1.PACS Appraisal 8.0.43.18
PACS Appraisal 8.0.43.18
Updates
Help | Description of Update |
Exemptions
45662 | Processing time for the Exemption Wizard has been improved. |
Supplement Process
44064 | When you right-click on a property and choose List Properties in the Supplement Group List, the system now displays all properties in a supplement group when there are more than 100 properties. |
2.PACS Appraisal 8.0.43.17
PACS Appraisal 8.0.43.17
Updates
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Description of Update |
Personal Property
45095 |
When data is entered on the Rendition Summary screen (displayed by choosing the Personal Property tab > Rend Summary button), an MDSE segment is no longer created automatically. In addition,when data is entered in the Good Faith or Supplies column, a supplement segment is no longer created automatically. |
45103 |
On the Rendition Summary screen (displayed by choosing the Personal Property tab > Rend Summary button), the PACS user ID is displayed. |
45468 |
Schedule A and schedule B files are now sorted in the correct order for the Print Personal Property Applications activity. |
3.PACS Appraisal 8.0.43.16
PACS Appraisal 8.0.43.16
Updates
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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. |
4.PACS Collections 8.0.43.16
PACS Collections 8.0.43.16
Updates
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Description of Update |
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. |
5.PACS Appraisal 8.0.43.15
PACS Appraisal 8.0.43.15
Applications New sort options are available when printing applications. The sort options include alpha, geo, property ID, zip code, and owner IDs. |
Appraisal summary A new button is available from the appraisal summary screen that invokes the active income valuation. It allows the valuation to be edited as it normally would. |
ARB – quick image scan The ARB quick image scan has been modified so that images may be associated with an inquiry or protest by specifying the case ID, the property ID, or the geo ID. |
Commercial property designation The ability to set a property as commercial or residential as an override to the state code has been added. |
Comp grid – feature value addition Feature values have been added as a new adjustment when using comp grids. |
Comp grid – Mapsco addition The Mapsco field has been added as a weighted selection criteria for use in comp grids. |
Data validation checks Data validation checks are available to verify data on the system. |
De-annexation indicator and report There is an indicator available to mark whether an entity is being de-annexed from a property, and a report for this new functionality has been added. |
Exemption wizard The exemption wizard has been modified so that a geo ID or a property ID can be entered for property selections. |
Field review card A new check box has been added to the field review card that allows subsegment information to be printed on the card. |
GIS display year use values The GIS Viewer populates values onto the map from the year layer the property was opened from. For example, if a property is opened in the 2005 layer and the GIS Viewer is opened, then values for the year 2005 are populated. |
GIS – land adjustment codes label A new land adjustment codes label has been added to list the land adjustments on a property. |
GIS – pool label
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Income grid Changes have been made to the income equity grid calculations. The following fields have been modified: stabilized market value, L/B adjustment, NOI/sqft, NOI adj, cap rate adj, equity stabilized value, equity value economic unit, equity value real estate/sqft, and subject equity position. |
Listing price and date on the sale record
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Mass create sub/condo process changes
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Personal property enhancements
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Property group code search The property group code search report has been enhanced to allow a searches for property group codes using and instead of only or. |
What’s New in PACS Documentation
Documentation for the following functional areas is provided with this release:
Updates
Help |
Description of Update |
Appraisal – General
34302 |
The Supplemental Roll Report now prints international addresses. |
36726 |
The REF ID2 field has been added to the mass creation wizard, and the land record has been added to condo mass creation. Geo IDs can be created sequentially. There is the capability to create REF ID2 from Geo ID value, and there is enhanced event creation. It is possible to edit the lot number in the breakdown screen. |
39349 40520 |
When an entity association is removed from a property in the layer for one year, PACS treats this as a de-annexation if the entity was on the property in the layer for the immediately preceding year. In addition, there is now a search button for the mass update entities on properties, and an annexation/de-annexation event for mass update entities on properties. Further, there is a user right available (deannexation_default) that can update the deannexation table upon the removal or addition of an entity on a property. |
39351 |
Property ID and Owner ID sort options have been added to the Print Property Applications dialog. |
41080 |
An option has been added to permit you to manually override state codes and designate personal properties as commercial or residential. |
41081 |
The Commercial Appraisal Summary page now includes a button in property views that opens the active income valuation for the current year, if there is one. |
41086 |
Listing Price and Date fields have been added to the Sales Information page, and the Market Analysis report is created. |
41091 |
Searching with a geo ID now identifies ARB inquiries and protests to apply quick scans to. |
41092 |
Searching with a geo ID now identifies property to apply exemptions to. |
41100 |
The default value and the year selection in the Property Group Codes Report no longer filters properties by year; rather, it selects which year’s ownership information to print for the matching properties. There is also an option to print properties with any or all of the selected codes. |
41100 |
UDI parent properties no longer appear in the Property Group Codes Report. |
41101 |
You can now search for residential comparables by Mapsco locator and configure Mapsco as a column in the search results. The Mapsco search parameter is a comma-separated list of prefixes. For example, an entry of AA,B finds all properties with a Mapsco locator starting with AA or B. |
41104 |
Features Value has been added to the available sections in residential comparable grids. It can be enabled or disabled in the comparable property system-wide configuration. |
41505 |
Inactive income valuations for certified years are no longer displayed. |
42453 |
