8.0.47 Release Notes

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46211

Corrected an issue where performing a recalculation on a VIT property would cause the system to treat data as changed, necessitating the need for the user to apply or cancel changes. Also provided an enhancement to the VIT information on the property sheet to display units sold in each month, and as a grand total below the grid.

48482

An issue was corrected involving the agent being displayed on a property’s Owner-Agent tab after the ownership was changed. Now, when checking for an agent record for a particular property using property search, the current owner ID is now considered in addition to the property ID and year.

50344

Corrected an issue involving column sorts in the Mass Update Maintenance dialog box not working correctly.

50781

Users can no longer delete system events from properties.

51627

On the property record’s Identification tab, the last situs address can now be deleted when Remove is selected.

51633

The totals report was fixed to display TIF values and information only for the entities associated with TIFs.

49337

Added ap.prot_status as a status field to the Agent_Signin_Report_vw view.

52431

Corrected a problem where creating a new problem from a reference account after certification would not place the property in a supplement.

53016

An error message is no longer displayed as a result of choosing Distrib Values from a lease record.

53320

When the client opens a building permit and looks for the appraiser’s initials, on the appraiser drop-down list, the appraiser’s initials are not in alpha order. This has been corrected.

53772

An issue was corrected where confidential owners’ names were displaying on the shared property details under the Owner tab for users without the user right to view the name.

53864

On the Income Valuations for Property dialog box, an error was corrected that resulted from choosing Details and Direct Cap.

54271

It is now possible to assign appraisers and state codes to protest hearings for use in scheduling or auto-scheduling.

54943

Corrected an issue where clicking Restore Default on the Comparable Property Scoring dialog would cause an error.

54959

Enhanced PACS to handle the removal of comparison grids on SQL Server 2005 databases.

55744

Add the number of units to the Commercial Equity Comparables display so number of units values can be viewed if it was defined in the search criteria.

56653

It is now possible to enable or disabled automatic and manual data validation with the new system settings available under Tools > System Settings > Data Validation. There is also a new user right, Data Validation Administrator, that permits a user to enable or disable the automatic and manual data validation processes.

48676

Some customers need market value to correspond to the first supplement number and others want it to correspond to the latest supplement number. To accommodate all customers, once a property has been selected to be added into a lawsuit, the user is prompted with the Market Value List dialog box.

This dialog box lists all the supplement number/market value selections available for the property selected. Once the user selects the supplement number/market value pair, it is treated as the certified market value for loss reporting.

46879

Corrected exemption processing so that the Reset Exemption Flag on the Electronic Deeds Processing dialog box now affects the property as expected.

48807

The country name is no longer left off of international addresses when generating appraisal notices.

53922

When printing appraisal cards, the sort order was not being applied. This has been corrected.

53289

To support postal regulations for CASS certification, the length of the owner name and address lines has been adjusted in the VB Appraisal Export script to match the exact size of those in PACS.

48452

Corrected an error message that displayed from the Print Non Captured Properties report (Activities > Appraisal Notices > Capture ARB Submission Values > Print Non Captured ARB Values) when all entities were selected for printing.

49571

The Print Non Captured Properties report (Activities > Appraisal Notices > Capture ARB Submission Values > Print Non Captured ARB Values) now includes only active properties that were not captured and not deleted and/or merged properties.

50555

Corrected an error message displayed from the Print ARB Submission Totals report (Activities > Appraisal Notices > Capture ARB Submission Values > Print ARB Submission Totals) due to incorrect column prefixes in the PopulateCapturedTotals stored procedure.

55487

Enhanced the appraisal notice creation process to better handle data population in an effort to ensure seamless printing of notices in the future.

49100

Comments that include an apostrophe in the Add Notice of Protest dialog box no longer cause a syntax error.

50214

On the results screen of the ARB handshake, the Category Appraiser column now sorts on appraiser name as it should have been instead of sorting on the corresponding appraiser ID number.

