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Release Notes 11.4

This document describes the technical enhancements to Generate version 11.4 released in May 2024. The purpose of this document is to communicate the technical updates made to Generate in version 11.4.

Release Overview

Generate version 11.4 is focused on the Child Count files, file specifications FS002 and FS089 due for submission to EDPass July 31, 2024.

Release Highlights

Updated Generate Staging Validation Process

Generate Version 11.4 introduces a new and improved Staging Validation process. This new validation process includes an expanded library of validation rules and makes it easier to create and manage custom validation rules. Full documentation for the new process can be found here.

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Important Updates

New Features

Paging Enhancement: Implemented paging functionality to enhance the loading speed of larger result sets in the user interface (UI), ensuring smoother navigation and improved user experience.

Screenshot of Generate UI highlighting paging feature.
Paging feature can be found above the table on the right.

Expanded Search Functionality:

  • Case Insensitivity: Search feature now supports case-insensitive queries.

  • Partial Text Search: Users can now search using partial text, enabling them to locate data even with incomplete input.

  • Search by Header Value: Added support for searching based on header values.

  • Search by Permitted Value: Enhanced search functionality to include searching by the underlying permitted value.

Performance Improvements

Enhanced Report Display Performance: Optimized the performance of displaying results for all reports in the UI, resulting in faster loading times and smoother navigation within the application. Improved Organization Level Report Performance: Enhanced the performance when switching between Organization Level reports, ensuring swift and efficient access to relevant data.

Generate Enhancements

The following EDFacts reports were updated in this release.

Type of Impact:

  • Data – changes will improve data quality and completeness.

  • User Interface – changes impact the Generate User Interface and/or migration process.

  • Source to Staging ETL – changes may require modifications to the SEA’s Source to Staging ETL.

  • Performance – changes improve the performance of the application.

  • Migration – changes impact a data migration process.

  • Submission Files – changes may impact submission file(s).

  • Database – changes to the Generate database structure.

Report Name
Report
Approved Change
Ticket #
Impact

Free and Reduced Price Lunch

FS033

Migration code and web code have been modified to accurately populate Permitted Values for Direct Certification students in both the UI and submission files.

CIID-4871

User Interface

Child Count

FS002

FS089

Enhanced the Child Count migration logic to handle situations where an administrative organization that handles IEP administration for multiple districts is the responsible organization that needs to be reported in the counts and zero counts.

CIID-5818

Data

Free and Reduced Price Lunch

FS033

Enhanced the Debug table population for FS033 to capture the Data Group (DIRECTCERT, LUNCHFREERED) along with the Student information.

CIID-5847

Data

Dropouts

Free and Reduced Price Lunch

Graduates/Completers

Immigrant

Membership

Staff FTE

Discipline

Homeless Students Enrolled

EL Enrolled

Migratory Data

FS032

FS033

FS040

FS045

FS052

FS059

FS086

FS118

FS141

FS165

Added additional staging validations for more files including file specifications 032, 033, 040, 045, 052, 059, 086, 118, 141, and 165.

CIID-5947

Data

CCD School

FS129

Updated the Directory ETL checklist to include file specification 129.

CIID-6474

Data

Exciting

FS009

Added a Staging validation for students who exit with the value “Reached Maximum Age” but are younger than the Maximum Age for Services defined in Toggle.

CIID-6482

Data

Assessments Discipline Staff

FS175

FS178

FS179

FS185

FS188

FS189

FS005

FS006

FS007

FS086

FS088

FS143

FS144

FS070

FS099

FS112

Within the Generate infrastructure and migration code we've added three new Fact Types for Assessments, Discipline, and Staff. They were previously processed using the ‘submission’ Fact Type. Now they each have a defined Fact Type that aligns with all the other files.

CIID-6490

Data

Directory

FS029

Corrected the population of the Reconstituted Status for Schools to be in all-caps in the UI and in the submission file.

CIID-6522

User Interface

Free and Reduced Price Lunch Membership

FS033 FS052

Improved how Membership migration handles GradeLevel values in Staging.K12Enrollment.

CIID-6610

Data

Grades Offered

FS039

Updated the report logic for 039 - Grades Offered to exclude Reportable Programs from the counts.

CIID-6655

Data

Child Count Membership Exciting

FS002

FS089 FS052 FS009

We added a new table that connects the Generate Fact Type to the Generate Report ID which will allow us to remove some hard-coded values and automate updates in the future.

CIID-6524

Performance

Upgrade Procedure

No changes have been made to the Generate upgrade procedure for this release. Follow the standard Generate upgrade process to install version 11.4.

Compatible Systems

Generate was tested on the following operating systems and browsers:

  • Windows 10 Pro

  • Google Chrome, Version 68 0.3440.106 (Official Build) (64-bit) and Firefox Quantum 61.01 (64 bit)


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