· Only
changes that apply to all customers are noted in the Change Log
Date of Change Change
Details
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Wed 02/17/2010 – Increased the max number of
Property Classes to check to 15 (from 6) in the split check process
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Mon 01/25/2010 – Added Comments to the Drain
records, added the option to “Pop Up” those comments if they are important
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Thur
01/21/2010 – Added Receipt Payee fields to the Report Writer
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Tues
12/22/2009 – Fixed a false ‘exported’ message appearing for projects that start
in future years when calculating or spreading
- Added a ‘Manual Edit’ for
Benefit % and Total Assessment on Road At-Larges
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Wed 12/02/2009 – Added an option to show $0.00 on
the By-Year roll if the parcel has 0 current balance
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Wed 10/14/2009 – Fixed an issue in the Annual
Project Totals report where the last project would not show values when
printing
All Records
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Wed 09/23/2009 – Added a sub option to the
‘Municipalities Pay Entirely the First Year’ on the By-Year Report options to
only pay all first year if “Don’t Charge Interst’
is checked on the at-large
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Mon 09/21/2009 – Added an option to not load info
from Assessing when viewing the list on the Project Parcels screen
- Added payment and interest fields
and options to Road type At-Larges
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Tues
09/01/2009 – Changed layout of the Road Details Report
- Added a feature to change all
existing Road records when the name of a Road is changed in Program Setup
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Tues
08/04/2009 – Fixed calculations for the ‘Spread’ option when the project total
Percent is not 100%
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Tues
07/14/2009 – Fixed FTP File to BS&A Software
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Fri 04/03/2009 – Fixed issue with assessed legals
getting garbage appended when using the change project codes utility
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Tues
12/16/2008 – Fixed totals on the Annual Installments report when run on more
than one project at a time
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Wed 10/22/2008 – Spread function now gives the
same options as below when ‘Use Benefit Factors’ is turned OFF as well
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Thur
10/16/2008 – Changed the Spread function to spread properly when ‘Use Benefit
Factors’ is turned on, and the total benefit % doesn’t add up to 100%
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Tues
09/23/2008 – Formatting change for the
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Mon 09/22/2008 – Added a custom export for
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Tues
09/16/2008 – Fixed an issue that could cause the By Year Assessment Roll to not
print all projects when running on ‘All Records’
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Fri 09/12/2008 – Change Project Code utility now
copies project comments and project and parcel attachments
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Wed 09/10/2008 – Added a ‘Roll project forward’
utility for single year projects to change them to a new year
- Fixed the ‘At-Large Year End
Payment’ utility to pull the year forward to the drain selection screen
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Fri 08/22/2008 – Made some changes to the custom
Wayne County Excel Import
Mon 08/18/2008 – Added a custom report for
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Tues
08/05/2008 – Changed the ‘Spread by %’ in the split window to not change the
acreage
- Removed the ‘Auto Spread by
Acres’ from the split Parent edit window
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Mon 07/21/2008 – ‘Find Child Parcels’ will no
longer add multiple entries for the same parcel
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Thur 07/10/2008 -Transfer
project from another DB: fixed the assessed legal import
-Deleting a parcel (or having it deleted
through a split) will show a message if the parcel has attachments
-View in GIS and Excel edit
now works for parcels with alpha characters in the parcel number
-View in GIS from the
parcel list (current record) now takes the highlighted parcel (not the last
parcel edited)
-Property Address search is
now hooked up from the Parcel List
-Added a utility (under
utilities->other utilities) to set all projects as inactive
-Focus now stays on the
highlighted field when paging up/down through parcels
-Exempt parcels are now
highlighted in gray in the Parcel List
-Hitting 'X' in the parcel list will toggle a
parcel exempt/not exempt.
