FOCUS-51956 - Budgeting/General Ledger Bank Reconciliation | Add Receipt Link

System Enhancement: Direct Receipt Creation from Unreconciled Credit Tab

This enhancement adds the ability for users to create receipts directly from the Unreconciled Credit tab within the following modules:

• Budgeting/General Ledger > Bank Reconciliation > Unreconciled Credits
• Budgeting/General Ledger > Internal Account Bank Reconciliation > Unreconciled Credits

With this update, users no longer need to navigate away from the Unreconciled Credit tab to initiate receipt creation, improving workflow efficiency and reducing the number of steps required during the bank reconciliation process.

FOCUS-51900 - Purchasing| Purchase Order Email System Setting

System Enhancement: Copy User When Emailing Purchase Orders

Enhancement Summary:

A new setting has been added under ERP > Setup > Settings > Accounts Payable, titled "Copy User when emailing POs."

Whats New:

When this setting is enabled, any time a Purchase Order is emailed from the system, the user who initiates the email will automatically receive a copy (CC) of the sent email.

Benefits:

• Improves communication tracking by keeping users informed of sent POs
• Supports audit and documentation needs
• Enhances user visibility into outbound PO correspondence

FOCUS-51024 - Purchasing | Manually Generate Purchase Order Number

System Improvement: Manually Generate PO Number

Enhancement Summary:

A system enhancement has been implemented to improve consistency and accuracy when manually generating Purchase Order (PO) numbers.

Whats New:

When a user manually generates a PO number, the system will now automatically set the PO date on the printed Purchase Order to July 1st of the current fiscal year by default.

Benefits:

• Aligns with fiscal year reporting standards
• Ensures uniformity across manually created Purchase Orders
• Reduces manual errors related to date entry

This improvement supports better financial reporting and simplifies the manual PO creation process.

See Purchase Requests/Orders > Pending Approval and Internal Purchase Requests/Orders > Pending Approval for more details.

FOCUS-51697 - HR | Employee name in Manager Pull-down

This system enhancement to ERP > Human Resources > Staff > Employee > Job page, adds the Employee Name to the Manager Pull Down, instead of just showing the manager's position control number.

FOCUS-51424 - PR | School/Department > Misc Pay | Add warning when accounting strip mask fails

This enhancement improves the account strip masking on Misc. Code. Previously, when a Misc Code was used on a misc pay batch in School Department Payroll Entry, it would mask the account strip for an employee's job. However, if the specified budget strip didn't exist, the line would just default to the job account strip without a warning, leading to the false belief that the masking was always being done correctly. With this update, the system will now add an error to the line that explains why it defaulted to the job's account strip, ensuring you're alerted when the masking fails so you can correct the issue before posting.

FOCUS-51220 - EAF | Automatic Supplement Employee Agreements

The ERP system can now be optionally configured to automatically generate and send an employee agreement upon final approval of a supplement that was added via the Employee Action Form > Add Supplement process.  

To enable this functionality, attach an template agreement, created in in the Employee Agreements module to the supplement slot in Payroll  Maint by Fiscal Year  Slots/Steps  Agreements.

FOCUS-51113 - Applicant Tracking Allow Multiple Offers

System Enhancement: Allow Multiple Offers to a Single Applicant

A new setting has been added under Human Resources  Job Posting Setup  Miscellaneous and Setup  Profiles  Human Resources to support enhanced offer management.

Feature Details:

• New Setting: Allow Multiple Offers to a Single Applicant
• Profile Permission: Corresponding profile-level permission added to control access to this feature.

Functionality:

When enabled, this setting allows an applicant to receive multiple job offers if they have applied to more than one position.

• The system permits multiple active offers to coexist for a single applicant.
• Once an offer is accepted, all other outstanding offers for that applicant will automatically update to a status of "Not Accepted."

This enhancement ensures flexibility in the offer process while maintaining clarity on final offer acceptance outcomes.

