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Release Date: 7/02/2021 ASCENDER Update: 5.0.0218
The ASCENDER MemberPortal is now available. The MemberPortal allows SSA members to submit grant budget revision requests and reimbursement requests to their respective fiscal agents. This functionality provides fiscal agents a more efficient way to manage grant budget amounts and payments.
Personnel > Tables > Salaries > Extra Duty & Salaries NYR > Extra Duty
❏ Added the Use for ST OT and Display in WJ check boxes to identify which extra duties will use standard overtime rates and be displayed for the WorkJournal feature in EmployeePortal. These fields are only enabled for G-type and S-type extra duty codes.
❏ Added the functionality to freeze the Delete, Code, and Description columns when using the horizontal scroll bar to scroll left and right to reveal additional columns.
Personnel > Tables > Job/Contract > Job Codes & Job/Contract NYR > Job Codes
❏ Added the Time Option, Pay Type 2 Dock, and Auto Lunch columns to identify how employees with certain job codes enter their time and how their time is calculated for the WorkJournal feature in EmployeePortal.
❏ Added the functionality to freeze the Delete, Job Code, and Job Description columns when using the horizontal scroll bar to scroll left and right to reveal additional columns.
Phase 2: SSA Fiscal Agent Management
Grants and Projects > Maintenance > Approval Dashboard
❏ Added this page to allow signed-on approvers to view a list of all member grant budget revision requests and reimbursement requests awaiting approval for a year/grant type. Approvers can elect to approve all requests, individual requests, or return all requests or individual requests. Additionally, approvers can update the details in an individual request prior to approving or returning the request.
Phase 2: Travel Reimbursement Requests
Bank Reconciliation > Tables > Bank Account Fund Groups > Bank Account Group
❏ Renamed the Extract HR column to Extract Payroll.
Finance > Maintenance > Pending Payables
❏ Modified the Invoice Nbr field to increase the number of characters allowed from 10 to 15.
Finance > Maintenance > EFT Processing
❏ Modified the program to improve the amount of time it takes to load/retrieve data.
Payroll > Payroll Processing > Run Payroll
❏ Modified payroll calculations to calculate 403B FICA Alternative accruals.
Payroll > Payroll Processing > Special Adjustments
❏ Modified the program to allow employee and employer 403B FICA Alternative Annuity amounts to be interfaced. Also, added the applicable columns to the necessary reports.
Payroll > Payroll Processing > Special Adjustments > Expense Only
❏ Renamed the Recalc Grants button to Recalc Grts/403B. Also, added the Emplr 403B FICA Contrib field to the list of expenses. This field cannot be modified and is calculated based on the expense pay entered if the original 403B FICA contribution was not zero.
Payroll > Payroll Processing > Special Adjustments > Accruals Only
❏ Added the Accru Emplr 403B FICA Contr field to the list of expenses.
Payroll > Utilities > Zero School YTD Accruals
❏ Modified the program to allow employer 403B FICA Alternative Annuity amounts to be zeroed out and interfaced to Finance.
Payroll > Utilities > Payroll Accrual Variance Extract
❏ Modified the program to calculate and interface employer accrual variance 403B FICA Alternative Annuity amounts.
Payroll > Reports > Year To Date Reports > HRS3650 - YTD Special Adjustment Report
❏ Modified the program to include employer 403B FICA Alternative Annuity amount special adjustments.
Personnel > Utilities > Mass Update > Employee
❏ Corrected the issue that caused employee years of experience to be incremented even though the re-employment date was greater than the date in the Employment Date< field.
❏ Renamed the Increment section to Update Experience, and added the Increment and Decrement check boxes to allow the selected years of employee experience to either be increased or decreased by one.
Position Management > Utilities > Salary Simulation (Next Year)
❏ Corrected the issue that prevented supplemental transactions from being included in the stat min calculations when the Acct Type is set to S Supplemental Pay and Exp 373 is selected.
❏ Modified PMIS salary simulations and reports to include 403B FICA Alternative contribution calculations.
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