Version Date	Details
04/15/2024	General -   Add the Reason for Change Description to the Values export
04/01/2024	General -   Updated the Complete Assessment Roll Import from Cloud to bring over the User Fields into .Net.
03/19/2024	General -   Corrected the Complete Assessment Import from Cloud.
03/16/2024	General -   Corrected error preventing the Complete Assessment Roll Import from Cloud from completing.
03/15/2024	General -   Added the V indicator next to the appropriate year for parcels with the Veterans Exemption. Reporting -   Added Special Population for reporting for Ad-Valorem minus Vet Ex to exclude those with Veterans Exemption. -   Corrected the Possible Calculation Problems report to no longer display EMPP Filed Personal Property parcels when applicable.
03/01/2024	Other -   Updated the Standard Personal Property Label export to exclude any statements where the Personal Property Filed Status is set to EMPP or when a Parcel is not set to Taxable. Reporting -   Added a new Special Population for Previous Year Veterans Exemption
02/15/2024	General -   Updated the Pivot Point Import to import the Who/What/When fields. -   Corrected the Standard Change Notice Export to not include Prior Adjustment Types. Reporting -   Updated the Change Notices to the 2024 version
02/01/2024	Reporting -   Added Veterans Exemption Denial and Rescind Forms to Printout Reports
01/15/2024	General -   Updated the description for the current year Reason for Change to 290- Veterans Exemption Granted -   Updated the Fix Poverty/Vet Exemption Tool to bring the Veteran Exemptions back on the roll for 2024 however the report is not displaying the addition values placed on the parcel. New Features -   Added new Veterans Exemption button to the Tax Info screen on the Parcel.
01/01/2024	Reporting -   Updated the Change Notice reports to the 2024 versions.
12/15/2023	General -   Added the option for the 2024 Sr. Citzn PILT Rate Parcel Classification -   Updated the EMPP 80K-180K Export to the State to include rescinded EMPP statements -   Updated the Communication Tower Depreciation Schedule Reporting -   Updated the L-4028 STC to the 2024 version. -   Updated the Personal Property Statement reports to the 2024 versions. -   Updated the Disabled Veterans Exemption Form 5107 to the 2024 version.
12/01/2023	Calculation Changes -   Updated the 2024 CPI to 1.051 with the cap of 1.05 still in place. General -   Updated the MBOR and JBOR Adjustment Types to (6) where applicable.
11/15/2023	General -   Added Waterfront Characteristics to the Land area of Land and Improvements. These fields will be available on the Sale Search & Analysis. -   Added the CAMA Reasons for Change to the Set Fields tool.
11/01/2023	General -   When using the Fidlar ROD Import if there is a Grantee 2 in the file, we will import that information.
10/15/2023	General -   Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes.
10/01/2023	General -   Updated the Special Population for Foreclosures/Winter PRE's to include those with the Winter PRE check box or the Winter PRE Adjustment Type. Reporting -   Updated the JBOR report to display all the adjustment types when applicable.
09/15/2023	Reporting -   Updated the L-4015a (STC) form to the 2023 version
09/01/2023	Reporting -   Updated the L-4031 to print Zip + 4 and to show the adjustment type in the comments section.
08/15/2023	General -   Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes.
08/01/2023	General -   This change will have a direct effect on the Current Values of Personal Property. Previously in the 2024 Database those previously filed EMPP parcels were incorrectly rolled over with a 2024 value. This update will correctly set the Personal Property Status on the 2024 Personal Property Statement to EMPP FILED on any of the EMPP parcels that had a 2023 Personal Property Status of EMPP FILED. This change will also affect the Rollover process so that the EMPP FILED status for the personal property statement will carry forward each year on those statements and not carry a value. -   Added the new Assessor Change Reasons of 170 - Land Improvements removed, 300 - Personal Property statement Accepted, and 310- Personal Property Statement Estimated. New Features -   Added Reason for Change Description to the current year adjustment which will print on the L-4400 and Change Notice Export.
07/15/2023	General -   Corrected warning message when changing a parcel to the 003 to state Personal Property class instead of Real Property class. -   Updated the current list of Class Codes to remove 408 and 408 per the STC. New Features -   Added an option on the Personal Property Statement to indicate Qualified Heavy Equipment Rental Personal Property Form 5819. Reporting -   Updated the Change Notice (Laser) to print the Assessor Reason for Change description instead of the code. -   Updated the Exempt Count on the Miscellaneous Totals/Statistics report to not include parcels with a current reference class.
07/01/2023	General -   Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes.
06/15/2023	Reporting -   The 6/15 update caused an issue with calculated fields in custom reports. We have pushed a new update out, dated 7/1, that corrects this. Please install this latest update for all .NET applications., following your municipality's protocol.
06/15/2023	General -   Updated the Adjustment Types to the CAMA Data standards for previous year adjustments.
06/01/2023	General -   Added the CAMA Data Standards Adjustment Types for adjustments created in the 2024 years and beyond.
05/15/2023	General -   Updated the MEG reporting tool to create 2 files when running the L-4022AV Utility. One for Ad Valorem and one for Specials Acts minus PILT's and minus Land Banks. -   Added/Corrected: A field for NHRS Employer ID on the NHRS Retiree Annual Export Setup Options. This ID will now display on the export instead of the BS&A Employer ID, which may differ.  Reporting -   Updated the JBOR, MBOR and DBOR Summary Reports to print more than one line of comments if more than one line is present. -   Updated the L-4034, for the ISD and Community Colleges only, to pull on all taxable value instead of the non-PRE.
05/01/2023	General -   Added the CAMA Data Standards Assessor Change Reasons. -   Added the 2023 MMSVP Multipliers Reporting -   Updated the PRE Affidavit (Laser) to the 2023 version -   Updated the L-4035A with the correct capped CPI
04/15/2023	General -   Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes.
04/01/2023	General -   The ROD Import Settings button under Program Settings ~ Administration has been reactivated for all users.
03/15/2023	General -   When using the Fidlar ROD Import if there is a Grantee 2 in the file we will import that information. Reporting -   Added a new Special Population to reports that utilize this feature for EMPP Received and EMPP Denied. -   Updated the L-4037 (Assessor) with the newest verbiage. -   Updated the L-4022 to the 2023 format
03/01/2023	General -   Added EMPP/80K-180K Export to State located under File ~ Export ~ Custom Exports ~ EMPP/80K-180K Export to State Reporting -   Updated the L-4031 to the 2023 version -   Corrected the PRE Adjustment Report when displaying PRE Info with a 2023 revised date.
02/15/2023	General -   Corrected the Change Notice (Leashold) to the 2023 version Reporting -   Corrected the Change Notice (Laser) to the 2023 version
02/15/2023	General -   Corrected issue where the PivotPoint export would not run when Apex was not installed. -   Added the Assessor Reasons for Change to the Standard Change Notice Export Reporting -   Updated the L-4035a to the 2023 version.
02/01/2023	General -   Updated the Standard Change Notice Export to include the Assessors Name, Phone Number, and Email Address to meet the 2023 changes. -   Updated the Description on Property Class Code 006 to match CAMA Data Standards -   Updated Property Classes to add new classes and remove classes based on the CAMA Data Standards. Reporting -   Corrected the showing of Walk Out Doors for the Basement Finish section when only the Above Grade was filled out. -   Updated the Change Notice (Leasehold) to the 2023 version. -   Updated the Change Notice (Laser) to the updated 2023 form. Also added an option to Print Instruction page. -   Updated the Change Notice (Change in Taxes - Real Parcels Only) report to the updated 2023 version. Also added an option to print the Instructions page.
01/15/2023	General -   Added field for Assessor's Email Address under Program Setup ~ Database Setup ~ Governmental Units ~ Return Address/Miscellaneous. The Email entered here will print on the Assessment Change Notice. -   Allow the creation and saving of 2023 EMPP statements. Reporting -   Corrected issue with the L-4018 not finishing after hitting 100% -   Updated the Personal Property Statement with the latest changes from the State. -   Updated the Personal Property Statement (Pg 1) with the latest changes from the State. -   Updated the Personal Property Statement Duplex with the latest changes from the State. -   Updated the Assessment Change Notice with the new changes from the STC.
01/01/2023	General -   Updated to accommodate all the State changes to the 5076 for Personal Property. -   When saving a sale and copying the owner the Name Extra and Care of will be cleared of previous information. New Features -   Added a check box to include multiple page images to the Pivot Point export for future development changes. * Please do not utilize this option at this time. * Reporting -   Added a Special Population option for Qualified Forest (PA 42) to reports. -   Added an option to compare the Taxable Status fields to the Database Compare Report. -   Added option to the Detailed Permit Report to print Only the first record for each parcel. -   Updated the Personal Property Statement to the newest form provided by the state. -   Updated the Personal Property Statement Duplex to match the form provided by the State. -   Updated the Personal Property Stmnt (Page 1) report to the newest form provided by the State. -   Updated the Personal Property Statement w/Form 5076 for the most recent changes.
12/15/2022	Calculation Changes -   Updated the Multipliers for Valuation of Free-Standing Communication Towers with the new State Rates Reporting -   Added the Assessors Change Reason as a a field to be used in Report Writer -   Updated the Personal Property Statement w/Form 5076, Form 5076 - Cover Letter and the Form 5076 (Exempt PP) with the 2023 version. -   Updated the Personal Property Statement Duplex report to the 2023 version.
12/01/2022	General -   Added the number of Days on the Market as a column on the sales table. Program Security -   The Sales Comparison and Income tables were added and corrected an issue with selecting to hide the EMPP table Reporting -   Updated the EMPP form 5278 with the 2023 format
11/15/2022	General -   Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes.
11/01/2022	Other -   Added an option to include BLL parcels in the Standard Personal Property Label Export. Reporting -   Added the PRE Assessor Adjust Form 5838 to Printout Reports
10/15/2022	General -   Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes.
10/01/2022	Reporting -   Updated the PRE Denial (Local) to the new form.
09/15/2022	General -   Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes.
09/01/2022	General -   Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes.
08/15/2022	General -   Added Assessor Occurred column to the Parcel Table to quickly show if an Assessors Adjustment has occurred. -   Renamed the TMA PRE Export to PRE Audit Export. Other -   For Oakland County, CVT Admins we now honor those security options when clicking Edit Records.
08/01/2022	General -   Addressed reporting issue for calculated fields
08/01/2022	General -   Added the 2022 rates for (PILT) Sr Stzn/Dis Fam Hsg.
07/15/2022	General -   Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes.
07/01/2022	General -   Corrected the label on Revenue Sharing Code 593030 to be Village of Lakeview. New Features -   Added the ability to import a Street Master file.
06/15/2022	General -   Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes.
06/01/2022	General -   Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes.
05/15/2022	Calculation Changes -   The scheduled 5/15/2022 update will contain the updated Localization factors from Marshall & Swift | CoreLogic. After installing the scheduled 05/15/2022 update, a Write Floating Values MUST be performed for All Records in the 2023 Database in order for the updated Localization Factors to be included in the Calculations.
05/01/2022	General -   Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes.
04/15/2022	General -   Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes.
04/01/2022	General -   Retain Record Card options when closing out of the Pivot Point Export. -   When updating the Basic Building area of a Residential Building the Square Footage Options will only update for the row in which the change was made. New Features -   Added the field for the Extended Comments on Sale Records to the Generic Data Export. This field is called Mm1_Extendedsalecomment -   Added Income table to display Income Capitalization information. Reporting -   Some changes to the Custom Sales Import for Macomb County. Invalid Sale dates are now reporting on the Import Report that is generated at the end of the Macomb County Sale Import.
03/15/2022	New Features -   Added 3 Rate Group fields for the Frontage/Lots added to the Sales Search and Analysis/Land Analysis -   The Conservation Easement Field has been added/included in the Sales Search and Analysis (Sales Data Dump.) -   Added the ability to Index the database by the PREVIOUS TAXABLE STATUS when on the Parcel Table view. -   Added the ability to Import the current or the previous taxable status of a parcel. Reporting -   Add PRE and Non-PRE millage rates to the School District Listing report found under the print button located at Program Setup ~ School Districts. -   Added the Revenue Sharing Code to the Memory Fields to be added to user sales reports.
03/01/2022	General -   Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes.
02/15/2022	Other -   Per CAMA data standards and what was approved at the stc meeting.A new option was added to the sales verification list. The option MLS was added... this stands for Multiple Listing Service. -   CAMA data standards change within the SALES TERMS options. Per this request the option sales, terms, 09- Family Sale was changed to ‘Family’ because many of those transactions are not sales. Reporting -   Per STC approval of CAMA Data Standards, a change was made to the L-4018 Study Type options to the following: Changes to Study Type Codes for use with L-4018R only Removing STS and STA and added ST (Stratified Study) L-4018 Real Property Classes should now be: •AS •SS •CS •ST •ES •NC
02/02/2022	Reporting -   Fixed report issue when generating PDF files
02/01/2022	General -   Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes.
01/15/2022	Other -   Under the Utilities/Equalization/MEG Reporting Tools/L-4015A the Personal Property Classes were added as an option when running the L-4015A from this Utility section. Reporting -   With the scheduled 01/15/2022 update the Assessment Change Notices, Change Notice (Laser), Change Notice-Change in Taxes- (Real Parcels Only) and Change Notice-Leasehold have all been updated.
01/01/2022	General -   Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes.
12/15/2021	Other -   There was an issue in the MEG export of the JSON file where in some cases the export was $1 off the L-4018 report that was ran out of the system. Reporting -   When a user ran a 4018 from the county unit with the Generate entire county total option checked. Once the report is complete, it was clearing out the village revenue share codes. It works fine without the option checked.
12/01/2021	Calculation Changes -   At their meeting on November 16th of 2021, the State Tax Commision approved the release of Bulletin 15 of 2021, setting forth the Inflation Rate Multiplier for 2022. Assessing .NET's scheduled update on 12/01/2021 will hard-code the Inflation Rate Multiplier into the system; Users do not have to hand-enter the Inflation Rate Multiplier into the system; rather, just be sure to install the 12/01/2021 update. -   The updated Multiplier Tables for the valuation of free standing communication towers within Personal Property have been updated. Other -   There were some additional changes/corrections to Oakland Counties Percent Change Recap Report.
11/15/2021	Other -   Due to the changes with the CAMA Data Standards the Custom Export - CFR- Commercial Forest Export to State wasn't working properly. The appropriate changes have been made so that those CFR parcels are being exported. -   Oakland County Percent Change Recap Report has been updated to include the new lines for CAMA classes 207/307/407 and 408.
11/01/2021	General -   The Oakland County Land Management Import into Assessing was updated, when the Import adds New Parcels there were several fields that Oakland County wanted DEFAULTED.
10/15/2021	General -   A change was made to the label of the Equalization Reporting Tool located under Utilities. It is now labeled Equalization/Meg Reporting Tool. Reporting -   The updated Personal Property forms have been added to the system with the changes from the State. Program Security -   There was an issue with the CVT security for Oakland County. It was discovered that users are able to update names and addresses upon manual entry of a sale. After the user enters the Grantor/Grantee/Secondary Grantee, a Question window is presented “Copy to Owner Name Extra?” and “Would you like to edit Name and Address information now?”. Thus, allowing changes to the name fields. As per the Oakland County model/permissions, Owner Name and Address information comes from our Land and Address Management System (LAMS) and should not be able to be updated directly in the BS&A application.
10/01/2021	General -   Within the Modify Parcel Number Utility, a new option was added that allows users to switch their Parcel Number Formats. This new option is designed to allow users to modify existing parcels actual formats. For Example, if the existing parcel number format was ##-##-##-##### it could be modified to ##-##-##-##-###. As always with this utility, you should make a good recent backup prior to running. Other -   A custom Sale Import has been added to the System for Macomb County. The Import is located under File/Import/Custom Import/Macomb County Sale Import. -   Per Macomb County's request a custom Import has been written to allow a Direct Import into Assessing from the DLQ Tax System. BS&A EXPORT/IMPORT REQUIREMENTS 1. Create an export from the Delq. Tax program to export the following fields: a. Parcel Number b. School District c. Property Address 2. Create an import into Assessing to that will add the parcels and the fields from the Delq Tax export along with the following defaults on the new parcels: a. Rec. Status = Active b. Tax Status = TAXABLE c. Prev Tax Status = TAXABLE d. Current Class = 002 e. Previous Class = 002 f. School (Imported) g. ECF Neigh = DEFLT
09/15/2021	General -   Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes.
09/01/2021	General -   Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes.
08/15/2021	General -   There was a display issue within the ASCII Import screen where the 'When Importing'options weren't displaying correctly. They were incorrectly displaying the Import Report Options setting. The scheduled 8/15/2021 update corrects this display issue. Reporting -   Within the Tax Info Tab the Classification option of CRA/CFT-FZN Ad Val Rates PA210PA255 weren't correctly reporting/being included when the Special Population was set to CFT/IFT Parcels Only.
08/01/2021	General -   Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes.
07/15/2021	General -   Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes.
07/01/2021	General -   The Taxable Status option for Housing projects is 125.1415a but had a typo within the software labling it incorrectly as 124.1415a. That typo has been corrected. New Features -   The user now has the ability to DEFAULT the Terms of Sale/Instrument/Verified By fields for new Sales that are added. Under Program Setup/My Settings/My Preferences there is a toggle for Auto Fill Sale Fields with initial values (Terms, Instruments, Verified By) as well as those 3 cells so the user can select those Defaults once a new Sale is added. Other -   Per the request of Kent County the Custom Export (REGIS EXPORT) will now only contain ACTIVE parcels. -   For those parcels that are identified within the PRE screen as a Qualified Forest PA 42 or a Qualified Forest PA 42/PRE when a new Sale is entered the user will now receive an additional prompt if they select to RESCIND the PRE verifying that a recorded recission has been received by the Assessor before removing the Current PRE. -   The Property Class Type as well as the Act 415 (Building on Leased Land) cells for all property classes will now automatically default to each appropriate option. Users will no longer be able to change the Property Class Type or the Act 415 cell. Per the CAMA Data Standards from the State these options are no longer editable. Reporting -   Both the County and Local PRE DENIAL forms have been updated with the latest changes from the State. -   The option to dump the Simple List report to a CSV File has been added. When setting the Destination of the report the new option of SPREADSHEET is now available for this report. -   Both the current and previous Taxable Status has been added to the Real Estate Summary Printout. -   When using the Sales Search and Analysis and perfroming the Land Analysis a column was added to the spreadsheet to identify the Current Class on the report. -   Under Assessing Reports there was a typo that was corrected on the Unit/School/Class Summary Report.
06/15/2021	New Features -   A new option was added to the Public Improvements/Topography section of the software for users to identify those properties that have Lead Water Leads/pipes. Other -   Per the request of Oakland County they would like a change to the Custom Import -Oakland County (Sales Import) so that the VERIFIED BY in the SALES DEFAULTS to NOT VERIFIED. Reporting -   There was an out of Memory Error users could run into when running an ECF analysis if it was run on several hundred ECF neighborhoods.
06/01/2021	Calculation Changes -   The scheduled June 1st 2021 Update contains the new MMSSVP Multipliers for use in calculating the 2022 Assessments. It is recommended that after performing the June 1st scheduled update that a Write Floating Values is performed for All Records. Just a reminder that the MMSVP Multipliers used in the MMSVP Calculation Tool are NOT the same as the published County Multipliers from the State. The published County Multipliers from the State would only be used if the user was trying to manually/hand calculate a value using the published rates from the 2014 hard copy of the STC Cost Manual. New Features -   After further discussion with the State 2 additional choices were added to the Taxable Status list. The 2 new options are 124.1415a Exemption form Housing Projects as well as 211.7d Elderly or Disabled Housing.