FOCUS-50218 - PR | Timecard Notes Paystub Display Setting

ERP > Setup > Settings > Payroll > Paystub Options

This branch introduces a new dropdown setting: "Include notes On Pay Stub." When enabled for misc pay, timecard or overtime , the relevant notes associated with a pay period or employee will be displayed directly on the generated paystub. When disabled, these notes will not appear on the paystub.

FOCUS-50114 - Position Control | Account Strip Creation

This system enhancement adds a new permission to Setup > Profiles > Human Resources > Position Control that allows users to add account strips directly from the Human Resources > Position Control page. This is especially useful for districts where the Budgeting Dept. controls Position Control, as it allows them to add account strips on the fly and bypass the need to use the Budget Amendment page (also known as "$0 budget entries").

FOCUS-45623 - PR | Reallocations | Add Import Functionality

This system enhancement adds account strip import functionality in Payroll > Check Voids and Reallocations > Reallocate > "Actions to Apply" section.

See Payroll  Check Voids and Reallocations  Additional Features for more details.

FOCUS-51889 - Advanced Reports: Resolve Error With Linked Fields

This update resolves an error that occurred in Advanced Reports when linked field rules combined both "hide" and "set" actions from Edit Rules & Workflow. Previously, mass updates with these linked fields could trigger exceptions and prevent saving. After this change, Advanced Reports save correctly when such linked field rules are in use.

FOCUS-51876 - Print Absence Summary: Remove Redundant Print Button

This update improves the Print Absence Summary screen by removing the redundant Print button from the page footer. The Print button now only appears in the top-right corner.

See Attendance -> Print Absence Summary for more information.

FOCUS-51853 - Two Factor Authentication: Removal of System Preference

This update removes the System Preference for "Remember 2FA on each device." The "remember me" functionality for Two Factor Authentication is now always enabled by default for any user with a valid token. Users will no longer see the preference in System Preferences, but the behavior continues as before -- allowing 2FA to persist across logins on trusted devices.

FOCUS-51848 - Advanced Reports: Allow NA Selection on Custom Enrollment Fields

This update improves Advanced Reports by allowing users to select a blank (NA) value for custom student enrollment fields. Previously, these fields could only display populated values, limiting reporting flexibility. With this change, custom enrollment fields now include a blank option in Advanced Reports, making it possible to account for cases where no value has been assigned.

FOCUS-51847 - CTE Programs: Error When Deleting Programs Resolved

This update fixes an issue that caused an error when deleting CTE programs without any courses or sections assigned. Programs can now be deleted successfully if they have no dependencies. If a program still has courses or sections linked, a warning message is shown instead of proceeding, ensuring data integrity.

FOCUS-51826 - Advanced Reports: Show Codes Instead of Labels Enhancement

This update adds a new checkbox option, "Show Codes instead of Labels," to Advanced Reports. When selected, dropdowns will display the field option codes instead of labels, making it easier to analyze and print reports with standardized code values. The selection is remembered for print and preview outputs, ensuring consistent display across all report formats.

See Students > Advanced Report and Users > Advanced Report for more details.

FOCUS-51823 - Hall Pass Auto-Generation on Late Check-In

This update resolves an issue where hall passes were not being generated when students checked in late through the Attendance Kiosk. Now, when attendance is configured in Hall Pass Setup, a hall pass is automatically created to return the student to their classroom with the appropriate travel time applied. This restores expected functionality and ensures consistency between kiosk check-ins and attendance-linked hall passes.

FOCUS-51805 - New Student Schedule: Daily Hours Now Allows Decimals

This update adjusts the New Student Schedule so that the "Daily Hours" field accepts decimal values, such as 2.1, rather than limiting entries to whole numbers. This change aligns the new schedule with the legacy schedule, which already allowed decimals, and supports more accurate data entry for vocational and WDIS programs. Technical Note: No schema changes were made in this update.

