1.PACS Appraisal 8.1.00.15 (GA)
PACS Appraisal 8.1.00.15 (GA)
General Availability (GA) Release: February 6, 2009
Data Entry Corrections
The data entry corrections that were previously released for the HelpSTAR tickets below have been reverted. Data entry functions have been restored to operate as they did prior to the releases for the features described in the following tickets:
- 70506 – Entry of length, width, and area data for improvements.
- 70601 – Entry of negative numbers in residential pricing tables.
- 70740 – Entry of land data.
- 71324 – Entry of land segment values.
- 71389 – Fields on the Improvement and Improvement Detail dialog boxes were enabled that should not have been enabled.
Updates
Help | Description of Update |
Income Module
69311 | An Adjustment Value row has been inserted above the Indicated Value row on the Summary tab. |
71395 | The Year drop-down list in the Pro Forma Search dialog box (accessed from the Get PF Data button on the Pro Forma tab) now displays multiple years as expected. |
71639 | When the Calculate Occupancy Rate check box is selected on the Direct Cap tab, the leased and vacant areas are now updated. |
2.PACS Appraisal 8.1.00.14 (GA)
PACS Appraisal 8.1.00.14 (GA)
General Availability (GA) Release: February 3, 2009
What’s New in PACS Documentation
Some VIT Processing (Appraisal) and VIT Processing (Collections) topics have been updated.
Updates
Help |
Description of Update |
Comp Grids
70955 |
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Improvements
71389 |
Some fields on the Improvement and Improvement Detail dialog boxes were enabled that should not have been enabled. This has been corrected. |
Income Module
70901, 71397
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71549 |
For new income valuations, reimbursed expenses and secondary income were not being added into the EGI calculation. This has been corrected. |
Land
71324 |
Recalculating caused acres and square footage on the Land Detail dialog box to be removed when width and length were not used. This has been corrected. |
3.PACS Appraisal 8.1.00.12 (GA)
PACS Appraisal 8.1.00.12 (GA)
General Availability (GA) Release: January 23, 2009
Comparable Property
For commercial income grids, the following new fields are now available: NOI Diff/SQFT, NOI/SQFT, NOI/SQFT Adj %.
Updates
Help |
Description of Update |
Data Entry
70506 |
The ability to enter a unit price as a negative number has been restored, as well as the ability to highlight a field for data entry with the |
Exemptions
65818 |
Collin’s second homestead application with backer (hs_exempt_app_duplex_Collin.rpt )was added back into PACS and named HSD. |
70575 |
When using the search feature to find properties for exemption processing with the exemptions wizard (Activities > Enter Exemptions), an error was displayed. This has been corrected. |
70566 |
The Entity Exempt Taxable Summary dialog box now displays the Base Tax correctly for the |
Income
69003 |
A check has been added so that code files for the GPR schedule cannot be deleted once they are in use. |
69100/70602 |
Income table columns for PCT were increased in size to allow for storage of very large numbers. |
70467 |
In the Direct Cap grid in the Income Valuation dialog box, it is now possible to enter data in the Other Personal Property Value and ADJ fields. |
70734 |
If a value of zero is entered into an EGI row on the Direct Cap tab, the value in the percentage column is now retained. |
Subdivision
62356 |
From a subdivision worksheet, which is accessed by double-clicking a subdivision on the General: Abstract/Subdivision/Mobile Code Maintenance dialog box (Tools > Code File Maintenance > General > Abstract/Subdivision/Mobile Codes), it is now possible to select a property from a future year layer when you are working in a future year, and you can edit the existing acreage amount if required. |
4.PACS Collections 8.1.00.12 (GA)
PACS Collections 8.1.00.12 (GA)
General Availability (GA) Release: January 23, 2009
Updates
Help |
Description of Update |
Property Search
70663 |
Searching for properties with values in the Previous Taxpayer section on the Other tab caused an error. This has been corrected. |
5.PACS Appraisal 8.1.00.09 (GA)
PACS Appraisal 8.1.00.09 (GA)
General Availability (GA) Release: January 8, 2009
Comp Grids
- The Commercial Load Criteria dialog box now includes the Sales Types field.
- There is now a Chart button available from comp grids that displays the median price and property value per square foot for each property in the grid.
- There is now a Detail Summary button available from comp grids that displays the year built, number of acres, and other details about a property.