05/15/2021	Calculation Changes -   None. Other -   In the ECF and Analysis and Sales Search and Analysis the Cama approved Sales Terms were not displaying. Latest update corrects that display issue. -   After the scheduled 5/1 update users were getting new non-compliant instruments showing. The system wasn't updating the “Other” instrument when picking from the list and trying to update. Latest update resolves this display issue. Reporting -   The L-4028 Equalization Report was displaying incorrect dates in the Heading of the report. This was a display issue only. -   The PRE Denial (County) form was updated with the latest changes from the State.
05/01/2021	New Features -   Within the scheduled 5/1/2021 update there were some changes to the Taxable Status list based off of the April 6th meeting at the STC. *Within the B S & A Message Center you will find a link to a Taxable Status HELP guide that will direct users how to identify where within the BS & A system to properly flag a specific Taxable Status option. Other -   Per the request of Oakland County some changes were made to the Custom Sales Import for the county to meet the changes for the CAMA DATA STANDARDS Phase II. -   Within the Query portion of reporting the newly adopted CAMA Sales Terms weren't displaying for the user to query on those terms. Reporting -   There were some changes made to the PRE DENIAL (LOCAL) form to match the latest form from the State.
04/15/2021	Other -   There was an issue with the Split/Combine Tool that wouldn't allow the user to perform a Split/Combination without getting an error. Latest update corrects this issue.
04/01/2021	Other -   There was a change to the software for Property Classes that were receiving a factor that factor was incorrectly being applied to Special Act Properties. Any property class receiving a factor should only be applied to Ad-Valorem properties. Reporting -   We made changes to the layout of the L-4022 AV report to match the latest changes by the State.
03/15/2021	General -   Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes.
03/01/2021	General -   Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes.
02/15/2021	General -   Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes.
02/01/2021	General -   Within the Commercial/Industrial UIP section there were some options missing for Welded Steel Tanks. Those missing options have been added to the UIP Section. -   There was a display issue in the Taxable Status out of Compliance detail for the PREVIOUS Taxable Status. The system wasn't displaying the previous Taxable status that was out of compliance. -   The new option for (PILT) Sr Ctzn/Dis Fam Hsg-Pilt 2021 has been added within the Tax Billing area.
01/15/2021	Other -   At the direction of the State and the CAMA DATA STANDARDS COMMITTEE there were some changes to the Taxable Status Codes available as well as the Descriptions to those codes. -   At the direction of the State and the CAMA DATA STANDARDS Committee there were some changes to School Districts available to select as well as the Descriptions for some of the districts. Program Security -   There was an issue in the Security settings for those Counties that use the CVT security where a user was able to access and edit an Agricultural building on a parcel even though that security option to allow access wasn't toggled.
01/01/2021	General -   Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes.
12/15/2020	Reporting -   The 12/15/2020 scheduled update contains the updated Change Notices from the State. The updated notices include the Change notice (change in taxes)/Change notice laser/Change notice leasehold. -   There was an issue with the L-4015A (STC Form) report options when we have the Personal Property Option: "Use previous year statement" the report was pulling the 2021 amount instead of the previous (2020) amount for the Appraised Value.
12/01/2020	Reporting -   Due to the recent changes in the CAMA data standards (Property Class and Taxable Status) there were several reports that weren't giving the correct parcel count for EXEMPT parcels. In reporting the count for Exempt parcels is now based soley off of the Taxable Status and not the Property Class. -   In the November 15th update the Personal Property forms didn't have all of the pages updated to the latest changes from the State. The December 1st scheduled update has all of the appropriate changes to the Personal Property forms.
11/15/2020	General -   Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes.
11/01/2020	Calculation Changes -   Due to Bulletin 16 of 2020 - Inflation Rate Multiplier for 2021- the updated Consumer Price Index (C.P.I.) has been hard-coded into the software in the 11/01/2020 scheduled update at 1.4 % (Ratio of 1.014.)
10/15/2020	General -   Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes.
10/01/2020	General -   Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes.
09/15/2020	General -   Within the Sales Search and Analysis/Analyze With Spreadsheet/ECF Analysis the Building Depreciation % if applicable was added to the spreadsheet. Reporting -   A new option has been added to the L-4023 report in the Report Options button (Recalculate Buildings/Improvements.) Last year we had users run the L-4023 report and they had not run the Write Floating Values tool prior to running the report so the totals/ratios generated by the report weren't accurate. This new option will default on which will cause the report to run slower as it forces a recalculation on each parcel. The user does have the ability to un-toggle this option if they had already run a Write Floating Values recently.
09/01/2020	General -   Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes.
08/15/2020	General -   Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes.
08/01/2020	Calculation Changes -   Recently, we were contacted by Marshall & Swift/CoreLogic informing us that the revised Localization Factors that were implemented in the June 15th update were incorrect. The August 1st update will contain the CORRECT Localization Factors. After installing the update, a Write Floating Values must be performed for All Records in the 2021 Database in order for the updated Localization Factors to be included in the Calculations. We have been assured that Marshall & Swift/CoreLogic will be adding additional Quality Assurance steps to ensure something like this doesn’t happen again in the future.
07/15/2020	Other -   Within the Commercial UIP section (UIP page 13 Page 4 Handicap Ramps) when this item was selected there was no rate available. Latest update pulls a rate for this UIP item when selected. Reporting -   On the L-4031 printout the School District description was getting cutoff on the printout.
07/01/2020	Other -   Running an ECF analysis for those databases that made the appropriate CAMA data standard changes for the Terms of Sale and Instruments of Sale was causing an error and the ECF analysis not running.
06/15/2020	Calculation Changes -   The June 15th scheduled update includes the REVISED Localization Factors that are used in the MMSVP web service tool. After installing the June 15th update a Write Floating Values must be performed for All Records in the 2021 Database in order for the updated Localization Factors to be included in the Calculations. General -   While adding the approved CAMA data standards list of school districts in the June 1st scheduled update the Transfer School Districts were not included in that list. Those school districts have been added to the system. Other -   There was an issue when trying to run a Generic Data Export from the Audit Table where in certain scenarios the export wasn't exporting any records.
06/01/2020	Calculation Changes -   The June 1st scheduled update includes the updated Localization Factors that are used in the MMSVP web service tool. After installing the June 1st update a Write Floating Values must be performed for All Records in the 2021 Database in order for the updated Localization Factors to be included in the Calculations.
05/15/2020	Other -   There was an issue with Importing Sales in the 5/1/2020 scheduled update. Users trying to Import the Sales would generate an error message and not import any Sales. The scheduled update on 5/15/2020 corrects this import issue.
05/01/2020	New Features -   The May 1st scheduled update includes Tools to allow users to comply with the Phase 1 CAMA Data Standards. Phase 1 includes the requirements for the Revenue Share Codes for the Governmental Units as well as the requirements for School Districts for the 2021 Assessment cycle. Phase 2 of the CAMA Data Standards are not required until the 2022 Assessment cycle however we do plan on allowing users to comply with the Phase 2 requirements in a future update (June or July of 2020 for the 2021 Assessment cycle.) There is a link to Instructions to comply with the Phase 1 requirements of the CAMA Data Standards within the Assessing Message Center.
04/15/2020	General -   Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes.
04/01/2020	General -   Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes.
03/15/2020	General -   Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes.
03/01/2020	Other -   Within the parcel edit screen and the Tax Info tab a new classification was added in the PILT category for Sr Ctzn/Dis Fam Hsg-PILT 2020 Rates. This is for users to identify those new Senior Citizen Disabled Housing Pilt parcels.
02/15/2020	New Features -   At the request of several users there is now an option to allow users to display the People and Dates (Who/When/What) on the main parcel edit screen. These fields are used to track Inspection activities on specific parcels. This is a User Preference that is located within Program Setup/My Settings/My Preferences. There is a new option on the left hand side of the My Preferences screen labeled SHOW PEOPLE AND DATES ON MAIN TAB. If a user toggles this option the People and Dates will display on the front of the parcel edit screen for that user. Other -   When the Real property values had the Assessor values frozen but the Personal property parcels were not frozen the user wasn't able to change the current class on those parcels. The scheduled 02/15/2020 update corrects this issue. -   There was an issue with users being able to access the Manual from the Assessing application located in Help/View Documentation/Manual. The scheduled update on 2/15/2020 corrects this issue.
02/01/2020	New Features -   Under Help > View Documentation there is a document outlining our keyboard shortcuts -   Per the request of several users a new option was added to the Standard Change Notice Export located under File/Export/Standard Change Notice Export. There is now an option in the export to allow the user the option to Exclude the Legal Description from the export file. Reporting -   The L-4022 AV report incorrectly displayed the Amount of Loss on the report as 2019. This was corrected to display the year as 2020. This was a display correction only. -   When printing the change notices and saving those notices as a PDF there were some small alignment issues in a couple of areas on those forms. This update includes some corrections so that there are no alignment issues when saving those change notices as a PDF file.
01/15/2020	Reporting -   The updated change Notices are contained in this update. This includes the Change Notice (Laser)/Change Notice (Change in Taxes) as well as the Change Notice (Leasehold.)
01/01/2020	New Features -   A new field has been added within the Parcel Edit Screen/Misc (Tab # 5)/Misc (Generic Fields) Tab for users to identify an Interior Inspection Date. This is an informational field. Program Security -   A new feature was added to allow an Admin User the ability to set an Expiration Date for a particular user. This new option is located within the User Security/Inactivate User (disable user Login) and is labeled as Expire Date. -   A new feature was added to the system to add the ability to Mark a User as Inactive. An Admin User will have the ability within the User Security to Inactivate/Disable a User Login.
12/15/2019	New Features -   At the request of the Michigan Commercial Forest Program we have created a Custom Export to run for those Counties that have Commercial Forest parcels. This export will be run by each County that has any Commercial Forest Parcels (this will not be run by the local municipalities.) Typically, once a year the Michigan Commercial Forest Program will request this export from the Counties. To run this export, the user will want to be in their current year database and then under File/Export/Custom Export and select the CFR- Commercial Forest Export to State. Once the Location and File name is specified the system will export any parcel that is in the CFR Class and has been identified in the Tax Billing screen as a Commercial Forest parcel.
12/01/2019	Calculation Changes -   The Multipliers for Valuation of Free-Standing Communication Towers for the 2020 Assessment year as directed by the State Tax Commission have been updated in the 12/01/2019 scheduled update. New Features -   As a result of a request by the CAMA Data Standards committee a new informational toggle field was added to the sales screen to allow users to identify if the Sale included Joint Tenants. This is a toggle field located next to the Grantee field and again is an informational only field. Reporting -   A new option has been added in the PTA Fines Report that is located under Reports/Sale Reports/PTA Fines Report. Within the Report options of that report the user now has the option when selecting the Generate Export File to specify an Export Type of Generic CSV Export (For Importing Fines.) -   When printing the Real Estate Summary printout for parcels that had a Commercial Building with a Calculator Occupancy of Apartment or Multiple Residence the printout was incorrectly displaying the Class of the property selected. This did NOT affect value, rather was simply a display issue in that printout.
11/15/2019	Reporting -   The State made some changes to the originally submitted Personal Property Statement (L-4175) in Section M of the form to better reflect the State Tax Commission's directive regarding leasehold improvements.
11/01/2019	Calculation Changes -   Due to Bulletin 15 of 2019 - Inflation Rate Multiplier for 2020- the updated Consumer Price Index (C.P.I.) has been hard-coded into the software in the 11/01/2019 scheduled update at 1.9 % (Ratio of 1.019.) Reporting -   There was a reporting issue on the Misc/Stats report when a parcel was identified in the #3 Tax Info Tab and the Current Classification was set to PILT- Payment in Lieu of Taxes and the Previous Classification was set to Ad-Valorem. If the Special Population was set to SPECIAL ACT the Misc/Stats report was reporting the PRIOR value as well that was Ad-Valorem. -   The updated 2020 Personal Property forms as well as the 5076 forms have been updated with the latest changes from the State.
10/15/2019	Calculation Changes -   There were corrections made to some of the rates in the AG UIP section of the program. Under the category of Packing and Cold Storage Buildings (Dock Height floors, on compacted fill the average rate was corrected as well as the Dock Height floors, on posts and piers average rate. Other -   There was an issue with the Permit ASCII Export from the Permit system. Any ASCII export ran from the Permit system that was on the 9/01/2019 version would not correctly Import those permits into the Assessing system. Once the scheduled 9/15/2019 update has been installed for the Permit system users will need to re-run the ASCII Export from permit and re-Import that file into the Assessing system. This issue did not affect the Direct Import only the Standard ASCII Export ran from Permit and Imported into Assessing. Reporting -   There was a display issue only on the Valuation statement for Mobile Homes that had an Expando being priced out. That Expando section was correctly being valued it was simply not displaying on the Valuation Statement.
10/01/2019	General -   There was an issue with the original scheduled 10/01/2019 update that was causing an Error when trying to price any Foundation section of Built in Garage over and Overhang Section. This error only occured if the user had switched to the new 2014 Cost manual w/2020 Corrections. The error generated was Detail: Column 'overhang_6_found' does not belong to table Residential Buildings. Users getting this error will need to download the latest update (version will still be 10/01/2019) and then run the Write Floating Values Tool.
10/01/2019	Calculation Changes -   The October 1st update includes an option to incorporate corrections to the 2014 manual. It was recently discovered that corrections to errors in the manual (Residential Overhang rates and Forced Heat & Cool Residential Heat Type) were not included in MMSVP and had to be handled by BS&A internally. These corrections caused the Residential Overhang Rates to increase slightly and the Forced Heat and Cool Heat Types for Residential buildings to decrease. Because of the time of year (users that have already started working on their ECF’s/New Construction and 2020 values), we have given the user a choice as to whether or not they wish to incorporate these corrections for the 2020 assessments. If users decide to not use the corrected rates for the 2020 database once the database is rolled over to a 2021 database and beyond the corrected rates will automatically be used. The option to use these corrections can be found in Program Setup/Database Setup/Governmental Units/Options/Calculation Options (2014 Cost Manual w/2020 Corrections.) General -   Within the Sales Search & Analysis portion of the system and Analyze with Spreadsheet option a new field was added to the Filter as well as the data dump to Excel for Use Codes. Other -   There was an issue with the Permit ASCII Export from the Permit system. Any ASCII export ran from the Permit system that was on the 9/01/2019 version would not correctly Import those permits into the Assessing system. Once the scheduled 9/15/2019 update has been installed for the Permit system users will need to re-run the ASCII Export from permit and re-Import that file into the Assessing system. This issue did not affect the Direct Import only the Standard ASCII Export ran from Permit and Imported into Assessing. -   Previously, if a class in a database had a factor older than the Current assessment year and 4 prior years the system didn't allow for the calculation of SEV for those older years. The software now allows for entry of an unlimited number of years of factors for each class of property. Under Program Setup\Database Setup\Governmental Units\Options\Equalization\Sale Report Setup\Eqz.Factors Previous Yrs. is a new button labeled Additional Prior Year Factors where additional years can be added with the appropriate factor for that year. This is for DISPLAY purposes only and doesn't affect reporting/totals. Reporting -   There was an issue with the PTA fines report located under Reports/Sales Reports. Previously, the report wasn't using the 40 Days late for the filing deadline in the calculations. In the latest update that report is correctly using 40 days for those fines calculations.
09/15/2019	Other -   There was an issue with the Permit ASCII Export from the Permit system. Any ASCII export ran from the Permit system that was on the 9/01/2019 version would not correctly Import those permits into the Assessing system. Once the scheduled 9/15/2019 update has been installed for the Permit system users will need to re-run the ASCII Export from permit and re-Import that file into the Assessing system. This issue did not affect the Direct Import only the Standard ASCII Export ran from Permit and Imported into Assessing.
09/01/2019	General -   Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes.
08/15/2019	Other -   There were a couple of changes to the MichRIC export that is located under Exports/Custom Exports/MichRIC Export. These changes were to a field length as well as what was being exported to MichRIC if a field was left blank. Reporting -   There was an issue with the NON PRE TOTALS not displaying within the Utility/Equalization Reporting Tools, Misc Totals and Statistics/Print by School option. The report was displaying -0- for the NON-PRE Totals.
08/01/2019	New Features -   There have been 2 new fields added within the LAND portion of the software as well as within the SALE area of the system. These 2 fields are Information toggle fields for "PA 116" as well as "Conservation Easement." Within the Land button of the parcel edit screen towards the bottom in the Informational Items section are these 2 toggle fields (PA 116 and Conservation Easement.). Within the Sale portion of the system these 2 fields are located within the Building/Land Detail button and in the LAND section (PA 116 and Conservation Easement.) Identifying these parcels will allow for users to determine in their studies if these parcels are selling differently because they are in these programs.
07/15/2019	General -   Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes.
07/01/2019	General -   There were some display issues for some of the Agricultural buildings types on both the Valuation Statement and Record card. These were display issues only on those printouts and did not affect the value.
06/17/2019	General -   There was an issue in the 6-15-2019 scheduled update that effected any County that has 2 names in the County name (for example St. Joseph, Grand Travers or St. Clair and so on.) Any municipality that was in one of these Counties would receive an error message that an appropriate County needed to be selected. This update corrects that display issue within Program Setup/Database Setup/Governmental Units Options/Calculation Options/County.
06/15/2019	Calculation Changes -   The 6/15/2019 scheduled update contains the updated Localization Factors to the MMSVP Web-Service. These localization factors are hard-coded into the software. As a reminder there is no longer the need to enter in the published County Multipliers from the State. Those would only be used if you are trying to manually price out something using the Hard copy of the 2014 STC Cost Manual. Lastly, it is VERY important that after updating to the 06/15/2019 scheduled update that a WRITE FLOATING VALUES tool is run on the entire database so that each parcel is recalculated based off of the updated Localization Factors. Reporting -   FEMA has updated their data collection sheet to Include Inaccessable to Degree of Damage so we have added that to our list in the MISC/Damage Survey info section of the system. -   The PRE Affidavit (Laser)/PRE Rescind as well as the PRE Cond Rescind have all been updated with the latest changes from the State.
06/01/2019	Other -   There was an error being generated when trying to Export the Street Master File to an ASCII format. -   When running an ECF Analysis and then trying to save those results to a Neighborhood it would generate an error and not save the results.
05/15/2019	New Features -   A new Custom Export has been added to the system. Under File/Export/Custom Export there is a new option called SEMCOG Export (Southeast Michigan Council of Governments.) This organization periodically requests municipalities to generate an export of files and this Custom Export was made available to make handling this request easier for our users. -   Within the Agricultural Building section a new building type was added within the GREENHOUSES section of the manual for Lath Shade Houses. Previously this building type was not available in the software. Other -   At the request of several Equalization departments during the rollover process all of the Equalization fields located within the Parcel Edit screen under the Misc (Tab #5)/Misc. (Generic Fields) button will be cleared out as part of that rollover process.