FOCUS-51794 - Hide Future Publish Assignments from Progress Reports

This update ensures that assignments with a publish date set in the future will no longer appear on student progress reports. Teachers can still view and manage these assignments in the Gradebook, but they will only display on reports once the publish date has passed.

FOCUS-51788 - Student Schedule: Resolve Weekly Planner Displaying Classes for Marking Periods in Future

This update corrects issues with the Weekly Planner in Student Schedules and Print Student Schedules. Previously, when students were scheduled into marking periods nested inside a larger term, the Weekly Planner could incorrectly display courses from future marking periods, or generate a blank page when printing for anything other than Full Year. With this change, the Weekly Planner now respects the selected marking period and correctly prints schedules.

FOCUS-51763 - Communication: Optimize Message History Query

This update improves performance when loading conversations in the Communication inbox and sent box.

FOCUS-51755 - Hall Pass: Classroom Attendance Kiosk Creating a Hall Pass/Adding to Late Check In Screen

This update fixes an issue where students checking in through the Classroom Kiosk were incorrectly receiving a hall pass. Auto hall pass creation is now limited to check-ins from the Attendance Kiosk only. With this change, Classroom Kiosk check-ins no longer trigger hall passes, while Attendance Kiosk check-ins continue to create them as expected.

FOCUS-51735 - Attendance Thresholds: Resolve Issue With Custom Days Timeframe

This update resolves an issue where the Custom Days option in Attendance Thresholds only worked with tardy codes. The logic has been corrected so thresholds now evaluate correctly for any attendance code, not just tardies. This ensures that letters and communications tied to custom-day thresholds are sent as expected.

FOCUS-51693 - Gradebook: Categories - Custom Colors Not Saving

This update resolves an issue where teachers were unable to save custom colors for Gradebook categories. Previously, selecting and saving a new color would refresh the page without applying the change. After this update, selected colors save and display properly for the chosen category, and changes can also be applied across all categories as expected.

FOCUS-51677 - Kiosk: New Check-In Grace Period Preference

A new system preference has been added for kiosks that lets districts control how early students may check in before their first period. Previously, the system used a fixed 15-minute window. With this update, administrators can set a custom value under System Preferences > Default School Preferences > Attendance > Earliest Check-In Grace Period.

If left blank, the system defaults to 15 minutes. If a value is entered, students may check in up to that many minutes before their first scheduled period, and the check-in will be associated with that period. This change ensures greater flexibility for districts with different attendance procedures, and it is respected in both attendance kiosks and late check-in workflows.

See System Preferences > Attendance and Tardy Tracking & Check In/Check Out System > System Preferences for more information.

FOCUS-51642 - FAST Report: Exclude Summer PM3s (Florida)

This update improves the FAST Report for Florida customers by excluding PM3 assessments with administration dates after June 1. These summer test records will no longer appear in the report, ensuring that only in-year PM3 results are included for more accurate reporting.

FOCUS-51594 - Graduation Req. Report: Show Letter Grades in Detailed View Enhancement

This update enhances the Graduation Requirement Report by displaying course letter grades in the Credits detailed column when the Show Detailed option is enabled. The behavior now matches the hover-over logic, showing final grades alongside credits for completed courses. Custom letter grades are supported, failing grades appear in red (if enabled by system preference), and in-progress courses remain in orange without letter grades.

See Graduation Requirements Report (Admin) and Graduation Requirements Report (Teacher) for more information.

FOCUS-51578 - Assessment and FAST Reports: Include Inactive Students

This update adds flexibility to reporting by allowing inactive students to be included. The Assessment report now has an "Include Inactive Students" option, and the FAST report's existing option has been renamed to "Show Inactive" for clarity. These changes ensure districts can more easily review and analyze results across both active and inactive student populations.

See Assessment Report and FAST Report for more information.

