OAS Release 20230405 Follow

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Release Notes 20230405

Target Users
All Users, Primarily HR Admins

Required Permissions
n/a

Overseas Award System Release Notes 20230405

Enhancements

• The Print icon was added from My History, allowing nominees to print their completed or disapproved nomination forms. 
  
  
• The Exclude from Send to OPS button was added when the nomination was opened from the Send to OPS queue. 
  
  
• Justification view was not wrapping to the next line for the JCAC in all nominations and JCAC members had to scroll right to view details has now been fixed.
• The button for the EXEC officer Overwrite of a rejected award was modified.  It now reads 'Override & Approve' as shown below.
  
  
• When selected, a popup is given for the EXEC to modify the type, form, and/or amount. The EXEC should make changes and select 'Update.'

• They must then select 'Apply Changes' for the changes to take effect and for their approval to be recorded. The nomination will now be routed to finance.

Fiscal Strip Changes

• When creating fiscal data, the Operating Allowance field now allows a maximum of 7 characters. 
• Previously, the application added an 'NA' to the fiscal strip if a field was left blank.  The 'NA' has now been removed.  If no information is included for a given field, it will be left blank in the fiscal strip.
• The Organization Code field has been added to the fiscal data entry window and to the Finance Report.  

Changes to Reports

• Corrected status filter on the All Awards Report.  This filter was previously not filtering the report.
• The All Awards and Finance reports were modified to add three new columns: Post, Section, and Employee Type.  The All Awards report was also modified to list one nominee per row instead of one nomination per row. 
• The JCAC Chair Report, available from JCAC Area -> Sign Off -> Export to Excel, now contains a list of JCAC names for each vote status. 

Bug Fixes

• In certain situations, when the FMO signed off on nominations, the nomination was also signed off by EXEC. 
• The fiscal strip was not displayed correctly on the JF-66 Form. 
• When an External Rejection was recorded, the JF-66 showed disapprovals at the post level.  This was corrected to show disapproval only at the bureau level. 
• Nomination did not show in 'Send to OPS' when a ceremony was assigned. 
• In certain situations, the FMO did not have Nomination in FMO SignOff queue.
• Position title was not added when adding a new employee by querying Okta.  In addition, if a title existed for an employee, it was not displayed when editing an employee record.
• Nomination was incorrectly changed to status 'Complete' when overridden by EXEC.
• Ceremony Assignment:  Nominations that have been assigned to a ceremony appear in Unassigned.
• Error was incorrectly displayed when fiscal analyst entered fiscal data, then Saves & Submits.
• When the EXEC changed an approved cash nomination, the finance steps were bypassed and the nomination was moved to complete.
• When viewing a ceremony from Ceremony Assignment, not all nominations appeared.

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