05/01/2019	MMSVP -   There was a Calculation error being generated within the Residential Buildings. This was not a common error and was only being generated in rare cases. The error was Line 1: A Component ID is not unique for its Section PErcentages for Exterior Wall Components in Section 000 do not total 100%. The scheduled May 1st update will resolve this issue. New Features -   A new Classification option was added within the TAX INFO portion of the Assessing system. The new Category/Classification is labeled 425 Agreement. This option is reported in the Ad-Valorem totals and the Current Exp. Date field can be used to track when the agreement expires on a parcel. The Primary purpose is to allow the tracking of these parcels/expiration dates as well as allowing Tax to identify these parcels and maintain a seperate millage rate table for billing purposes. Reporting -   There were some calculation/reporting issues on the Equalization Report (L-4024 Report) if a Municipality in the County had an Equalization factor applied. The Equalized Totals column on the L-4024 weren't reflecting the appropriate Equalized values for those classes that had a factor. -   Added auditing of Copying Reports, Renaming Reports and Renaming of Report Profiles in Report Profiles. -   There was an issue in the Report Writer when a user tried to add a data field to a Calculation field that would cause the system to generate an error and close.
04/15/2019	New Features -   Within the PRE section of the system a new option has been added for users to correctly identify parcels that qualify for the Qualified Forest PA 42 AND is the homeowners Principal Residence (PRE.) Under the Ql Ag/Frst/MBT dropdown within the PRE screen is a new option of Qual. Frst PA 42/PRE. For those Qualified Forest parcels that are Vacant or those that have Improvements but do not qualify for a PRE users will use the Qual. Frst. PA 42 option but for those properties that qualify for the Qualified Forest and the PRE they should be flagged with the new Qual. Frst PA 42/PRE option. Instructions for entry of these properties is located on our website as well as the Assessing manual. Other -   In the Commercial Unit In Place section (UIP 3 Generators) when a user selected that option the rates were not populating. Latest update includes those rates now when a user selects that UIP option. This will NOT affect existing values on a parcel. This will only effect rates going forward when the UIP 3 Generators option is selected. Reporting -   Within the Land Table portion of the software if a user tried to Print the Codes and Descriptions the program wasn't printing that request. -   There was an issue with the L-4024 Equalization report located under Reports/Equalization reports. If a Municipality had a Current Year factor the report wasn't reporting the correct Equalized value in the Equalized Valuation columns.
04/01/2019	General -   Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes.
03/15/2019	General -   Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes.
03/01/2019	New Features -   At the request of several users a new option was added to the Parcel Edit screen labeled MBOR INFORMATION. This option is located just above the R. Card/Sketch/Hist. Tabs in the Edit Parcel Information section. This option is designed for a quick reference for the March Board of Review members as well as the Taxpayers that come to the MBOR. By clicking on the MBOR INFORMATION link, that parcels Record Card Image/Sketch/Historical Graph of Assessed and Taxable values as well as specific detail of that parcel will display. For those municipalities that use a projector to display the parcels for the taxpayers, this screen would be ideal for that purpose. Other -   There was an issue in the GIS Radius Tool. When this Tool was used the system wasn't saving the parcel number correctly with the County code. -   The School District Description as well as the Community College Description fields have been expanded to 50 Characters to accommodate the CAMA Data Standards descriptions approved by the State. -   Within the EMPP section of the program in Part 3: Report of Fair Market Value/Election of Lessee Report(s) there is now the option to add Multiple Lessee Election Reports.
02/15/2019	New Features -   Due to Public Act 633 of 2018 3 new options have been added to the PRE portion of the software within the Ql Ag/Frst/MBT: dropdown window. Act of God 1st/Act of God 2nd and Act of God 3rd. These options allow users to identify those parcels that meet the requirements of Public Act 633. Program Setup -   When printing a Record Card for a parcel that had a Commercial Building that had a new basement type that was added in the new cost manual (MMSVP) it was causing the record card to not print the building detail.
02/01/2019	New Features -   Per Bulletin 16 of 2018 (Small Business Property Tax Exemption Claim MCL 211.9o) a change has been made to the system so that for any parcels that had filed form 5076 for the 2019 roll. Once the database is rolled over to 2020 that exemption will carry forward for each subsequint year until the user manually removes that exemption or the taxpayer files the required rescission form (Form 5618.) -   At the request of several users the Note field within the Parcel Edit screen is now available to Index on within the Parcel list table. Reporting -   At the request of several Equalization directors a new report option was added for the L-4025 report to allow the user to create Unit Totals to a Spreadsheet. Under Reports/Assessing Reports and then the Report Options is a new option for Create Unit Totals Spreadsheet.
01/15/2019	General -   Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes.
01/01/2019	New Features -   A new Classification was added within the Tax Info (Tab #3) section of the Edit Parcel screen. The Classification type is for PA 206 - Eligible Economic Development Group. Reporting -   The latest changes to the Change Notice (Laser)/Change Notice (Leasehold)/Change Notice (Change in Taxes) have been made to the system.
12/15/2018	Reporting -   Minor changes to the L-4022 forms to match the States new approved form.
12/01/2018	General -   Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes.
11/15/2018	Other -   Expanded the number of Local Cost Items allowed for Commercial Buildings for Land Improvements as well as the Buildings from 15 Items to 30 Local Cost Items allowed. Program Setup/Database Setup/Governmental Units/Options/Local Cost Items. Reporting -   There was a display issue only when printing a Valuation Statement on a Residential Building that had the Wood Furnace Add-On option toggled. That option was not printing on the Valuation statement.
11/01/2018	Calculation Changes -   Due to Bulletin 15 of 2018 - Inflation Rate Multiplier for 2019 the updated Consumer Price Index (C.P.I.) has been hard-coded into the software in the 11/01/2018 scheduled update at 2.4 % (Ratio of 1.024.) -   Within the Personal Property section of the software (#12. Page 4 Items) the Communication towers Multiplier Tables have been updated to the latest multipliers per Bulletin 16 of 2018 Procedural Changes for 2019. -   Calculation change that affects the Segregated Cost Totals Only. The specific section affected was in the Section for Offices, Banks, Hospitals/(39) Miscellaneous Items/Metal Shielding, Bank Equipment, Hospital Equipment, Hospital Pneumatic. The rates being used for these sections were incorrect and have been incorrect for past manuals as well. The 11/01/2018 scheduled update corrects the rates for these Segregated Items. ***This will be the last scheduled Calculation change to the software that will affect appraisal calculations for the 2019 Roll. Because of this change users should run a Write Floating Values on the entire database after installing the 11/01/2018 Scheduled update.*** MMSVP -   As we discussed in a previous BS & A Message Center message, with the scheduled 11/01/2018 update we have removed the option for the user to toggle/un-toggle the option to use the MMSVP Valuation in any 2019 databases and beyond. This update will automatically toggle that option in any 2019 database if that option wasn't already toggled. Users that haven't run the MMSVP Migration Wizard will receive a prompt to do so in those databases until that Migration Wizard has been run. MCL 211.10e requires all 2019 databases to use the 2014 Cost Manual. Reporting -   The PRE Affidavit (Laser) wasn't printing the Municipality on that portion of the form. -   There was a display issue only when printing a record card on a parcel pricing any of the NEW Commercial/Industrial Occupancy types. On page 2 the Record Card wasn't displaying the correct data in the Building Section for those new Occupancy types. -   The Detailed Valuation Statement within the Residential Building section was incorrectly excluding any Add-On Wood Furnaces being valued on that printout only.
10/15/2018	New Features -   Within the Tax Info section of the program within the Edit Parcel screen a new option was added in the Parcel Classification screen (PILT Group) for users to identify any new Sr Ctzn/Dis Fam Hsg-PILT 2019 Rates. Reporting -   There was an error being generated when running the L-2793 Report. Once the report had been run and the user selected YES to save those results to the L-4018 report use and the 12 Month Ratio or 24 Month Ratio was selected an error was generated referencing a parcel number and that a particular School District could not be found. The correct totals were saved to the L-4018 report. Latest version corrects this error. -   Any Residential Building Comments weren't printing on the Valuation Statement as they had in the past. Latest update includes those on that printout.
10/01/2018	Calculation Changes -   There were a couple of small rate changes within the Agricultural Unit-In-Place portion of the program. The changes were in the Barns and Sheds category for Concrete Flatwork (Ave.) and Concrete Flatwork (Low.) MMSVP -   Previously, if a database had any Calculation Errors the user wasn't able to run a report or generate any exports from that database until those Calculation issues were resolved. A change was made that will allow users to generate reports and exports if there are calculation errors but a report of any outstanding errors will generate at the end of the report/export. However, until those calculation errors are resolved in the database the validity of those totals/data in the reports/exports may not be reliable. New Features -   Apex Software recently released their new Version 7 of the Apex sketching software. The program is now compatible with the Apex 7 software for those users that choose to upgrade their version of Apex. The Assessing software is compatible with Apex versions 4/5 and 6/7. -   Within the UIP Items we added a section that has always been missing from the system. /Commercial UIP 2, Kitchen Units. This option will now allow users to price these using the Lump Sum Method within the Cost Manual. Reporting -   There was an issue with any custom reports that included any sort headers/footers that wouldn't return any data/results. Latest update will resolve that issue. -   There were a couple of minor corrections/changes to the 5076 Personal Property Exemption Reports. -   There was a display issue corrected when printing the Valuation Statement. The Local Cost Items were not displaying the actual value being calculated within the software.
09/15/2018	MMSVP -   It was brought to our attention that the 9/01/2018 scheduled update was incorrectly applying the MMSVP localization factor to the Land Improvement Ad-Hoc Unit-In-Place Items. After installing the 9/15/2018 scheduled update a Write Floating Values will need to be performed on the entire database so that a recalculation is performed on the affected parcels. -   Within the Commercial Building section we have added some new Calculator Occupancy types for the Garages - Residential category. Garages - Residential (Built In)/Garages - Residential (Detached) and Garages - Residential (Attached) to match the options within the Cost Manual. Reporting -   The latest changes to the Personal Property printouts from the State have been updated in the software. The updated printouts for Personal Property include (Personal Property Statement/Personal Property Statement w Form 5076/Personal Property Statement w Form 5076 (Duplex)/5076 Cover Letter/Form 5076 Exempt PP.)
09/01/2018	Calculation Changes -   Within the Residential building section for Duplex occupancies any Lump Sum items that were priced out were incorrectly calculating those Lump Sum items. -   Within the UIP section for Land Improvements (UIP 13, Page 6) there was an incorrect rate for the Chain Link Fences 5' Wide Gates. MMSVP -   Previously in the Commercial Building section in the truck wells or mezzanine sections a user wasn't able to enter a square footage for the Sprinklers that exceeded the square footage of the main building portion. Because those areas could also be included in the sprinklers the system does allow the sprinkler square footage to exceed the overall building square footage. -   Within the Mobile Home Section and specifically the Free Standing roofs within the Basic Building Area/Optional Area section the 2014 STC Cost manual (MMSVP) no longer has rates for this item. If a user tries to enter an amount in the Free Standing Roofs cell the system will not allow a value to be entered and the user will receive an error message. For any parcels that previously had an amount entered those parcels can be identified by running the Possible Calculation Problem report and within the Report Options/Calculation Problems to look for the user can toggle on the option zero value Buildings/Items option. -   There was an issue with trying to price any of the NEW Occupancy types that were added in the 2014 Cost Manual for the (Alternate Methods) it would generate an error for any of those Occupancy types. This update will also include the (Alternate Method) (Interior) as well as the (Alternate Method) (Shell) options. Other -   There were some changes to the Custom MichRIC Export located under File/Export/Custom Exports/MichRIC Export. Within the Sales portion of that export there were some incorrect Sales information included. Reporting -   The Special Population option of Ad Valorem - No 211.7d was incorrectly including some special act type parcels. Corrected so that only Ad Valorem parcels were being included. -   There were a couple of display issues on the L-2793 report. The calculations were correct on the report. -   There were a few display issues on the Valuation Statement that have been corrected.
08/15/2018	Reporting -   The Special Population option of Ad Valorem - No 211.7d was incorrectly including some special act type parcels. Corrected so that only Ad Valorem parcels were being included.
08/01/2018	General -   The Custom Export for the MichRic Export had an extra carriage return at the end of the file. That was removed. -   There was an issue with the Advanced Set Database Tool. Trying to run the Advanced Set Database Tool in a version prior to the 7/23/2018 update was causing an error. MMSVP -   There was an issue with parcels that had a Mobile Home and that Mobile Home had a Basement % entered that the basement % was not carrying over to the Basement area field after the migration. Reporting -   The Special Population option of Ad Valorem - No 211.7d was incorrectly including some special act type parcels. Corrected so that only Ad Valorem parcels were being included. -   The Mortgage Company Report was printing the Care of information instead of the Sreet number and street name field. -   There were some updates/changes to the PRE Rescind, Conditional PRE form and the PRE Affidavit to match the States latest forms.
07/23/2018	Calculation Changes -   There was an issue with parcels that had a Mobile Home and that Mobile Home had a Basement % entered that the basement % was not carrying over to the Basement area field after the migration. -   It was discovered that the MMSVP localization factors were not being applied to UIP and Segregated rates in all cases. This unscheduled release has been issued to remedy these cases. If you use the UIP or Segregated sections, we recommend running the Write Floating Values utility at your earliest convenience. General -   Prior to this unscheduled update there were scenerios where parcels had Agricultural or Commercial/Industrial buildings that had a square footage entered BUT the Quality selected for those buildings did not have a rate within the STC Cost Manual. These buildings will now show up in the Parcel Calculation Errors window at the bottom of the screen. To "clean up" these buildings from the parcel calculation screen users must select a valid Quality for the building Occupancy selected. -   There was an issue with the Advanced Set Database Tool. Trying to run the Advanced Set Database Tool in a version prior to the 7/23/2018 update was causing an error.
07/15/2018	General -   Within the Agricultural and Commercial Building screen the Attachment button was not displaying properly. MMSVP -   Under the Residential Building section a new Occupancy has been added to allow the users to price out Recreation Cabins. -   Within the Land Improvement UIP section if a user had inadvertently entered any "invalid" characters in the Description section it was causing the program to generate a hexidecimal error on any of those parcels. Reporting -   The Special Population option of Ad Valorem - No 211.7d was incorrectly including some special act type parcels. Corrected so that only Ad Valorem parcels were being included.
07/01/2018	MMSVP -   There was an issue within the Land Improvement section under the Adhoc Unit-In-Place Items button. When trying to click the search icon the system was crashing. These UIP rates were also not updated to the new rates from the 2014 cost manual. After the scheduled update on 7/1/2018 there is a Utility that needs to be run to update these UIP rates located under Utilities/Update Unit-In-Place Item Costs. -   A change was made to the system to allow for a deduction of value when there is no 3 fixture bath entred for a Residential building. -   In the Commercial Building section for the Occupancy type of Garages - Residential if the Class prior to the migration was set to D Siding after the Migration the class type was incorrectly getting set to D, Pole. That migration issue will be resolved in the scheduled 7/1/2018 update. For any users that have already migrated the 7/1/2018 scheduled update will detect that and automatically run a script to set the class back to D, Siding on the Garages - Residential occupancies. -   The 2014 Cost manual had a new option for Mobile Homes in the Basement section for Partitioned area. This option is now available. -   Within the Residential building section if a % good other than 100 was entered in the Abnormal/Functional or Ext. Obs. % depreciation fields that % good was not being applied to a basic building area that had a Foundation type of Overhang or Built in Garage. -   Within the Garage section of the Residential Building if the Garagae had a % Good different than the Residential Building AND had specified a no concrete floor area that no concrete floor area was being incorrectly depreciated at the Residential Building percent good and not the Garage percent good specified. -   Within the Land Improvements section for Agricultural/Residential and Commercial Industrial Local Cost Items a factor was incorrectly being applied to those local rates entered within the system. Because these were local rates manually enterted no factor should have been applied to those rates. -   Within the Basic Building Area of the Residential Building section there was an issue in pricing of the Overhang and the Built-in-Garage foundation types. These options were incorrectly getting adjusted for a foundation and weren't getting a Heating/Cooling adjustment applied. -   There was a display issue only within the Residential Building section where if the "old" option in the Overhangs section of include in the size for rates was toggled on, after the migration the S.F.R. display included that area in the S.F.R. This did not affect value. Reporting -   The Special Population option of Ad Valorem - No 211.7d was incorrectly including some special act type parcels. Corrected so that only Ad Valorem parcels were being included. -   There was a display issue when printing a Valuation Statement with parcels that had a Commercial Building. It was incorrectly displaying the Class of the Building incorrectly on the printout.
06/15/2018	MMSVP -   Sheds - Material Storage, 4 Wall, there was an issue with the system crashing when the Quality of the building was changed. Latest update corrects that issue for that Occupancy. -   There was an issue with existing UIP items not using the updated rates from the 2014 Manual after the Migration. For any migration run after the June 15th 2018 scheduled update was installed no further action needs to be completed. If however the migration was run prior to the June 15th update in order to update those UIP rates a Utility will have to be run which is located under Utilities/Update Unit-In-Place Item costs. After running this utility it is recommended to run a Write Floating Values on the entire database. -   Commercial Buildings/Unit-In-Place (UIP) Items. Within UIP 11 (TANKS) The section for Above Ground Fuel Storage Tanks was not available in the system. This section of UIP items has been added to the software. Reporting -   The Special Population option of Ad Valorem - No 211.7d was incorrectly including some special act type parcels. Corrected so that only Ad Valorem parcels were being included.
06/01/2018	Reporting -   The Special Population option of Ad Valorem - No 211.7d was incorrectly including some special act type parcels. Corrected so that only Ad Valorem parcels were being included.
05/15/2018	Reporting -   The Special Population option of Ad Valorem - No 211.7d was incorrectly including some special act type parcels. Corrected so that only Ad Valorem parcels were being included.
05/01/2018	Reporting -   The Special Population option of Ad Valorem - No 211.7d was incorrectly including some special act type parcels. Corrected so that only Ad Valorem parcels were being included.
04/15/2018	General -   Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes.
04/01/2018	Other -   There was an issue with the ASCII Export/Import and specifically any Personal Property parcels that had the CAP THIS PERSONAL flag toggled in prior years. This flag was not coming over properly in the ASCII Export/Import which would have an affect on the Prior year values.
03/19/2018	Reporting -   Per the email reminder sent on Thursday March 15, 2018 from the State Tax Commission regarding the new changes/requirements on From 607 (L-4022) and specifically the Informational items to identify the number of Exempt parcels and the Amount of 2018 Loss from Charitable Exemptions granted for the first time in 2018 under MCL 211 7o. This unscheduled update includes these changes (version 03/19/2018.) For 2018 the Assessor will have to manually enter in the amount of 2018 Loss from Charitable Exemptions granted for the first time in 2018 under MCL 211.7o. We are hopeful that for 2019 and beyond that we will be able to come up with a process to have the software automatically calculate this. For any Assessors that submitted their L-4022 to the Equalization Department prior to this change they will need to update the software and resubmit the updated L-4022 or have their county do this for them in order for that form to be accepted by the State Tax Commission.