Income Module
- There is now a GPR Line Item Maintenance tool (Tools > GPR Line Item Maintenance) that you can use to create gross potential rent line items; each line item represents a business within a commercial development. Each line item that you set up becomes available for use with the GPR calculator, which is another new feature described below.
- On the General tab of an income valuation, there is now a Confidential Comments pane in which you can enter confidential comments. Text entered here is not printed on the Income Calculation Worksheet.
- On the Direct Cap tab, there is now a Calculate Occupancy Rate check box. When selected, the system calculates the occupancy rate percent, the lease area, the vacancy rate, and the vacant area based on the values entered in the Building Efficiency Pct and the Vacancy Rate Pct fields.
- On the Direct Cap tab, there is now a GPR Calculator feature. You can use the calculator to determine the gross building area (GBA) and the corresponding rate which are displayed in the first row of the grid.
- On the tabs Direct Cap, Schedule, and Pro Forma, there is now an adjustment row in which you can enter a positive or negative income amount.
- For 8.1.00.x Beta customers – With the 8.1.00.09 GA release:
- 70197 – The fields in GPR Line Item Maintenance (Tools > GPR Line Item Maintenance) can now be completed without having to use the drop-down list.
- 70229 – An error occurred when adding a row in the GPR calculator. This has been corrected.
What’s New in PACS Documentation
- Documentation for the following functional areas is provided with this release:
- Comparable Sales (Revised)
- Income Module (Revised)
Updates
Help |
Description of Update |
Appraisal Card
58523 |
It is now possible to configure which type of deed information is displayed on the Field Review and Appraisal Cards. |
66160 |
An error occurred when printing appraisal cards for properties with many subsegments and similar codes. This has been corrected. |
Appraisal Notice
61748 |
Corrected the appraisal notice to display the correct value for estimated taxes when an ECO exemption is involved. |
ARB/Inquiry
45758 |
The Clear button in the ARB Inquiry Search dialog box now clears previously entered dates when the refine search feature is used. |
52856 |
Modified the Clear button on both ARB Inquiry Search dialog box and the |
61941 |
Value checks performed when closing a protest or inquiry were not comparing the most up-to-date values. This has been corrected. |
63737 |
Clicking the Cancel button on an ARB protest with a status that allows closure of a protest ( |
64605 |
In some cases the current docket was not being assigned to protests being mass scheduled. This has been corrected. |
66597 |
New ARB letter tags have been added: Initial Entities List Name and Final Entities List Name. These tags can be used to print entity descriptions on the ARB ORD letters. |
67404 |
The Prot By Type is now included on the Agent Sign-in Report (Reports > ARB > Agent Sign-in) so that agent IDs can be validated. |
Arbitration
67187 |
The date and time were not being saved for arbitration meetings when the time was between 12:00 pm and 12:59 pm. This has been corrected. |
Comparable Sales
60361 |
It is now possible to calculate value for residential sales comparable grids based on adjusted sales price instead of sales price. This is a configurable option available under Tools > Comparable Property > System wide configuration. |
97166 |
For a sale of multiple properties, the sales ratio was displayed incorrectly in the residential comp grid. This has been corrected. |
Exemptions
632 |
It is no longer possible to change the Value Option percentage (accessed from the exemption detail on a property record’s Entity-Exmpt tab, then selecting Details for an entity in the Special Exemption dialog box) on a property record in a prior year without placing the property in supplement mode. |
Freezes
63284 |
When Finish was selected at the end of the Freeze/Refreeze Wizard, if there were properties in the Pending supplement group, a warning message was displayed twice. This has been corrected so that the message is displayed only once. |
General
62493 |
Percentage entities were not being identified with an asterisk for properties in a future year. This has been corrected so that the asterisk displays as expected. |
GIS
60544 |
Improved the ability to print appraisal cards from the GIS Viewer with a dialog box that provides more options and better customization. |
67027 |
An error occurred after selecting Mass Update in GIS Appraiser. This has been corrected. |
Income Valuation
64829 |
Copying income properties to the future year caused an issue if multiple properties were distributed with the same income valuation. This has been corrected. |
69234 |
Several issues were corrected for the Direct Cap method including: GPR Calculator values are now used in NRA and Rates, the Load Schedule Data button now resets Direct Cap, and bold fields reset after schedule data is loaded. Also, the Vacancy Rate cell background color has been corrected to support entering an override value into EGI or NOI. |
Improvements/Land
