1.8.1.46.0025 New Features
R46 New Features
1.1 Appeals
- Evidence Packets
- Letter Tags
- NOPH Reminder (SB 63)
- 25.25D Penalty for ALL Property Types
- Distributed Value Option for hearing value
- Protest reasons
- Protest options for filing ONLINE
- $0 value properties
- Canceled or Reduced Exemption Notice
- HS Qualification Notice
2.8.1.46.0025 Release Notes
| Dev Ops ID | Team Support ID | Title | Description | Release Notes |
| 34087 | 197386 | Able to Copy Land Segment from one Acct to another Certified Account without Supplementing | Issue: Copy to property from land can be used to add segments to a non supplemented property in prior years. | Made changes to copying of improvements. When the user attempts to copy a land segment to a property in certified year, PACS will determine that Property is in an open supplement for the year before the land segments can be copied. Copy the land segment over to the target property unless its in Accepted, Bills Created or Locked state, in which case a warning is displayed. |
| 34088 | 197488 | ARB protest - handling inactive panel member in display is not as expected | Issue: Motion Made by Name disappears in previous years' ARB protest record if the individual is marked inactive. | Inactive should behave consistently in system to display inactive code until changed but not allow selection of an inactive code. Fixed an issue where Closed Protests were not showing the Panel Member who made or seconded a motion on the Hearing Minutes if the Panel Member who made or seconded the motion had subsequently been Inactivated. |
| 34086 | 197851 | HANDSHAKE ICON - AGENT LIST OF INQUIRIES OPENED | Issue: Client can't search for Inquiries with Agents | Made the necessary corrections. |
| 44587 | 218705 | Preliminary CAD State Category Breakdown is incorrect | Issue: When they are running the preliminary totals the CAD State Category breakdown is not showing correctly. When you run the query to show the totals it shows what the client expects. | Made the necessary corrections. |
| 46736 | 223332 | PACS will crash when a user attempts to publish Notice of Hearing Letter. | Issue: When attempting to publish the Notice of Hearing letter PACS crashes. | Made the necessary corrections. |
| 46403 | 225357 | Ownership Transfer Error Occuring | When an agent is inactivated during an ownership transfer, additional comments are added to that field. If the existing agent record already had a lengthy comment, the additional comments could potentially make the data to large to fit in the field. | Expanded the length of the agent comment from 255 characters to 1024 characters. This will reduce the likelihood of the issue occuring. |
| 41973 | 236280 | AG/Timber Confidential | There was inconsistency between the AG/Timber and HS Exemption applications printed from PACS regarding display of a confidential owner. Some printed the owner name and others printed the system alias for confidential owners. | Applications going to an owner should print the owner name even if in the system the name is marked as confidential. The confidential marker is intended to keep the name masked for public access purposes. Update the AG (Ag Application) in forms below to use the owner name rather than the confidential system alias ag_application ag_application_duplex ag_application_extended ag_application_collin Update the AGT (Ag Timber Application) to not print the confidential system alias in the form section 'Step 2: Describe the property', 'Owner:' field |
| 45698 | 241330 | Email address not accepted | Issue: Email address in the contact info section of the owner/agent details doesn't accept email addresses with more than 3 letters in the TLD part of the email address (.com, .net. etc) | System now accepts 2 - 4 characters in the TLD part of the email address on Contact Info for Taxpayer Or Agent |
| 45917 | 241693 | HS application prints with Confidential alias rather than owner name | Issue: The homestead application is using the Confidential Owner Name Alias rather than the actual Owner Name when printing a homestead exemption for a confidential owner. Expected Outcome: The homestead application should reflect the owner name | Owner Name will be printed on applications. Confidentiality applies to publicly accessed records. Letters to the owner are not considered public. |
| 46581 | 242796 | Publishing Evidence Packets in mass not able to keep up with demand | Issue: The generate and publish default files for evidence packets is taking too long and not able to keep up with the growing demand. | * Providing a new option to prioritize speed over file size when generating files for Default Evidence Packets. * If size is the priority, then the existing process for generating PDF files for Default Evidence Packets will still be used. * If speed is the priority, then Evidence Packets must be generated from computers with Microsoft Print To PDF enabled. If Microsoft Print To PDF is not enabled, then the existing process for generating PDF files for Default Evidence Packets will still be used. * Regardless of whether speed or file size is the priority, Letters generated as part of Default Evidence Packets will now save directly to PDF without the need for generating a postcript file and then converting it to PDF |
