JEMS Software Versions

JEMS V5.4 (06/17/04)

• Ability to enter federal appropriations on budget journals
• ubjournal events performed by someone other than the creator now being logged in history
• Footer link changes
• Ability to view subjournal detail for JEMS user in same home department as the creator

JEMS V5.3 (11/3/03)

• Import now allows invalid transactions
• Line number added to search results page
• Ability to view journal details from within the same home dept
• Ability to electronically attach documents to journals
• Ability to see old journals that contain (now) invalid data
• Ability for Observer and Accountant roles to search for journals by NetID
• Ability to search for account and object codes from links in the column titles

JEMS V5.2 (8/18/03)

• Ability to copy or reverse a journal
• Ignore $0.00 transaction amounts in import function
• Logging subjournal and transaction events in history
• Improved "select approver" search list
• Improve additional messages look and feel
• Import progress panel

JEMS V5.1 (7/11/03)

• Header and footer link changes
• FY 2004 accounting periods now displaying, and in the correct order
• added "bypass all stop charges" action to subjournal

JEMS V5.0 (6/4/03)

• Support for budget journals
• A new look and feel based on the accounting.cornell.edu web site look and feel
• Sortable lists
• Stop charge bypass capabilities
• Enhanced validation features

JEMS V4.1 (3/26/03)

• Corrected a bug that was preventing changes from being made to descriptions for journals with very large descriptions.
• Replaced old QI lookup service with new Cornell LDAP service.
• Corrected a bug that would prevent a newly hired employee from using JEMS if he or she did not have a valid home dept assigned yet.
• Made all emails generated by JEMS linkable, allowing direct link in email to JEMS system and the referenced journal.
• Added notification to creator if an approver or administrator purges a journal.
• Corrected a problem with enforcing a maximum length on some input fields.
• Updated a number of displays to be more intuitive and user friendly.
• Redesigned the "set approver" feature to be more user friendly.
• Made all accounts and object codes within the journals "clickable" which generates a popup window with detailed information about the given account or object code.
• Fixed a bug that was causing the default accounting period in the search pages to be the next accounting period instead of the current period. 

JEMS V4.0.4 (1/10/03)

• Added email notifications to appropriate individuals for journals being purged by administrators and approvers. [60]
• Added audit tracking of changes to description by approver. [60]
• Added audit tracking of changes to approver and home dept by administrators. [60]
• Fixed bug that was allowing approver NetIDs to be stored with spaces before or after the NetID, which caused journals to not open properly. [147]
• Added ability for approvers to edit the subjournal descriptions. [148]
• Fixed bug that allowed administrators to set themselves as approvers. [149]
• Fixed bug that caused last character of 100 character journal description to be replaced with last character typed, rather than discontinuing character entry after 100 characters. [133]
• Redesigned subjournal description dialog to be simpler and more concise.
• Fixed bug that was preventing the lookup of journals by NetID if entered in all capital letters. [146]
• Fixed bug that was causing "Save" button to malfunction when attempting to create a new transaction. [157]
• Fixed bug that was displaying Backup doc value as "None" in the approver's view of a journal, although preparer set it as "See Desc." [173]
• Added auto-display of backup documentation cover page on submission of a journal. [110]
• Added new label to the "set approver field" to qualify that it is expecting a NetID. Also added appropriate error message to notify individual who mistakenly enters an email address rather than just a NetID. [] 

JEMS V4.0.3 (12/13/02)

• Corrected bug with handling import files larger than 1 MB in size. [114]
• Corrected bug that did not force amount field to allow only amounts to 10 digits to the left of the decimal. [85]
• Corrected a bug that caused errors if the approver's NetID was entered in all capital letters. [123]
• Corrected bug that allowed double clicks on save button for new transaction to cause multiple copies of that transaction to be built. [115]
• Corrected bug preventing display of contact information for individuals with apostrophes in family name. [137]
• Corrected bug with "Return to Preparer" dialog not being resizable so action buttons were not always accessible. [138]
• Corrected bug that caused date and time stamp for creation, preparation, and approval to sometimes display off edge of the dialog. [127]
• Invalid Object Code error message displays actual value entered rather than dropping leading zeros. [131]
• Changing backup documentation setting saves automatically. [129]
• Improved error messages to be more understandable and friendly.
• Improved error message handling for imports.
• Allow approvers to update journal descriptions. [139]
• Allow individuals to see expanded view of transactions even if journal is in QUEUED or APPROVED status. [116]
• Added ability for backup documentation cover page button to be accessible when journal is in any status. [121] 

JEMS V4.0.2 (12/9/02)

• Initial release of JEMS Online
• See Features for a complete list of functionality added to JEMS Online