FOCUS-51527 - New Online App: Student Profiles Set on Account Creation Improvement

This update ensures that when a new student is created--either by a parent through Online Applications or by a student creating their own account--the system automatically assigns the correct default profile. If a "Default Profile for Applicants" is set in System Preferences, that profile will be applied to the new student record.

FOCUS-51481 - Portal Alerts: Take Attendance Alert Doesn't Show

This update fixes an issue where attendance alerts only appeared for some periods. Alerts now display correctly for all periods that still need attendance, ensuring teachers always see an accurate reminder.

FOCUS-51415 - Communication Platform: Announcements Require Comment Moderation Permission

Added a new profile permission under Comments & Reactions that, when enabled, requires all comments on posts to be reviewed and made visible by staff before appearing publicly.

• This permission is disabled by default for all profiles.
• When enabled, Administrators and Teachers can still create posts with Reactions & Comments turned on, but all comments will default to hidden.
  • Comments will come in as Private by default, requiring the Admin/Teacher to manually approve visibility using the Make Visible button within the View Comments & Reactions pop-up.
• All other Announcement/Post functionality remains unchanged.

This update gives districts greater control over moderating student or parent comments, ensuring posts remain visible while comments can be reviewed before being made public.

See Profiles > Admin > Students tab, Profiles > Teacher > Students, Communication > Setting Profile Permissions for Admin & Teachers, Communication (Admin) > Creating Announcements, and Communication (Teacher) > Creating Announcements for more information.

FOCUS-51286 - Student Schedule: Prevent Inconsistency on Drop Date Updates

This update resolves an issue in the Legacy Student Schedule where an undefined variable could bypass invoice restrictions when updating a dropped date. Previously, if a user set a drop date earlier than the enrollment date, the system displayed only a confirmation prompt, allowing invoiced schedule records to be deleted.

With this branch, the system now enforces the billing preference "Cannot delete schedule record if invoice or receipt exists for it." When an invoiced record is affected, users receive the error "This schedule has been invoiced and cannot be deleted," and the record remains protected. Non-invoiced schedule records can still be deleted as expected.

FOCUS-51217 - Attendance: Use Section Calendar vs. Default Calendar

This update corrects an issue where Attendance Administration used the default calendar instead of the section's assigned calendar. Attendance now respects non-default calendars, allowing admins to record attendance properly for all sections.

FOCUS-51012 - Linked Field Rules: Ensure All Updates Apply

This update corrects an issue where linked field rules would skip updates if one of the linked fields already had the correct value. Now, only unchanged values are ignored, while any other linked fields in the rule continue to update as expected. This ensures all intended updates are applied consistently when rules trigger.

FOCUS-50952 - Workflow Triggers: Add School Filter

This update enhances Workflow Triggers in Edit Rules & Workflow by adding a Schools column. Triggers can now be configured for specific schools, and alerts will only be sent to users or profiles with access to those schools. This ensures notifications are targeted appropriately across multi-school districts.

See Setup > Edit Rules & Workflow > Workflow Triggers for more information.

FOCUS-50903 - Communication - Sticky phone numbers

The Sticky Numbers enhancement improves SMS consistency within the Communication module. When an SMS allows replies, instead of selecting from the district's available phone numbers, Focus will now attempt to reuse the same number a sender has previously used with a given recipient. This ensures communication appears more consistent to recipients and helps maintain clearer conversation threads across the system.

FOCUS-50714 - Discipline: Adding Attendance by Period Enhancement to Referral Actions

This update enhances the Discipline module by expanding the functionality of the existing Detention Periods field on referral actions. Previously, when an action included an attendance code, the system applied that code to the entire day, regardless of periods selected in the Detention Periods field.

With this enhancement:

• If specific periods are selected in the Detention Periods field, the attendance code is applied only to those periods.
• If no periods are selected, the attendance code continues to apply to all periods (preserving current behavior).
• The Detention Periods field dynamically pulls period options from the current school's bell schedule.
• By default, no additional permissions are granted for this field, ensuring existing workflows remain unchanged until districts enable it.

