A lawsuit was opened and Add was selected to add a new contact added from the Contact/Cost tab. When Change was selected and criteria entered to search for an account, the message “Invalid Field Name or Field Index” was displayed. This has been corrected.
Neighborhood Codes
64550
The numbers to the right of the decimal in adjustment factors associated with neighborhood codes (Tools > Code File Maintenance > General > Neighborhood Codes) were not being applied to land and improvement values (available for review from the Details dialog boxes accessed from Improvements and Land tabs).
To correct this issue, there is now a configurable rounding_year field in the pacs_config table. When a year is entered in the field, then:
Four (4) decimal places are used for rounding for the year equal to or greater than the entry.
Two (2) decimal places are used for rounding for years less than the rounding year field.
The following new and changed functionality is provided with this release.
ARB
On the ARB Options – Letters tab (Tools > ARB Maintenance > System Settings), there are now options to specify default settings for printing an inquiry form and printing appraisal cards when printing letters. For more information, see ARB Customization.
Commercial Field Card
In the Property ID and Legal Description section of commercial field cards, the following data is now included:
GBA
NRA
Property Use
Sub Market
Units
In the Improvement Valuation section, the number of stories is now included.
Improvement Details: Quick Entry Feature Template
You can now set up a combination of feature type/feature code/unit data that you can load into new improvement detail records to expedite data entry.
What’s New in PACS Appraisal Documentation
ARB Customization (Updated)
ARB Protests (Updated)
Improvements (Replacement of previous Appraising Improvements guide)
Updates
Help STAR
Description of Update
Appraisal Card
60719
The incorrect appraisal method was being printed on the card. This has been corrected.
69453
When a sketch was printed on the back of a field card, the land segment information was not printed on the next page. This has been corrected.
74211
An error was displayed when Print Only Child Properties was selected from the UDI Options drop-down list. This has been corrected.
73447
When Print sub segment info was selected for a field review card, each word was being printed on a separate page because of numerous subsegments unique segment and type codes. Page set up has been increased to accommodate the spacing required for numerous subsegments.
75077
After a CASS import appraisal cards were printing with a blank line between the name and the address when addr_line1 was null. Processing has been changed so that when addr_line1 is null, a blank line is no longer printed.
76189
Appraisal cards would not print after another program changed the orientation of the default printer. This has been corrected.
76361
An error occurred when printing an appraisal card for a personal property that had segments with subsegments as well as many segments without subsegments. Page set up has been modified so that unnecessary spacing is not included for segments without subsegments.
Appraisal Export
78444
The report generated from the appraisal export (File > Export > Appraisal Information) now contains a line item for DVHS exemption values.
Appraisal – General
77101
Screens were freezing intermittently. This has been corrected.
Appraisal Notices
61119
The freeze adjustable taxable value was not displaying on the Captured Totals report (Activities > Appraisal Notices > Capture ARB Submission Values > Print ARB Submission Totals).
ARB
49905
When the Presentation button was selected from a protest, an error was displayed because the image sub type was sometimes not recognized. This has been corrected.
63366
Duplicate case IDs were being generated for some ARB inquiries. In addition, an error was displayed when the ARB Inquiry Report was generated. These issues have been corrected.
64809
When using the quick image scan (Activities > ARB > ARB Quick Image Scan), if a property had multiple protest cases, the system returned sometimes returned a closed case. This has been corrected.
76516
75729
When Print Comp Grids was selected in the Print ARB Letters dialog box (Activities > ARB > Individual Letters Processing), letters were printing but not the comp grids because a customized set up for the default printer was not being recognized. This has been corrected.
75675
On the ARB Options – Letters tab (Tools > ARB Maintenance > Letters > Letter Maintenance), there are now options to specify default settings for printing an inquiry form and printing appraisal cards when printing letters.
76973
The ARB protest reports (Reports > ARB > ARB Reports) was not reflecting a division in value for UDI properties (that is, each child property was displaying the total value form the parent.). This has been corrected so that the child property individual values are listed.
77163
When Print Comp Grids was selected in the Print ARB Letters dialog box (Activities > ARB > Individual Letters Processing), it was not clear that there were multiple printers to choose from. The drop-down list for the printers has been expanded to indicate that there are multiple printers to choose from.
Comparable Sales
76087
When the Use Neighborhood Adj check box was selected, some comp grids were displaying a neighborhood adjustment although none of the properties associated with the comp grid had neighborhood codes. This has been corrected.
Deed Processing
76830
When a user is working either in a future year layer, or in the current, uncertified year layer, chooses Activities > Electronic Deed Processing> Batch Maintenance, and then selects a batch, a new dialog box, the Select Import Year dialog box, is displayed. The Select Import Year dialog box lists the years that are available for processing
(Note The Batch Maintenance menu item is not available when a user is working in the current, certified year layer.)
