8.0.46 Release Notes

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Description of Update

50101

The land pricing enhancement includes:

• The addition of the Special Lot land pricing method
• Modifications to the land schedule structure
• Additions to the land recalculation module

The special lot pricing method can be added as SL under Tools > Code File Maintenance > Land > Method Codes. It can be selected from the Land Schedule Details dialog box (Tools > Land Schedule Maintenance).

52331

The Marshall & Swift (M&S) base date was adjusted to meet the minimum acceptable date. In addition, the base date was incorporated into the effective age calculation to account for changes in depreciation over time.

50196

The user is now warned if the sketch polygon doesn’t square when in manual mode for creating/editing a sketch, and when the auto-close warning feature is turned on.

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53588

Parent property records were remaining active after their child properties were deleted. This has been fixed.

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54120

For mineral statement exports, text and the amount for the school district tax savings now print correctly.

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53682

The GIS Viewer in Penpad has been repaired to update the background color of the lot on the map when a property is marked as completed in Penpad.

53004

Moving a property from a supplement to the Pending supplement group was prompting the user to recalculate the property and removed improvement segments. The recalculation screen is no longer displayed.

53271

Removing a property from a supplement was prompting the user to recalculate the property and removed improvement segments. The recalculation screen is no longer displayed.

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52519

52927

53211

The following items have been repaired:

• Launching Penpad from the GIS Viewer and the Penpad Links View now loads the properties correctly.
• For situs addresses without a city or state, a comma is no longer displayed.
• Improvement codesets now load into Penpad correctly.

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50847

The field Bill type has been added for the Collections export data file.

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52983

Corrected issues where improvement detail records could not be added, and where a check in back into PACS that included reference properties would fail.

53044

Corrected an issue where any reference properties checked in from Penpad were still displaying a status of Checked Out in PACS.

53025

Corrected an issue where an improvement valued as flat was incorrectly giving a recalculation error when the value was set to zero.

53045

Processing now continues as expected when a supplement description is more than 500 characters.

52989

Corrected a SQL error resulting from a search for owners in the UDI property group process.

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41221

In the create new year layer process, the improvement new value no longer defaults to zero for future year properties. In addition, the interpolation flag is now copied for matrix schedules.

42871

The Certified Totals report has been changed to dynamically calculate the freeze actual tax, rather than the value output at the time of taxable calculation, allowing tax rates to change after certification and having this value change accordingly.

43295

When importing Travis building permits, the process verifies that each field to be imported is within the length allowed by the respective database field. If it fails this verification, the process writes the line number and field name of the offending element to the errors.txt file, allowing us to easily identify which database fields need to be enlarged, or which import field in the file needs to be corrected.

45046

When a mass update is performed on search results in GIS, the search results and mass update are now limited to real and mobile home properties. Personal properties are no longer updated.

45834

The building_permit.bldg_permit_builder column was enlarged from 30 characters to 50 characters to allow data being imported to fit within the database field.

46453

When working in the future year layer, properties in the current year are included as required when the Include Current Year check box is selected.

46523

Remarks added with the Mass Update Wizard are now removed when an update is undone.

46757

The Marshall & Swift valuation method for the estimation of commercial property value has been implemented.

There are two new user rights associated with the Marshall & Swift features: Edit Marshall & Swift (CREATE_MS_VAL), which permits users to create, add, edit, and view Marshall & Swift data and values, and View Marshall & Swift (VIEW_MS_VAL), which permits users to view Marshall & Swift data and values.

47107

The Neighborhood Code Maintenance window now returns codes only for active properties.

48769

An error is no longer displayed when the previous reappraisal year is entered in the Appraisal Info screen of a property record while working in the future year layer.

49328

Instead of allowing an exception when the query is empty or improperly formulated, a more suitable message is displayed.

40419

Corrected an issue which returned SQL errors in the Merge Wizard.

52248

PACS no longer errors out when a user attempt to open a property but does not have the Edit All Property Events user right assigned to his or her ID.

52539

PACS no longer shuts down when the Distribute function from ARB is chosen.

52617

For the mineral import merge step, an update was made to ensure correct data in the following columns when properties are supplemented: sup_action, sup_cd, sup_desc, sup_dt, and prop_inactive_dt.

49579

Values are now calculated properly in the field review card when the personal property has subsegments of the same type.

47573

Field review cards no longer display duplicate subsegments when multiple supplements exist for the property that year.

47450

On the field review card, the percentages on UDI properties are now rounded to two (2) decimal places instead of whole numbers.

48102

The option of exporting properties with arbitration has been added to the appraisal export process.

47755

Confidential owner information has been protected further within PACS.

47384

Custom modifications were made to the Tax Ceiling Certificate report for Taylor CAD.

50144

The homestead applications can now be duplexed as required when printing the application for a single property.

48345

Query processing for the 11.145/146 process has been optimized.

49019

Confidential owner verbiage has been corrected on the event summary and detail screens, the property exemption detail screen, and on respective RUI pages.

52256

The date now prints correctly on appraisal notices. (The 2007 version was showing the current date in the Date of Notices field.)

