1.PACS Appraisal 8.0.42.16
PACS Appraisal 8.0.42.16
Updates
Help | Description of Update |
Appraisal Card
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. |
Exemptions
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. |
General
44034 | It is now possible to undo a batch for a mass update without an error. |
Reports/Letters
45146 | The Value Certification report no longer shows deleted for active and inactive accounts. |
Sales
45211 | Printing the Sales Ratio Report from the Profile Sale Chart page no longer results in an error. |
2.PACS Collections 8.0.42.16
PACS Collections 8.0.42.16
Updates
Help |
Description of Update |
Collections – General
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. |
Bills
43831 |
The values and balance due is now correct when an underpayment is paid using the Pay All button on quarter/half pay bills. |
Posting
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. |
Refunds
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. |
Reports/Letters
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. |
3.PACS Appraisal 8.0.42.13
PACS Appraisal 8.0.42.13
Help |
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. |
What’s New in PACS Documentation
Documentation for the following functional area has been updated:
Updates
Help |
Description of Update |
Appraisal – General
14940 |
It is now possible to print a litigation report by entity. |
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22561 |
The formatting of Next Inspection report has been adjusted |
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33974 |
The Print Appraisal Card dialog box now closes after an appraisal card is printed. |
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34302 |
Roll reports now print international addresses correctly. |
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36236 |
Mass Maintenance now counts properties that are deleted or present only in previous years only when deleting property group codes. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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40234 |
The processing time of a property search using a specific entity and state code has been improved. |
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40420 |
Nation information is now displayed properly for current or January 1 taxpayers with international addresses. |
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40439 |
Changes made using the Penpad Personal Property workflow are now being saved correctly. |
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40983 & 39361 |
A temporary database table error that sometimes occurred while printing Sales Comp Search results has been corrected. |
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41045 |
The Rendition tab of a property record no longer displays an error message when lengthy comments are added for rendition tracking. |
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41056 |
The Mass Create Property wizard now allows the same size numbers for land size as the land detail in the property view. |
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41614 |
The Ag Rollback Totals report displays who was on the ag rollback instead of the current owner information. |
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41681 |
The personal property report no longer displays duplicate entity entries. |
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41712 |
The selection of entities made from one set of properties to the next is now retained during mass property creation. |
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41742 |
The Agent Authority button is no longer disabled when a property was not in coding. |
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41718 |
The dialog box for adding and removing property group codes can now be sorted by clicking on the table headers. |
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41911 |
When selecting List Properties in Selected Years Supplement a second time, the system continues processing. |
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42180 |
The selection now remains in the entity list view after modifications are made to an entity. |
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43275 |
It is now possible to select the year when creating new land schedules. |
Appraisal Cards
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. |
Appraisal Export
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. |
Appraisal Notice
39046 |
Instructions for capturing and omitting ARB values by query have been added. |
Appraisal Roll
41049 |
Supplemental appraisal roll has been modified so that the property ID is displayed completely. |
ARB Inquiry
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. |
Certification
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. |
Codes
40067 |
Duplicate entries are no longer printed in the mortgage listing report. |
Exemptions
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. |
GIS
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. |
Letter Processing
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. |
Ownership
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. |
Personal Property
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. |
Profile Analysis
41676 |
When generating a profile from property comparables, the condition code is now included. |
PTD
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. |
Reports & Letters
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. |
Sales
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. |
Supplement Process
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. |
4.PACS Collections 8.0.42.13
PACS Collections 8.0.42.13
Updates
Help |
Description of Update |
Collections – General
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. |
Balancing
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. |
Collections Data Export
41211 |
The performance of the Collections data export has been improved. |
Posting
43944 |
Posting overpayments or underpayments on installments is now allowed. |
43172 |
The amount posted is now distributed on all the quarterly bills. |
Receipts
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. |
Reports & Letters
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. |
Supplement Process
39425 |
Zero tax amounts in the supplement roll have been corrected. |