It is no longer possible to enter a current or future year for the previous appraisal year. In addition, the HS Cap Value Breakdown dialog box now calculates correctly the HS value of the base cap year if it was set to the current year. |
42496 |
The Print Property Applications dialog box now carries forward the number of blank forms to print to the Windows Print dialog box. |
42586 |
PACS now returns a correct list of agents as a result of searching for active or inactive. |
43019 |
Freeze ceiling processing has been improved. |
43435 |
The income grid enhancement project has been included. |
Appraisal Card
41932 |
It is now possible to print a personal property subsegment breakdown on the field appraisal card and a new BPP report, which is available on the Activities menu or Personal Property tab. |
Appraisal Notice
38520 |
The appraisal notice export now checks for the invalid characters <city> tag, and <PRP_school_tax_ceiling> tag has been added. |
ARB Inquiry
41076 |
The Inquiry By name and address tags have been added to the AI tag set of ARB inquiry letters. |
42599 |
The docket sort and place is no longer lost in ARB protest hearings after you open and then later return to a docket. |
42761 |
A reason has been added to ARB letter tags. |
42951 |
The arbitration letter Word merge now processes the required fields. |
43679 |
The sort order for the certified mailer generation is now correct, and letters are now generated for UDI children instead of for the parents. |
43748 |
The processing time for ARB protests has been improved. |
43951 |
Non-UDI properties are no longer displayed in the arbitration case listing as UDI properties. |
43990 |
Information is no longer missing when determining protest letters. |
Codes
40751 |
The number of characters allowed for remarks in the abstract subdivision worksheet information has been increased from 500 to 2,000. |
Exemptions
42650 |
The freeze/refreeze process now takes new value into consideration for some properties when an entity is offering a freeze ceiling for the first time in 2006. |
43090 |
The Freeze Override column has been added to the freeze list of the Exemption dialog. In addition, the Details button is now enabled when a property is not in coding to allow you to see a read-only version of the details dialog box. |
GIS
40626 |
There is now an option to view the GIS map from the current appraisal year or from the year the property was opened. In addition, there is a user right available (view_only_current_year_gis) that allows you to specify that the GIS year to be viewed should always be the current appraisal year. |
Personal Property
40398 |
For agencies participating in rendition summaries, new fields for good faith estimates for merchandise and supplies have been added to the rendition summary screen. |
40400 |
For agencies participating in rendition summaries, the rendition summary screen can now be viewed after a year is certified. The data is read-only. |
40401 |
For agencies participating in rendition summaries, the asset management screen can now be viewed after a year is certified. The data is read-only. |
42587 |
The Special Inv. Acct check box on the property summary screen is now disabled when the property is not in coding. |
Reports & Letters
41675 |
The Value Certification report has been modified to display DELETED for deleted properties. |
43611 |
The totals report dialog box no longer enables the Recalculate Properties check box for report types other than the Preliminary Totals report. |
45011 |
Formatting has been adjusted for the market analysis report. |
Roll History
42727 |
The roll history information is now displayed under the correct column when the property has a future year layer. |
Sales
42621 |
In the Manage Comparables dialog box, the Create Residential Comparables button no longer causes an error when the process is begun on a property that has been supplemented, and then is later removed from supplement. |
Supplement Process
42079 42317 |
The accept supplement group process no longer fails with a SQL error. |
42940 |
The process of supplementing a property and then removing it from the supplement now restores some values that might have been changed. |
43517 |
Accepting a supplement group no longer causes a foreign key constraint error under certain conditions. |
43759 |
Assessed and taxable values are now displayed properly on the Supplemental Roll. |
43957 |
The acceptance of a supplement group is no longer prevented when an account in the group has an address with a type code larger than a single character. |
6.PACS Collections 8.0.43.15
PACS Collections 8.0.43.15
Updates
Help |
Description of Update |
Collections General
40700 |
The Collections owner is now updated when creating a new property through the merge wizard. |
42837 |
The fee search by fee date no longer returns results that include fees for the next day. |
43019 |
Freeze ceiling processing has been improved. |
43144 |
The Collections summary screen now includes P&I, discount, variance attorney fees, and other fees. |
43354 |
The Installment Agreement Worksheet now prints months correctly. |
43645 |
Processing involving the posting large of numbers of payments using the payment cart has been improved. |
43845 |
Creating an installment schedule no longer calculates incorrect payment amounts when certain fields in the tax rate table are null. |
Balancing
41762 |
Non-UDI properties are no longer displayed in the arbitration case listing as UDI properties. |
43096 |
The close daily collections process now correctly saves tax certificate fee values, which are displayed in the batch distribution wizard. |
43424 |
The Attorney Fees Report has been modified to include refunded fee amounts. |
Delinquent Tax Rolls
43788 |
The DTRBuild stored procedure no longer prevents the application from generating delinquent tax roll reports. |
43960 |
You are no longer prompted for a parameter value when running the Delinquent Tax Roll Totals report. |
Escrow
42389 |
The tax receipt now prints correct tax information for an escrow payment applied to an account. |
42781 |
The posting date now defaults to the correct date in the dialog boxes. |
Exemptions
42650 |
The freeze/refreeze process now takes new value into consideration for some properties when an entity is offering a freeze ceiling for the first time in 2006. |
Posting
42489/ |
The system no longer categorizes a cash amount entered on the Quick Post Statement as change due. |
42681 |
The quick post Paid By field now shows the correct owner name. |
Statement of Account
43358 |
The Statement of Account now shows correct value information. |
Supplement Process
38148 |
PACS now shows previous year sale records in VIT escrow. |
Tax Statement
42026 |
The Tax Statement Creation wizard now checks mineral properties for missing geo ID and situs values. If the values are missing, the wizard is cancelled. In addition, the tax statement process has been modified to perform this same check and cancel the export if transfer tax statement records exist with missing values. In both cases, a report can be printed. |