Drain Assessment Change Log

 

·        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 Saginaw export

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Mon  09/22/2008 – Added a custom export for Saginaw County

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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 Saginaw County

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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 (Wayne County)’ 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 Split report if a parcel has many reasons that it has been split

                - 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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