8.0.42 Release Notes

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Description of Update

44148

It is now possible to preview a field card without an error after choosing Print Appraisal Card on the Summary tab of a property record.

45236

Homestead exemption scanned forms with barcodes now load the years associated with the property on the screen.

44978

The Prior Year Exemption search dialog box now selects the latest year listed by default if no years have had a prop_inactive_dt value set. Otherwise, the wizard checks the rows for years in which the property has been deleted.

44034

It is now possible to undo a batch for a mass update without an error.

45146

The Value Certification report no longer shows deleted for active and inactive accounts.

45211

Printing the Sales Ratio Report from the Profile Sale Chart page no longer results in an error.

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Description of Update

43377

The Post Payment dialog box now allows you to post an installment payment as a partial payment.

43804

The taxes due total on the property search results window is now calculated correctly when a taxpayer’s bill has underage on its final payment as well as a refund due to a subsequent adjustment.

43831

The values and balance due is now correct when an underpayment is paid using the Pay All button on quarter/half pay bills.

42944

The Post Payment dialog box now allows you to post an overpayment or an underpayment for quarterly, half-pay or installment bills.

In addition, displayed payment and transaction totals no longer add discount or underage amounts to the payment amount.

43556

The Post Payment dialog box now allows you to post a non-cash payment for more than the amount due.

43514

The Taxes Due tab of the property record displays a bill with a negative balance rather than a zero balance when an overpayment refund is made.

43534

Bills that have been paid within a discount period with an overpayment refund now display the correct balance due and refund due amount.

45254

In the Attorney Fees Report, multiple payments to the same account for the same amount in the same batch are now added into the total for the entities listed.

43797

Refund due reports now handle null number values correctly.

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Description of New Functionality

14940

Litigation Report by Entity – It is now possible to print a litigation report by entity.

41621

Manage GIS Disclaimer – In the Manage GIS Environment dialog box, a disclaimer can be placed in the bottom right corner of all printed GIS maps.

38829

Reappraisal Plan Enhancements – Tracking is available for reappraisal status, market area analysis for neighborhoods, and the life cycle stage for neighborhoods.

26048

Refund Due – The calculation of refund due amounts is possible on bills paid with a discount and, when applicable, on bills paid with penalty, interest, and/or attorney fees. The discounted amount is recalculated based on the new adjusted tax.

The Summary tab has been changed to display only the base tax due and the total tax due in the Tax section. To view a complete breakdown of taxes due, click the Tax Due tab and select either all statements or all bills. Then click Summary.

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Description of Update

14940

It is now possible to print a litigation report by entity.

22561

The formatting of Next Inspection report has been adjusted

33974

The Print Appraisal Card dialog box now closes after an appraisal card is printed.

34302

Roll reports now print international addresses correctly.

36236

Mass Maintenance now counts properties that are deleted or present only in previous years only when deleting property group codes.

38584

The differences in neighborhood adjustments now display as required on comp grids. A new column named Abs/Subdv Mass Improv Adj was added to display the amount of the adjustment.

39127

When viewing the change log of the details of an income schedule, the window no longer opens behind the others, causing it to be inaccessible. The Change Log button is now available on an earlier screen.

39130

The future year on the roll history is no longer displayed at the bottom of the list. Instead, the future year is now displayed at the top of the list and just above the most recent year for comparison purposes.

40161

PACS no longer stops processing when a property search is cancelled. When a property search is cancelled, the system will now display an empty property list.

40234

The processing time of a property search using a specific entity and state code has been improved.

40420

Nation information is now displayed properly for current or January 1 taxpayers with international addresses.

40439

Changes made using the Penpad Personal Property workflow are now being saved correctly.

40983 &

39361

A temporary database table error that sometimes occurred while printing Sales Comp Search results has been corrected.

41045

The Rendition tab of a property record no longer displays an error message when lengthy comments are added for rendition tracking.

41056

The Mass Create Property wizard now allows the same size numbers for land size as the land detail in the property view.

41614

The Ag Rollback Totals report displays who was on the ag rollback instead of the current owner information.

41681

The personal property report no longer displays duplicate entity entries.

41712

The selection of entities made from one set of properties to the next is now retained during mass property creation.

41742

The Agent Authority button is no longer disabled when a property was not in coding.

41718

The dialog box for adding and removing property group codes can now be sorted by clicking on the table headers.

41911

When selecting List Properties in Selected Years Supplement a second time, the system continues processing.

42180

The selection now remains in the entity list view after modifications are made to an entity.

43275

It is now possible to select the year when creating new land schedules.

35550

The BPP appraisal card now shows the updated prior year appraised values when the prior year values are changed in a supplement.

39223

When the legal description of a property contains an ampersand, it now appears correctly on a printed appraisal or field review cards.

40998

Next Inspection reports were receiving errors because there were associations with the property that had no information. To avoid the error the missing data will not be printed on the report in these cases.

41548

Field review cards now show the image on the front when printed, unless the user selects the option to hide the images.

41889

Ampersands are no longer treated as underline prefix characters in calls to the Draw Text Windows API function.

42021

Sketch commands are printed with the field review cards.

42130

Printing appraisal and field review cards now continues for properties without a legal description.

41889

Ampersands are no longer treated as underline prefix characters in calls to the DrawText Windows API function.