49251

When creating a protest using the menu path File > New > Protest, the system now displays the user ID of the person who created the protest in the Change Log view Field column for ARB Protest – Status Changed User ID.

49261

The sort order for the ARB Agent Sign-in Sheet report is corrected to work as expected (that is, to sort by agent name, then by the sort criteria chosen in the dialog box).

49358

Properties that are locked by ARB submission will now have legal description fields disabled, will not be able to have improvements or land copied to them, and will not be able to be used in the split/merge wizards.

49581

In the ARB Protest List, the PTD column now displays the property’s PTD state code instead of T or F.

50366

Additional letter tags (appraiser, date and time) for inquiry meetings have been added.

50498

The ARB protest search results PTD column now contains the PTD code (not a T or F) and no longer breaks the ability to search by account type (such as residential or commercial).

50923

The label of a check box used when copying fields for ARB protests has been changed to reflect its functionality. The label has been changed from Overwrite fields on closed protests to Allow copy of information to closed protests.

48431

Previously, resetting the status on ownership changes (Activities > End of Year Processing > Flag Ownership Changes for Reset Status) selected properties against the sales date. Because the deed date is sometimes more appropriate, the system has been enhanced to permit the user to select which field they prefer to compare against when selecting accounts for update.

42572

Land information is now populated in the summary screen of the homestead exemption wizard when an owner is updated during the process.

45931

The Homestead Exemption wizard no longer applies an over 65 exemption in supplement mode when the owner does not qualify.

49862

Freeze/refreeze processing has been modified to implement the adjustments required by House Bill (HB) 5.

47601

The year included at the top of the homestead application form is no longer hard coded; it is now the year that the property was opened in.

40626

Corrected a problem in the GIS Viewer where the attributes of a particular property were all returned as 0 or NULL.

47160

The Info button in the GIS dialog box accessed from the Comparable Sales Grid has been fixed to display the property information correctly.

46726

The Merge Wizard no longer incorrectly removes the selection of the Main Image check box on a property record when other properties are merged into it.

50905

An error in PACS.Query that occurred when using OR operators and a Windows 2000 middle tier has been corrected.

46497

Numerous Penpad features have been enhanced.

52163

The exemption amount on the Tax Limitation Report when printed from the Generate PTD screen was sometimes incorrect. This has been corrected.

43947

The year is now part of the Neighborhood Results list (Activities > Profiling > Neighborhood Profiles).

50910

An issue that affected the printing of the Homestead Verification Report on hosted PACS clients is corrected.

48911

On the Gross Income Multipliers report, under sales analysis, both the class and the subclass are now displayed in the Class column.

50307

Rectified an issue with the Preliminary Totals Report where the Lower Value market value was incorrect.

47094

Resolved an issue in the Address Change Report where the entity selected would not always appear on the report.

48156

In the Sales Ratio Report, an error no longer results when summarizing the report by effective age.

49182

In the Sales Ratio Report, an error no longer results when summarizing the report by effective age.

50314

There is no longer an error in the shared property import process due to PACS replacing one quotation mark with two quotation marks in the database.

28721

The Operator line on the Supplement Roll report now displays the user ID of the user who supplemented the property rather than the ID of the last user to change the property.

49444

The calculate taxable process was modified to use prop_inactive_dt, and not just sup_action, to determine if a property was removed in a supplement.

52699

The following issues have been corrected: property_val.prop_inactive_dt was not being set when a property was supplemented with a an action code of D (delete); property_val.prop_inactive_dt was not being cleared when a deleted property was supplemented; property_val.prop_inactive_dt had the potential to lose value when a property was moved from one open supplement to another.

44865

When opening properties, tabs on property record are now displayed correctly and no longer appear to overlap.

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Description of Update

48662/
48663

The following modifications have been made:

• The geo ID has been modified from 25 to 50 characters for import property associations, mortgage payment information, and the export mortgage billing process.
• The ability to import property mortgage associations from Collections has been added.
• The alpha sort order has been corrected for Print Levy Roll, the Levy Statement Wizard, and Print Levy Statement Wizard.
• The Create Bill Wizard no longer includes entities with no tax rates in the levy process.
• The Fiscal Year value information is now populated with new year totals.

43670

The Property Access Export script now retrieves all bills in existence rather than just those from years in pacs_year.

46652

Improved processing for updating bill adjustment codes, and the adjustment effective and expiration dates are now copied forward from the previous year.

46692

On the Summary tab, “Other Fees” are now included in the total due.

47131

The property search now keeps the setting Include Delete and Reference Properties.

47683

Corrected error message text regarding removing an installment agreement that already has a payment applied.

47797

The Remove button for an entity tax statement group is now disabled when the group does not have entities added yet. The Remove button is also disabled when there are supplemental statements.

48519

Corrected an issue with the Property Summary screen in Collections which would give an incorrect value for “P&I, Dics, Var” if the property contains bills with overage and/or underage.

49452

When a record is chosen on the Chart of Account Transaction History dialog box and the Details button is selected, the Invalid Description Index error is no longer displayed.

52022

For checks printed from the distribution wizard, the property, situs, and owner information is no longer printed when not present (for example, when printing to an entity.)