03/15/2018	Other -   Per the request of several users there is now the ability within the CSV Import to update/insert data within the Extra Address section within the Owner Info Tab. The CSV file must have the appropriate Headers as well as the appropriate data contained in the file in order for the CSV Import to work properly. Parcels that have existing Extra Addresses will only get updated if the CSV file has the same street number, apartment number and zip code. Extra Addresses that don't already exist will automatically get inserted to the appropriate parcel. -   There has been a change to the CAP THIS PERSONAL option for Personal Property parcels. In the past this option if removed could affect prior year values if the personal property parcel was capped. This option is now available in each year's Detail screen so the user can now un-toggle this option in the Current Year Detail without it changing/affecting prior year values. Reporting -   A signature line has been added to the report under Assessing Reports/L-4021 (STC Recommended). In the Report Options, if the Totals Options is set to Assessed Values the signature line will print on the last page of the report.
03/01/2018	Other -   The user now has the option within the EMPP section to set the Status to the Statement Received Late option. This can be used to identify those 5278 Forms that were received after the deadline and that will be taken to the current year March Board of Review.
02/15/2018	Other -   Because we had so many users requesting to be able to run the CSV Import without needing a tech support code we have now opened this process up to all users. Because this is a very dangerous process we do not recommend that users perform this import.
02/01/2018	General -   Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes.
01/25/2018	General -   There was an issue with the GENERIC BACKUP in the last Unscheduled update. Users were caught in an update loop and not able to access the database. For users that had that issue they will need to run this update and then re-run the Generic Backup again. This update is only required for those users having an issue with the Generic Backup/Restore.
01/16/2018	Reporting -   In the 1/16/2018 update to the Assessing system the Change Notices were updated to reflect the latest changes from the State. The Change Notices that were updated include the Change Notice (Laser), Change Notice (Change in Taxes- Real Parcels Only) and the Change Notice (Leasehold.) Prior to printing the Assessment Change Notices verify the Version date at the top of the screen is at least a 1/16/2018 date. Note: because this update was an unscheduled update, the GLOBE in the lower right of the screen will remain RED until the next scheduled update is run on 2/01/2018. -   Note: because this update was an unscheduled update, the GLOBE in the lower right of the screen will remain RED until the program is closed and then reopened.
01/15/2018	Reporting -   Per recent changes from the State the 5076 (Exempt PP) report has been updated with the latest changes.
01/01/2018	Reporting -   There was a reporting issue for those parcels that were identified in the Reference Permanent Property class type. In both the L-4025 and the Misc/Stats report when reporting a current year or adjusted Reference Permanent class type the total value for those parcels was double the actual amount. This only effected those parcels in the Reference Permanent class type and only in the L-4025 report and the Misc/Stats report. This class type is very rarely used so this will not have an effect on most users.
12/15/2017	New Features -   Per the request of Equalization Departments 3 new fields have been added within the parcel edit screen (#5 Misc Tab.) A new toggle field was added called Selected for Study as well as a field labled Assigned to so a users initials could be entered and finally a Note field to allow users to enter a brief note. Other -   The Cost Valuation Multipliers for use in the 2018 Assessments of Freestanding Communication Towers have been updated with the latest multipliers. Reporting -   The Form 5076-Cover Letter has been updated.
12/01/2017	Reporting -   The Personal Property Statement w/form 5076 as well as the Form 5076 within the Personal Property Reports has been updated with the latest changes from the State.
11/15/2017	Calculation Changes -   Per Bulletin 16 of 2017 the Inflation rate Multiplier (CPI) will be hard-coded into the system with the 11/15/2017 scheduled update to 1.021. Users do not have to hand-enter the Inflation Rate Multiplier into the system; rather, jsut be sure to install the 11/15/2017 update. Reporting -   The Personal Property Statement, Personal Property Statement w/Form 5076, Personal Property Statement (Page 1) and Form 5076 (Exempt PP) have all been updated to the changes by the State.
11/01/2017	Reporting -   There was a display issue when using the Query function in reporting. It allowed the user to pick the Special Act List but then it displayed the position number of the fields rather thatn the actual Special Act Type list.
10/15/2017	General -   Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes.
10/01/2017	New Features -   In the TOOL option to add an attachment to Multiple parcels there is now an option for the user to specify which area they want to add the Attachment (General/Residential Building/Commercial building and so on). Previously the attachments were automatically added to the General section.
09/15/2017	New Features -   A new Field was added to allow the user to Export or Report on the Permit Count Field. The name of the new field is PermitCount. Reporting -   There was a display issue on the L-4015 Report.The correct Sales were being used however within the Statistics line the ratios weren't displaying correctly as well as the Median Calculations totals. Latest update corrects this display issue.
09/01/2017	Reporting -   The Current PRE % was added to the Questionable PRE Report.
08/15/2017	New Features -   We have had several requests over the last year to add the Property Zip Code to the Parcel Edit Screen. The Property Zip Code when in the Parcel Edit Screen will now display at the top of the screen below the FLAG field and to the right of the ADDRESS display. Reporting -   Both the PRE Affidavit (Laser) and the PRE Resind forms have been updated with the latest changes from the State.
08/01/2017	Other -   A custom change was added to the Modify Parcel Number Utility for Isabella County. From the Parcel list screen under Utilities/Modify Parcel Numbers/Custom Modifications is a new option for Isabella County to modify the City of Mt Pleasant parcel numbers per the counties specifications. -   Per the request of St. Clair County a change was made to their Custom Sale Import located under File/Import/Custom Import/St Clair County (Sale Import.) When running that import if a Sale already exists in the database the import will NOT overwrite the Sale Price/Adj. Sale Price or the Date Sale Entered fields of the existing sale.
07/15/2017	General -   Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes.
07/01/2017	New Features -   A new Index was added to the system to allow the user to Index the database by the Adjacent PRE. The new Index Option is labeled Adjacent PRE. This index will allow users to identify those parcels that within the PRE screen the Adjacent Exemption Option is toggled. Reporting -   Within the PTA FINES Report an option was added within the Report Options to allow the user to display the Grantor/Grantee on the report. -   There was a display issue on the Valuation Statement. Any data entered within the Personal Property Statement within Table L acquisitions wasn't displaying the year by year detail like all of the other tables within the Personal Property Statement.
06/15/2017	Reporting -   A new field has been added to the EMPP Reporting section for the EMPP Statement Number. The new field is called StatementNumber and it will allow the user to report or export out the EMPP Statement Number. Since this is a new field the user will have to run the Write Floating Values tool to correctly populate that new field. -   There was an issue in reporting for the Miscellaneous Totals/Statistics when the Special Population was set to the LAND BANK ONLY OPTION. The report was only reporting the Current Year totals and not the Previous Year totals. There was also another issue where if a parcel was going from Land Bank to ad valorem, running the dda page of misc totals/stats on the Land Bank Only Special population showed a current capture when it should be zero.
06/01/2017	General -   Public Act 42 of 2017 established a second 2017 filing deadline for Eligible Manufacturing Personal Property Tax Exemptions. For any eligible late file form 5278 forms received the user will want to add a new EMPP Statement and be sure to change the year of Statement to 2017 and set the Status to Statement Received Late. Once all of the information is entered the user will need to enter an adjustment in the 2017 Detail screen and enter any value changes due to the late file EMPP. It is very important that Assessors follow the Instructions outlined in P.A. 42 of 2017 regarding transmitting any additional Form 5278 filings to the Department of Treasury by Friday, June 9, 2017. Reporting -   The Real Property Statement (L-4182 R) needed to have a few changes to reflect the latest changes from the State.
05/15/2017	Reporting -   There was a reporting issue with the land bank population and including Current values when a parcel is going from land bank to ad valorem in the various report choices.
05/01/2017	Reporting -   At its meeting on August 23, 2016, the State Tax Commission adopted to change the dates for the two year study period effective for the 2017 studies for the starting base for 2018 Equalization. For the 2017 studies for the 2018 equalization two year study the dates are as follows: April 1, 2015 through March 31, 2017. The single year study dates did not change and will remain October 1, 2016 through September 30, 2017. These changes are included in the 5/1 update to the L-4015 report as well as making the appropriate changes to the L-2793 Report. -   There were a couple of minor changes to the wording at the bottom of the L-4022 AV Report.
04/15/2017	General -   Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes.
04/01/2017	Reporting -   There was an issue with the Database Compare Report that would incorrectly say that the Rounding Options were different between the 2 databases the user was trying to compare. -   There was a reporting issue with the Special Population of LAND BANK ONLY reporting properly when there was a prior year adjustment switching a parcel from the Ad-Valorem Roll to the Special Act Roll (Land Bank.)
03/15/2017	General -   Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes.
03/01/2017	New Features -   When within the Parcel Edit Screen/#5 Misc Tab there is a new option for the user to identify the Commercial Franchise or Business. This new Field is labeled Bus./Franchise and is a pick list that is NOT editable by the user. Reporting -   The Tentative Ratio Report located under Reports/Equalization Reports now has the ability to print directly to Excel.
02/15/2017	Other -   There was an issue with the Integration of building areas into the Assessing system with Apex 6 when a sketch had multiple Pages. Latest version correctly intgrates that data when a sketch contains multiple pages. Reporting -   There were some inconsistencies between several reports in the Parcel Count field and the number reported on those reports. -   With the 2/01/2017 scheduled update the system was excluding the EMPP parcels from the Personal Property Reports/Printouts/Exports. Latest version will include those parcels in the Reports/Printouts and Exports.
02/01/2017	New Features -   A new set of options have been added to the TAX INFO portion of the program to allow users to identify those parcels that submit forms to transfer Commercial Forrest Property parcels into the Qualified Forest Program (QFP.) Under the Classification within the Tax Info screen/CFR Group there are 5 new options for the user to identify the 5 years the parcel has to transfer over to Qualified Forest. If properly identified in Assessing this information will flow over to the Tax system so that the appropriate calculations can be done for the Specific Tax owed. -   Within the EMPP section of the Program we have added an option to allow a user to COPY from a Prior Year EMPP (Form 5278.) If a 2016 EMPP existed on a parcel and a new Current year (2017) Statement is added there is now a TOOLS button at the top of the EMPP screen that if selected allows the user to COPY the information from Part 2 (Ad-Valorem) from the prior year statement. This does NOT include the Summary and Reporting button/Type (drop-down) or the Renaissance Zone toggle within part 2. Other -   There was an issue with the Advanced Set Set Data Fields tool generating an error and not running when the License File for the database was an Oakland County License. Reporting -   With the 1/15/2017 update the Form 5076 (Exempt PP) personal property report was incorrectly printing the wrong year. Latest update corrects that report/form.
01/15/2017	General -   A new option was added within the Tax Info Section of the program within the PILT GROUP Category. The new option of Sr Ctzn/Dis Fam Hsg-PILT 2017 Group. Reporting -   There was an issue with the Database Compare Report that when a user tried to select a population or edit the Report Options the system would error out. Latest update corrects this issue.
01/01/2017	General -   There was a scenario on new/split parcels where users weren't getting the prompt for NEW/LOSS/ADDITIONS/LOSSES when exiting the parcel. Latest update corrects that issue. New Features -   Within the Land Table section a new option was added under the TOOL/COPY LAND TABLE FIELDS. The user now has the option to Copy the Square Footage Table Information as well. Reporting -   The report Personal Property Report w/5076 and the form 5076 (Exempt PP) under reports/Personal Property Reports has been updated with the latest changes from the State. -   The Conditional P.R.E. Rescind (L-4640) printout has been updated with the latest changes from the State. -   Personal Property Reports as well as the Standard Personal Property Label Export will automatically exclude any parcels with a Current year accepted Empp statement (5278 Form.) Furthermore, the Standard Change Notice Export as well as the Printouts have a new option in the Report Options to Include EMPP Parcels. -   There was a scenerio for Townships that have a Village Gov Unit that the Real Property Statement (Customizable) was not printing the appropriate Village Address for parcels located in the village. -   The latest changes from the State have been made to the Change Notice Printouts. -   The State made some additional changes to the Personal Property form. Latest update includes those changes. -   For EMPP Reports in the Choose Report Options the user now has the ability to specify the year(s) of EMPP's to include in the report as well as excluding any EMPP Statements that were Denied.
12/15/2016	General -   Increased the number of visible records in the searched linked apps window to 150. New Features -   Within the EMPP portion of a parcel the user now has the ability to enter Audit Information similiar to the Personal Property Statement. Reporting -   When printing a Record Card for a parcel that has a Residential Building on Page 2 Section (7) Excavation the system was not printing the appropriate information for Basement/Crawl/Slab. -   A new option was added to the Possible Calculation Problems Report that will identify and Personal Property Parcels that have a current year statement but the Status of the statement is set to EMPP Filed yet the parcel has no current year EMPP filed. Under the Report Options/Calculation Problems to Look/Personal Property Section is a new option of PP Incorrectly Set to EMPP Filed.
12/01/2016	Reporting -   The Property Transfer Affidavit (L-4260) has been updated with the latest changes from the State. -   The Personal Property Stmnt (Page 1) under Reports/Personal Property Reports has been updated with the latest changes from the State. -   Under Reports/Personal Property Reports the latest changes from the State have been updated on the Form 5076- Cover Letter.
11/15/2016	Calculation Changes -   EMPP changes for form 5278 in Part 2 Section M (Leasehold Improvements.) Last year the system didn't have the actual Multiplier Tables to value Leasehold Equipment. For 2017 the Section M Multiplier Table was added. In order for the software to correctly calculate Headlee if the (2016) 5278 form had Section M equipment the user will have to go into the prior year (2016) 5278 and enter in that Section M equipment into the appropriate year. For 2017 if a user enters data in Section M and the system detects that the 2016 5278 form had values entered in Section M the user will receive a prompt informing them they need to go into the (2016) 5278 and enter the prior year Section M equipment into the appropriate years within the new multiplier table. New Features -   The Election of Lessee Report of Eligible Manufacturing Personal Property form (5467) has been added to the system. Within the EMPP Section, Part 3 Report of Fair Market Value. Other -   The appropriate changes have been made to the software to accomadate all of the EMPP changes for the 2017 Assessing cycle. There were several changes to the 5278 form. Reporting -   The Personal Property Report Form 5076 (Exempt PP) has been updated with the latest changes from the State. -   The Personal Property Statement w/Form 5076 has been updated with the latest changes from the State.
11/01/2016	Calculation Changes -   The Inflation Rate Multiplier (CPI) for calculation of the 2017 Capped value has been automatically updated in the system with the 11/01/2016 scheduled update. The Ratio is 1.009 or a 0.9% increase. To verify the correct CPI is being used this cell can be located in Program Setup/Program Settings/Global Calc. Options under CPI % 2017. -   The Personal Property Multipliers for Communication Towers have been updated with the latest multipliers from Bulletin No. 12 of 2016. Reporting -   The 2017 Personal Property Statement has been update with the latest changes from the STC.
10/15/2016	General -   Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes.
10/01/2016	Other -   There was an issue with the Oakland County Custom Export Oakland County Misc. Totals Stats Report/ASCII Export. When that export was run Special Act type parcels were being included in the Export file but not in the PDF file created or the Misc/Stats Text file created. Program Security -   Oakland County and CVT security. Per the County, users should not have rights to use set fields options even if a user has Write Access and are a CVT Admin user, they should not be able to do set fields because they A.) they are not an Enterprise admin user and B.) it’s in an archived database. Only Enterprise Administrator users should be able to edit an Archived database. Reporting -   The Assessors Comments field wasn't reporting when running a Personal Property Report.
09/15/2016	Other -   Per the request of Oakland County there were some changes to the Custom Export Oakland County Misc/Stats Report/ASCII EXPORT. A Cancel button was added on the “Miscellaneous Totals/Statistics - Options” screen. · The MTS.pdf report will be created and saved to export directory without the popup window.
09/01/2016	Calculation Changes -   A calculation change has been made to the system within the Commecial/Industrial building section. For a Calculator Occupancy of industrial, heavy manufacturing, class S, 2% depr table, 1 story above ground, average story hght 80, the program giave a "Height per story Multiplier" of 0.280 and it should be 2.84 according to page 105 of the manual. -   There was a calculation issue within the Commercial/Industrial Building section that only existed when a user entered a Abnormal Physical % good other than 100% AND within the Claculator Cost Total portion had a Basement area priced out as well as a Physical % good specified in that section different than the overall building percent good. If all of those scenarios were true the system wasn't correctly applying the Abnormal Physical % good to that basement pricing section. Other -   Per the request of Tax Management Associates (TMA) the IP address for the TMA FTP option has been updated to a new address. -   There was a display issue within the Edit Parcel Screen. The Percent Change was not updating as a user made adjustments that affected the parcels Assessed value.
08/15/2016	Other -   Per the Request of Oakland County there were a couple of gramatical changes to the Prompt the user initially gets running the custom Misc/Stats/ASCII export. The export now automatically runs and creates both a Text file as well as a PDF file in with pass without any user prompts coming up prior to the completion prompt at the end of the export being successfully run. Reporting -   From within the Land Table screen the new Sq. Ft. Table section was added to the Detailed Land Table Printout.
08/01/2016	Other -   Per the request of Oakland County some changes were made to the Oakland County Custom Export (Misc/Stats and ASCII Export.) The user now has the option to generate a Text File of the Misc Stats Report as well as the population options of SHOW ALL SPECIAL ACTS was added. -   There was an issue when trying to Mark parcels in the parcel table from a block set within the permit table that has been resolved. Reporting -   When printing the Valuation Statement on a group of parcels and the option to print Sketch on a separate page was selected it was causing the info from other parcels to print onto different parcels on the printout.
07/15/2016	Other -   The Oakland County Custom Attachment Import previously attached the pictures to the Commercial/Industrial Building section. Per the request of Oakland County that Import will now attach new pictures to the General Attachment area of the system.
07/01/2016	General -   Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes.
06/15/2016	Other -   There was an issue with the Conversion Tool from a Pervasive database to .NET preventing users from converting any historical pervasive databases. Latest version corrects this issue.
06/01/2016	Other -   When using the Set Field Tool and selecting the Public Improvements and Topography section if the user selected to set the "WATER" option the program was displaying "SWAMP" as the field selected. This was a display issue only as the Set Field tool did set the correct field when the tool was run. -   There was an issue where the Database Compare report was not marking the parcels with differences when that report option was selected. -   There was a bug in the Generate Sketch JPG Tool that would not allow the user to run this tool. Latest update corrects that issue. Program Security -   Program Setup/Program Settings/General Settings the 2 buttons at the bottom of that screen for Previous Years Settings and Pictometry/ILookAbout Settings have been connected to the Security Item General Settings Setup. Reporting -   L-4015a Reports and EMPP parcels. When a parcel was flagged for the L-4015a Study and had an EMPP (Eligible Manufacturing Personal Property) on it as well as a current year Personal Property Statement the report was incorrectly pulling the TCV from the Personal Property Statement and not the EMPP (5278 form.) Latest version correctly pulls the TCV from the 5278. -   A display change was made to the L-4028 Report. The report was incorrectly displaying the 2016 Taxable value as of 5/26/16 and that should be 5/23/16.
05/15/2016	New Features -   Within the new Square foot section in the Land area a new option was added to allow the user to enter and Percent Adjustment as well as a reason. Reporting -   There were some calculation corrections to the L-4028 report under Equalization Reports.
