| PublicationDate: 4/26/2000 Summary: Availability of Quality Assurance Program (QAP) Version 4.0.1 Service Release, Target Release Date - April 26, 2000 Author: General Manager: SFA Student Channel Posted on April 26, 2000 TO: All QAP Users FROM: U.S. Department of Education RE: Availability of Quality Assurance Program (QAP) Version 4.0.1 Service Release, Target Release Date - April 26, 2000 The Department wishes to alert all Quality Assurance Program (QAP) users to the availability of service release Version 4.0.1. This is an upgrade to Version 4.0, and will resolve five software issues. Version 4.0.1 is available for download from the Department's SFAdownload Web site at http://fsadownload.ed.gov/index.htm. The downloadable install file, called QAP401.exe, is self-extracting and will need to be run on ALL PC workstations that access the QAP database. The issues resolved by Version 4.0.1 are explained below: 1) Negative values of three bytes or less will correctly print with a negative sign on the AM-4 and Readings reports. 2) In Version 4.0, if an initial calculation for "Most Recent" was an Automatic Zero EFC, the software did not recalculate the EFC when determining the "Documented" EFC. Therefore even when a user changed data that should have resulted in a non-zero EFC, both the "Most Recent" and "Documented" were being assessed as Automatic Zero EFCs. Once Version 4.0.1 is installed, QAP will ensure an Automatic Zero EFC is assigned for "Documented" only if the calculation warrants it. 3) Software edit 2008 will correctly fire when warranted. 4) The Pell Adjustment readings field can be queried on for a Case Listings report without generating a system error. 5) The Summary Report will correctly account for $0 awards when counting awarded amounts. To run the service release install, download the QAP401.exe file from the SFAdownload site to a directory on your hard drive or network. Close all running applications, go to Start | Run, type in the directory location of the downloaded file, type the file name itself (I.E. C:then click OK. This will extract the necessary install files and automatically launch the install program. If you have multiple PC workstations accessing a networked EDExpress database, copy the install file from PC to PC, running the install on each as you proceed, or run the installation program from the network drive it is saved to. Be sure to reboot each PC Version 4.0.1 is installed on once the installation program is complete. NOTE: Version 4.0.1 will not perform any updates to your QAP database (QAP90.mdb). If you need any assistance connecting to the SFAdownload site or downloading Version 4.0.1, please contact Title IV WAN Customer Service at 800/615-1189 or via email at T4WAN@NCS.COM. If you need assistance with the installation or use of Version 4.0.1 once downloaded from the SFAdownload Web site, please contact CPS Customer Service at 800/330-5947, option 6, 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 email list serve, SFATECH. For more information about SFATECH, including how to subscribe, look online at http://www.ed.gov/offices/OSFAP/sfatech/. |