What's New In CAMS Enterprise - Update Release 18.2.0

Revision Date: September 25, 2018

This document describes the items deployed in the 18.2.0 CAMS Enterprise Update Release. Enhancements, modifications, and system corrections are included and categorized primarily by module. Those items needing CAMS Manager attention have been noted as such. For detailed information and instructions on functionality additions and changes, refer to the online help files located in the CAMS Enterprise application and/or the updated PDF manuals which can be downloaded from the CAMS Community Website. Note that portal updates are not automatically installed on your site and must be applied by your institution.

1. General

  1. The Course Management documentation in the User's Guide has been updated to clarify grade calculation formulas for courses with weighted and non-weighted assignments.
  2. The CAMS Community button on the CAMS Main Page will now link directly to the CAMS Community site.
  3. Document Tracking images are now locked to users' CAMS Enterprise sessions. An error message has been added for unauthorized attempts to view images from outside a current CAMS session.

2. Registration

  1. Normalized display of GPA values in the Grade Cards reports to comply with Round/Truncate and Decimal Positions configuration settings.
  2. In response to client and partner feedback, Degree Audit programs with SQL-populated groups can now utilize the Summarize attribute for repeatable courses.
  3. Optimized IPEDS code that calculates students enrolled in degree-seeking programs.
  4. Resolved an indexing issue with Mass Student Registration's Move functionality that sometimes transferred students to the incorrect course.

3. Billing

  1. Revised the 1098-T process to comply with IRS specifications, reflect the logic contained in the 1098-T Form Calculation Logic help file, and resolve issues with certain criteria options not behaving as expected.

4. Financial Aid

  1. Corrected misspellings in the Award Letter report formats.

5. Tools

  1. New THECB revisions to Texas Reports CBM002, CBM00S, and TFADS are reflected in CAMS reporting for Texas.
  2. The Gainful Employment Export should no longer calculate false zeroes for Institutional Debt and Tuition Fees Amount fields.
  3. Updated the ISIR Layout to allow for importing ISIRs using the 2019-2020 Year Indicator.

How to Update Portals

***CAMS Manager Action Needed

Portal files will be downloaded to your CAMS Enterprise \ Portal Updates directory.

If you do not (or have not yet) customized your portals, follow these instructions: MOVE all files from the CAMS Enterprise\Portal Updates\[PortalName] folder to the installation directory for the matching portal. Do not copy the folders but only the files in those sub-folders to the same sub-folder in the matching portal folder.

If you do customize your portals follow these instructions: After making a backup of your customized portal pages, move the stock portal files for this update to the installation directory for your specific Portal. Then apply your customizations to the new, stock portal files.

6. Application Portal

  1. Corrected an issue where custom school data from the Education page would not appear for verification on the Review and Submit page.

7. Faculty Portal

  1. Users can now accept the FERPA agreement from the login page via a new required checkbox.
  2. Added an error message when users attempt to upload a zero-byte (empty) file to Course Documents.
  3. Corrected an issue where unweighted GPA values sometimes displayed in courses with Assignment Weighting enabled.

Portal files that were added or changed with the 18.2.0 update

Important note about portal updates: When portal updates are distributed, it is not only the portal pages that are modified but also the associated COM objects. If you have moved your portals to a server separate from the CAMS Enterprise IIS server, you will need to ensure that you also update those COM files. To do this you will need to follow the instructions in item 1 below and either item 2a or 2b depending on how you have your portal server set up.

1. Copy uiCEUpload.dll, CAMSSession.dll, LanapBotDetect.dll files from the UIDLL folder under CAMS Enterprise to the portal server and register them with regsvr32.dll

2a. If you copy the files over as a proxy package, you will need to uninstall the previous packages before installing the new packages. Ensure that you copy the CAMS and CAMSAD packages over to your portal server.

OR

2b. If you do not use the proxy package, you will need to do the following:

• Copy all the .DLL files in the MTSDLL folder under CAMS Enterprise to the portal server and re-register them in COM

• Copy the CAMSAD.dll file in the MTSDLL\CAMSAD folder to the portal server and register it/re-register it in its own package (i.e.: CAMSAD). The package should run with user privileges (identity). If the portals are on a domain other than the user account the CAMSAD package runs under, that user account must also be a user on the other domain if you want to log into the student portal using an active directory account from the domain CAMS Enterprise is on.

NOTE: An alternative to the above procedure is to utilize the CAMS Enterprise Web Services functionality. Fewer .DLL files will need to be copied; all communications between the CAMS IIS server and portal server are handled via port 80 or an SSL port; no COM+ object is required. See the Managing CAMS Enterprise document available on CAMS Community Downloads for setup instructions.

Modifications to these pages are summarized in the above change log indicated by the number in parentheses.

    Application

    Faculty

SQL objects that were added or changed with the 18.2.0 update

    Stored Procedures

    Views

Reports that were added or changed with the 18.2.0 update