| 46737 | 242996 | Mass created protests does not set the protest type | Issue: Mass Created Protests are not getting the default prot_type set based on the arb system settings. | We added a check in R46 to just use the default value for individual machines if the type is blank. |
| 50426 | 247584 | Error Message when closing PACS | Issue: When users close PACS, they receive the error/exception message. | Made the necessary corrections. |
| 51841 | 249404 | Southwest Data Import | Issue: When bringing in a Southwest Data import, our HS and DVHS exemption amount is not balancing back to theirs. | Updated logic in the Appraisal Data Import for PACS Collections to handle additional exemption identifiers from Southwest Data. |
| 52505 | 250155 | Error When using Refine Search | Issue: PACS GUI is throwing an error on the secondary search by the "Abstract/Subdivision" and "Search by Desc" is checked when there is an apostrophe in the name of the "Abstract/Subdivision. | Made the necessary corrections. |
| 52561 | 250234 | Error on Appraisal Import | Issue: When doing an Appraisal Data Import (ADI) client receives an Error. | Patch applied to create the missing Appraisal Import tables |
| 52461 | 250934 | Missing EARS reports | Issue: Missing the Special District Reports for the EARS Submission | Made the necessary corrections. |
| 53973 | 252085 | Error on Import certified data | Issue: Getting an error when trying to load the Certified import | SDS has some new fields in their records. Made the necessary changes |
| 56695 | 254600 | 2021 Exemptions | Special Exemptions were not being applied when brought in through an Appraisal Import in PAC Collections. | Made the necessary corrections. |
4.8.1.46.0055 Service Pack New Features
R46SP New Features
Timber 78 per AC
- System Configuration
- Entity Maintenance
- Timber Calculation
- Taxable Summary
Mass Close Protests
- Import Protests to Close
- View Import
- Options
- Process
- Review Processed Protests
Please click R46-SP_New Features to access the new features documentation.
5.8.1.46.0055 Service Pack Release Notes
| Dev OPs ID | Team Support ID | Description |
| 34041 | 219409 | ARB Protest Search - online protest does not populate last appraiser to protest appraiser for Appraiser Meetings. This has been resolved. |
| 54257 | 252284 | Timber 78 values cannot be set at the land segment per entity where the entities have different timber 78 values. This has been resolved. |
| 57520 | 254816 | Mineral import error was occurring when trying to run a supplemental import. Available fields were restored for use in formatting GEO ID for XML Imports. |
| 57077 | 254984 | When using SP in a query to mass insert a particular event code into the lawsuite_event table, the SP only provides 5 out of the 10 available characters. This has been resolved. |
| 57362 | 255301 | The Homestead and OV65 exemptions were not being applied when supplementing a property. This has been corrected. |
| 60175 | 257347 | The Residential Comparable serach using the "Sold & Unsold" option brings back the correct properties, however it was not showing the most recent sale info for each property. This has been resolved. |
| 60948 | 258091 | An Appraisal Data Import from a HG client would reflect incorrect value. This has been resolved. |
| 61447 | 258734 | The Appraisal Notice was updated to add back verbiage required by Tax Code. |
| 61490 | 258980 | A duplex version of the Timber Form was created. |
| 33995 | Mass Add Agents to Prior Year Accounts is not working after Certification. This has been resolved. | |
| 6145 | Appraisal Notices - Confidential owner name and mailing address information was redacted for publishing. | |
| 57557 | Online HS Application 50-114 was updated to version 1-22/35. | |
| 57637 | Rearrange controls on Property Exemption dialog to make it easier to read. | |
| 57756 | 2022 EARS - Made changes to the Validation modifications to PTAD Manual specifications. | |
| 51284 | Created process to close protests in mass where specific fields can be set before closing. Final value, value option, distribution, protest status. | |
| 56262 | 2022 Appraisal Notice 11-21/5. Updated Appraisal Notice forms to reflect Comptroller published version 11-21/5. | |
| 56314 | 2022 Multi-Property Appraisal Notice 11-21/5. Updated Appraisal Notice forms , Multi-Property to reflect Comptroller published version 11-21/5. | |
| 56954 | NOPH - Add Hearing Reminder Request to Protest mass Maintenance context menu option. |
6.8.1.46.0057 Service Pack
Please click Service Pack 8.1.46.0057 Release Notes to access the Release Notes.
7.8.1.46.0063 Service Pack
| Dev Ops ID | Description | Details |
| 65824 | Appraisal Notices 2022 | When duplex printing the 2022 Appraisal Notice form, a blank page was being included which caused subsequent notices to be uneven and out-of-sync |
| 65728 | Protest Emails | Online Appeals email notifications are being sent to non e-file protests. A change has been made in this service pack release which uses the Website Configuration ‘Protest List Settings’ option to enable or disable email notifications to non E-File protests. If PACS is configured to ‘Display all protest for the current year’ then online appeal email notifications WILL be delivered to non e-file protests. If PACS is configured to ‘Display only protests filed online for the current year’, then online appeal email notifications WILL NOT be delivered to non e-file protests. |