53372 |
On the Market Value tab of the Land Detail dialog box (accessed from the Land tab of a property record), when the Flat Value radio button was selected and TAB was pressed, the cursor was displayed in the Adjusted Value field instead of the Flat Value field. This has been corrected. |
Leases
61559 |
When properties were added or removed from leases, entities were dropped from the lease records. This has been corrected. |
Marshall & Swift
57327 |
PACS now returns the correct value (superstructure if applicable) for an improvement using Marshall and Swift. |
61733 |
An improvement detail priced from the base unit price would not calculate properly if there were two or more Marshall and Swift main areas. This has been corrected. |
Ownership
59843 |
The Address Change Report (Reports > Owners > Address Change Report) now prints correctly – one section with each owner ID, with the correct property ID for each owner. |
Penpad
65269 |
Personal property pages are now being displayed correctly in Penpad. |
66510 |
When adding a link from the Penpad viewer, an error occurred. This has been corrected. |
Property Group Codes
59708 |
In the Prop Group List dialog box (accessed from the Add/Remove button on the Prop Codes tab of a property), double-clicking a code in the available section did not add the code to the current section, and vice versa. This has been corrected. |
PTD
69268 |
Line 12 of the PTD School Tax Limitation Report has been modified to display the correct value. |
Reports/Letters
54725 |
Corrected the Owners with Multiple HS/OV65 Exemptions report to exclude “local option percentage only” exemptions. |
56436 |
The spacing of the permit ID and permit number data in the Building Permit Report (Reports > Property > Building Permit) has been corrected. |
57596 |
The Next Inspection Report (Reports > Property > Next Inspection) was displaying the Next Inspection Reason listed at the bottom right corner of a page two times. This has been corrected. |
Roll
52714 |
When printing the certified roll, not all data specified in the Print Certified Roll Report dialog box as an alpha range was printed on the report. |
Subdivision Worksheet
6256 |
Properties from the future year can now be added to Subdivision Worksheets. |
Supplements
59708 |
In the Supplement Group List (accessed from Activities > Assessment > Supplement Function > Supplement Group Maintenance), when a supplement group was selected and Print Roll was chosen, double-clicking a code in the Available Entities section did not include the code in the Entities to include on Roll section, and vice versa. This has been corrected. |
TIF
67952 |
The reference ID 2 is now available to be included in TIF reports. |
UDI
69791 |
Deleting a UDI child record from the Owner-Agent tab resulted in an error and did not delete the property if the parent record had improvements. This has been corrected. |
User Rights
59708 |
In the Appraisal User Rights dialog box, when all available user rights are moved into the current user rights pane, the Comp Grid View Only user right now remains in the available section along with the Suppress Personal Property Info user right. With this modification, the Comp Grid View Only user right needs to be selected independently in order to be moved into the current user right section. |
6.PACS Collections 8.1.00.09 (GA)
PACS Collections 8.1.00.09 (GA)
General Availability (GA) Release: January 8, 2009
Payments for Bills with I&S
When a payment is made for a bill in which I&S is due, the I&S amount can now be paid first within the bill, followed by attorney fees, and then other bill components. A ratio is no longer used except in cases involving outstanding bills from prior years. If a taxpayer has bills due in prior years, the monies are divided across the years as was done previously.
This feature can be enabled in the PACS configuration table.
Property Search
The Primary tab of the Open Property dialog box (File > Open > Property) now includes a CAD Prop ID field.
Updates
Help |
Description of Update |
Refunds
54776 |
When posting an overpayment refund, zero-amount bills ($0.00) were not being displayed in the Bill List dialog box so that the overpayment refund could be applied to them. This has been corrected. |
68567 |
Refunds were not included on the Refund Due Report in cases involving overpayment refunds applied to a bill with (bill_adj_m_n_o + bill-adj_i_n_s = 0). This has been corrected. |
Reports/Letters
53910 |
The Special Inventory Report with Sales was not displaying sales amounts in excess of $1,000,000 correctly. Spacing has been increased to accommodate values up to $99,999,999.99. |
Supplement
62784 |
Inactive bills are no longer created through the supplement process for entities that have the collection option set to Collect Special Inventory Only. |
VIT
63344 |
It is now possible to post sales even after values have been captured for ARB. |
65350 |
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69924 |
It was not possible to enter sales in the amount of zero ($0.00). This has been corrected so that you can now enter an amount of $0.00 for a particular month if required. |