Exemptions
61220
The Set all Improvement and Land to Homesite now applies the homesite exemption percentage as expected when the override is selected.
74338
It was not possible to enter a deferral date for a disabled person’s surviving spouse exemption in the Exemption dialog box (displayed by clicking Details for the DPS exemption on the Entity-Exmpt tab). This has been corrected so that a deferral date can be entered.
78705
A warning message is now displayed for properties that have the DVHS exemption applied but do not have any homestead value.
GIS
60213
An update has been provided to resolve “Server Busy” messages that were displayed when first opening an image in Pictometry from the GIS Viewer.
75855
A configuration option for the GIS most recent land sale has been added to the pacs_config table so that the land price per square foot displays as required on the map, not only when land sales have a sequence number equal to zero.
When this configuration option is turned on:
The sales price per square foot of land does not display if there is no land sale on the property. However, if there is a land sale on the property, the sales price per square foot is the unit price entered on the Sale Land tab of the ownership history (available from the Deeds-Sales tab of a property) for the most recent land only sale (that is, it is no longer restricted to sequence number=0).
The sales price per acre for land displays as blank if there is no land only sale on the property. However, if there is a land only sale, the sales price per acre for land is the sales price per square foot of land multiplied by 43560 (the number of square feet in an acre).
Improvements/Land
68783
Because improvements and land segments could be copied from a real or mobile home property to a business personal property, an error occurred in a nightly calculation job. It is no longer possible to do this, and a warning is displayed if a user attempts to do so.
76486
It was not possible to change the land pricing for a land schedule front foot table from Straight Adjustment to Range Adjustment. This has been corrected.
Income Module
75865
After the EXP/Total Expenses amount was overridden on the Direct Cap tab and Recalculate was clicked, the new EXP data was not saved. This has been corrected.
76100
It was not possible to edit an income valuation in a pending supplement. This has been corrected.
78376
Data from some income fields was not being copied to the new year layer. This has been corrected.
78478
Data from some income fields was not being copied to a supplement. This has been corrected.
Letter Processing
75208
Letter tags have been added for inquiry and protest letters to display the mean and median values for a subject property from the comparable properties within a static grid. The letter tags are:
AP.subj_mean_val
AP.subj_median_val
AI.subj_mean_val
AI.subj_median_val
77245
The following letter tags have been added for protest letter processing:
Affidavit Testimony Date – prot_affidavit_testimony_dt
Decision Reason Code – decision_reason_cd
District Comments – prot_district_comments
First Motion – prot_first_motion
First Motion By – prot_first_motion_by
First Motion Second By – prot_first_motion_seconded_by
First Motion Decision Code – prot_first_motion_decision_cd
Other Motion – prot_other_motion
Marshall & Swift
59729
It is no longer possible to save Marshall & Swift data in the Marshall & Swift Detail dialog box unless the year built is between 1000 and 9999. If data outside of this range is entered, it will not possible to save the data.
Mass Adjustments
64550
When calculating mass adjustments for land or improvements, PACS rounded to two decimals for the neighborhood percentage or abstract subdivision percentage. This has been corrected so that the calculation rounds to four decimals.
Mineral Import
76131
76194
When importing a file, an error occurred that prevented further processing. This has been corrected.
PACS.Query
70683
It was not possible to run a report using a saved query created as a SQL string. Now it is possible to use saved queries created as SQL strings to run reports in addition to saved queries created with the query builder.
Personal Property
77536
When the Asset Manager was opened to view the details of a personal property segment, segment data was sometimes deleted when the Asset Manager was closed for segments that did not contain a value for the Type code (which is sometimes the case when data is imported). Segment and subsegment data that exists before the Asset Manager is opened is now protected.
Reports
77019
The Homestead Exemption Application report has been corrected because the formatting included too much white space, causing 3 pages to print instead of 2.
75407
The Sales Ratio Report (Reports > Sales Analysis > Sales Ratio Report) was not including the class of property when multiple properties were involved in a sale. This has been corrected so that the class is included when it is used for subjects.
76552
The Property Group Code Report (Reports > General > Property Group Code Report) was not including records set as collections-only properties for the year selected. This has been corrected.
77115
UDI parent property records with recalculation errors were not included in the Recalculation Error Report (Reports > Data Verification > Recalculation Error Report). This has been corrected.
77221
Sales dates with double-digit months were being truncated in the Taxpayer Evidence Packet Sales Report (accessed by right-clicking Comparable Sales search results and choosing Print > Report Taxpayer Evidence Packet). This has been corrected.