42230

Processing time has been improved for printing field review cards with many improvements.

42717

Printing appraisal and field review cards now continues for properties without a legal description.

42734

Ampersand characters are no longer duplicated when appraisal and field review cards are printed.

43117

Printing appraisal cards by property list now continues without a SQL error.

40015

CHODO exemption and amount are added to the Transfer Tape totals.

41129

The address formula in the ExportOwnerAgent_MT.rpt report file now correctly formats domestic addresses when the country name is set to United States.

41905

The appraisal data export VBScript now replaces tab characters that occur in the supplement description with a space.

39046

Instructions for capturing and omitting ARB values by query have been added.

41049

Supplemental appraisal roll has been modified so that the property ID is displayed completely.

38816

The ARB protest view now shows correct information in the protest-by section for closed protests.

39589

Arbitrations for UDI properties no longer list the case or the property twice on the search, list and values pages. Instead, the text of the UDI parent is now displayed.

39711

The tax preview has been modified to clearly identify cases where the market value is being used instead of the assessed value. The tax previews retrieval of values from the wrong supplement for a given year has been corrected.

39792

The Comment field of an arbitration now has word wrap and vertical scrolling to support the entry of long comments.

39940

Protest hearings or dockets assignments that apply only to personal properties now display a description of Other.

40132

Changes when assigning amounts to the arbitrator values now apply the correct decision description, including a decision of Undecided if the value is set to 0.

40205

Rescheduling a protest now records the change in the event log with the name of the person making the change, and not the name of the protest originator.

40689

The Print Inquiry Form option on the Letters page of ARB inquiries now prints a form with all the information filled in.

42149

Predefined monitors now list all of the expected accounts.

40042

The default year on the property search dialog box now updates to the new year for all users when creating a new year layer.

41800

The Revise Lease button has been disabled.

40067

Duplicate entries are no longer printed in the mortgage listing report.

39956

In the Property Exemption wizard, new UNK exemptions can no longer be added, but existing ones will be maintained.

40812

Owners are no longer listed multiple times for a given year in the Exemption Wizard.

42538

The processing time for current year properties in the Exemption Wizard has been improved.

41621

In the Manage GIS Environment dialog box, a disclaimer can be placed in the bottom right corner of all printed GIS maps.

35402 & 38904

GIS area (sq.ft. and acreage) is now being displayed correctly in GIS Appraiser.

40383

The field tag property_val.Mapsco has been added to ARB protest letters.

40537

System address tags have been added to arbitration letters maintenance.

42475

The system now uses the letter path specified for the Collections-only database.

40221

An issue involving the failure of an ownership transfer with SQL primary key constraint errors has been resolved.

41258

The Ownership Transfer wizard now continues processing after the Deeds pages when numerous properties are selected.

41048

Personal property rendition details can no longer be edited for a property that is not in coding.

41488

For properties with late rendition penalties, the imposed date is set only when no current date exists.

41676

When generating a profile from property comparables, the condition code is now included.

40571

An issue involving the failure of the PTD verification report with a database DLL error has been resolved.

41935

The issue involving the page footers of PTD reports printed from the print totals dialog boxes (certified, adjusted, etc.) has been corrected.

39748

The Lawsuit Gain/Loss Report now displays whether a lawsuit is active or inactive, and the final value column is now large enough to display all digits of large numbers.

40106

When the Print by Query check box is selected in the Print Certified Totals dialog box, the appraisal company selection box is no longer enabled regardless of the value of the Select properties appraised by check box.

40193

The Standard Gain/Loss report can now be printed for years other than the current year.

41160

The complete change description in the supplement roll is now displayed.

40176

Comparable property search now loads residential properties that have been supplemented.

40773

The complete taxing unit number is now displayed in the PTD sales submission export.

40821

The search results grid for commercial sales/equity search has been modified to left justify the DBA and Valuation columns.

39771

The Freeze column of the Supplemental Roll was wrapping to the next line for large values and the Assessed label was not being displayed fully. The report fields have been expanded to improve their display.

41657

Supplement group preprocessing no longer returns multiple rows of data when an owner has multiple primary addresses.

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Description of Update

40034

The Post Payment dialog box now retrieves and displays current taxpayer information when running against a Collections-only database.

41059

ARB events in the property events page are no longer available in PACS Collections since they are not relevant for PACS Collections.

41508

The zip code is now formatted correctly on the Installment Agreement Report.

28257

It is now possible to select multiple charts at the same time within the charts of account interface on the print check register.

39057

Entity names of greater than 18 characters now word wrap to the next line when necessary.

41397

The modified bill report no longer reports data from bills that are inactive.

41211

The performance of the Collections data export has been improved.

43944

Posting overpayments or underpayments on installments is now allowed.

43172

The amount posted is now distributed on all the quarterly bills.

41454

The Post Escrow dialog box now populated the Paid By field with the current taxpayer instead of the current owner.

43130

The system now completes processing without interruption when the option is chosen to print or reprint a receipt for a posted payment.

40882

The Escrow Collections Activity report now sorts in alphabetical order by taxpayer.

42051

The Freeze Ceiling Run Report and Freeze Ceiling Run Error Report now include page numbering and a page break after each entity code group.

42933

The Fee Collections Activity Summary Report now prints correctly.

39425

Zero tax amounts in the supplement roll have been corrected.