Product Release Notes: 2023-2024
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Software Release Notes - 2023
As part of our efforts to continually improve our products and services, Berkshire performs periodic upgrades to balanceAAP, balanceTRAK, and REACH software.
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| Release # | Release Date | Item # | Type | Product | Description |
| 2023.1.1081.1 | March 23, 2023 | 13810 | Feature Correction | balanceAAP | Correction of a reported issue where, in isolated situations, availability report totals are not aligned when plan is set to use Rollups or Drilldowns. |
| 2023.1.1081.1 | March 23, 2023 | 13811 | Feature Correction | balanceAAP | Correction of an issue where Internal Availability feeders were not cascading down to Sub Plans in isolated situations based on their employment threshold. |
| 2023.1.1081.1 | March 23, 2023 | - | Feature Update | balanceAAP | Additional minor system updates have been made to improve the overall performance and usability of balanceAAP. |
| 2023.1.1052.2 | February 23, 2023 | 13796 | Feature Update | balanceTRAK | Correction of an issue where users were receiving a notification error after the removal of a job seeker stage. |
| 2023.1.1052.2 | February 23, 2023 | 13808 | Feature Correction | balanceTRAK | The balanceTRAK State Job Board integration list of available states has been updated. |
| 2023.1.1039.1 | February 9, 2023 | 13733 | Feature Correction | balanceTRAK | Correction of a reported issue where users were able to save a required requisition field, on a previously created requisition, without a value. |
| 2023.1.1039.1 | February 9, 2023 | 13740 | Feature Correction | balanceAAP | Correction of a reported issue where Aggregate Census Codes were being created without a description. |
| 2023.1.1039.1 | February 9, 2023 | 13751 | Feature Update | balanceTRAK | The balanceTRAK State Job Board integration has been enhanced to include a report of sent requisitions which is located in the Metrics report section. |
| 2023.1.1039.1 | February 9, 2023 | 13777 | Feature Correction | balanceAAP | Correction of a reported issue where balanceAAP was not recalculating when individuals used the Assign Reports feature on the Roster data table. |
| 2023.1.1039.1 | February 9, 2023 | 13779 | Feature Correction | balanceAAP | Correction of a reported issue where balanceAAP users, in select situations, were receiving an error when attempting to delete a feeder on the Internal Availability page. |
| 2023.1.1039.1 | February 9, 2023 | - | Feature Correction | balanceTRAK | Additional system updates have been made to improve the overall performance and usability of balanceTRAK. |
| 2023.1.1033.1 | February 2, 2023 | 13328 | Feature Correction | balanceAAP | Correction of a reported issue where users were unable to export the default Narrative Document Body. |
| 2023.1.1033.1 | February 2, 2023 | 13693 | Feature Correction | balanceAAP | File Consistency Batch Operations was updated to modified results display when no valid records were found. |
| 2023.1.1033.1 | February 2, 2023 | 13694 | Feature Update | balanceAAP | balanceAAP calculation process was modified to improve performance and usability. |
| 2023.1.1033.1 | February 2, 2023 | 13747 | Feature Correction | balanceAAP | Recruitment Area Wizard was modified to enhance area assignment for selected County Sets. |
| 2023.1.1033.1 | February 2, 2023 | 13754 | Feature Correction | balanceAAP | Correction of Recruitment Area Wizard error when run by plan. |
| 2023.1.1020.1 | January 20, 2023 | 13718 | Feature Correction | balanceTRAK | Correction of a reported issue where users were not able to open the TRAK tab in User Management. |
| 2023.1.1020.1 | January 20, 2023 | 13719 | Feature Correction | balanceTRAK | Correction of a reported issue where balanceTRAK users were not able to access the Data Export page. |
| 2023.1.1019.1 | January 19, 2023 | 13701 | Feature Update | balanceAAP | The Plan ID will now appear on page footer throughout the balanceAAP application. |
| 2023.1.1019.1 | January 19, 2023 | 13706 | Feature Correction | balanceAAP | Correction of a reported issue, where in isolated situations, the Recruitment Area Wizard returned areas that did not contain availability data. |
| 2023.1.1019.1 | January 19, 2023 | - | Feature Correction | balanceTRAK | Minor performance corrections have been made to the job seeker application process. |
| 2023.1.1019.1 | January 19, 2023 | - | Feature Update | balanceTRAK | Additional performance updates have been made to the balanceTRAK Archive process. |
| 2023.1.1017.1 | January 17, 2023 | 13704 | Feature Update | balanceAAP | The balanceAAP Document Center was enhanced to allow file uploads of up to 500MB. |
| 2023.1.1005.1 | January 5, 2023 | 13583 | Feature Update | balanceAAP | Plan Review Item 2.1 (File Consistency) has been enhanced to provide additional details after the File Consistency is run, including the number of employees with issues and/or ignored. |
| 2023.1.1005.1 | January 5, 2023 | 13622 | Feature Correction | balanceAAP | Correction of previously reported issue where in isolated situations, backed-up and the restored Affirmative Action Plans, required Product Support intervention. |
| 2023.1.1005.1 | January 5, 2023 | 13623 | Feature Update | balanceAAP | The File Consistency Report has been updated with a new design to improve readability and additional fields to improve usability. The new Excel report will have one issue type per tab, include new fields to assist with resolving file consistency issues, and include new visual differentiators to easily separate entries. |
| 2023.1.1005.1 | January 5, 2023 | 13624 | New Feature | balanceAAP | A new File Consistency Batch Operations entry has been added which will identify employees who have multiple Personnel Actions on the same day and remove all but the first Personnel Action. The new entry will only be available after the initial File Consistency check has been run with the corresponding File Consistency option to identify employees with multiple transactions on the same day. |
| 2023.1.1005.1 | January 5, 2023 | 13625 | New Feature | balanceAAP | A new File Consistency Batch Operations entry has been created that will identify employees whose most recent Personnel Action entry does not fully match their Roster job code, department code, or plan code. When selected and run, the Personnel Action entry will be updated to match the Roster table. |
| 2023.1.1005.1 | January 5, 2023 | 13626 | Feature Update | balanceAAP | When File Consistency is run from a Sub Plan, the resulting issue list will now include issues found for each employee across all Sub Plans. |
| 2023.1.1005.1 | January 5, 2023 | 13627 | Feature Update | balanceAAP | The File Consistency View Filters page has been enhanced to provide balanceAAP users with the ability to filter issues by Plan Code. This option will only be available within Master Plans. |
| 2023.1.1005.1 | January 5, 2023 | 13628 | Feature Update | balanceAAP | balanceAAP's default File Consistency Ignored Employees option has been changed from Include to Exclude. |
| 2023.1.1005.1 | January 5, 2023 | 13629 | New Feature | balanceAAP | A new File Consistency Batch Operations entry has been added which will allow users to exclude all remaining employees identified through a previous File Consistency check. This entry will only appear after the initial File Consistency check has been run. |
| 2023.1.1005.1 | January 5, 2023 | 13630 | Feature Update | balanceAAP | The File Consistency View Filters page has been modified to include the ability to select or deselect all found File Consistency types. |
| 2023.1.1005.1 | January 5, 2023 | 13668 | Feature Update | balanceAAP | The default admin profile for balanceAAP have been updated to provide users access to the Personnel Action Order settings page and the Job Group Structure tab. |
| 2023.1.1005.1 | January 5, 2023 | - | - | balanceAAP | Additional technology and security updates have been included to enhance performance and maintain usability. |