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October 29, 2010

Regional meeting

I attended the regional meeting at Southern Oregon University this week. Here's a brief summary of the items that were discussed: Cognos demo,move to Linux,Degree Works Demo,and each institution shared information about upcoming projects.

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Banner 8.3 upgrade this weekend

We are upgrading Banner to 8.3 this weekend. We did lots of preparation so it should go smooth.

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October 22, 2010

Spaiden - spbpers_confid_ind

I spent some time looking at the code behind the form SPAIDEN. The banner team noticed that sometimes the confidentiality indicator would be set to 'N' and other times it would be null. I found some code in the form that seems to be setting the code to 'N' if a person clicks on the "generate ID" button. I also found that the code is set to 'N' if a person was marked confidential in the past and then unmarked. The table description says that the valid values are 'Y' or null, but N is also a valid value.

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GZRDEMGR - changes

I made some changes to GZRDEMGR (Emergency notification deletes) so that it includes all faculty and staff that are no longer employed at WOU. The previous version only included students that graduated and no longer enrolled.

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October 15, 2010

WOU_FINAIDLOAD - admissions and end of term reports

I made some changes to Financial Aid's admissions and end of term reports so that Post Bac non-grads (PN) report the correct gpa and earned hours for the term. I also added some logic to include the dual enrollment credit hours for the end of term report.

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Transfer Articulation webpage

I added a new column to the transfer articulation page on Wolf Web that displays the effective term a transfer course is valid from. Some courses may transfer in differently depending on the effective term.

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October 8, 2010

FWPCHKP

I started working on mods to FWPCHKP (our finance check printing program) so that it will print checks in the millions. At first glance, I thought the project wasn't going to be too tough. It was a copy of the baseline program FABCHKP that was moded to produce our current checks. It turns out that this is going to take a bit more effort to upgrade and modify it. From the comments in the code, it looks like it was copied in 1993. FABCHKP has been changed a lot since that time.

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Banner 8.3 Upgrade: SGASTDN

I tried compiling the form SGASTDN 8.4 to get around a defect (study path error) in Banner 8.3 but that didn't work so well. There's some other changes that were made to the 8.4 form so it wouldn't compile. I ended up putting a mod into the 8.3 form that disables the study path tab so that we don't get the error any more. If we ever use the study path enhancement in Banner, we'll need to remove the mod.

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October 1, 2010

Scarf - Academic Standing for summer

Note to self -
Academic standing is not calculated in summer term so the current and future academic standing in the scarf report should be identical except for students that are flagged "RA" (Academic Suspenstion/Reinstate). These students are flagged as "Disqualification" per OUS request. All academic standing is pulled from the students prior term for summer.

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SZRHINS changes

I made some changes to SZRHINS (health insurance report) so that it excludes the nursing students. These students already pay a health fee through OHSU.

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Scarf Financial Aid changes

I added two new fields related to financial aid to the scarf report this week. The first field is aid_year for the financial aid category record. A student can have more than one aid year for summer pell grants so this field will identify which year the aid is based on. The second field is fafsa_status. This field indicates the status of the student's fafsa application for the year.

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