Mike S. Blog

Mods - hris32,PZRDUES,SWBXCOT

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:50:51 -0800

I made some modifications this week to a few scripts/programs.

HRIS32 - added some logic to not insert a record if there is a record with the same effective date to avoid constraint errors.
PZRDUES - added 'U2C','U2D','UDA' codes to the classified report.
SWBXCOT - added logic so it accepts lowercase "v" for vnumbers.

Degreeworks - Misc logins

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:43:35 -0800

I was able to create a generic login in Degreeworks by copying an existing account and modifying these fields:
shp_access_id - put the new login name here
shp_box_id - put the new login name here
unique_id - use a low number because this comes from a sequence number
unique_key - copy from existing account and change one digit,
shp_access_code - new password

Degreeworks

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:40:15 -0800

I spent some time this week looking at the Degreeworks documentation. There's some scripts in the degreeworks_home/local/sql directory that we can use to configure which students and staff have degreeworks logins. There's also a way to load in individual logins from a text files. When we go to production, we won't need to worry about creating individual logins because we can setup the system to use Banner self service to authenticate users.

Leave accrual - non-standard updates

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:25:47 -0800

I finished my non-standard update scripts and ran them in production on 1/24/12. After running the scripts, some leave accrual balances were still incorrect. I spoke with Payroll and found out that the leave accruals were off by a month. The leave in Banner is always off by a month. For example, when we run leave accruals for January, the leave data is actually from December but it posts in Banner as January leave. I ended up rerunning the non-standard updates again and posted them to the correct month.

Leave accruals - non-standard updates

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 15:15:32 -0800

I've been working on two scripts to do a non-standard update to the leave accrual tables in Banner: perleav,phraccr,perlhis. A lot of employee's leave accruals are inaccurate in Banner so I'm going to reload all of the leave accrual data from spreadsheets from the Payroll office starting from July 2011. The first script will reset all of the prior balances back to July's beginning balance and zero out the used and accrued leave. The second script will reload all of the month to month leave accrual data.

Leave Accrual - PZPLEAV

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 15:05:03 -0800

I rewrote the leave accrual loading process in perl so it's easier for us developers to run. I added some new columns to the table pwbleav (temp table for holding the leave accrual data). The new columns are furlough and special leave:
pwbleav_furl_prior,
pwbleav_furl_used,
pwbleav_furl_acc,
pwbleav_furl_bal,
pwbleav_extr_prior,
pwbleav_extr_used,
pwbleav_extr_acc,
pwbleav_extr_bal

TWBKLOGN mod

Fri, 13 Jan 2012 15:28:30 -0800

I made some changes to TWBKLOGN so that it redirects back to the portal even if an ldap exception occurs. This package was also missing the http_header_close statement when it encounters an exception so I added that. I created a table to capture errors (wtailor.web_error). This can be used to debug any login problems via the portal.

TSRCBIL Mod

Fri, 13 Jan 2012 15:16:02 -0800

I made some changes to TSRCBIL (student bills) and modified the OMR Pitney mark code. Neopost notified the business office that our Pitney mark is not correct and the line needs to be 0.708mm thick. We had it set to a thickness of 1mm. I saved a copy of the Hp-GL/2 reference guide on my public_html folder just in case I need to make changes in the future. The guide is named HPGL2-RTL_ReferenceGuide.pdf.

Grade change request - changing email address

Tue, 03 Jan 2012 14:11:31 -0800

To change the email address for the Division admin, look in the package code for wou_grade_chg and search for @wou.edu and replace it with the new division admin's email address. There should be two entries that will need to be changed in the code. Also make sure to change the Vnumber and pidm in the table regis_grdchg_div.

Non-standard update fro TZREDRG

Tue, 03 Jan 2012 14:04:37 -0800

I did a non-standard update for the table TZREDRG (a custom table that holds information about whether a student is setup at the bank for e-disburse). Some students were incorrectly flagged as ready to receive disbursements when they actually were not setup at the bank. I changed these students back to a status of "SENT".

Vacation

Thu, 15 Dec 2011 14:18:20 -0800

I'm on vacation for the next two weeks. ;)

Payroll Timesheets - clearing out the table

Wed, 14 Dec 2011 14:25:27 -0800

If you run into too many errors when running the final step in payroll timesheets (pzpmtim), you'll want to delete all of the rows from the table PHRMTIM first before you reload the payroll rosters.

SZRFRPT - repeated courses

Tue, 13 Dec 2011 14:20:40 -0800

I added first name and last name to the report SZRFRPT (repeated courses listing for financial aid).

Real time class availability for DEP

Fri, 10 Jun 2011 15:16:23 -0800

I duplicated the real time class availability for the Division of Extended Programs so that they can have their own classes listed (without all of the other departments). This will make it easier for students to find Extended Programs specific classes.

Workflow

Fri, 10 Jun 2011 14:59:22 -0800

We have a test and production workflow server setup so I started testing the functionality this week. I ran into a bit of a snag because I couldn't get the workflow modeler to work. I kept getting an error message about unsigned resources in java. I tried importing the SSL certificate from OUS but that didn't solve the problem. I tried reinstalling java but that also did not solve it. I went into the java control panel to clear out the cache and I noticed that caching was disabled. I enabled it and tried workflow modeler again and the modeler worked. Apparently, this must be enable to import the SSL certificate.