48344

The escrow total on the final page of the Daily Balance Summary Report is now correct.

48904

The recap reports have been modified to reflect the correct total payments, overages and refunds. Specifically, the payments, overage, and refund amounts on the recap reports now include refunded overage amounts. The recap reports are: the Monthly As Of Recap Report, MTD Recap, Fiscal MTD Recap, Fiscal YTD Recap, and YTD Recap.

41758

A user is now able to create bills with the BPP Rendition Penalty Bills enabled even when at least one tax year in the group has had rendition bills created. Now, the user is alerted of these years and all the normal bill creation process continue on all qualifying years in the supplement group.

42872

The system now prints the interest type and interest percentage on the agent copies of the mineral tax statements.

43924

When new properties were created via a supplement process, the adjustment code on the bill would sometimes be NULL. Because the properties were new, the system had a problem identifying the previous bill status. The bills should now be able to be created and cancelled with the correct status.

44437

The Entity dropdown list in the Tax Summary tab of the Taxpayer screen now includes all the correct entities.

45746

When an entity is added to a supplement with a collection option of CSI, the bill is now created as required.

46933

Additional logic has been added to the Create Schedule function on the last page of the installment agreement wizard. If the user chooses a monthly amount, the function will verify that the amount is enough to reduce the principal. Previously, this check was not performed and would cause the function to never return, since the balance would never reach zero.

Further configuration has been added specifying the maximum number of months that should be calculated before failing. If the amount the user enters would require more payments than said number of months, an error is returned to the user indicating the payment amount is too low.

47415

An issue on the Tax Due screen of a property record has been corrected where bills with the same statement ID (due to rollback bills) incorrectly reported tax due figures.

48066

The owner ID is now set in Collections for newly-created properties, allowing bills to be created as required.

49162

Corrected an issue where PACS would incorrectly distribute M&O and I&S when paying half bills.

48959

Spelling errors in the Delinquent Notices reports have been corrected.

47641

The Escrow Collection Activity Report now sorts properly.

49449

The Mass Post Escrow Wizard no longer populates the property list with properties that have a balance of zero.

52004

The Mass Post Escrow Wizard and the Mass Update Bill Adjustment Code Wizard no longer close when a user chooses “No” on the cancel confirmation dialog box.

49862

Freeze/refreeze processing has been modified to implement the adjustments required by House Bill (HB) 5.

49062

The release date is now properly formatted in the Mobile Home Release Export. In addition, when no exports are performed, the Mobile Home Lien Release List no longer shows a count of 1.

42073

Mineral tax statements now format correctly for duplex printing, and now print the payment stub on the first page instead of the last.

In addition, the school district tax amount saved between 2005 and 2007 is displayed on the statement along with the verbiage specified in House Bill (HB) 3496. Further, the export file has been modified to include the HB verbiage and the school districts’ savings amounts.

47946

The Personal Property Rendition Wizard now recalculates properties after modifications have been made.

22019/
32700

Sporadic hangs in the quick post have been corrected.

44142

When posting installment agreement payments, the change due and balance due now calculate correctly in the Post Payment dialog box.

44324

The taxes due are now updated on the Summary tab of the property record to reflect a new amount resulting from a payment being made or voided.

45611

The payment cart no longer receives some incorrect bills when the user right clicks on an owner and selects Move To Cart after an owner search.

47069

The refund check stub has been modified to include additional information about the property and owner.

47392

Check numbers are now applied properly in Mass Post Refund processing when a user changes the check numbers from the default.

50615

In the Mass Post Refund wizard, users are no longer prevented from selecting another option after having chosen Apply To Taxes Due.

44205

When printing the Modify Bill Report, the ability to search by modify code has been added.

46765

Formatting has been corrected in the following reports: Refund Due By Prop Report, Daily Balance Summary Report, and Entity Tax Rate Report. In addition, the Summary Info for the Daily Balance Detail Report has been corrected so that when a user saves, the default Save as file name is correct.

47148

The data transfer process was modified to transfer special exemption data so that taxable values, when recalculated at the tax office, will match.

48346

An error message no longer occurs when printing rolls on a Collections-only database.

48558

Stand-alone tax offices now have the ability to remove a situs address when a property is in supplement mode.

50864

An issue with the posted payments from the payment cart, when a bill with zero balance due to variance was in the list with other bills with balances greater than 0, is corrected.

47096

The Tax Certificate Report no longer pulls incorrect information when different payments and voids are made to one fee in different batches.

44786

Supplement statements printed for properties with ownership changes can now be printed with a duplex option. A criterion to select properties by property group code has been added.

49110

When using a hand-held scanner for the quick post, the system no longer incorrectly reports that no bills exist for the statement scanned. In addition, the check box to enable the scanner has been moved to a more appropriate location on the dialog box.

50194

Tax statement changes have been made pursuant to HB3496 and SB456.

51548

A tax due value of over $1,000 no longer causes the bar code to display incorrectly on the tax statement.

47072

The Default VIT Year field was added to Tools > User Settings > Set Property Search Settings so that users can choose the default year for VIT accounts.

49977

The batch description now prints as required on the VIT payment receipt.