OMS Release Notes 2020

Owned by Jason Reel (Deactivated)
Last updated: Sept 01, 2020
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The OMS application is on a bi-weekly update cycle. This means that if there are changes ready to be deployed they will be deployed in the next scheduled deployment day. Deployments are normally completed every other Monday. The following items have been released to production.

 

Release Dates

  • 8/31/2020 → OMS Release

  • 8/17/2020 → OMS Release

  • 8/3/2020 → OMS Release (User Security Commands)

  • 7/27/2020 → OMS Release

  • 7/13/2020 → OMS Release

  • 7/6/2020 → OMS Release

  • 6/1/2020 → OMS Release (Private Comments)

  • 5/11/2020 → OMS Release

  • 4/27/2020 → OMS Release

  • 3/30/2020 → OMS Release

  • 3/16/2020 → OMS Release

  • 3/2/2020 → OMS Release

  • 2/28/2020 → OMS Release

  • 1/27/2020 → OMS Release (Ad Hoc/Officer Reviews)

Review the details for each release below.

What's New…

 

8/31/2020 Deployment

This release focused on the following report improvements:

  • Created a new report called “Mailing Labels - Corps and Other Ministries“ which produces a list of addresses of ARC’s, Corps, Krocs, Service Centers, Social Services, etc. to create mailing labels.

  • Updated the Retired Officer Data Export report to include email addresses.

  • Fixed the Child Listing report so that it includes results from all of the available person types (specifically “Accepted Candidates”).

8/17/2020 Deployment

This release focused on the following improvements:

  • Fixed a Survey Assignments issue where the assign modal (where users assign individuals) was not allowing them to assign by person type and/or command.

  • Fixed the marital status shown in the officer heading to show “married” for PTG spouses.

  • Fixed an issue where contact information was not being displayed on the officer summary screen after it was copied to a spouse in the event of a PTG.

  • Fixed an issue with the appointments screen where the add/edit window was not allowing the organization tree selection to work properly.

  • Fixed an issue where a records person status was irregular when there were multiple resignation/termination events.

Report changes:

  • Fixed the Social Security Listing report to ensure the person type parameter works correctly.

8/3/2020 Deployment

This release focused on the following improvements:

  • Updated the user security settings screen to allow users to filter users of the Officer Moves, Survey Manage Assignments and Review Assignments modules.

    • By default, anyone that had access to one of these modules previously will have access to "ALL" commands. You can change this access to only a specific command at any time from the user security screen. Please let me know if you have any questions.

  • Fixed an ad hoc issue where the saved report list would expand upwards instead of downwards.

7/27/2020 Deployment

This release focused on the following improvements:

  • Updated the Separation Date Listing report include a column displaying the separation type (Resigned or Terminated).

  • Fixed a problem where the appointments screen didn’t show the correct string for the selected position.

 

7/13/2020 Deployment

This release focused on the following improvements:

  • Fixed several places where the presence of “private comments” was causing save issues.

    • Long Service

    • Promotions

    • Health

    • Education degrees

  • Fixed an issue with officer survey assignments which prevented users from assigning by person type and/or command.

  • Fixed an issue where the Officer Summary page showed “Invalid Dates” under the Service Dates section.

 

7/6/2020 Deployment

This release focused on the following improvements:

  • Fixed issue where the education conference end date would show the day before the date saved.

Report changes:

  • Fixed issues with multiple results for the same person on the Potential Duplicates report.

 

6/1/2020 Deployment

This release focused on the following improvements:

  • Updated the Comments screen with “private comments” to replace the missing confidential comment functionality.

    • Users will now be able to save, view and edit private comments from the comments screen.

    • The private comment feature is a specific user permission that must be given to a user for it to be visible.

Report changes:

  • Updated the In/Out Sheet report so the commands are in alphabetical order.

 

5/11/2020 Deployment

This release focused on improvements:

  • Updated the retirement due date logic for married couples:

    • USS - Continue to display husband’s retirement eligible date.

    • USC, USE, USW and CAN - Display Retirement Eligible date of spouse eligible to retire the earliest.

Report changes:

  • Updated the Officer Directory report to include the middle initial.

4/27/2020 Deployment

This release focused on bug fixes:

  • Fixed Officer Summary issue where emergency contact addresses were missing the zip code.

  • Fixed an ad hoc issue where the quick delete (delete option in the report list) was not working correctly.

  • Updated the Personal Information citizenship feature to allow users to add more than one citizenship for a country.

3/30/2020 Deployment

This release focused on bug fixes and improvements:

  • Updated the Personal Information screen to allow users to edit the “glory date” when someone has been promoted to glory.

  • Updated Moves linked proposals to ensure users can add a comment when adding an officer to the proposal.

  • Fixed a Moves linked proposal issue when a spouse is added it didn’t show their ending appointment.

  • Fixed a Moves linked proposal issue where the “Remove from Service” option was not being executed properly.

3/16/2020 Deployment

This release focused on bug fixes and improvements:

  • Fixed an issue where the Officer Moves Summary screen did not show the correct “Last Update” time.

  • Fixed an issue on the Appointments screen encountered when users tried adding a new appointment:

    • The “Hide appointment description…” option was not saving.

    • When a start and end date were set for a new primary appointment it was saving as an additional appointment.

  • Updated Ad Hoc Reporting

    • Updated the labeling on the Ad Hoc landing screen; “Create New Report” button and wording “Select a saved report or create a new one” in the middle.

    • Extended the length of the “Select a Report” box so users can see more saved reports.

  • Updated the Family screen error message returned when users try to add a spouse for two records of the same gender. Previously, the dialog only said “Error”.

  • Updated the “Officer Moves Detail Export” report ton include cell phone and ministry unit address "office" (new/old).

3/2/2020 Deployment

This release focused on bug fixes:

  • Fixed issue for Appointment and Moves appointment searches to ensure organization shortcuts are not returned as options.

  • Fixed several education issues on the Officer Summary screen:

    • Add “Completed” in front of completion date so users know what it means.

    • Hide the credits achieved if it equals zero.

  • Fixed issue with Remove Wizard where it was incorrectly adding a “divorce” marital status after an officer is promoted to glory.

  • Fixed Ad Hoc issue where the column configuration screen didn’t allow users to re-order the columns.

  • Fixed Ad Hoc issue where users ran into issues discarding changes.

2/28/2020 Deployment

This release included bug fixes and a requested API change:

  • Update the Appointment (Moves) API to include the following:

    • Location IDs for the organization nodes.

    • Include Auxiliary Captains and Envoys (Sargent).

    • Allow users to include officers with person status changes (ACT, RET, PTG, RES, TER).

  • Fixed a number of Ad Hoc items:

    • Ensure the “Conference Name” column/filter field includes a dropdown selection box and the results match the lookup table.

    • Ensure the “Institution Name” column/filter field includes a dropdown selection box and the results match the lookup table.

    • Removed the Brengle Date and ICO Date and renamed the training date field to “Completion Date”.

    • Added the “Session” data field to Personal Information and Relative categories.

    • Renamed data field “Health Record Type” to “Health Entry Type”.

    • Ensure the “Degree Type” column/filter field includes a dropdown selection box.

    • Renamed data field “Degree Category” to “Category/Concentration”.

    • Ensure the “Conference Type” column/filter field includes a dropdown selection box and the results match the lookup table.

    • Ensure the “Relative Gender” column/filter field includes a dropdown selection box.

  • Updated ad hoc report creator name to match the user that created the report.

1/27/2020 Deployment

This release contained the changes for the new Ad Hoc reporting and Officer Service Review. For additional information regarding the Ad Hoc Reports module and how to use it check out the following articles: