SDSHOWTO:SDS 5 Series Changelog

SDS 4.97.0 (Target: February 9, 2013)

Calendar

• Add day number to the announcements readout page if applicable (SMUS RT #3350)
• 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

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

Parent Portal

• Add phonetic representation of password to outgoing emails containing passwords (SMUS RT #3337)
• Change to salted hashes for LDAP password storage

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)

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)