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Mon
06/23/2008 - Changed the ‘Find Child
Parcels’ to take county codes in the parcel # format into account when
searching for child parcels
- Added a ‘Edit Payoff
Calculation Values’ security option to allow a user to edit the payoff
information, but not apply a payoff
(Note that the ‘Apply
Payoffs’ security option still has rights to edit the payoff information)
- Added an option to not include DNR-PILT
parcels (Classification under Tax Billing Info in the Assessing System) when
getting multiple
parcels from Assessing
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Fri
06/13/2008 - Added a ‘Default Receipt
Report’ option so you can choose which receipt report will print after taking a
payment
- Fixed the remove parcel
button in the split window
- Added ‘Check for Splits’ button
to the Project Parcels screen
- Added start year and due
date, messages for inactive or locked projects to the Project Parcels screen
- Added an option to choose ANY
or ALL of the split check options
- Added an option to exclude
duplicate names on the Proof of Mailing report
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Fri
04/25/2008 - Added Full Acreage override
- Removed the prompt to ‘Set Parcels
as Exported’ from the ASCII Tax export
- Added a third parcel #
format, updated a few places that weren’t allowing alternate parcel # formats
to be used
- Changed the excel file filter
to include any excel type file (not just .xls)
- Fixed multiple prompts when a
formula is undefined (will just give the message once now)
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Wed
04/09/2008 - Added an option to set
parcels as Transferred in the Year-End Payment utility
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Mon
03/10/2008 - Added Avery #5262 label
format to the mailing label report
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Wed
03/05/2008 – Updated Montcalm’s Custom
By-Year Report
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Wed 02/27/2008 – Fixed an issue when checking for
child parcels during the split process
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Tues
02/19/2008 – Added the ‘Annual Report (
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Mon 02/10/2008 – Added a Print button to the F-10
Assessing Legal Description search
- Added Per-Parcel Attachments
(There is now a paperclip icon in the upper right corner of the Parcel
Information screen).
- Added ^(exponent) to the
calculation formula builder
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Wed 02/06/2008 – Moved the ‘Bill Entirely First
Year if Under Amount’ to be per-project (the option remains in Program Setup as
a default for new drains).
Any existing value will be
copied to all drains when the update is run.
- Added an option to exclude
duplicate Name/Addresses from the Mailing Labels Report. Note that BOTH the Name and Address must
match
EXACTLY for the entry to be
excluded. The feature will only work
when names are grouped together (use the index ‘Owner Name’
when running the report).
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Tues
01/29/2008 – Added the “Don’t show Section Subtotals” option to By-Year reports
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Mon 01/21/2008 – Added the At-Large Current Year
Amounts Report
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Thur
01/17/2008 – Added some utilities, added a receipt amount check report
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Mon 11/19/2007 – Added Owner Name and Property
Address to the custom ASCII export and import
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Wed 11/14/2007 – Added some more total info to
the tax ascii export
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Mon 11/12/2007 – Added more info to the F9
(Project Parcels) Search, as well as a print feature
- Added an option to not export
parcels with a current balance of $0.00
- Improved the ‘Copy projects
from another database’ utility
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Wed 11/07/2007 – Fixed a bug when printing the
- Fixed project changing when
going to the Parcel List
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Tues
11/06/2007 – Fixed Payment information spreading for parcels with a benefit
percent of 0
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Thur
11/01/2007 – Fixed grand totals on the Project Totals Report
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Fri 10/26/2007 – Added an option to calculate a
partial payment on a single parcel
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Wed 10/16/2007 – Added ASCII Export to Resource
Software Tax
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Wed 10/03/2007 – Added a ‘Break Down by Township’
option to the Project Totals report
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Tues
10/02/2007 – Made some big changes to the Project Totals report to allow it to
be split out by parcels, at-larges, county, and state
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Thur
09/27/2007 – Added Summary and Multi-Year Only modes to the Parcels in Projects
report
- Added a Project Totals report
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Wed 09/26/2007 – Added the option to export a
single township in the Tax ASCII export
- Added a breakdown by township
in the Tax ASCII export report
- Changed the Tax ASCII export
so it will export all 6 characters of the Project ID. If you
exported to Tax last year,
the codes will remain at the 5 character length to keep the parcels in the same
Special Assessment heading in
the Tax program. If more than one drain
has the same 5 character code, then
the full 6 character codes
will be exported.
