COCI 1.7 Release Notes - Reformatted

Page Display

Consistent field labels on Main Courses tab, Edit Users tab, Schools tab

• First round up updates made to field labels throughout the application to improve ease of use and consistency.

  • Credit Status (CB04) and Noncredit Catageory (CC22) fields on main courses page and edit/create course pages.

  • Change instances of "School" or "Schools" to "College" or "Colleges".

Bug Fix: Permissions Ignored in Navigation

• Removed Empty Review Queues from the Dashboard tab for District Admins, College Admins and College Submitters. 

Bug Fix: Error message hangs even when navigating to other pages 

• Located and removed hanging error message displayed in some instances for submitters, reviewers and site admins even when navigating to other pages. 

Program and Course Files for MIS

Bug Fix: Program Course and Programs files sent to MIS

• Resolved bug related to preparing the program course file and updated the frequency that report is sent.

Program and Course Reviews

Reviewers not able to view courses and programs approved by other reviewers

• User permissions and workflow rules for the CCCCO Reviewer role modified to allow reviewers to see all Approved proposals from the main courses and programs page; not just those s/he personally approved.

• All other view permissions retained.  

Course Submissions

Bug Fix: duplicate record search match criteria and processing of error messages received with new Common Course Numbers

• Criteria for duplicate record checks updated to align with MIS field integrity checks; changes made to the confirmation file returned to separate CCN from other error or status messaging.

• The backlog of approved courses waiting for CCNs will be resolved by this fix.

Bug Fix: CB06 and CB07 calculating for non credit courses

• The auto calculation for credits in the CB06 and CB07 fields are now disabled when the CB04 selection is noncredit. CB06 and CB07 only display 0 or 0.00 when the user edits or adds Min/Max Contact and Outside of Class Hours and the course is noncredit.

  • Changing Min/Max Contact Hours and Outside of Class Hours will result in a sub change warning if the course has a control number assigned.

  • Entering Min/Max Contact Hours and Outside of Class hours for the first time will not trigger a substantial change, even when the course has a control number.

  • User is able to manually edit CB06 and CB07.

Bug Fix: CB09 Validation blocking submissions

• Updates to CB09 now allow users top successfully complete a course submission when there is a match between CB09 selection and TOP Code type. 

  • Users can submit a course proposal (new or edited) with CB09 = A, B, C, D when CB03 = Vocational and get to a success completion message.

  • Users can submit a course proposal (new or edited) with CB09 = E when CB03 = not Vocational and get to a success completion message.

Bug Fix: Reviewer queue sort resulting in hanging search

• Hanging search and error messaging have been resolves for the sort icon on the Proposal Status Date column within the courses queue.

  • Sorts newest to oldest and oldest to newest.

  • All other sort icons in the courses queue work as expected.

CB05 Validations 

• Simplified back end validation logic to increase stability of course submissions. Simplified error messaging to improve the user experience.

• Users can submit a course proposal (new or edited) following the updated validation rules below and get to a success completion message.

  • CB05 must = A or B when CB04 = D. any other CB05 selection when CB04 = D should render error messaging to the user.

  • CB05 must = C when CB04 = N. any other CB05 selection when CB04 = N should render error messaging to the user.

CB08 Validations

• Simplified back end validation logic to increase stability of course submissions. Simplified error messaging to improve the user experience. 

• Users can submit a course proposal (new or edited) following the updated validation rules below and get to a success completion message. 

  • CB08 must = B when CB04 = C or N.

  • Any other CB08 selection when CB04 = C should show the correct error messaging.

CB11 Validations 

• Simplified back end validation logic to increase stability of course submissions. Simplified error messaging to improve the user experience. 

• Users can submit a course proposal (new or edited) following the updated validation rules below and get to a success completion message. 

  • Y is the only acceptable response for CB11 when CB04 = C;  D selecting N for CB04 will render error messaging to the user. 

  • J, K, L must be selected for CB11 when CB04 = N ; selecting C or D for CB04 will render error messaging to the user.

Course and document display on create and edit programs pages. Add documents to courses and programs.

• Documents are displayed as hyperlinks.

• Removing courses from a program will remove the course documents.

• Updates to course documents from the edit course screen will automatically flow to the all associated programs upon successful save.

• Removed redundant field in supporting documents section.

• Consolidated document validation rules for courses and programs to streamline testing for subsequent releases.

• Document type and Title must be completed or the user should receive an error message.

Main Results table on courses page 

• CCCCO request to add a column for CB04 with sort functionality.

Program Submissions

Bug Fix: Substantial change flags on Units and Hours fields in PROGRAM proposals

• With this fix, users are now able to edit any of the fields in the units and hours section of a program proposal and save/submit without triggering a subchange flag/warning.

  • All fields are required (must contain a response before submitting)

  • 0.00 is allowed

  • 0.00 where the field was previously blank will not trigger a sub change

Bug Fix: Inconsistent issues with Edit Programs page loading Loading 

• Users have reported page load issues when entering the programs screen from the edit link on the main programs page. Having identified the root cause, submitters can now access all expected action buttons and fields and changes to the program proposal can be successfully saved and displayed in view and edit modes. The edit program page loads with all data and attachments displayed and the correct page layout and formatting are present.