05/01/2016	Other -   There was a bug in the 4/15/16 scheduled build for users trying to Print Apex Sketches from within the Assessing system. This issue only existed for users using Apex 5 and when going to Print/Apex Sketch Report (Using Apex.) -   If a user was merging over parcels into a database that those parcels didn't already exist the new Sq.Ft Section recently added to the Land Table Portion of the program was not merging across. Program Security -   There was a display issue for Oakland County and the CVT Security where certain users would not be able to see the Sale Price on Confidential Sales even though those users had the appropriate security settings setup. -   For Oakland County and the CVT Security there was a scenario where a READ ONLY user was able to edit a database within the Tax Info portion of the application. Reporting -   Both the PRE Rescind Form and the PRE affidavit forms have been updated to the latest versions. -   The PRE Denial (Local), PRE Denial (County) and the PRE Affidavit (Military) have all been updated with the latest changes from the STC. -   There was a display issue when running the L-4028 Report to a Spreadsheet in that the Report wasn't showing the breakout of the Ren Zones.
04/15/2016	New Features -   Within the Commercial/Industrial building section a new informational only field was added called CONDITION: This is located directly below the Override Values field. Reporting -   Added Group Security Summary Report under Other Reports. -   Corrected the User Security Setting report to display the correct settings when a user is part of a user group.
04/01/2016	Reporting -   There was a reporting issue that only existed in the rare scenario where a prior year Tax Info Classification Adjustment was done on a parcel where the Classification was adjusted from a Special Act Type to an Ad-Valorem type. If that type of adjustment took place on a parcel and the Special Population was set to Ad-Valorem the prior year FINAL value was not reporting properly.
03/15/2016	Reporting -   There was an issue in the last scheduled update that prevented users from being able to select a Special Population when trying to run an L-4037 Report. An unscheduled Update was prepared to address this issue. The build Version date of the unscheduled update is 3/15/2016.
03/15/2016	Other -   Per the request of the City of Detroit within the Parcel Edit screen under the TOOLS button a new option was added to allow the user to launch out to the Cities SharePoint site that is housing and has indexed a lot of their scanned documents. Reporting -   A new option was added to the Possible Calculation Report to identify EMPP parcels that had equipment entered in Section G or Section M in the 2016 5278 form. Because the software for 2016 cannot calculate the Headlee Additions or Losses automatically like the other sections for EMPP parcels if a parcel had data entered in either of these sections the user will have to manually calculate the Headlee calculations on those parcels.
03/01/2016	Other -   There was a display issue when a user tried setting fields on a Map Set. Parcel List Screen/Tools/Population set to Map set the Verification displayed the incorrect Map Set but the set fields did actually set the correct population.
02/15/2016	General -   Within the Parcel Edit Screen/Tax Info Tab #3 the user is able to set the OVER-RIDE SET Rate option for any non-Ad-valorem Classification Type. The Default setting is NO OVERRIDE. Other -   With prior versions of the software users were only able to enter EMPP (form 5278) on parcels in the Commercial Personal and Industrial Personal property classes. Per a request from the State a user can now enter an EMPP (Form 5278) on any Personal property classed parcel. -   The user now has the ability within the EMPP section (Part 2 Section G) to enter/edit the Assessor Calculation values. -   Per the State the Pop up messages on form 5278 (EMPP) Part 3 was causing some confusion for users and misstating the reporting requirements so those pop ups have been removed from the system. Reporting -   Some clerical corrections were made to the form 5076 form. -   Per the Request of the STC there were some changes to the L-4626 report. This report should no longer be sent to the State rather the Equalization Department at which time they will upload each municipalities L-4626 information. -   The user now has the capability to print a Valuation Statement as well as a record card listing the EMPP Ad-Valorem part 2 data.
02/01/2016	General -   In the EMPP section (form 5278) of the system there have been a couple of changes to Part 2 of the form (Sections I/N and the Grand Totals.) Previously the user wasn't able to edit the Assessors Calculation Fields. -   Within the Personal Property Section if the Status of the Statement was set to Form 5076 Received Late or E Form 5076 Received Late the system was not displaying the Filing Status in the parcel Edit screen above the Calculation Detail buttons. -   The new EMPP Status options within the Personal Property Statements will now also display like all of the other Status options, they display just above the Current year Detail section within the parcel edit screen. New Features -   A new feature was added in the Sales Search and Analysis portion of the system to allow the user to Remove the Spreadsheet Formating to the results that get sent to Excel. Reporting -   There were a few clerical corrections made to the Printout Change Notice (Leasehold.) -   A change was made to the Change Notice (Change in Taxes -Real Parcels Only.) If there was a decrease in the estimated change in taxes it was displaying the amount as ($200) and this has been changed to display as -$200. -   For Oakland County users printing the Change Notice (Change in Taxes) the system was incorrectly generating an Error Report saying that the Millage Rates were not entered for a particular school district when those millage rates were in fact entered.
01/15/2016	General -   When a user was in Public Viewing Mode the exterior located in the Residential Building section was not displaying correctly. -   The Personal Property Multipliers for Communication Towers have been updated with the latest multipliers from Bulletin No. 14 of 2015. New Features -   A new Section has been added to the Land Table portion of the system allowing the users to value parcels on a Sq.Ft. basis using a table similar to the Acreage Table Section. -   Within the Parcel Edit Screen/Misc Tab/Misc (Generic Field)/L-4028 Authorities button, if a user enters data within that cell an asterisk will display on the button so the user knows there is data entered there. Other -   Per the request of Oakland County the Custom Oakland County Attachment Import was modified to also Include PDF files. -   Per the request of Oakland County a Custom Export was created under Custom Exports called Oakland County Misc. Totals Stats Report/ASCII Export. This Export will first generate the Misc/Stats Report for the Selected population and save it as a PDF file and then generate the ASCII Values Export for that same population. Reporting -   There were a couple of spelling/clerical errors corrected on the Personal Property Statement as well as the Personal Property Statement w Form 5076. -   In the Change Notice (Change in Taxes-Real Parcels Only) the word approximately was spelled incorrectly. Latest update corrects that issue.
01/01/2016	General -   Within the Owner Info Tab the Out of Country Address was not clearing out if a user un-toggled the This is an Out of Country Address option. Latest version clears that cell once the option is un-toggled. Other -   For those users that use the CVT Security (only a few counties use this security) there was an issue with the DEFAULT PARCELS not rolling over correctly. Reporting -   There was a reporting issue in the Misc/Stats report when a prior year Adjustment was performed on the Tax Info Classification switching a parcel from Ad-Valorem to special act or Special Act to Ad-Valorem. This issue only affected the 2016 totals being report. -   The updated Change Notices (Laser/Change In Taxes- Real Only and Leasehold) are included in the 01/01/2016 scheduled build.
12/15/2015	New Features -   A new feature has been added to the parcel edit screen to allow users to track the Eligible Manufacturing Personal Property Parcels (EMPP.) Within the BS&A Message Center of the Assessing application a link exists to a Help Document with basic instructions on both entering data on qualifying EMPP parcels as well as submitting the required export to the STC. The STC is requiring ALL municipalities to submit the EMPP export to the STC even if no 5278 Forms were filed in your municipality. Reporting -   At the request of several users we have updated the Report in Personal Property reports Form 5076 Cover Letter. -   A minor clerical correction was made to the Form 5076 (Exempt PP) within the Personal Property Reports section.
12/01/2015	New Features -   When a Comment is added within the Commercial/Industrial Building section there is now an (*) displayed on the comment button so a user knows that there is a comment entered in that section. Other -   A new Tool has been added to the system to allow the users to Total Up the Physical Characteristics of Multi-Parcel Sales. Previously a user had to manually select to update those Multi-Parcel Sales individually for any parcels that had a Multi-Parcel Sale. The tool is located in the Sale Table from the Sale Table list screen under TOOLS/TOTAL UP PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS FOR MULTI-PARCEL SALES. Reporting -   The Veterans Exemption Affidavit is now available under Reports/Assessing Reports/Veteran Exemption Affidavit Report. -   There were a couple of scenarios with the Misc/Stats report not reporting properly when the Tax Billing Classification was adjusted. The issues were mainly Land Bank parcels and some REZ parcels but only when run on certain special populations. -   There have been some changes within the Taxing Authority Setup for the L-4028 Report. Program Setup/Database Setup/Taxing Authorities. This section was changed to resemble the Intermediate Schools setup for the L-4028 Report. -   There have been some minor changes made to some of the headings/labels on the L-4028 report. -   There has been some changes to the L-4028 report and specifically a request to be able to make ten tabs in the Data Entry (Equalization Departments Only) for Comm Colleges, Intermediate Schools and taxing authorities. In each of the ten tabs we also added an entry field for Renaissance Zone taxable values labeled "Ren. Zone Taxable". This will be a field that the directors will be able to enter the amount of Ren Zone amounts from other counties and then those amounts will be included on the L-4028IC report.
11/15/2015	New Features -   Per the request of the City of Detroit a new option was added to allow a user to assign multiple Secondary/Related parcels to a parcel in the database. This is an informational option only. In order for this new feature to be available each user must toggle the new option under Program Settings/My Settings Tab/My Preferences button/Show Secondary/Related Parcels. Once this option is toggled the new Grid to assign multiple Secondary/Related parcels will display below the Legal Description button in the parcel edit screen. -   Per the request of the City of Detroit a new button was added when in the Parcel Edit screen and the #5 Misc Tab to allow the City to track Exemption Applications better. If the program is licensed to the City of Detroit this new button will display and allow the user to enter the Exemption Application Type, Exemption Application Requested Date, Exemption Application Mailed Date, Exemption Application Returned Date and the Exemption Application Decision Date. -   Per the request of the CAMA Data Standards Committee a new CAMA Data Standards Document was added to the system. It is located under HELP/VIEW DOCUMENTATION/CAMA DATA STANDARDS DOCUMENT. There was also an option added to allow users to email changes/suggestions to the Data Standards committee. This option is located under HELP/CONTACT TECHNICAL SUPPORT/SUBMIT CAMA DATA STANDARDS CHANGE REQUEST. Reporting -   There was a typo on the JBOR/DBOR Change Notice printout. The section of the printouts that stated " The Action of the Dec/July Board of Review may be appealed to the Michigan Tax Tribunal within 30 days" was corrected to 35 days. -   There were a couple of changes to the L-4028 Neighboring County Info. In Program Setup/Database Setup/Equalization Settings/MRF's/Neighboring County Info there were previously only 3 other County Tabs to enter information now there is a Grid setup that allows the user to enter as many Other Counties as they would like. -   There was a reporting issue on the Misc/Stats report when the user made a Prior Year Adjustment on a parcel and Adjusted the parcels Tax Billing Classification (One-Time) adjustment from an Ad-Valorem type to a Special Act type OR from a Special Act Type to an Ad-Valorem type.(These types of adjustments aren't common.)
11/01/2015	General -   Per TMA there was a request to make a change to the TMA Custom Export for Sales to remove the filter that was excluding Confidential and reference sales from the export. This export will now include the 2 most recent sales for parcels and now include any confidential or reference sales. New Features -   A new option was added to the .Net Assessing system in the Parcel edit screen under the Tax Info tab #3 for Charitable Nonprofit Housing (Public Act 456, MCL 211.7kk.) Once this option is selected for a parcel the user is required to enter an Expiration Date within the Tax Info Screen and will have the Option to enter a reminder in the system for that expiration date. If a Sale occurs on a parcel in this Classification the user will receive a prompt to Remove the Charitable Nonprofit Housing Classification. -   When a Comment is added within the Residential Building section there is now an (*) displayed on the comment button so a user knows that there is a comment entered in that section. Other -   The Inflation Rate Multiplier (CPI) for calculation of the 2016 Capped value has been automatically updated in the system with the 11/01/2015 scheduled update. The Ratio is 1.003 or a 0.3% increase. To verify the correct CPI is being used this cell can be located in Program Setup/Program Settings/Global Calc. Options under CPI % 2016. Reporting -   Form 5076 (Exempt PP) has been updated to include the most recent changes from the STC. -   The up to date Personal Property Statement from the STC is now available in the system with the 11/1/2015 scheduled build.
10/15/2015	Other -   At the request of some municipalities in Wayne County the "old" Wayne County Sale Import was added back in the system under File/Import/Custom Imports/Wayne County (Sale Import.) A separate Import was added for Wayne County to Import their PTA files under File/Import/Custom Imports/Wayne County (PTA Import.)
10/01/2015	Other -   Per the request of Wayne County there were some changes made to the Wayne County Custom Sales Import. The import will ONLY UPDATE existing sales (that meet their "matching" criteria) with the values they specified. If a sale doesn't already exist, all that happens is a warning is generated in a status report. If the County would like to import those sales, they will have to use the normal standard ASCII import. Reporting -   When printing the Real Estate Summary on a parcel that had multiple Permits a random permit was printing on the printout. The latest version will now print the most recent permit (by date) on the printout.
09/15/2015	General -   Resolved reporting issue with the previous 9/15/2015 update. Reports with calculated fields, images or tables should be corrected automatically, unless the form was edited and saved using the previous 9/15 version.
09/15/2015	General -   Within the Land Information Screen and Frontage/Lots section/L's and Adjustments button the cells for Setback and Back Width have been increased to allow for 3 decimal places so that it is consistent with the formatting of the Frontage/Depth cells. Other -   The Age Calc Option within the Personal Property section was not aging the Automotive Manufacturing Section. Program Security -   Oakland County CVT Security in the Personal Property Options screen. CVT Enterprise users did not have access to change the Residents Exemption, Value of Mechanics Exemption, Value of Fraternity/Sorority Exemptions or Due Date Message. Latest version gives those users access to change those fields. Reporting -   Added an audit record for user password changes. This will be audited like changing user information, in the administration database. -   Per the request of Oakland County the Count column on the Oakland County Percent Change Recap report has been removed.
09/01/2015	General -   Our customer survey is now available through Help~ Contact Customer Support. Please take the time to complete the survey and let us know how we are doing. -   Addressed an issue where the Copy Special Assessment District Utility would display an incorrect status on the newly created district. -   Addressed an issue where the Send Bill To flag was not being set as expected using the utility Import Parcels from Linked Tax or Assessing System. Other -   For those Counties that use the CVT Security they will now be able to use the Standard Backup/Restore function of Attachments into that CVT database. Previously, the user would receive a prompt saying "the backup restore feature is currently not supported for configurations that use separate attachment directories for Each Unit. -   The City of Warren had some customized pricing in the Pervasive Assessing application in the Built-Ins and Plumbing section. That same logic they requested in Pervasive has been built into the .NET application. Any program License for the City of Warren will use that logic in the .NET Assessing application. -   When in the Personal Property section of the Edit Parcel screen the COPY button to make a copy of the current statement was not copying over the Automotive Manufacturing Equipment section to the new statement. -   There was an issue when adding Attachments in the program for Village parcels and the picture not displaying. This appears to have only been a display issue for those customers using the CVT security. Reporting -   When making a prior year Special Act Adjustment to Ad-Valorem the system was not reporting those in the FINAL Ad-Valorem totals. -   The field for Extended Sale Comments (MM1_Extendedsalecomment) wasn't loading into the Sale Reports. -   Addressed an issue where the Transferred to Tax Report was not always reporting correct amounts.
08/15/2015	General -   When submitting a Technical Support Help Request through the help menu in the program users will need to select a How can we help item. Other -   The Report Writer field of (Novpre) was not correctly pulling the Prior Year June Adj. PRE %. Latest update when using this field in a custom report or in a Generic Data Export will correctly pull the PRIOR year June Adj. PRE %. Program Security -   A new Security Option was added to the Parcel General Category. The New Security Option is EDIT DISPLAY PUBLIC IMAGES TOGGLE. By toggling this option it will grant that user the access to toggle/un-toggle the Only Display Public Images option within the #7 Attach Tab.
08/01/2015	Other -   At the request of several Equalization Directors a new field has been added to the Sale screen for the Date Sale Entered. There were cases when a deed was not filed until several months after the sale date and these sales were missed when Directors were running Sale Exports by date. This new field allows the user to enter a date in this field as well as List on the Sale Table and Index the Sale Table by that field. -   There were some changes to the Oakland County Custom Sale Import. The issue was that when running the Import certain Sales were not importing/updating. Latest version checks the Parcel Number, Liber/Page and Sale Date; if those are the same in the database and the file the sale will be skipped on the Import. Reporting -   There were some minor corrections to the L-2793 report as well as some updates/corrections to some of the dates/years displayed on the report. -   Per a request from Oakland County there was a slight change to the Percent Change Report so that the display of the % displays as 6.00 % instead of how it previously displayed as .006%. -   Per the request of several users some new fields have been added for the Zoning Description fields. These new fields allow the user to report/export the Primary and Other Zoning 1-4 fields. The new fields are ZoningDescription (for the Primary Zoning Description Field) and ExtraZoningDescription_0 thru_3 (For the Extra Zoning Description fields.
07/15/2015	Reporting -   There was an issue in reporting that the report/printouts were always sorting by parcel number regardless of what the database was indexed on. Latest version will sort the report output based off of the Index of the database.
07/01/2015	New Features -   A new Classification was added within the TAX INFO section of the Assessing program under the PILT Group called Sr Ctzn/Dis Fam Hsg-PILT 2016 Rates. Reporting -   The MBOR Change Notice had some minor corrections/changes made to it.
06/01/2014	Reporting -   There was an issue when running Sales Reports specifically when setting the population to Custom Selections that if the user had the options under the GOV UNITS button set to All Records the report was prompting the user to Select a Gov Unit. *** LOKING AHEAD*** REPORTING PA 494 PARCELS AS EXEMPT FROM THE 18 MILLS SCHOOL OPERATING WILL BE AVAILABLE IN EARLY JUNE.
05/15/2014	New Features -   New Feature - L-4050 report -This is a report that has been added for the reporting requirements for the personal property small taxpayer loss. LOCAL UNITS WILL WANT TO COMMUNICATE WITH THEIR COUNTY TO SEE IF THEY REQUIRE ANY DATA FROM THEM. MOST COUNTIES SHOULD ALREADY HAVE THE BASIC DATA NEEDED. If not, you will want to send them the L-4050 report located in assessing reports in your 2014 database. This will report the commercial and Industrial PP 2013 final taxable values and 2014 taxable values as of State Equalization but not the IFT information. The IFT information will have to be coordinated between the local unit and county. Pervasive users will not see this report option but instead will need to run the misc totals and stats report with the report option of “Show SEV and Taxable Value Totals”. Columns labeled “Fin Tax” and “2014 Tax” will be the totals you are looking for and can be entered on the STC L-4050.
05/01/2014	New Features -   In the Yearly Status Processing Option Tool a new option was added to allow the user to Remove Overrides on Estimated PP Statements.
04/15/2014	New Features -   When on the SALE table a new option was added in the SET FIELDS TOOL to allow the user to set the INSTRUMENT field within the Sales.
04/04/2014	Reporting -   There was a reporting issue for parcels flagged in the TAX INFO screen as a Land Bank Special Act Classification but the user had set the SPECIAL OPTIONS to NEW TO AD-VALOREM, LOSS TO SPECIAL. The system was not reporting these parcels as such.