This change provides greater accuracy for recording discipline-related attendance while avoiding unnecessary full-day attendance overrides.

See Add Referral and Referrals for more information.

FOCUS-50500 - Display Number of Passes Left on Hall Pass Creation

A new icon has been added to the Pass Creation screen to provide staff with real-time visibility into how many passes a student has remaining for the day. The icon below the existing restriction icon, and when hovered over, displays a tooltip showing the number of passes available (e.g., "3 passes available"). The remaining count is calculated from the daily pass limit set for the student, subtracting any passes already used. If the student has no passes remaining, the tooltip will display "No passes available." Future-dated passes are also accounted for, reducing the limit on the day they are scheduled rather than the current day. This enhancement helps enforce daily pass limits and reduces the risk of accidental overuse when issuing passes.

See Hall Passes (Admin), Student Info: Hall Passes (Admin), Hall Passes (Teacher), and Student Info: Hall Passes (Teacher) for more information.

FOCUS-50459 - Graduation Requirements Report: Biliteracy Seal Updates (FL)

This update enhances the Biliteracy Seal evaluation logic to align with Florida state requirements. Several assessment fields are now evaluated correctly under the "Minimum Score on Nationally Recognized Foreign Language Assessment" rule, including STAMP4S, ACTFL OPI, ACTFL AAPPL, ACTFL LIRA, and SLPI:ASL. A new portfolio field, "Biliteracy Seal Portfolio Option," has been added to support Gold and Silver recognition based on portfolio submissions. Additionally, a numeric ASLPI (American Sign Language Proficiency Interview) field has been introduced, with thresholds applied for both Gold and Silver levels. The ALIRA (ACTFL Latin Interpretive Reading Assessment) field options have been updated to reflect the correct scoring scale, ensuring accurate evaluation.

With these changes, the Graduation Requirements Report now correctly determines Gold and Silver status for students based on state standards, incorporating assessments, portfolios, and updated evaluation criteria. This provides districts with a more accurate and consistent determination of eligibility for the Biliteracy Seal.

See Graduation Requirements Report for more information.

FOCUS-50420 - Avery Labels: New Custom Label Management Screen

This update introduces a redesigned Custom Label screen for Avery Labels, giving districts more control over how labels are created, shared, and managed. Users can now see their own labels, those shared to their profile or school, and--if permitted--labels created by others.

Two new permissions have been added under Users > Profiles > Students > Print Avery Labels:

• Publish Labels: Allows users to create and assign labels to schools and profiles.
• Edit Labels Created by Others: Allows users to edit or delete labels owned by other users.

On the new Custom Label screen, users can edit, delete, or use their own labels, and with permission, manage labels created by others. Labels can also be assigned to profiles, schools, and categories such as Attendance, Discipline, Online Application, or School Choice. A migration has moved all existing labels into the new system as shared templates, defaulting to "Not Assigned" if their category does not match.

This enhancement aligns Avery Labels with the functionality of Communication Templates, improves usability, and ensures better control over publishing and editing access.

See Print Avery Labels (Admin/Students), Print Avery Labels (Teacher), Users > Profiles > Admin > Students tab, and Users > Profiles > Teacher > Students tab for more information.

FOCUS-50191 - Communication Platform: Add Ability to Record Language Based Messages for Calls

This enhancement adds the ability to attach multiple recorded calls to a single message and assign each recording to a specific language. When the message is sent, the system automatically delivers the correct recording based on the recipient's preferred display language in the portal. For example, users with English selected will receive the English recording, while those with Español selected will receive the Spanish recording.

This improvement ensures timely and authentic communication, eliminating the need to re-record combined bilingual calls and reducing reliance on text-to-speech. It also allows districts to deliver clear, natural voice messages across multiple languages in one streamlined process.

