8.0.48 Release Notes

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Description of Update

61718

Formatting of data in the multi-property appraisal notice export has been corrected.

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Description of Update

61558

The comparable sales search result was displaying the actual year built in the Eff Year Built column instead of the effective year built. This has been corrected.

60515

A check box for the notice of protest has been added to the appraisal notice event window.

60777

A check box for House Bill 3630 text has been added to the appraisal notice event window. In addition, the fields on the event window now pre-populate with options selected at the time of printing.

61061

When exporting homestead applications from the appraisal notice print screen, the application for a property would sometimes be repeated and the applications did not have the same export sequence as the notices. This has been corrected for the export itself, although there could continue to be print and preview sorting issues.

61221

Multi-property notices were not printing/exporting the owner copy of the notice when the property did not have an agent and Agent Copy Only option was selected. This has been corrected.

61301

The GIS Viewer has been changed so that if a user doesn’t have the View Confidential Sales user right, then *CONF* is displayed for the following attributes

• Sale Dt
• Sale PR
• Sale Type
• SP/SFT
• Ratio

When using comparable sales features however, users will be able to view sales attributes irrespective of their user rights.

60640

There is now an option on the Comparable Property Configuration dialog box (Tools > Comparable Property > System Wide Configuration) that can be used to include confidential sales for mass created grids and ARB grids.

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Description of Update

59593

The Mobile Home Lien Export and the Mobile Home Lien Release Export have been updated to include the tax amount.

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Description of Update

59919

When a user does not have the View Confidential Sale user right, *CONF* is now printed on the sale price column of the appraisal card, as well as on the sale price, square foot, and consideration columns of the field review card.

59618

Homestead and ag application reports have been modified to match the current state forms.

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Description of Update

53642

Added a Confidential Comment field to the property screen.

54096

The Comment field has been added to the Income Calculation Worksheet.

54536

Resolved an issue where the supplement number selected by the user was not being used for the certified appraisal roll.

55746

Added the number of units column to Commercial Taxpayer Evidence packets.

55808

Improved the performance of recalculation of accounts by neighborhood code.

56050

Properties that had been deleted and were inactive were reset to active status when copied to the current, uncertified appraisal year. This has been corrected; the property now remains inactive.

56774

Corrected the Commercial Equity Comparables window to return the correct percentage complete for income properties.

57165

Corrected a problem that occurred when sorting columns in the change log and change log history.

57181

Users now have the ability to modify and delete system events with the new user right Edit All Property System Events.

58221

The XML mineral import capability is now available in the 64-bit middle tier environment.

46049

Added ability to view property group codes on a parcel in GIS.

49903

PACS had a limitation of printing 500 appraisal cards to PDF. This has been modified to be configurable.

56948

• Data Validation has been corrected so that the invalid version number error is generated correctly.
• The LIH exemption was added to the appraisal export.

48520

The Mass Update Appraisal Year process has been modified so that the user is given a timer indicating the elapsed time of the process. In addition, the efficiency of the process was improved.

54772

When a notice run contained a property that had an agent added after the run was established, it would sometimes update the original run to display agent verbiage, even though the agent did not apply at the time the run was created. The issue has been corrected so that the run will not change based on subsequent activities.

58199

An enhancement has been implemented for 2008 appraisal notices to support House Bill 3630 legislation which requires text to be printed on the appraisal notice referring to homestead exemption applications.

58200

An enhancement has been implemented that allows you to print appraisal notices containing multiple mineral properties for owners.

49603

The column Assignments Appraiser is now available in the ARB Inquiry List.

54160

Changed the sort order on the Certified Mailer Summary Reports to match that of the mailers and letters.

54702

Copying an audio path from ARB events changed the file type from wav to mp3. This issue has been corrected.

57053

The Equity Residential Taxpayer Evidence Packets no longer returns properties multiple times if the property has more than one situs.

57124

The contents of the Comment field are now copied successfully.

