Release Schedule
Description | Date |
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Release No. | 6.1.2.0 |
Pilot Release Date & Time | 12.15.17 - 12:00 PM - 4:00 PM |
Production Release Date & Time | 01.12.18 - 6:00 PMPM |
Release Deployment | Zero downtime to end users |
Type | Text Changes Minor release | Technical Fixes |
Release 6.1.2 Scope
Description | Scope |
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Applications | CCCApply Standard Application |
Changes to Download Client | YesNo |
Changes to Residency Logic | No |
Revised Data Dictionaries | Yes - BOG Specification changed- 2018-2019 CC Promise Grant Specification |
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Release Notes Summary
Below is a summary of the content changes and fixes that will be released to the Production environment on January 12, 2018.
- Text Changes: Re-brand BOG Fee Waiver name to California College Promise Grant Application
- 2018-2019 California College Promise Grant Application
- CCCApply Spam Filter Hot Fix: Temporary Configuration Change to CCCApply to Thwart Fraudulent Applications
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Due to an issue identified during pilot release testing, the international phone number format bug fix is being moved from this release 6.1.2 to the next available release. If you have any questions, please post them on the CCC College Support Site. |
Re-BrandOnlineBOGFee Waiver Application toto California College Promise Grant ApplicationIn support of AB1741: California College Promise Innovation Grant Program, the CCCApply Online BOG Fee Waiver Application is changing its name to the California College Promise Grant Application (formerly known as the BOG Fee Waiver Application). This entails text changes to the application name only. Allincludes all onscreen instances of the applicationname - formerly known as theBOG Fee Waiver Application - will be changed, including the Welcome page, My Applications page, the submission page, and the confirmation screen .Check out the new name changes in the Pilot environment between December 15 (release complete at 4:00 PM) and January 12, 2018. The production release is scheduled for January 12, 2018 at 6:00 PM. NOTE: The 2018-2019 California College Promise Grant Online Application will be available with the new branding on January 12. Out-of-Scope Changes for CC Promise Grant Re-Branding:
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2018-2019 California College Promise Grant Application
The new , online 2018-2019 CC Promise Grant application will be deployed to production and available to students on January 13, 2018.
Other than the onscreen re-branding and label changes from the BOG Fee Waiver (BOGFW) to California College Promise Grant (CCPG), there are no additional changes made to the 2017-2018 BOG Application other than the standard annual "application year" database changes and new Method B Income Table.
The new 2018-2019 Online California College Promise Grant Application Data Specification is now available here.
CCCApply Spam Filter Hot FixSpam Filter Utility & Algorithm Under-DevelopmentOver the past 18 months, the CCCApply development team has been working with a machine learning data research and analysis team to better understand the increasing number of spam/fraudulent applications coming in through CCCApply and ultimately build a spam filter service that will identify, flag, and suspend bad applications before they get to the college's download file. The filter will include an admin user-interface, similar to an email application spam filter system, where college admins can specify and process the flagged bad applications from the legitimate ones, thus training the backend algorithm each time an application is processed.
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Spam/Fraudulent Application Configuration Change
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In this release we have implemented a small configuration change to the CCCApply Standard Application submission process that will look for, and temporarily block, any application that was completed - from start to finish - in less than 90 seconds |
. We believe spammers will abandon the process on these applications. If we find that students are encountering this block, we can easily adjust the time or remove the block completely. If a legitimate applicant is |
able to complete the entire application with |
valid data that quickly, they |
will still be able to resume and submit |
their application after the |
suspension time freeze (47 mins).
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No action is required by the colleges; however if you would like to discuss the details of this implementation with the CCCApply product manager, please contact Patty Donohue at pdonohue@ccctechcenter.org.
If you implemented the temporary work-around provided by the CCCApply development team, please read the section "Reversing the Work-Around" very carefully to ensure you have the correct format specified in your download files.
Description
Data Field
Format
Notes
<mainphoneintl>
Standard App
Promise Grant (BOG)
These two new phone number fields are not replacing the current domestic phone number fields (Main Phone & Second Phone); they will need to be downloaded in addition to those existing fields.
NOTE: If a user enters a non U.S. phone number in the Main Phone field, the new <mainphoneintl> field will store the response and the domestic <mainphone> field will be blank.Note |
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Both fields will need to be added to the Standard and Promise Grant applications Format Definition XML files, and you'll need to run the new Download Client Jar file. |
The
CCCApply Download Client and all download XML files are backwards compatible.Standard App
Promise Grant App
Adding New Data Fields to Downloads
To download the new data fields, your college IT staff must first add them to the Format Definitions XML file(s) and run the updated version of the "transfer-client.jar" file corresponding to this Release (6.1.2). Each application has a corresponding Format Definition XML file, which the college uses to specifies which data fields should be downloaded each time your automated Download Job XML file is run. This process is described in the CCCApply Download Client User Guide.
CCCApply Download Client Jar File for PILOT Release 6.1.2 - 12.15.17
NOTE: There is no change to the download jar file for Release 6.1.2. This is the same file used for Release 6.1.0.In your installed Download Client directory, replace the older files with the new version (v6.1.0) files below:
- Replace transfer-client-V3.jar with: transfer-client-6.1.0.0.jar (V6.1.0)
- Replace conf/application-context.xml with: application-context.xml
- Replace conf/ccctransfer.properties with:ccctransfer.properties
The Pilot Environment
The OpenCCCApply Pilot Environment is a preview and testing site used by colleges to implement the CCCApply applications and the OpenCCC Student Account System. The Pilot environment provides a copy of the production code during the year, except during the 30-Day Pilot Preview period - when it will contain pre-production code for an upcoming release. The Pilot Environment has separate /wiki/spaces/PD/pages/77562106, and different SLAs than the production versions of OpenCCC and CCCApply applications.
Getting to the Pilot Applications
Please see the Pilot Environment section in the CCCApply Public Documentation space for more information on getting to the Pilot Applications, pointing your download files to the Pilot download server, and identifying the Pilot Administrator & Report Center URLs.
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Pilot Download URL Attributes
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Pilot Administrator & Report Center URLs
The URLs below are "templates" - so the examples shown are not your URLs. These are provided to give you an example of what yours look like. Please contact your IT department if you do not have access to your Pilot Administrator and Pilot Report Center.
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Data Dictionaries & Release Documentation
The following links point to the most current versions of the CCCApply Data Dictionaries and User Guides.
Description | Version / FILE | Format | Release | Date Published |
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CCCApply Standard Application Data Dictionary | Release 6.1.0 | No change for 6.1.2 | ||
2018-2019 California College Promise Grant Data Specification_CCPG_Specification.pdf | CCPG-V2018 | 2018-2019 | 1.12.18 | |
CCCApply International Application Data Dictionary | V2017.2 | Release 6.1.0 | No change for 6.1.12.182 | |
CCCApply Download Client User Guide | V.2017.2 | Release 6.1.0 | No change for 6.1.2 | |
Download Client: transfer-client-V.6.1.0.0 | V.6.1.0.0 | JAR | Release 6.1.0 | No change to the download client jar file for Release 6.1.2 |
Pilot Environment | Webpage |