| PublicationDate: 4/4/2000 Summary: Development of EDExpress Version 5.4.2 Service Release Author: CPS - Central Processing System (CPS) Posted on April 4, 2000 TO: All EDExpress Users FROM: U.S. Department of Education RE: Development of EDExpress Version 5.4.2 Service Release We wish to inform all 1999-2000 EDExpress users that we are currently developing service release Version 5.4.2 to add several Pell module enhancements to the software. This service release is currently scheduled for release to schools for download from ED's SFAdownload Web site (http://fsadownload.ed.gov/index.htm) in mid-April, 2000. The following Pell enhancements will be installed by Version 5.4.2: 1) A new Pell report will be added called List - Processed Disbursements Year-to-Date. This report will print the Year-to-Date total of all accepted and corrected Pell Disbursement amounts per student, and is intended to assist schools with Pell reconciliation tasks. Schools can print the report in Last Name or Origination ID order. 2) When printing the Disbursement List in Name order, students with the same full name (first name, last name, middle initial) will be grouped together by SSN rather than Disbursement Reference Number. 3) When performing a comparison during a Pell Year-to-Date (YTD) import, the software will only print exceptions for student records with matching attended campus IDs in the YTD file and the EDExpress database. 4) Multiple Reporting Record (MRR) import logic will be updated to perform appropriate database updates and to sort and print more specific import reports when importing MRR files that contain more than one record type. We will send out an additional network message when the service release is available and provide information at that time regarding how to locate and download the install file from the Web. If you have any questions, please contact CPS Customer Service at 800/330-5947, option 4, or via email at CPS@NCS.COM. If you have technical questions about our SFA systems and software, you may want to subscribe to our e-mail list serve, SFATECH. For more information about SFATECH, including how to subscribe, look on-line at www.ed.gov. |