SDSHOWTO:SDS 5 Series Changelog

SDS 4.96.0 (Target: January 12, 2013)

Canned Reports

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

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)

SDS 4.95.0 (Target: December 15, 2012)

Admissions

• Fixed count of active ESL applications 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)