FOCUS-50115 - Scheduled Imports From Remote Servers & Improved Scheduled Jobs UI

This update enhances the Imports module in two major ways. First, it adds support for scheduling imports directly from remote servers. Users can now schedule jobs during the Validation or Complete step of an import, and those jobs will reliably fetch and process files without needing manual intervention. Import settings such as mapping templates, file parsers, and conversion fields are preserved within each scheduled job, so changes to global settings will not break them. Second, this release introduces significant UI improvements to the Scheduled Jobs and Execution History screens. The new Scheduled Jobs tab in Imports > Settings provides a central place to view and manage all import jobs. The refreshed interface makes it easier to see job details, review execution history, and quickly access options to edit or delete jobs. The Execution History view has also been updated with a clearer layout, helping users more easily track and troubleshoot completed and failed runs. Together, these changes make managing automated imports more intuitive and efficient.

See Imports > Importing a File > Creating Scheduled Jobs from an Import, Imports > Settings > Scheduled Jobs for more details.

FOCUS-48324 - Attendance: Late Check-In/Early Release Comments Added to Attendance Summary

This update enhances the Attendance module by ensuring that reasons entered through the Late Check-In/Early Release screen are now accurately reflected in both Attendance Administration and the Student Absence Summary. Specifically, the system will now copy the Absence Reason from the attendance_period.attendance_reason field into the attendance_day.comment field. When multiple entries exist for the same day, the reasons are displayed as a comma-separated list for improved clarity.

Important Note: With this branch, attendance_day.comment is updated only when a record is entered via the Late Check-In/Early Release screen. This process pushes the Absence Reason to the daily attendance comment field. However, any changes made directly to attendance_day.comment afterward will not overwrite or update the original note stored in attendance_period.attendance_reason.

See Absence Summary (Admin), Administration, and Absence Summary (Teacher) for more information.

FOCUS-46106 - Custom Fields: New Audit Column View in UI Options for Logging Fields

This branch introduces an enhancement under Custom Fields when setting up logging fields (Student Fields, School Fields, District Fields, Referral Fields, Incident Fields, and User Fields). End-users can now choose to display the Created At, Created By, Updated By and Updated At columns directly in the interface and assign visibility to them by profile permissions.

See Student Fields, School Fields, District Fields, Referral Fields, Incident Fields, User Fields, and Employee Fields for more information.

FOCUS-51825 - SSS: Ohio ETR Meeting Print Issue Resolved

This update resolves a problem in the SSS module for Ohio customers where printing the Ohio ETR Meeting event in Chrome failed. Previously, the print preview would load with 42 pages, but attempting to print generated tens of thousands of pages and the event would not complete. With this update, the Ohio ETR Meeting event now prints in Chrome as expected without errors.

FOCUS-51490 - SSS Caseload and Services: New Settings for Inactive Students and Progress Monitoring

This update adds two new configuration options under SSS > General > Caseload & Services. A new checkbox option, "Students with inactive IEP or EP," is now available on the Caseload tab, allowing users to include or exclude inactive students. This checkbox is enabled by default. In addition, a new Progress Monitoring button will now take users directly to an existing IEP/EP Progress Report event or create a new one if none exists. By default, this links to the "IEP Goals Progress Report" or "EP Goals Progress Report" unless custom events have been set.

See General and Caseload & Services for more information.

FOCUS-50686 - SSS Progress Monitoring Baseline Option Enhancement

This update enhances the SSS module by adding a new setting under SSS > General > Program Preferences called "Allow baseline to be added to progress monitoring graph." When enabled, the IEP Progress Report graph now includes a Baseline field, allowing users to record a starting value for a student's goal.

If a baseline value is entered, the graph will display it as a gold line with triangle markers, making it distinct from the expected level line and easy to interpret even in grayscale printouts. A trend line is also drawn from the baseline to the expected level, clearly showing the rate of progress needed for the student to meet the goal.

This improvement provides a more complete picture of student progress over time and gives staff clearer visual data for evaluating goal achievement.

See General and Manage Student: ESE Events for more information.