04/01/2014	New Features -   When entering data within the SALE screen in the Secondary Grantee Field the user now gets a prompt asking if they would like to Copy that info to the OWNER NAME EXTRA FIELD. -   In Program Setup/School Districts button a new option has been added under the TOOL option to Change any Existing School Districts codes. -   2 new Special Population Options have been added to the system (FORM 5076 ACCEPTED and FORM 5076 DENIED) can be selected and any report run in the Assessing Reports to identify those Personal Property Parcels that the Current year Statement has the Status set to one of those options. Other -   There was a reporting issue for parcels that in the TAX INFO Tab had the PREV. CLASSIFICATION set to DNR-PILT (First Year) and the Current Classification set to DNR-PILT. The system was incorrectly including the PRIOR value in the AD-VALOREM totals. -   In the OWNER NAME ADDRESS section of the program under the EXTRA ADDRESS button there was a bug when a user would edit an existing extra address the system would place that change on the wrong extra address that was actually edited. -   The system was incorrectly inserting an AUDIT entry when a user went into a COMMERCIAL or AGRICULTURAL building sketch to view the sketch. Even though no changes were made an Audit entry was inserted saying there was a change to the building on that parcel. Reporting -   There was a bug in the Equalization Report L-4024 Report where the report was doubling the SEV totals.
03/15/2014	Program Security -   Added security setting "View Audit Table" under category Database Options. This is defaulting to disabled. Any non-admin user will need this option enabled to view the Audit table. Reporting -   There was an issue with the Misc Totals/Statistics Report not reporting the Top # Statistics at all. Latest update corrects this issue. -   The system would give the user an error when trying to run any Audit report. Latest version corrects this issue. -   Both the MBOR Summary Report and the MBOR Action Report were incorrectly reporting all MBOR changes as a Poverty change. Both of these reports have been corrected as well as the display on these to Poverty/Vet Exemption.
03/01/2014	New Features -   There has been a change to the system to allow a user to change a parcels Tax Billing Classification from a Special Act Classification to and Ad-Valorem Classification and from an Ad-Valorem Classification to a Special Act Classification without affecting the prior year values. Previously if a user did this it would have thrown their prior totals off as the system wasn't able to report the prior values correcly when the Current Tax Billing Classification was changed. Other -   Form 3589 Cable Television and Utility Personal Property has been updated to the latest changes from the STC.
02/15/2014	New Features -   2 new fields were added to the Standard ASCII Export/Import. Within the #2 Tab in the Parcel Edit screen for Owner Info there are 2 fields in the Property Address section for PREFIX and SUFFIX. These are now included in the ASCII Names Export and when selecting to Import the Property Address info these fields will be imported. -   A new field has been added in the Sale section of the program. When in a sale in the upper left area of the screen DAYS ON MARKET has been added to allow the user to track how many days that sale was on the market prior to the sale. This is a informational cell only. Other -   There were a couple of incorrect rates being pulled in the Land Improvement Section of the system in the Fencing/Walls section of the software specifically for the Mesh + for Rails and the Mesh + Barb Wire options. The latest update to correct these rates will only take effect in 2014 databases and going forward, it will not affect any databases for the year 2013 and prior. -   The Change Notice Export has a new option in the Personal Property Options section/Filed Status of 'FORM 5076' witch allows the users to Include/exclude those status types in the Export. Reporting -   When using Snap to Grid and Draw Grid, when creating a new report, these options will stay when set.
02/06/2014	Exports -   Updated the Change Notice Export to handle the new Qualified Ag. option
02/01/2014	New Features -   A new option has been added to handle Veteran Exemptions. In the Current year MBOR screen as well as the Adjustment Screens there are 2 new Options of Veteran's Exempt. Granted and Veteran's Exempt. Denied. There are also 2 new fields to store the Vet Ex Assessed Value and Vet. Ex Taxable Value. (There will be an instruction letter sent out on how we recommend handling these. -   Per a request from the STC a new Export option has been added to the Assessing system to export/report Personal Property Acquisitions for 3 seperate 5 year periods for Industrial Personal Property excluding REZ Zones and Special Act Parcels. Under File Export/Personal Property Acquisition Export. This only needs to be run if the STC requests this from the Municipality. Reporting -   Personal Property parcels that were exempted/flagged as 5076 Accepted Status were showing on the Possible Calc Problem report as is not Exempt, but has no value. A parcel flagged with either of the 5076 Form Accepted options will no longer show on that report. -   The Change Notice Leasehold was updated to match the latest changes from the STC. The prior form from the STC did not include the Leasehold values at the bottom of the form. -   The PTA Form as been updated to the latest changes from the STC.
01/15/2014	New Features -   Within the Sales button in the parcel edit screen 2 new options have been added to the P.A. Options dropdown window (PA 340 - Charitable Non Profit Sale and PA 497 Transfer of Ownership Supplement.) Other -   The system was displaying the wrong Status on the Parcel Edit Screen for the Current year Personal Property Statement when one of the new 5076 Options was selected. Reporting -   Latest STC Assessment Change Notices (L-4400) have been added to the system. These can be used to print your Assessment Change Notices or these can be used as a template to create a custom one and make any adjustmnets to.
01/01/2014	New Features -   A new option was added in the Sale Screen under the P.A. OPTIONS. In the drop down list a new option was added to Identify the P.A. 497 sales. If that option is selected on a sale the user will get a pop up window of Clear Transfer Percent from Current Year Detail? Typically the user will want to answer YES to this prompt as these parcels should remain capped.
12/15/2013	New Features -   The ECF and LAND TABLE Descriptions have been expand from 35 to 50 characters. Other -   When trying to go to a comparable sale through the options, the system was not taking the user to the comparable parcel. Users were also not able to view the pictures of the comparable parcels. Latest version corrects both of these issues. Reporting -   Corrected issue where changes would not save when editing a user report. -   On the L-4025 Report Only, any parcels that were in the Previous Classification in the Tax Info Tab of Senior Citizen/Dis Fam Hsg-PILT Rates and the Current Classification was changed to Ad Valorem the L-4025 Report was not reporting the Headlee Additions. -   There was an issue when printing an L-4031 for a parcel when that parcel originally had a WPRE adjustment for the prior year and then a JBOR or DBOR adjustment was added to apply the PRE for both seasons. The L-4031 Form was incorrectly showing the Original PRE as 100% and adjusted PRE as 100%. Latest version corrects this issue so that the form correctly shows the Original PRE as 0 and then Adjusted to 100%.
12/01/2013	General -   When a JBOR or DBOR was entered for a Winter only PRE the system was incorrectly displaying the PRE in the JUNE ADJ. PRE column. Those Winter PRE changes should only have displayed the PRE in the FINAL PRE column of the PRE screen. This was only a display issue the system was reporting the PRE totals correctly.
11/15/2013	General -   The Architech's Multiplier has been changed to allow 2 decimal places in the Commercial/Industrial Building section. There are some SEG areas of the STC cost manual that require the entry of 2 decimal multipliers. -   The 2014 CPI has been hard-coded into the Assessing .NET system at 1.6%. -   The Historical (Original) Cost Valuation Multipliers For Use In 2014 Assessments of Freestanding Communication Towers has been updated. -   In the Commercial/Industrial Building section/Segregated Cost Totals/Section for Offices, Banks, Hospitals/Miscellaneous Items/Bank Equipment the system had an incorrect rate. Latest version has the correct rates in this Segregated section. New Features -   The latest changes to address P.A. 402 of 2012, Eligible Personal Property Exemption have been added to the system. When in a Current year (2014) Personal Property Statement the user now has 4 new choices in the Status cell of Form 5076 Accepted/Form 5076 Denied/e-Form 5076 Accepted/e-Form 5076 Denied. If a user selects either the Form 5076 Accepted Option OR the e-Form 5076 Accepted option the system will automatically Zero out the Assessed and Taxable values and if applicable report any change in value from the prior year as Loss/Headlee Losses. Any current statement flagged with the 2 new Accepted options will be identified on the Assessment Roll as Form 5076 Exempt. If either of the DENIED options is selected the system will require the user to enter an Over-Ride Assessed value to determine the Current Assessed value used in the current year. This update also includes the new affidavit (5076 Form) under Reports/Personal Property Reports there is a new option of Form 5076 (Exempt PP.) The Personal Property Statement for 2014 has been updated.There is also a new Personal Property Statement w Form 5076 option that will allow the user to print the Personal Property Statement as well as the form 5076 all in one. -   A new option was added to the Split/Combine Tool to allow the user to Copy over the People/Date Info to the Child Parcels. -   A new option was added to the Split/Combine Tool to allow the user to Copy over the Equalization Info from Parent to Children parcels. This is the Equalization info in the #5 Tab MISC./Misc. (Eq Fields) button/Equalization Fields section (Appraisal Date/Use in L-4015A Report/Exclude From Equalization Toggle and If exclude, TCV field. -   A new Special Population option was added for WINTER PRE'S (All). This Special population option will report ALL Winter PRE's added for 2013 that were added through the JBOR/DBOR/WINTER PRE adjustment types. The existing special population option of WINTER PRE'S will ONLY report those Winter PRE changes made for 2013 with the Adjustment Type of WINTER PRE. Reporting -   The Special Population option of Winter PRE's was not working properly.Only WINTER PRE's entered in the Adjustment 1 cell of the 2013 Detail screen were being included in the population. A Winter PRE entered in the 2013 Detail screen in the Adjustment 2, Adjustment 3, or Adjustment 4 cells were not included in the population. Latest update corrects this issue.
11/01/2013	New Features -   Added Search Function to assist finding users in active directory list. -   A new feature was added to the Export/Import function so that if a user has locked a parcel and an import is run any of the parcels that were locked will not be updated and a report will spit out at the end of the import alerting the user of those parcels. -   When adding a Reminder to a parcel or to the system the user now has the option to Remind the user adding the Reminder and only specific users/groups. Previously the user adding the reminder only had the option to remind myself or ALL users. -   A new Classification Type in the Tax Info portion of the Program was added. In the PILT GROUP the user will now see a Clasification Type for Sr CTZN/DIS FAM HSG - PILT 2014 RATES. This option is for any new parcels for 2014 that are added to this type. These parcels are reported as AD-VALOREM on all reports. The only exception is how they are reported on the L-4025 report. They will be included in the PRIOR totals of that report but NOT the current totals for 2014.
10/15/2013	General -   When copying from one parcel to another parcel the Info in the Land section (Land Map/Section/Town/Range/Private Claim/Plat Book/Page) was not copying over. Latest build Copies these fields when selecting the COPY ALL DATA or COPY LAND DATA ONLY options. New Features -   Added Search Function to assist finding users in active directory list. -   When in the ECF/Analysis screen and Printing a Detailed Printout the user now has the option to Print one record per page so each neighborhood is on it's own seperate page. -   A Notes field has been Added to the Garage Section in the Residential Building area. This was added to allow the Assessor to enter a short note regarding each Residential Gararge. -   When running the L-4015 reprots through the Equalization Reporting Tool a new option was added in the L-4015 Global Options to allow the user to filter that report by a Minimum/Maximum Ass./Sale Ration. Reporting -   Added ability to the print Current Usage Days on custom billing register reports.
10/01/2013	New Features -   Added Search Function to assist finding users in active directory list. Reporting -   There was a reporting issue on parcels that a Prior Year Classification Adjustment was entered on (Tax Billing Classification.) If a parcel was adjusted from Ad-Valorem to a Special Act Classification type or Special Act to Ad-Valorem the system was not reporting the original values correctly.Latest version corrects this issue.
09/01/2013	General -   Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes.
08/15/2013	General -   A new Option was added to the INDEX to allow users to Index on the PRIOR P.A. 277 field. -   Added default dates for entering MBOR/DBOR/JBOR adjustments in Program Setup Reporting -   The MTT Status Report now list a total amount of Contention by year at the bottom of the report. Exports -   The Custom FOIA Export under File/Export\Custom Export now includes the Legal Description field.
08/15/2013	General -   test
08/06/2013	General -   Fixed an issue where with the final classification for the prior year.
08/01/2013	New Features -   When adding a New Database the user will now get a prompt to specify the year of the database added. This feature was added because depending on the time of year the user was adding the database users were wanting the database to be a specific year and they had no way to set that. Reporting -   The L-4031 form now lists any Classification Adjustments that were made to a parcel as a prior year adjustment. -   The Record Card now has a new Option in the Report Options button to allow a user to NOT include any Sales that are flagged as Reference or Invalid. -   The form L-4031 has a new option in the Report Options section to allow the user to Print the Taxpayer Information. Placing a check next to this option will Print the Taxpayer Name/Address information on the form. -   In the Report Option of the MISC/STATS report, the option of Show Balance To Tax Totals the report will now display the Total Taxable Value of Improvements for parcels with a Previous Classification of PA 494 Development Properties.
07/15/2013	General -   Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes.
07/01/2013	General -   Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes.
06/15/2013	General -   Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes.
06/06/2013	General -   Update for Public Act 277
06/01/2013	General -   The FOIA Export under File/Export/Custom Export was inadvertently including confidential sales in the export for the most recent date/amount. This build will not include the most recent date/amount on any confidential sales. New Features -   A new feature has been added to the system for 2014 databases and beyond. For Land Improvements on Commercial/Industrial classed properties the system has always used the same County Multiplier for the Building on these parcels. A new option has been added under the County Multiplier section that allows the user to toggle the option Use C/I Land Impr. Multiplier and enter a County Multiplier and the system will use that County Multiplier on the Land Improvements for Commercial/Industrial classed properties. If that new option is not toggled the systtem will work as it always has in that the system will use the County Multiplier for the Building on those parcels.
05/15/2013	General -   Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes.
05/01/2013	General -   Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes.
04/15/2013	General -   Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes.
04/01/2013	General -   Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes.
03/15/2013	General -   When running the Split/Combine Tool the system was copying over any General or Equalization Comments to the Child Parcels. Latest version does not copy those comments to the Child Parcels. New Features -   In the Income Capitilization/GRM cell a new field was added next to the Additional Lump Sum or Land Value field to allow the user to enter a Note. -   A new Utility was added under Utilities/Support Utilities to allow a user to REMOVE "Tabs" from the Legal Decription. "Tabs" entered into the legal were causing issues for those users who send out their Change Notices to a printing company. -   In the Parcel Edit Screen on Commercial/Industrial Improved parcels a new display field has been added to the Record Card Thumbnail for the $/Sq. Ft. Other -   There was a error in the Audit portion of the program when a user entered an MBOR change and a value was changed. The system was not displaying the correct value due to the MBOR change that was made. -   In the Tax Info Screen the new Classification for PA 494 Development Property was incorrectly displaying that this new classification was a Special Act Class. The system was reporting it corrctly as Ad-Valorem.
03/01/2013	General -   Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes.
02/15/2013	New Features -   A new field has been added to the system to allow the user to pull the Most Recent Permit Issued Date. The field name is lastPermitIssuedDate within the Report Writer and in the Generic Data Export. -   A new feature has been added to the MASS SPLIT UTILITY that allows the user to enter a Legal Description for each of the Parcels in a Subdivision and continue with the next Lot. For Example if the User is creating 50 child parcels and Enters Snow Ridge Subdivision Lot [##] the system start with Lot 1 and continue through each parcel with the next Lot. This function is used in the Mass Split Utility only and works in subdivisions.
02/01/2013	New Features -   A new Classification has been added to the Tax Info section of the system. Under the Category CFT Group a new Classification of CRA/CFT-FZN AdVal Rates PA210&255 has been added. Other -   When printing Personal Property Statements the system was including INACTIVE parcels in the printouts. Inactive Personal Property Parcels are now automatically excluded from printing. Reporting -   Added a record count to the bottom of this report.
01/15/2013	General -   Fixed an issue where PRE couldn't be denied for the current year
01/15/2013	New Features -   Two New options were added to the ASCII Export. Under the Export Sales File options an Option for Vacant Land Sales Only and Sales Used in ECF Only have been added. -   Added the Field Subdivision to the Land Information Fields within the SET FIELDS option under Tools.
01/01/2013	General -   Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes.
12/15/2012	Reporting -   The L-4015 when saving as a PDF file was not displaying all parcels but the totals were correct.
12/05/2012	Reporting -   Updated the Personal Property Statements to the latest revision
12/01/2012	General -   System displays WINTER PRE message now when a user enters a date prior to Nov 1. -   Remove Signiture line. -   ECF/Display for County New Features -   When merging data the date changed was not updating. -   Added new field in report writer and moved it's location. Other -   An issue with the Prompt prior value change message toggle not holding. Reporting -   L-4018 info was not saving properly, this has been resolved.
11/16/2012	Exports -   Fixed an issue running the BOR/ASCII Export
11/15/2012	General -   Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes.
10/15/2012	General -   Expanded the comments field in the Commercial Buildings dialog to be 200 characters Reporting -   Fixed a memory issue when running the Misc Totals and Status utility by school district Exports -   Fixed an issue when compressing the FOIA Export to a .zip file
08/15/2012	General -   Added an option to the Modify Parcel Numbers utility to remove the excess spaces at the end of a parcel number -   Fixed an issue with the charts in the Gov Unit screen Reporting -   Fixed an issue when running the L-4024 from the Equalization reporting utility -   Added the option to generate the Equalization Report Utility reports in .pdf files as well as .tif -   Fixed an issue showing the adjusted PRE totals on the Value Change report Exports -   Added population options to the FOIA export
08/07/2012	Reporting -   Updated the Value Change Report and the Misc. Totals and Stats report to be able to generate totals as of a specific date. Also, the PRE totals are shown with and without Winter PRE adjustments.