55745

The average unit size has been added to the equity comparables search criteria.

55768

• You can use the new Pre-HB5 Wizard to process multiple school district entity and freeze type combinations at the same time.
• You can use the Pre-HB5 Manual Entry option, available on individual property records, when you are working on a system without a 2006 year layer.

57028

Prorating for DP and OV65S exemptions has been implemented in the calculate taxable component.

57034

Corrected an issue with the calculation of proration percentage on an exemption with a termination date that falls while Daylight Savings Time is in effect.

57707

The Goods-in-Transit (GIT) special exemption for personal and auto properties has been added to PACS.

55128

The number of units (num_units) and appraisal method (appr_method) columns have been added to the ##sales_equity_summary_reports global table. The number of units is populated from the income table, and the appraisal method is populated from the property_val table.

56150

The Print Cards For Search Results option is now available following an advanced search or following a buffer search. In addition, the advanced search is now disabled following a successful search.

51006

Resolved an issue where the Effective Acres Group dialog box was not retaining changes when a user chose Apply.

55844

The Include Marshall and Swift Properties option is now disabled when a system isn’t configured to use Marshall and Swift for the current appraisal year.

51834

Corrected an issue with the address state field that occurred when importing mineral records from Wardlaw.

57474

Corrected an issue with the Mineral Import process that was occurring because Capitol Appraisal Group sometimes submits different name and address information for the same owner.

57205

Corrected an issue that caused two agents to be displayed for a property in the Ownership Transfer Wizard when the property had only one agent. Now only the agents associated with a particular seller ID are displayed.

57242

Corrected a Penpad problem where the Save button would be enabled on initial load of a property if there was a time associated with the last or next appraisal date.

57004

Enabled rendition information to be perpetuated forward with a supplement to the same year.

58292

An enhancement has been implemented that allows users to selectively exempt segment or subsegment values on personal properties. When values are exempted on the appraised value, the Values tab on the PACS property record is updated as well. The user rights required to exempt and unexempt segments and subsegments are Edit Personal Property Details and Edit Personal Property Subsegments.

52135

Modified the neighborhood profile creation process to include the sales ratio code in the search results.

52777

The sales submission export has been modified to allow a property to be exported multiple times.

56321

The levy on the School Tax Limitation report now matches that on the certified totals report.

57603

During a supplement acceptance, a syntax error occurred if the supplement number was 3 digits or more. This has been corrected.

55093

Added effective year built and land value to the Sales and Equity comparison screens for both residential and commercial properties.

57704

The display of confidential sales information is now limited to users with the View Confidential Sales user right.

56201

The default dialog configuration for the land schedule was inadvertently changed in HelpSTAR 50101. This was changed back so that no input fields appear.

47359

Resolved an issue where moving a supplement from one group to another would drop entities that did not have tax rates.

56118

A warning message is now displayed when you attempt to split or merge a property that is part of an income distribution.

57031

The display of tax amounts on the SupplementAppraisalRoll report has been enlarged.

57654

Corrected an issue where a user with the Create New Supplement Group user right was not able to add a property to a pending supplement

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Description of Update

46904

The TIF Zone Collections Report has been modified to provide more complete data.

48904

The Close Batch Day process has been modified so that the correct overage and underage amounts are propagated to the Recap Reports.

44765

Resolved an issue where applying escrow to bills with underage or overage would cause them to be paid incorrectly. (This involved quick posting payments also.)

57034

Corrected an issue with the calculation of proration percentage on an exemption with a termination date that falls while Daylight Savings Time is in effect.

57680

57547

Quarterly bills were not distributing a final underpayment correctly when a partial payment was made prior to the final payment under the amount due. This has been corrected.

53948

It is now possible to sort the Chart of Account Report by date as well as account.

59503

In the Rollback Wizard, the owner names of a property were not being listed correctly. This issue has been resolved.

57295

Late rendition penalty in tax certificate includes bill amounts from inactive bills. This has been corrected.