50477

Taxpayer evidence packets no longer return properties multiple times for properties with more than one situs.

50516

The value at the top of the Lawsuit Cause dialog box has been changed from the certified appraised total value to the certified market total value.

50949

Corrected the ARB Quick Image Scan dialog box to retain focus on input when utilizing the Quick Add button.

52957

An issue was corrected that was preventing comments from being copied or appended from one protest to another.

53506

Corrected an issue when printing board order letters with certified mailers where UDI properties would not be printed.

53914

Issues with arbitration search involving a warning for active arbitration and searching on all years have been corrected.

39746

Corrected problem where the existing View ARB Case right was not being evaluated on the property sheet to determine if the user was permitted to view the case details.

51254

Resolved an issue where printing an equity summary report would return errors if the address contained an apostrophe.

49398

Adding an ARB protest/inquiry to a parent property now unlocks the child property from ARB submission lock so that an exemption can be added to the child property.

53817

Corrected an issue in the Tax Summary window where, in the current year, exemptions would be listed on every entity instead of just the applicable ones.

53856

For previous years, the New For check box in the Property Exemption Wizard has been enabled and the users can now change the year if they need to.

56042

An issue has been corrected so that type R entities receive low income housing (LIH) exemptions for the tax summary as expected.

47818

In the Owner/Agent Change Transfer Layout, there is now a flag that can be used to specify whether an agent receives tax bills for agent change records.

53289

Fixed the length owner name and address lines in the VB Appraisal Export script to match the exact size of those in PACS.

47499

Disability exemption verbiage has been changed on the hs_exempt_app.rpt and the hs_exempt_duplex_app.rpt to be consistent with the state form Rev. 11-05.

49280

The Freeze/Refreeze Wizard now includes the Available Supplement Group option.

49282

When there were multiple images in the Lawsuit Cause dialog box image tree, if a user opened the first image and then exited out, the system was collapsing the tree, requiring the user to reopen the image and select the next one. This has been corrected.

50913

From an improvement detail screen, you can now enter only up to 255 characters of notes for base depreciation, physical, functional, economic, and % complete. This prevents errors.

55728

Corrected three Marshall & Swift edits for occupancy codes for which PACS requires the user to enter exterior walls or HVAC.

48500

Corrected issue with the Owners with Property Only check box, which was not being honored on the Taxpayer Search dialog box. In addition, an enhancement was provided to override the limit on the number of owners returned so that longer lists could be viewed.

48696

The Electronic Deeds Import has been modified to ignore commas in text fields (that is, fields enclosed in double quotes).

50581

It is now possible to add property group codes to all properties involved in an ownership transfer with a single action as opposed to having to add the group code to each property involved individually.

43378

Corrected the Value Report on the Penpad checkout list, which was omitting properties that lacked a situs address.

54161

55460

Fixed problem where deleting the text on a date in the Penpad application would cause the database to store a value of 1/1/1900. Deleting a date will now remove the date data from the database as desired.

55994

The pp_sq_ft field has been added to the Penpad display.

56522

An issue has been corrected so that Penpad value reports preview and print as expected when the Penpad checkout contains properties without a city, state, or situs.

56803

Corrected issue where performing a re-check out was not displaying the GIS plots as red for previously completed properties.

50472

Corrected problem where the owner ID was erroneously being used as the supplement numbers when setting the rendition penalty flag.

54471

Corrected spelling errors in the personal property rendition forms

54966

To support HB264 legislation, a check box and text has been added to the first page of the personal property rendition form that allows taxpayers to indicate if their previous rendition is still accurate for the current year.

45587

A new rendition form has been created with a barcode for rendition processing. The Quick Image Rendition Received wizard is now a menu option under Activities > Rendition Processing > Wand Scan Rendition Received.

46143

An issue affecting the alpha sorting of the homestead applications has been corrected.

