8.0.44 Release Notes

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Description of Update

47463

The system now checks the appropriate user right necessary for modifying an improvement schedule adjustment factor.

47634

There is a new 2007 appraisal notice format that includes estimated tax reductions.

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Description of Update

46629

It is no longer possible for a user to modify elements of an improvement schedule or land schedule for a certified year.

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41794

The CASS export and import process no longer causes errors due to international addresses being included in the export and not being handled properly in the import process.

47100

In the Rendition Entry Screen, users can now reset existing values to zero. Further, when the values are changed, the property record is refreshed to reflect the updated values.

47209

The following personal property rendition features were updated:

• Inactive segments no longer appear in the Asset Manager.
• Blank segments are now cleaned up correctly.
• New MDSE and SUPP segments receive an appraisal method of Original Cost.
• The last segment deleted no longer continues to have its subsegments displayed in the Asset Manager.

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Description of Update

42183

If a property remains active after it has been deleted, a message box is displayed when it is accessed.

43764

When customizing the column layout, the column name remains highlighted so that it can be moved more than one position up or down.

44957

The Rendition tab on personal property records has been modified so that rendition detail rows can be added, changed, or removed for a year only if the selected row’s year matches the year in which the property record was opened.

45015

Processing continues as required for the ARB mass update.

45448

An error is no longer displayed when viewing a property in Penpad.

45497

The Copy button in the Copy Entity Exemptions dialog box now functions correctly so that all entities or selected entities can be copied from one year to another, and so that tax rates can be copied as well.

46025

In mass maintenance grids, when entering a data for the table Property and the field Prop Group Code, the Old Value drop-down now displays available group codes correctly.

46701

On the property search customizing results screen, buttons are enabled or disabled as required.

42437

Grantor information now prints on the appraisal card when the property has no seller records.

45266

The Appraisal and Field Review cards now display the Class column correctly, and display the correct column titles.

44331

When entering an ARB inquiry, the Quick Add button remains enabled when value is entered for the case ID and the property ID.

40717

The totals report no longer prints incorrect values intermittently depending on the printer driver being used.

43347

The Property Group Report is now generated successfully.

42802

The Tax Deferral Report now includes the deferral date in correct format for the latest supplement. In addition, the report no longer includes duplicate rows of data when multiple entities are associated with an exemption.

44978

The Prior Year Exemption Search dialog has been modified to check 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.

43393

The Travis Commercial Business PP Rendition Instruction Sheet has been updated with the requested changes.

44672

There is no longer an error in mass maintenance when a user sets the value of a field to none.

44090

The Copy From Year button is now enabled for mobile home accounts when the user has the required user right.

38829

The zip order option now sorts correctly for rendition penalty letters.

43640

When you are on the Appraised Value tab in a BPP segment and you select the Special Pricing or Sub Segment radio buttons, the fields for these radio buttons become available for data entry.

45389

The custom report pp_rend_fill_2005_guadalupe.rpt was added and corrected. The Year Acquired field was removed and the label “If assets acquired in 2003 or …” was changed to “If assets acquired in 2006 or …”

39083

When a totals report includes the Effective Rate Assumptions section, deannexation information is now limited to the properties specified in the customer query within the totals report dialog box.

43503

The system now generates the Address Change report more efficiently.

43646

Processing time has been improved for the Newly Created Property Report.

44302

Addresses are now displayed correctly on letters. The <!ARBDOC.addr_main!> letter tag no longer contains an extra line feed.

43199

Mailing types have been added to the agent detail information in RUI.

43904

The Land Type column now sorts correctly in the search results for Residential Comparable Sales.

38761

The late ag penalty is now calculated correctly.

43850

Events are now generated for properties moved from one supplement to another using the Shift open ARB accounts to next supplement option available on the Supplement Group Maintenance window. The events can be viewed on the property record Events tab.

44799

The Exemption Wizard no longer erroneously reports the wrong exemptions on a property for a given owner and year due to invalid property exemption records.

45364

The Undo Accept Supplement process no longer causes incorrect changes to incorrect supplements.

45672

The LayerCopyRendition stored procedure has been corrected so that personal properties that were supplemented can now be accepted.

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40848

A pay_type field has been added to the Collections Export. In addition, an option to exclude non-delinquent quarter and half pay bills has been added to Collections Export. Further, when the Exclude non-delinquent quarter and half pay bills check box is selected on the Export Collection Information dialog box, the system now saves the selection.

42949

In the Batch Distribution Wizard, the available chart of accounts is now listed on the left, and the selected chart of accounts is now listed on the right.

42960

When statement IDs are assigned to supplemental statements, previously generated statement IDs from existing levy bills are now used where applicable.

43778

Quarter-pay and half-pay bills paid off with underage or overage variance now display correctly on the bill breakdown dialog box’s Quarter/Half Pay tab. In addition, the Statement Summary dialog box no longer includes underage and overage in its total when it should not.

43919

The Owner/Agent tab has been modified to allow Collections users to add or remove the Collections agent regardless of whether or not the property is in coding.

45197

The amount of time required for the Close Day process has been reduced.

46018

The BatchCloseDay process now correctly calculates the per entity totals for tax certificate fees, no longer causing the Batch Distribution Wizard to incorrectly report these values.

45971

The effective due date is now set to January 31st rather than January 1st when creating BPP rendition penalty bills for a supplement group.

45596

P&I refund amounts are now being properly calculated when a bill is paid off with an Overpayment-Refund payment. In addition, the refunded penalty interest on M&O is now being properly written to the bill table when a refund with penalty is issued.

44778

Payments applied to adjusted bills that previously had paid refunds now correctly calculate the amount of M&O and ins for the payment.

43747

Corrections have been made involving the way refunds are generated when overpay, underpay, and overpay-refund transactions are used to pay off the bill and additional adjustments are made to reduce the taxes due on the bill. Refund_due_trans values are now calculated correctly when the original payment does not have a discount.

43785

The sort order in refunds_due_by_prop.rpt has been changed to prop_id, sup_tax_yr, entity_cd.

44513

Records with an amount due of zero (due to a refund having been paid or voided) are no longer included in the Refund Due Report.

45125

The Tax Collections Activity by Year Report has been modified to include refund overage amounts.

45599

Modified the refunds due and refunds paid reports to exclude underage amounts since they are irrelevant to refunds.

45601

The void refund process no longer causes the voided refund record not to be included in the Refund Due Report.

45682

In the Tax Collections Detail Activity Report, the refund total now includes overage and the Overpayments line item is reduced by the amount already refunded.

46647

Corrected tax statements now display the correct value for quarterly payments.

38296

When a property for a Collections-only site is opened in appraisal, the value is no longer zero.