08/01/2012	General -   When copying multi parcel sales, the extended comment now gets copied as well Reporting -   Added an option to print the mailing address on the JBOR/DBOR Summary Reports -   Updated the Value Change report to show totals with and without Winter PREs -   Fixed an issue on the Misc. Totals and Stats for parcels with school district adjustments -   Fixed an issue running the L-2793 utility for all the personal property classes -   The option to mark parcels with differences no longer defaults to on every time the Database Compare report is ran -   Fixed an issue where longer parcel numbers were being cut off on the building pages of the Record Card Program Security -   Allow exports to be ran out of archived databases by non admin users if they have security to run exports Exports -   Added an option to put all fields in quotes in the generic data export Imports -   Fixed an issue importing permits from Pervasive Permit when filtering on Issue Date
07/19/2012	General -   The comparable analysis spreadsheet now prints in the same order as shown in the side by side analysis Reporting -   Added an option to print the property address on the July/December/Winter PRE Summary reports -   Added the option to compare property addresses on the Database Compare Report -   Fixed a calculation issue and a rounding issue on the L-4035A (Adjustment) reports -   Fixed an issue where the correct equalization factor was not being pulled when printing the L-4035a for 2011 parcels in a 2013 database -   Fixed an issue on the Simple List report when running it double spaced -   Fixed an issue printing General Comments on sale reports
07/11/2012	General -   Added Owner/Taxpayer Address searches -   Updated the PRE stuff to allow winter PRE adjustments for parcels that had a partial PRE -   Fixed an issue where the incorrect numbers were showing on the Tax detail screen Reporting -   Added the Winter PRE Summary Report Program Security -   Fixed an issue with read-only users being able to and new lines to the legal description GIS -   Fixed an issue displaying lattitude/longitude in the GIS screen
06/27/2012	General -   All adjustments except Winter PRE and DBOR adjustments display in the June/November column of the Misc. Totals and Stats report as well as on the PRE tab of the Edit Parcels screen
06/19/2012	General -   Fixed an issue printing the Tax History Printout from the Misc. tab -   Fixed a crash that would sometimes happen when updating physical characteristics on sales -   Fixed a rollover issue on vacant parcels that have an MBOR adjustment on them Reporting -   Fixed a formatting issue with lump sum items on the record card printout Exports -   Fixed an issue in the SwimRic export where no parcels were being found Imports -   Fixed an issue when importing previous year PRE information from a rolled over database into one that has not yet rolled over
06/12/2012	General -   Added an option to the Possible Calculation Problems report to display PREs that were entered during May -   Deleting records from the table view no longer requres admin access as long as you are deleting only 1 record at a time -   Added a new security item to hide PRE Attachments Reporting -   Fixed an issue with showing the PRE times SEV on the Misc Totals and Stats report -   Fixed a couple of issues with the PRE Affidavit where some fields were being cut off
06/08/2012	Reporting -   Fixed an issue with the PRE Totals on the Misc. Totals and Statistics report
06/06/2012	General -   Updated the system with the changes specified in Public Act 114 of 2012 (Senate Bill 349)
05/11/2012	General -   Added an option to copy the land sketch when using the Copy Parcel tool Reporting -   Added the option of putting a user defined title on the L-4031 report -   The L-4028 report now supports running to an excel spreadsheet Exports -   Fixed an issue where the Year 5 fields were not being loaded on Generic Exports
04/27/2012	Calculation Changes -   Fixed an issue printing the L-4023 report for the County
04/23/2012	General -   Fixed an issue copying unit options across units -   Fixed an issue where extra addresses were not being brought over when merging parcels across databases -   Added more fields to the set fields tool on the Sales table -   Made some changes when scanning in attachments to reduce file size Reporting -   Updated the Percent Change By Local Unit chart to print sorted by unit code -   Fixed an issue where the totals were being reported incorrectly on the Equalization report Program Security -   Made it so only admin users can make changes in archived databases Sketch -   Added the "Common Wall" field to the Apex sketch integration for garages
04/11/2012	General -   Fixed an issue in the last update where the program would crash when entering only part of a parcel number in a search Reporting -   Touched a few things up on the L-4037 (County Report)
04/04/2012	Reporting -   Fixed an issue with the L-4024 -   Fixed an issue with the eEqualization report where land banks and PILTs were being included in the totals -   Fixed the wording on the Form 3127 report -   Fixed an issue where the spreadsheet created by the Misc. Totals and Statistics report would print in reverse order
03/28/2012	Exports -   Fixed an issue where some fields were not showing up when formulating an advanced query on a generic data export
03/27/2012	General -   Added a default adjustment for total basement area on the comparable analysis -   Put in a check for when a new sale is added, if there is a reminder in the system for the previous sale (redemption date/uncap date) it prompts the user if they would like to remove those reminders -   Added in the "Corn Crib Building" agricultural building type Reporting -   Added an option to the Top Statistics report for the user to enter their own report header
03/22/2012	Reporting -   Updated the L-4037 (County) report -   Updated the MBOR Log Report -   Updated the MBOR Action Report
03/02/2012	General -   Fixed the rounding on DNR PILT Parcels -   Added in support for using Intelligent Mail Barcodes -   Fixed an issue where the list of tax billing classifications was not showing up when running an advanced query on the previoius classification field Reporting -   Updated the L-4037 Report to the latest revision
02/28/2012	General -   Fixed an issue quick marking on the property field (and various other fields) Reporting -   Added some logic to the valuation statement so when you choose to use the “Smaller” font, it fits ~10 more lines on a page Exports -   Fixed an issue exporting values with the “Use Pervasive Format” marked -   Fixed an issue running Generic Exports to .dbf files
02/15/2012	General -   Added MBOR fields to the Set Fields utility -   When deleting a block of parcels, it will no longer error out if there are calculation errors on a parcel Reporting -   Added a printout on the Street Master setup screen -   Fixed an issue on the record card printing electrical outlet information on Commercial Buildings -   Updated the DBOR/JBOR change notice to say 30 days instead of 35 days -   The Factor and Ratios report now rounds out to 5 digits Program Security -   The Quick Data Entry now checks the same security item that is needed to Edit Current Year Detail Exports -   The Change notice export now rounds the change in taxes to the nearest dollar
02/07/2012	General -   Fixed an issue where Read-Only users had access to the Quick Data Entry tool -   Added an option to make the Terms of Sale universal, much like the ECF/Land Tables -   Fixed an issue where the user could not cancel out of the window to choose a year for a PRE denial Reporting -   Fixed an issue in the Database Compare Report with the option to report New/Loss changes -   Updated the Change Notice Self Mailer Exports -   Added the FOIA Export (Under Exports->Custom Exports) -   Fixed an issue bringing over prior year information when merging a database into a blank database
02/01/2012	General -   Added a tool in the Gov Unit setup screen to copy the Equalization/Sale report setup to another database -   Added the land information fields to the set fields Reporting -   Fixed up some issues with the Street Master Proof report
01/27/2012	General -   The MTT Status button no longer blinks if the case is marked as Settled or Dismissed -   Added a message to update the CFA/CFR Acres on a parcel after performing a Split on a CFR parcel -   DBOR/JBOR/Tribunal/STC Adjustments made in the current year now show in the parcels table -   The attachment dialog now has the ability to page through multi-page documents, as does the built in image viewer. -   Added a tool to clear out the use codes -   The personal property dialog now displays the access code for the year of the statement -   Added the PA 320 flag Reporting -   Fixed an issue where the Post Net Bar Code field was not being populated in reports
01/18/2012	General -   Added the ability to use advanced filtering when running the factor override tool Reporting -   Updated the Assessment Change Notice to the latest STC revision
01/05/2012	General -   Changed the "Descriptionon of Business Activity" on personal property statements so that you can choose a value from the list or type in whatever you want -   Fixed an issue where the "Date Legal Changed" field was not getting set -   Added the property class to the ECF Analysis spreadsheet under Sales Search & Analysis Reporting -   The Equalization Reporting utility now prompts if you want to save the results after viewing the reports -   Fixed an issue where the Page Settings were not being saved in the Equalization Reporting Utility -   The headings of the L-4018 and L-4023 now display 2011/2012 instead of 2012 -   Fixed an issue printing the Assessment Roll over a Map Set -   When the legal overflows its area on the Record Card, it now shows "BALANCE OF LEGAL ON FILE" underneath the legal description Exports -   Fixed an issue where extremely long legal descriptions would crash the system when running the REGIS export
12/28/2011	Reporting -   Updated the Equalization Reporting Utility to combine all of the reports generated into a single .tif file instead of printing all the reports to the screen. This fixes the issue of running out of memory when trying to run the utility over an entire county.
12/21/2011	Calculation Changes -   Fixed an issue setting the status of the parent/children when running a split to Create Children Only Reporting -   Added the “Optional Title” to the Misc. Totals and Stats utility -   Reworked the Misc. Totals and Status utility to be able to print by unit or by school district
12/15/2011	General -   Fixed an issue printing Valuation Statements from any of the building screens -   Fixed an issue where the Equalization Additions/Losses were not being audited correctly -   When adding a permit in a county database, the system now allows duplicate permit numbers as long as there are no duplicate numbers within the same unit Reporting -   Fixed an issue on the Misc. Totals and Statistics report where the totals were showing up twice
12/07/2011	Reporting -   Fixed an issue where the Detailed ECF Printout was not working
12/02/2011	General -   Added 3 more GRM fields in the ECF tables and allow each income statement to choose which one to utilize -   Fixed an auditing issue when changing headlee losses/additions Reporting -   Added an option to the Real Estate Summary printout to force the entire legal description to print instead of cutting off long descriptions -   Updated the Personal Property Statement to the latest revision -   Fixed an issue with the option to print a Personal Property statement for a specific year
11/17/2011	General -   Fixed a program crash that would sometimes happen when clicking Next and Previous in the attachment screen Reporting -   Added comparing of the owner and taxpayer address to the database compare report -   Fixed an issue where the Delinquent PRE Affadavit was not excluding inactive parcels -   Fixed a program crash that would happen when trying to edit a calculated expression GIS -   Fixed an issue where the land value map would not show up the first time you try to run it Exports -   Fixed an issue merging village data across databases
11/08/2011	General -   The Previous Tax Billing Classification is now able to be changed without making an adjustment Reporting -   Fixed an issue printing the statistics on the L-4015 when running for Conventional and Creative sales -   Fixed an issue printing the Record Cards when the option to only print the 1st page is selected -   Fixed an issue where the Invalid Address report was not excluding exempt parcels when that option was selected Exports -   Fixed an error that would sometimes occur when running a Sales Data Dump to Excel Imports -   Fixed an issue with the Mortgage Code import
10/26/2011	General -   Fixed an issue when trying to do a split/combine on a large block of parcels -   Fixed an issue adding attachments for users who use CVT access settings -   Fixed an issue viewing assessor comments for users who use the CVT access settings Exports -   Added the parcelnumber to the end of the Personal Property Export
10/25/2011	General -   Fixed an error that would occur when scanning in an attachment -   Fixed an issue where the map number field was potentially getting wiped out when looking up parcels -   Fixed an issue where the ECF Table wasn't being displayed in the field list when doing a Quick Block -   Added the CPI value for 2012
10/21/2011	General -   Made some changes to the parcel merge process when only merging some of the parcel information -   Added the ability to choose which units you are copying unit options to on the Gov Unit setup screen -   Fixed an issue searching and quickblocking on the Land Table and ECF fields when using Universal Land Tables and/or ECFs -   Added "Other Parcels in Sale" to the Sales Search and Analysis spreadsheets -   Fixed an issue in the parcel merge utility where related units were not being merged when merging parcels in a village Reporting -   Added a new version of the L-4015A report that looks exactly like the state form Exports -   Fixed an error that would sometimes pop up when exporting from the sales table
10/18/2011	General -   Added a button to the Copy Parcel tool that copies all information except prior year data -   Added an option to choose which image format to use when scanning in an attachment Reporting -   Fixed an issue when doing an advanced query on the poverty field for prior year adjustments
10/07/2011	General -   Added the ability to adjust the Tax Billing Classification, similar to how school districts and property class can be adjusted
10/06/2011	General -   Added a phone number field to the additional address fields -   Added "Corn Crib Buildiing" and the associated rates to the Ag. Building types -   Fixed an issue viewing confidential sales regarding counties who use the CVT security -   Allowed the "Show To Public" to be turned on for attachments on BLL parcels -   Added Property Zip Code to the parcel table index options Reporting -   The Special Population choices on all reports have now been categorized -   Fixed an issue printing reports from the Sales screen -   Added an option when printing record cards to only print the first page -   Added a font size setting to the Equalization Reporting Utility -   Fixed an issue where the Equalization Reporting Utility settings were not saving properly -   The Qual Ag/MBT/Cond identifier now prints next to the PRE on the Real Estate Summary report -   Added PRE to the History Report -   Fixed an issue where the date printed was being cut off on the Record Card report GIS -   Fixed some issues zooming and out on the GIS View Imports -   Fixed an issue importing permits from the Pervasive Permit program when using both an Issued and Finaled date range
09/26/2011	Exports -   Fixed an issue with the Parcel Merge tool
09/22/2011	General -   Added an "Add New Line" button to the MTT Status screen that inserts a new line at the top and moves all the other information down -   If the taxpayer name gets cleared out and the "Send To" field is set to taxpayer, the program now prompts if you want to change it to owner -   Addeda "Choose ECFs" button to the tool to Increase/Decrease factors -   Fixed an issue where you couldn't search certain fields on the table views by typing -   Added an option when showing current year values as Tentative to only show the current assessed/taxable as Tentative -   The Ren Zone Info button now flashes if any of the information is filled in -   Added "Dismissed" to the list of MTT Statuses -   Updated the sq. ft adjustment for Agricultrual Buildings classified as "Bank/Barn/Special" -   Added "Use Code" to the Commercial Building table -   Fixed an issue in the ECF Analysis Output Window where some lines were being cut off Reporting -   Added an option to not print duplicate parcels when printing record cards from the Permits table -   Added an option to the Real Estate Summary report to print the current year taxes due if linked to the Tax.NET program -   The time now prints on the Audit Summary report next to the date Exports -   Modified the Database Merge Utility to make merging Previous Year data an option -   Added a field to exclude parcels classified as "RZ - Ren Zone Advalorem Rates (Frozen)" from the IFT Export
09/09/2011	Calculation Changes -   Fixed the rates for Storage basements on Bank - Branch type commercial buildings General -   Added an option to copy user fields to the Copy Parcel tool -   Fixed up the formulas at the bottom of the ECF Analysis spreadsheet -   Fixed an issue setting the Conservation District with the set fields utility Reporting -   Fixed an issue querying on the Year 5 adjustment fields -   Added the standard deviation ranges to the statistics on the L-4015 GIS -   Added a sketch viewer tool in the GIS screen -   Fixed an issue using an image directory in GIS
09/01/2011	General -   Added an option to print the Percent Transferred when running the L-4015 from the Equalization Reporting Utility Reporting -   Fixed an issue querying on the previous year adjustment fields -   When comparing addresses on the Questionable PRE report, the report now compares the addresses in USPS format (in regards to the street direction) as well as the default format -   Updated Section 10 of the MTT Answer report to show the TCV instead of the SEV -   Fixed an issue printing the User Group report from the User Setup dialog Exports -   Updated the Residential Buildling Generic exports to pull the Year 3 and Year 4 data fields correctly
08/29/2011	General -   Fixed an issue when analyzing by style when running an ECF Analysis
08/24/2011	General -   Added the ability to plot multiple land value maps at a time -   Fixed an issue printing reports directly from the permit window Reporting -   Fixed an issue loading the split/combine comment on reports GIS -   Added an option to show the primary sketch when hovering over a parcel in the GIS view
08/18/2011	General -   Updated the report that prints when viewing tax history information when linked to Tax -   When adjusting a parcel to an exempt property class, the assessed and capped values now get zeroed out appropriately -   For CVT users, full access is no longer necessary to run the set fields utility -   The parcel merge utility now merges the audit trail as well -   Fixed an issue depreciating certain values on residential buildings from the age/renew utility -   Fixed an issue setting the effective year when setting PRE information in the Set Fields utility Reporting -   Added an option to print the page of instructions on the back of the Real Property Statement -   Added an option to print the % Transferred on the L-4015 -   Added fields to the report writer for current year - 4 -   Fixed an issue with the sketch fields in the report writer Exports -   Added a "Fixed Width" option to the Generic Data Export
08/09/2011	Reporting -   Fixed an issue running the L-4015a on personal property classes -   Added the personal property columns to the L-4046 -   Added the school district description to the MTT Stipulation reports
08/04/2011	General -   Fixed an issue where some attachments were not showing up corectly -   4 digits are now allowed in the Ren Zone Number field Reporting -   Added the property address and school district to the MTT status report -   Fixed an issue on the L-4015 report where the wring class type was showing up at the top of the page in certain circumstances -   Fixed an issue where extra address fields were not showing up when added to reports
07/28/2011	General -   When adding a new parcel with a previous class type of Commercial/Industrial personal, the previous year PRE defaults to 100% Reporting -   Added a printer settings button to the equalization report utilities -   Added adjustment fields to the report writer for the current year - 4 -   Changed some wording on the JBOR/DBOR Change Notice reports
07/25/2011	General -   Fixed an issue when using a "Custom Mapping System URL" Reporting -   Fixed an issue computing the CPI when printing the L-4035a report for 2010 adjustments -   Allow personal property classes in the L-4015a utility -   Fixed an issue where the sketches were being stretched out when printing a record card -   Fixed a rounding issue when printing the PRE X Taxable/SEV on the Misc. Totals and Statistics report
07/20/2011	General -   Fixed an issue quick blocking on the "Marked" column of various tables -   Added a user option to NOT prompt to remove the assessment override on personal property -   Fixed an issue with the Quick Mark tool on the various tables -   Fixed an issue where the current tax information was not being displayed correctly when linked to the Tax.NET program -   Fixed an issue when rolling over to reset the flag to not allow updates to the equalization factors Reporting -   Extended the comment line on the L-4031 report to fit multi line comments
07/14/2011	General -   Fixed an issue with the "All Owner Names" quick search -   Fixed an issue with the "Jump To" button that appears for all county licenses -   Added an option to the Set Fields to remove excess spaces from legal descriptions -   Fixed an issue where the MTT Pending flag would always get reset to Pending Reporting -   Added the various MTT Stipulation Reports -   Fixed some issues on the 2599 Printout -   Fixed an issue where some JBOR/DBOR fields were not being filled in for reports Exports -   The Wayne County export now allows you to export values for any year
07/08/2011	Reporting -   Fixed an error that would appear when running various reports (only an issue in the 7/7/2011 version -   Fixed a rounding issue on the L-4035a (Adjustment) report
07/07/2011	General -   Fixed an auditing issue when changing the Record Status of a parcel Reporting -   Fixed an issue with the calculations on the L-4035A (Adjustment) printout
06/30/2011	General -   Added the "RZ-REHAB Advalorem (Frozen)" tax billing classification -   Fixed an issue exporting the SEV and Taxable Value changes on the Wayne County export for 2008 changes -   Fixed an issue resetting the conditional PRE flag for expiring Conditional 1st year PREs Reporting -   Added the Misc. Totals and Stats to the Equalization Reporting Utility
06/27/2011	Reporting -   Fixed an issue printing the Non PRE values on the L-4028 Exports -   Fixed an issue with the Wayne County Export
06/22/2011	General -   Fixed a rounding issue that was causing differences with Tax when computing the PRE Taxable in certain situations Reporting -   Added an option to hide the Improvement Data on the Real Estate Summary printout -   Fixed an issue where the L-4046 would not always sort by unit code Exports -   Fixed an issue where the 3rd and 4th previous year values were not being loaded on Personal Property exports/reports Imports -   Added the Mortgage Code Import
06/17/2011	General -   Fixed a program crash that would sometimes occur when changing the Quality on a Commercial Building -   Fixed an issue with the adjustments on the comparable analysis when there were multiple sales being used for the same parcel Imports -   Added the Wayne County Sale Import
06/14/2011	General -   Fixed an issue looking up streets when using the Street Master for address searches Reporting -   Fixed the date ranges that appear on the L-2793 Report
06/13/2011	Imports -   Fixed an issue importing permits from the pervasive version of the BS&A Permit application