48975

Enhanced the Sales Ratio Report to display owner transfers designated as the primary sale prior to any others in the results.

51411

The Average Residence Value Report and Totals reports have been modified to display both values as they are calculated as either Category A, or both Category A and Category E.

51838

Corrected an issue involving printing 2007 tax deferral accounts for individual entities (Reports > Property > Tax Deferral). When selecting an entity, some of the accounts were appearing on the report even though they are not coded for that entity.

52067

An issue has been corrected that caused the state and zip code to be missing on certain properties when an ownership transfer export report was sorted by geo ID.

The incorrect address formula in the EOAGMT export report was corrected so that when the country name is United States, the state and zip codes are added to the address. For all other countries, just the country name is added to the address.

55559

An issue has been corrected so that the actual tax on the freeze totals report (ARB) matches the actual tax on the certified totals report.

49139

The sales ratio is now populated with the default load for the primary sales search.

50667

On the Sales Information tab of the Ownership History dialog box, the maximum number of characters that can be entered in the Number of Days on Market field has been changed from 3 to 4.

56718

An issue has been corrected so that search by neighborhood data does not overwrite Sales Ratio Report parameters.

44714

Corrected an issue with the Recalculation button, which was not visible on properties in a Pending supplement status when reaching that property using the left and right arrows on the property sheet.

50016

A new user right, Create New Supplement Group, has been created that controls the ability to create a new supplement group in PACS Appraisal.

51969

Modified system to restrict users from adding properties to supplement groups in temporarily open (TO) status.

54895

Provided a script to move properties in a given supplement group to pending supplement for that particular year.

51534

UDI properties which are copied from one year to another now reflect the same supplement code and reason on the parent and all non-suspended children.

55352

In a freeze ceiling run, when a user without the supplement process user rights tries to check the Supplement Properties check box, the message “You don’t have user rights to Supplement Properties” is now displayed.

55353

When a user does not have supplement process user rights, a message is now displayed that provides this information. In addition, unavailable supplement options are now disabled instead of hidden.

56248

An issue has been corrected so that there is no longer an error when undoing an appraisal notice selection.

56540

An issue has been corrected so that search by neighborhood data does not overwrite Sales Ratio Report parameters.

56666

If only one supplement group was in coding status, the user was not able to move the supplement to the Pending supplement group. This has been corrected.

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Description of Update

50795

Added radio button click handlers to display events properly, allowing tax offices to view events as required.

56047

An issue has been corrected so that it is not possible to edit the amount and litigation values of an established fee.

56490

An issue has been corrected so that selecting preview and print for the levy totals report does not produce errors.

53650

Corrected a SQL error that occurred when creating a transfer tax statement.

50402

Mobile home liens can now be set on UDI child properties.

50293

An issue affecting over-payment refunds with the amount paid by credit card has been corrected.

48885

In the Tax Collections Activity Report, the date range is now validated. In addition, date range validations functionality has been added for: TaxCollectionActivityReport-ByYear [TCARY] and TaxCollectionDetailActivityReport-ByYear[TCDRY] .

51684

The Mortgage company list w/ owner & property information report no longer displays the previous owner as the owner on the report if there has been an ownership name change on the account. The report now displays the most up-to-date owner name correctly.

The report now displays the owner name corresponding to property.col_owner_id for PACS Collections and owner.owner_id for PACS Appraisal.

54314

Modified the Delinquent Notice Reports so that a NULL state or zip in the system_address table would not cause the entire address to go blank in the report.

53405

Corrected an issue where the audit trail on a property record would display the name of the user who created the supplement when it needed to display the name of the user who created bills for the supplement.

51633

The totals report was fixed to display TIF values and information only for the entities associated with TIFs.

51376

Corrected an issue involving the Special Inventory Escrow Report and Special Inventory Escrow Report with Sales reports. If the grand total for these reports appeared on a page by itself, the total was incorrect.