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Release Notes

 

Release 7.3.9

11/17/10

 

 Key Bug Fixes

 Various bug fixes are included in this release.  The following is a list of key fixes by application area.  

 Please contact customer support for the status of any specific Astra Schedule case number.

 

 

 Area:        Academic Planner

 

 Room Effective Dates:  Resolved an issue that was preventing users with access from scheduling effective dated

 versions of rooms.

 

 Area:        Calendars

 

 Search for Available Rooms:  Resolved an issue that was causing effective dated rooms to appear available when they

 were not.

 

 Area:        Campus / Building / Room Configuration

 

 Calendar:  Resolved a display issue when ONLY resources are scheduled and not rooms.

 

 Room Partitions:  Resolved an issue that was causing scheduled room partition conflicts to display incorrectly on the

 room selection grid.

 

 Rooms:  Resolved an issue that was preventing room records from being displayed on the room list if they had been

 deleted and then re‑added.

 

 Event Quick Form:  Resolved an issue that was allowing a bypass of room usage controls if the event long form was

 accessed from within the quick form.

 

 Room Controls:  Resolved an issue with room control settings that was preventing events from being scheduled when

 only sections were blocked.

 

 Area:        Equipment / Services

 

 Resource Scheduling:  Resolved an issue that was causing an error if an assigned resource was canceled then later

 re‑scheduled for the same event meeting.

 

 Resource Scheduling:  Resolved an issue that was allowing resources to be selected for events that were no longer

 active.

 

 Area:        Event Create / Edit / Schedule

 

 Event Pre‑Meeting:  Resolved a time validation issue that was creating an error if you attempted to save without an

 end time.

 

 Room Effective Dates:  Resolved an issue where the wrong effective version of a room was being referenced by

 imported sections, allowing double books by subsequent activities.

 

 Room Usage Control:  Resolved an issue with event scheduling usage controls what was incorrectly allowing scheduling

 when blocked.

 

 Rooms:  Resolved an issue that was causing an error if a room was scheduled that had a capacity of more than 32,000.

 

 Events:  The "Featured" flag at the event meeting level is now honored on the calendar for filtering purposes.

 

 Event Scheduling:  Resolved an intermittent application error encountered by some customers when selecting a room

 for an event meeting.

 

 Resource Scheduling:  Resolved an issue that was preventing scheduled resource times from being edited if the

 reserved quantity was 1.

 

 Event Status:  Resolved an issue that was causing the status field not to get updated on all meetings when an event

 was canceled.

 

 

 Area:        Event Request

 

 Event Notifications:  Shortened the name of one of the event notification reports to help avoid a path length problem

 when sending notifications.

 

 Event Request:  Resolved an issue with custom request fields that was allowing a request to be submitted without

 answering required questions.

 

 Event Request Forms:  Resolved an issue that was allowing custom filtering during room and resource selection even

 when the request form settings did not allow it.

 

 Area:        Import / Export

 

 Datatel Interface:  Resolved an issue that was causing duplicate instructor records on import.

 

 Text File Section Import:  The text file interface was updated to properly handle cross‑list max enrollment values.

 

 Jenzabar EX Interface:  Updated the realtime import configuration file to properly account for term/campus filtering

 and SISkey matching.

 

 Jenzabar EX Interface:  Resolved an error on import during the updating of instructor records.

 

 PeopleSoft Interface:  Updated the default configuration file for the PeopleSoft realtime update to eliminate an import

 error encountered by some schools.

 

 Manage Requests:  Resolved a problem with access to the link and other tabs when permissions were restricted.

 

 

 Area:        Reporting

 

 Reports:  Resolved an issue with the "Sections by Building and Room for Selected Term" report so that it returns

 sections scheduled into effective dated rooms.

 

 Reports:  Updated the stored procedure for the "Double Booked Activities" report to handle the date parameter

 properly.

 

 Reports:  Updated the section meetings report view to get the enrollment values from the section meetings table

 instead of sections.

 

 Area:        Room Optimization / Preferences

 

 Optimizer:  Resolved an issue with room suitability checking that was resulting in no sections scheduled when

 "exclude" preferences were used.

 

 Area:        Section Edit / Schedule

 

 Banner Import:  Resolved an issue that was causing an import error when courses had been deleted in Astra Schedule.

 

 Available Room Tool:  Resolved an issue within a stored procedure that was causing an error when using the available

 room tool in an Oracle environment.

 

 Area:        Sectioning

 

 LDAP:  Corrected the way role profile groups are named when copied during the LDAP‑to‑role mapping process.

 

 

 Area:        Security

 

 LDAP:  Increased the timeout tolerance in the LDAP test tool to help reduce timeout errors.

 

 Event Request Form:  Resolved a permission issue that was allowing users to view and request rooms that were

 restricted from their role.

 

 Area:        User Interface Components

 

 Rooms:  Made the room name display consistent throughout the system.

 

 

 Area:        Workflows / Notifications / Approvals

 

 Event Approval Notification:  Approval comments are now included on the notification message sent to the requester.

 

 

 

 Known Limitations

 

 Area:        Accounting

 Accounting:  The accounting application currently has a field length limitation that can prevent Astra Schedule from

 being able to uniquely identify rooms if there are buildings and room named the same across multiple campuses, or if

 there are otherwise unusually long building and room names.  In this case an error will be encountered when

 exporting the room information from Astra Schedule to the accounting application.

 Area:        Calendars

 Browser Support:  The Calendar functions are not currently compatible with Safari.  We are investigating options for

 an update to the Calendar control that will support Safari in a coming release.

 Area:        Import / Export

 After importing events via the Excel import utility, customer data must be re‑exported to ObjAcct before users can

 effectively access Events and Customer related functionality.

 Area:        N/A

 People records cannot currently be searched via email address.

 

 Area:        Reporting

 Report Subscription:  Reports to be included in a report subscription may not include sub‑reports in their design.

 

 Area:        Security

 "Guest" user account must be mapped to the "guest" role.

 

 Area:        System Configuration

 Holiday Section Conflicts:  Section meeting instances are cancelled and flagged as exceptions upon section creation.  

 However, at this time, holiday configuration actions that should impact existing section records will not perform this

 work.  Holidays that block section meetings must be created before sections are created.