE 1701 (SMUS RT #3739)

System

• Performance optimizations for loading CSS and JS files
• Upgrade to latest version of jQuery (1.9.1), jQuery UI (1.10.2) and Timepicker (1.2.2)
• Correct display issue of menu pins in Internet Explorer 10 (SMUS RT #3871)
• Correct display issue of datepicker box overlapping sausage on small screens (SMUS RT #3871)
• Fix duplicate Korea in nationality table (SMUS RT #3826)

SDS 4.98.0 (March 9, 2013)

Admissions

• Enrolment Status update (& summary) updated to use new program definitions (SMUS RT #3537)
• Rounding of enrolment status data altered to reduce accumulation of rounding errors

Student SDS

• Restrict access to report cards until the "release to grade" date (SMUS RT #3456)

Teachers

• Add busy teacher list to free teachers page

Transcripts

• Transcripts will not show a mark of 0 for an I letter grade (SMUS RT #3586)

SDS 4.97.0 (February 9, 2013)

Admissions

• Added fee_status_type programs to monthly stats (SMUS RT #3222), school year totals (SMUS RT #3220), enrolment summary (SMUS RT #3221)
• App_breakout page rewritten so that all of the months for a given school year are visible together (SMUS RT #3223)
• Fixed glitch with accepts in enrolment summary pages
• Added extra save button to list of applications to import (SMUS RT #3467)

Calendar

• Add day number to the announcements readout page if applicable (SMUS RT #3350)
• Add day of week to the announcements readout page (SMUS RT #3440)
• Default new announcement start/end times to 8:00 am - 4:00 pm on quick creation page (SMUS RT #3363)
• Read announcements page respects current campus override
• Read announcements will display all applicable announcements when date is changed, not just ones that also display now
• Add ability to hide announcements from parents (SMUS RT #3294)
• Daily email announcements page only looks for announcements up to 11:59 pm rather than 12:00 am to avoid tomorrow's announcements
• Index "all announcements" section will display all applicable announcements when date is changed, not just ones that also display now
• Change order of first line of daily announcement email (SMUS RT #3455)

Canned Reports

• Add Student PEN to challenge course list (SMUS RT #3374)
• Add selection to print name labels by legal or usual name (SMUS RT #3411)

Finance

• Update regex for parsing statement line items so that line items with no description are caught (SMUS RT #3307)
• Update regex for parsing statement account numbers so that account numbers with letters are caught
• Verify accounting's calculated total against SDS's calculated total on uploaded statements

Lessons

• Fixed glitch introduced by datepicker on Missing Assignments page
• Link school PLOs to lesson planner (SMUS RT #1726)

Parent Portal

• Add phonetic representation of password to outgoing emails containing passwords (SMUS RT #3337)
• Change to salted hashes for LDAP password storage
• Update current student registration PDF links (SMUS RT #3417)
• Fix finding interviews for other PT sessions when checking to see if parent already has an interview scheduled (SMUS RT #3481)

Reports

• Sort batch printed reports from the print queue page alphabetically by student (SMUS RT #3330)

Students

• Only show a mailout send/return date on edit_person if a date was entered (SMUS RT #3304)
• Add ability to filter list_students page by fee status
• Remove graduation requirement satisfying by course name check (SMUS RT #3418)

System

• Speed up person_log queries by adding indexes
• Added : to the list of acceptable characters for School PLOs

SDS 4.96.0 (January 12, 2013)

Calendar

• Only display announcements for the current campus on the teacher index page
• Hide event date on announcements on index page
• Provide button to check all grades for a campus on announcement creation and edit pages
• Provide new page to read announcements applicable right now for middle and junior schools
• Update event announcement display to support older versions of IE
• Index page announcement display reflects correct announcements when viewing date is changed
• Daily announcement email will find all announcements for the day rather than just the ones scheduled to display at 8:00 am
• Bold the title of the announcement on the daily announcement email (SMUS RT #3336)

Canned Reports

• Correct fatal error when splitting students out by state and province but no students live in US or Canada

Consolidated Health Form

• Only display insurance form elements for the selected option
• Disable and clear new vaccination checkboxes until consent has been provided
• Update some instruction text for the consolidated health form
• Implement first nations non-insured health benefits option (SMUS RT #2340)
• Implement SMUS-provided temporary insurance option

Email

• Email parents export to CSV respects selected student and parent relationship types when generating export (SMUS RT #3246)

Events

• Fix the uncheck all button on manage_event page (SMUS RT #3259)

Finance

• Changes to current student registration page for 2013/2014

Mark Collections

• Update missing marks page to find students with any missing marks rather than all missing marks for a course (SMUS RT #3184)
• Advisor edit reports function from "my advisees" updates the editor person on the report (SMUS RT #3231)

Reports

• Restore "save and next/previous" functionality with new SMUS modern menu (SMUS RT #3249)

System

• Fix menu not expanding items with apostrophes (SMUS RT #3250)
• Replace frequent menu items with pinned items menu (SMUS RT #3255)
• Menu system now remembers which items are expanded under each top-level menu (SMUS RT #3254)

SDS 4.95.1 (December 21, 2012)

• Update registration code to hide new information until January 22nd

SDS 4.95.0 (December 15, 2012)

Admissions

• Fixed count of active ESL applications on Enrolment Status reports
• Fixed counting of student statuses on Enrolment Status reports

Attendance

• Count unexplained absences by course (SMUS RT #2491)

Canned Reports

• Add new mailout canned report (SMUS RT #3077)
• Add ability to filter by student status on previous school canned report (SMUS RT #3137)
• Home country report finds parents in the right order
• Home country report uses primary address regardless of whether it's the mailing address

Departments

• Separate check_finished_courses page by campus to allow closing of only one campus at a time (SMUS RT #1188)
• Correct print_marksheet by department showing old courses

Email

• Field updates for parent email export function (SMUS RT #3087)

Lesson planner

• Improvements to edit lessons page (SMUS RT #3091)

Markbook

• Altered default show and due dates when creating a new assignment
• Mark entry text boxes are now more number-friendly for mobile devices

Reports

• Fix "Set all PLO values" function when no custom PLOs are available (SMUS RT #3105)
• Correct report writing issue for courses that start exactly the same time as the school year

System

• Advanced search and studentfilter students in course search shows Kindergarten courses now (SMUS RT #3167)
• Fix sorting of edit_students page, fee status mode (SMUS RT #3158)

Visual Overhaul

• Make SDS look like SMUS Website (SMUS RT #961)
• Correct caching of old look with CSS and JS links with the modify date included
• Increase performance by correcting ETag behaviour
• Increase performance by correctly setting expires headers on non-PHP elements
• Increase performance by moving javascript includes to the end of the content
• Increase performance by revamping menu system for report writing and editing (no longer clears menu cache)
• Correct resizing issue in online app with long textarea elements
• Move some elements of the Admin Menu section into Staff Menu to eliminate display of Admin Menu for users with basic privileges
• Display closed courses in the menu again, in a separate section (SMUS RT #1363)