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Thur
09/20/2007 – Added support for running Ingham and Huron rolls on a single year
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Wed 09/19/2007 – Added support for partial
payments on the By-Year rolls and Tax Export
- Added an option to not charge
interest on a single At-Large
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Wed 09/12/2007 – Modified the Ingham and Huron
by-year rolls to take into account payments in the remaining balance
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Mon 09/10/2007 – Added a utility to delete all
receipts for a project
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Fri 08/31/2007 – Added a utility to change
Project Codes
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Mon 08/20/2007 – Added a utility to copy names
and addresses from one project to other projects
- Added an option to not
decrease flat benefit amounts when calculating minimums
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Wed 08/15/2007 – You can now ‘Has Split Comments’
as a way to find splits in the ‘Check for Splits’ utility
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Wed 08/01/2007 – Added lookup (F11) for Assessing
Split Comments
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Tues
07/31/2007 – Added Full Acres to the split window
- Added the ability to view
Assessing Split Descriptions from the Edit Parcel window
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Mon 07/16/2007 – Added an option to sort the
project list by project name
- Added the ‘Parcel list with
projects’ report, which will list each project a parcel is in
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Tues 07/10/2007 –
Improvements to the Assessing Split Comments report
- Payee Name and Address fields
on receipts
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Tues 07/03/2007 – Added a
button to print Assessing Split comments when splitting parcels
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Thur 06/28/2007 – Added a
‘Spread by Acres’ feature to the split window
- Added a browse button to the
Tax ASCII Export Compression util
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Thur 06/21/2007 – Added a
feature to import Units from Assessing
- Added custom Roll for Ingham
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Fri 06/15/2007 – Added an option to charge
interest for the first year on parcels that are below the minimum charge
- Added a Assessing Lookup
(F10) for parcels that exist in the linked Assessing application, but not in DA
- Added a report option to
print only active projects on the Project List report
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Tues 05/29/2007 - Added
functionality to update factors based on property class
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Fri 05/11/2007 - Added option for full acres on
import/export
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Tues 04/24/2007 - Fixed
Sanilac Export for long legals
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Fri 03/16/2007 - Added an option to save legals after
unlinking from Assessing
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Mon 02/19/2007 - Added Custom Sanilac
Import/Export
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Mon 12/11/2006 - Added 'Set Flat Amount' util in
the Set Fields of the Parcel List
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Thur 11/30/2006 - Added an
option to hide inactive projects in the project lookup
- Added a 'Print' button when
checking for splits
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Tues 10/24/2006 - Added
option to clear benefit % when copying projects
- Made the transfer to tax
dialog more user-friendly
- Fixed Assessment roll by year
to always have page headings
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Thur 10/12/2006 - Default
the live export to tax to the winter season
- Added an 'at-large only' to
the by-year roll
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Tues 10/03/2006 - Added a
report to the end of the Tax export to show a breakdown by project
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Fri 09/08/2006 - Adjusted spacing in the Original
Assessment Roll, trim spaces from legals
- Allow editing of Township
code for Roads
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Thur 08/31/2006 - Added
'Print Both Legals' option to By-Year rolls
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Fri 08/25/2006 - Added an option to show Amount
Due on mailing labels
- Added a new Day of Review
notice
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Tues 08/22/2006 - Added
'Date to Start Charging Interest' to the Annual Settings window
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Mon 08/14/2006 - Fixed Road Details report to
work with large datasets
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Mon 08/07/2006 - Added a new security type to
allow taking of payments separate from
general parcel editing
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Fri 07/21/2006 - Expanded # of decimals to 6 for
By-Year report Benefit Percent
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Fri 07/07/2006 - Deleting Parcel records now
Delete associated legal descriptions
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Mon 06/12/2006 - Support for 2006 Assessing
Version
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Fri 05/26/2006 - Added an option to get the
parcel unit codes from Tax/Assessing
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Wed 04/19/2006 - Added options for Drain Code and
Parcel # prefix on Mailing Labels
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Tues 01/17/2006 - Changing
the program date (in the status bar, on the left), now changes
the date appearing on Orig
Assmt Roll, Benefit Factors reports, and
working values reports
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