06/09/2011	General -   Fixed an issue generating the correct parcel numbers on the Mass Spliit utility Reporting -   Fixed an issue where the MM1_PRE_YEAR2_FINAL_TAX - MM1_PRE_YEAR4_FINAL_TAX fields weren't getting field in on reports -   Fixed an issue on the excel file that gets generated by the L-4626 where the Real Only totals is in the wrong column for villages -   Fixed an issue on the Mailing Lablels reports to not print duplicate names
06/06/2011	General -   Fixed an issue with the parcel merge process (only an issue in the 6/3 version)
06/03/2011	General -   Added a warning when a user sets the equalization factor to 0 in Program Setup -   Added a 'Choose Units' option when backing up attachments -   Added a prompt to change the commercial buildilng depreciation table after changing the quality -   Fixed an issue where expired land banks were still marked as 'Stays in Special' after rollover -   Added the status of "Settled" to the MTT status list Reporting -   The Misc. Totals and Statistics report no longer stops when it hits a calculation error, but rather displays all the errors at the end of the report -   Fixed some issues with the totals on the MBOR Summary report -   Fixed some text on the PRE Rescind report from "Owner" to "Co-Owner"
05/25/2011	General -   Fixed an issue searching by property address when using the street master table Reporting -   Fixed an issue on the L-4028 where some school districts were not showing up on the report Exports -   Added an option to include Sales when merging databases
05/17/2011	General -   When sorted by Change Type in the Audit list, it now has a secondary sort of Date/Time -   Fixed an issue where the Program Management items were not being exported to the new database when merging parcels -   Added a user setting to not prompt to rescind the current PRE if editing the grantee on a sale -   Fixed an issue where sales marked as Confidential were not being included when performing a Comparably Analysis -   Fixed an issue where the Make Ad Valorem flag was disappearing when rolling over a database -   Fixed an issue with the Land Bank Option when rolling over a database
05/11/2011	General -   Added a comment field to the MTT Status screen -   Added a tool to the attachment screen to change the attachment type for a specific attachment -   Fixed an issue when selecting a record from the 'Extra Address Results' when searching by owner name -   Fixed an issue with the Parcel Merge utility where the P.R.E information was not being merged correctly Reporting -   Added the Petition/Docket # to the L-4031 printout -   The Industrial Real/Personal reports now pull the Assessor Name field and the Certificate Level field is no longer getting cut off
05/06/2011	General -   Fixed an issue backing up/restoring attachments from one database to another on the same server -   Fixed an issue with the 'Use Neighborhood Option' on the comparable analysis tool Reporting -   Fixed a couple issues calculating the equalized values on the L-4024 report -   Added the PRE totals to the L-4028 report
05/04/2011	General -   Added Midland County's utility custom parcel modification process Reporting -   Updated the Industrial Real/Personal reports with the latest STC revisions -   Fixed an issue where the end of the legal descripion was being cut off on the Real Estate Summary report -   Updated the L-4031 report
05/02/2011	Reporting -   Fixed an issue where reports would not print in landscape for certain printers Exports -   Fixed an issue merging parcels to a brand new database
04/29/2011	Reporting -   Fixed an issue where the equalized values on the L-4024 did not match the values on the L-4023 -   Fixed an issue on the L-4037 (County) where large numbers were being cut off Exports -   Added the Kent County C/I Export -   Fixed an issue where the land/land improvement information was always being merged on the Parcel Merge process when the parcel did not exist the target database
04/28/2011	General -   Added an option when backing up attachments to only inlcude those marked as 'Show To Public' -   Fixed an issue when creating a Land Value Map where some labels were not being displayed Reporting -   Fixed an issue computing the M.R.F. on the L-4028 -   Fixed some issues on the L-4024 where the assessed values were not showing up properly and some of the equalized values were being doubled Exports -   Fixed an issue merging parcels into a new database where some parcel information was being copied over when it shouldn't have been
04/21/2011	Reporting -   Fixed an issue grouping the units underneath the school districts on the School District report Exports -   Fixed an issue merging Unit data when running the Merge Database utility
04/20/2011	General -   Fixed an issue where searching by owner name was not searching over the Extra Addresses properly -   Fixed an issue creating a new database (only a problem in the 4/19/2011 version) Reporting -   The L-4037 (County) now fills in all necessary values -   Fixed an issue where the Reason for Change was not showing up on the MBOR Summary report -   Added an option to the Questionable PRE report to show parcels that have a 0% PRE, but the owner and property addresses are identical Imports -   Fixed an issue on the import/export where the Recycle Units and Poverty would always show up as changed on the Names/Value changes report, even when the fields were not changed
04/19/2011	General -   Added the fractional interest field to the Extra Addresses -   Fixed an issue where the linked application information was getting cut off at the bottom of the screen Reporting -   Fixed an issue where the class/school totals were not saving after running an Equalization report -   Fixed an issue calculating the percent change on the Summary of Assessed/Recommended Equalized Valuations report -   Fixed an issue where Sr. Citizen parcels were being excluded from all advalorem reports
04/15/2011	Reporting -   Fixed an issue where the county totals were being saved regardless of the population choices on the report -   Fixed the eEqualization report to sort the unit totals by STC number -   Fixed an issue with the perimeter calculations on buildings classified as “Motel Extended Stay” -   Fixed an issue where the column headers where not being printed on the L-4021 report when running the Oakland format -   Fixed an issue printing the unit/school on the Misc. Totals/Statistics report when running over a unit/school -   Fixed an issue reporting Sr. Citizen parcels on the L-4025 -   Updated the L-4021 report when printing the Resource/Manatron format Imports -   Fixed an issue comparing the rounding options on the unit options when running an import
04/12/2011	Exports -   The eEqualization export file now combines the village numbers with the township Imports -   Fixed an issue importing the Cap Calculation Adjustments
04/07/2011	Reporting -   Fixed an issue with the Percent Change By Unit report, it now locks the population to be 'Use the Results of the Last Calculation' -   Fixed an issue with the Form 3127 report where the totals would increase every time the report was ran -   Fixed a page break issue on the Equalization Report -   Fixed an issue printing the Record Card report based on the Sales table -   Added an index for the MBOR Petition Number to the Parcels table so MBOR reports can be printed sorted by MBOR Petition Number Imports -   Fixed an issue importing the Previous Classification
04/05/2011	General -   Added the Tillable Acres and Tillable Percent to the land information -   Access is now allowed to the MBOR comment after the March Values are frozen
04/01/2011	General -   The Auto-Calc option for personal property is now determined per unit instead of globally -   Added the ability to search by Date RPS Sent, Verified By, Adj. Sale Price and Other Parcels in Sale on the Sales table Reporting -   The "Special Population" options are now available for DDA reports -   Fixed an issue where Land Bank parcels marked as "Stay in Special" were showing up on Advalorem reports Imports -   Fixed an issue where Name/Address information was not getting imported when the option to "Import New Records Only" is selected
03/29/2011	General -   The 'Exclude County Code in Printouts' option under General Settings now applies to exports as well as reports -   Fixed an audit issue when adding an MBOR Reporting -   Added a field for Previous Classification to the report writer (Par_TaxInfoPrevCFTIFT) -   Fixed a page break issue on the L-4035A report -   Fixed an issue on the L-4037 reports where the certification level was getting cut off -   The MBOR Log, Action, Change and Summary reports to are now sorted by MBOR Petition number -   Fixed an issue where the Assessment roll report would freeze up the application when printing the legal description under certain circumstances -   Fixed an issue with the totals on the MBOR Summary report Exports -   Updated the BSA Ascii Export/Import to include the OPRA Frozen value
03/22/2011	General -   Added the Heat Type to the Sales Data Dump Reporting -   Fixed an issue running report profiles -   Added the fields Mm1_Occured_Year2_TRIB, Mm1_Occured_Year3_TRIB and Mm1_Occured_Year4_TRIB to the report writer -   Made the MBOR log report fit on an 8.5" by 11" piece of paper -   Fixed a page break issue on the MBOR Summary report
03/17/2011	General -   When selecting neighborhoods for the Comparable Analysis, the neighborhood code and description are now shown -   Fixed an issue when copying only parts of a database to another database Reporting -   Fixed an issue when creating a new report based on the Sample Parcel Report where fields could not be added to the report footer -   Fixed an issue printing the roof type on the Record Card printout -   Fixed some issues with the MBOR Log report where some stuff was getting cut off -   Added the MBOR Summary report
03/15/2011	Reporting -   Fixed an issue reporting the number of poverty exemptions claimed/approved on the MBOR Action report -   Sr. Citizen classification types in the PILT category now report as Advalorem -   Fixed an issue with the computations for the Final Rate/SF on the Record Card for Agricultural buildings
03/14/2011	General -   Added a "Discard Changes" button to the Quick Data Entry dialog on the Edit Parcels screen -   Added the L-4035A printout to the MBOR dialog -   Added the building kind to Agricultural buildings classified as Metal Bins Reporting -   Added the fields Mst_SummaryLastAdjustedSalePrice and Mst_SummaryLastTermsOfSale to the Report Writer and Generic Export fields -   Fixed a page break issue on the Image report when printing multiple parcels per page Imports -   Fixed an issue with the direct Permit import
03/09/2011	General -   Fixed an auditing issue when switching owner and taxpayer addresses to and from out of country addresses -   When denying a PRE, the system now prompts you for the denial year Reporting -   Added an option to allow multiple parcels to print on the same page on the Image Report -   Fixed an issue that would cause the Assessment Roll to freeze the application -   Fixed a couple issues when running the Misc. Totals and Statistics report GIS -   Fixed an issue when clicking “Goto GIS View” from a parcel
03/03/2011	Reporting -   Fixed an issue where the L-4037’s would display the incorrect unit description when running over a township/village -   Fixed a reporting issue with the REZ (Ad-Valorem) special population -   Fixed the wording at the bottom of the L-4037’s -   Fixed an issue printing valuation statements is duplex mode that would cause 2 parcels to print on the same page -   Made the page count in the valuation statement to display the page number for the current parcel being printed
02/25/2011	General -   Added the ability to display information from Utility Billing when linked -   Running a Write Floating Values now hits the audit record -   Under Allocated Cap calcs, added a field to allocate a certain percentage of the assessed value to a parcel -   Added an option to the Possible Calculation Errors report to find parcels that were changed from Ad Valorem to a Special Act classification -   Fixed an error message that would always be displayed after running the Fix Poverty Exemptions tool
02/18/2011	Reporting -   Fixed some spelling errors on the L-4037 reports -   Fixed some databindings on the L-4037 reports
02/15/2011	General -   Fixed an issue where only 3 characters of the “Appointment With” field were showing up when indexed by Reporting -   Fixed an issue computing the ratios on the Tentative Ratios report -   Fixed an issue with Land Bank parcels marked as “New to Ad Val., Loss to Special” -   Fixed an issue with some of the calculated expressions that compute the % Exempt for different reasons at the bottom the Change Notice reports
02/10/2011	General -   Added Preparer Email address to the Personal Property Information -   Added the ability to increase/decrease ECF’s by a constant amount -   Fixed an issue where some of the Unit Options were not being brought over in the database merge process -   Added the ability to only backup attachments that were attached over a date range Reporting -   Fixed an issue with the comparable sale analysis report where an ‘X’ was appearing to options that were not turned on and not appearing next to options that were turned on -   Fixed an issue with the Prior Year DDA report
02/04/2011	General -   Fixed an issue with the generic backup -   Added an option to copy ECF/Land Table codes when merging databases Reporting -   Fixed an issue with printer settings when running reports, such as duplex printing and printing multiple copies -   Fixed an issue reporting prior year values for Reference Permanent parcels -   Fixed an issue where certain reports were being defaulted to run for the “XXXXX” unit in Equalization databases
01/27/2011	General -   Fixed a program crash when clicking on the magnifying glass button when looking up records Exports -   When running an Ascii Export to Other BSA System and are on the Sale List, it acts like the Pervasive application did and runs the export over the Sales list instead of the Parcels list
01/27/2011	General -   Fixed a rounding issue when displaying acres in the Land information dialog -   When printing from the Sale/Permit dialog, it automatically saves instead of telling you to save when it is a newly added record -   Added an option when backing up attachments to only backup record card images Reporting -   Fixed an error that would happen when running reports in the 1/26 update
01/26/2011	General -   Added a new feature under the Help menu to request a support phone call. Simply fill out the needed information and support will contact you as sson as they can. -   Added a field for the Assessor’s name on the Gov Unit Setup and updated the L-4037 reports to pull from it -   Added a new quick search that searches over the owner name, owner name 2 and owner care of fields -   Added tools to copy ECF codes/Land Tables across units Reporting -   Updated the L-4037 reports with some cosmetic changes -   Updated the Change Notice (Change in Taxes) Printout -   The Printout reports are now available under Report Profiles
01/20/2011	General -   Added the SEV/Taxable for Assessment Year - 2 to Public Viewing Mode -   Changed the Assessor Level field to a drop down list Reporting -   Added the L-4037 Reports -   Updated the Change Notice Printouts
01/13/2011	General -   Fixed an issue setting the previous Tax Classification -   Fixed an issue linking to Special Assessments -   Fixed an issue setting the Permit Number Format -   Allow the Net Acres to be overridden on the Table Driven Acreage dialog -   Added a Total Acres column to the Land Analysis Spreadsheet -   Fixed an issue copying sale data to and from parcels -   Fixed an issue with Generic Backups Reporting -   Fixed an issue where the taxpayer information was being printed on the Assessment Roll in place of the owner information -   Fixed an issue evaluating certain advanced queries on reports that would cause the report to display more records than it should
01/11/2011	General -   Added a tool to add a block of parcels to the Parent Parcels list in the Split/Combine utility Reporting -   Fixed an issue that would cause the Mailing Labels report to error out -   Fixed an issue with the Personal Property Valuation report
01/06/2011	Reporting -   Fixed an issue running the L-4023 under Assessing Reports
01/06/2011	General -   When adding an extra address, the new address' street name and zip code default to the current parcels' -   Added an "Insert Comment" link to the comment window to push the current comment down to help keep comments sequential -   The Split/Combine tool now automatically closes on a successful split/combine Reporting -   When running the 4023 from Program Setup, it now pulls the values from the saved totals -   Fixed an issue with the comments report where the comments were being spaced too far apart -   When running the L-4015 from the utility, the class that gets displayed in the header now pulls from the options instead of the first sale encountered
12/23/2010	General -   Added some adjustment fields to the report writer/generic export that were available in Pervasive -   Added an "Add" button to the Equalization Appraisal Information screen to keep years sequential -   When set to use universal ECF's or universal Land, the ECF/Land controls only page over ECF's/Neighborhoods assigned to unit "XXXXX" -   When doing a Comparable Analysis, the comparable numbers from the initial screen are now used in the Side By Side Analysis -   Fixed an issue viewing images not marked as "Show Image to Public" for Enterprise Administrator users -   The "Only Display Public Images" on the Attachments tab is now always turned on and also hidden for users with Read-Only access Exports -   Added Wayne County's custom export
12/17/2010	General -   Show the previous 2 years' CPI % under Global Calculation Options -   Fixed an issue displaying the most recent sale information after entering 2 sales on the same date Reporting -   Fixed an issue with totals for parcels with a current year school adjustment -   Fixed an issue printing the Change Reason on the DBOR Change Notice -   Fixed an issue printing the DBOR Change Notice for parcels that have both a JBOR and DBOR adjustment Program Security -   Fixed an issue where users without proper access could edit attachments fields and read only users could view non-public images
12/16/2010	General -   Fixed an issue defaulting the caption when adding an attachment -   Added the ability to copy parcel information to a block of parcels with the “Copy Parcel” tool on the main screen -   Display the classification options for the previous classification as well as the current one on the Tax Info tab Reporting -   Added the 4035a for the 3rd year adjustment printout -   Updated the Personal Property Statement with the latest tables from the State Imports -   Fixed an issue with the direct permit import from Building Department .NET
12/13/2010	General -   Fixed an issue restoring data when using the "Use Generic Backup" option
12/10/2010	General -   Fixed an issue where the Attachment button was hidden on a couple of dialogs -   Added "Rehab - Advalorem Rates (Frozen)" under the CFT category -   Added a sketch setting to get around an issue with Apex 3 Pro Imports -   Fixed an issue importing the city/state in the CASS import
12/03/2010	General -   Fixed a program crash filling in the "Reason for Change" field -   Increased the maximum number of comparables on the Comparable Analysis to 20 Reporting -   Fixed an issue running certain reports when using CVT user security settings Exports -   Made some updates to the Morley export
12/01/2010	General -   Allow for searching of Permits/Building/Sales records within a parcel -   Added the check boxes to flag when a Parcel has information on sections J,K,L on a personal property statement -   Fixed an issue when saving values for the L-4018 where choosing the 12 month ratio was still saving the 24 month parcel count -   Allow multiple attachments to be added at a time -   4 digit are now allowed in the "Appointment With" field Reporting -   Updated the Personal Property Statement to revision 11-10 -   Updated the Qualified Ag Form 2599 to revision 1-10 -   Removed the 2nd MI ID # field on the Personal Property Statement -   Fixed a page break issue when printing a DBOR Change Notice for multiple parcels -   Fixed an issue saving the report destination when printing the Apex Sketch report through Apex
11/24/2010	General -   When Splitting/Combining a parcel and linked to the Delinquent Tax System, the system notified you if the parcel has any outstanding delinquent taxes Reporting -   Fixed an issue printing the Warrant Report when there are school district changes on the parcel
11/23/2010	General -   Added a button for the previous classification on the Tax Billing Information tab Reporting -   Fixed an issue with some report totals when a parcel was changed from an Exempt property class to a non-Exempt class -   Made some adjustments on the record card report to more accurately resize the legal description box
11/19/2010	General -   Fixed an program crash that would sometimes occur when importing values from an Apex sketch -   Fixed a program crash that would sometimes happen when paging through a bunch of attachments -   The PRE tab now always displays the current year's PRE -   Added new PILT Classifications Reporting -   Updated the Personal Property Statement to revision 10-10 -   Fixed an issue running the Street Master Proof report -   Fixed an issue saving values to the L-2793 from the L-4015 Program Security -   Fixed an issue where security was not being properly enforced on the Tax Billing Information tab
11/17/2010	General -   Fixed an issue validating addresses from the Street Master -   Added Mail Code to the Parcel set fields Reporting -   Fixed an issue running sale reports with a population of “Custom Selections” -   Fixed an issue running the L-4015 for multiple property classes GIS -   Fixed an issue saving record sets in the GIS View Exports -   Fixed an issue printing the use code on the sale data dump -   Fixed an issue printing ECF Code on various spreadsheets
11/11/2010	General -   Added the 2011 Communication Tower Depreciation table -   When adding an attachment, the audit record now displays what kind of attachment was added -   Fixed an issue computing the effective age adjustment when running a comparable sales analysis Reporting -   Updated the Personal Property Statement report with the new pages Exports -   Fixed an issue exporting ECF codes to spreadsheets when doing a Sale analysis -   Added the Use Code description to the Sales Data Dump Imports -   When running an import, the import no longer stops at the first error it encounters, but rather prints out a report at the end of the all the errors encountered
11/08/2010	General -   The description on the rate group under Frontage/Lots now reads Site instead of front foot where applicable Reporting -   Added a date to the MTT Status grid and added the date and appeal type to the MTT Status report -   Made the MM1_GeneralComments field avaliabe on residential and commercial building reports -   Widened the field for the unit name on the L-2793 as long names were being cut off -   On the Invalid Address Report, if a parcel has “Sent To” set to Owner and Taxpayer, it now checks both the owner and taxpayer addresses Imports -   You can now specify which directory to decompress files to when importing data
11/02/2010	General -   Fixed an issue showing attachments with no file extension on record cards and on the attachments tab -   Added a gov unit filter to the ECF Analysis -   Fixed an issue where the parcel formats were getting changed every time a user changed something in the General Settings dialog -   Fixed an issue converting from Pervasive where invalid PRE dates were not being reported on the conversion report -   Added the direct permit import from Building Department .NET Reporting -   Added the date/time to the L-2793 report Exports -   Fixed an issue printing the property city/state/zip on the Sales data dump to Excel -   Fixed an issue uploading data to TMA after running the export
10/26/2010	General -   Fixed an issue printing invalid records on the ECF Analysis report -   The RPS Sent To field now defaults to blank on Sales records -   Any attachment that doesn’t have a valid file extension is assumed to be an image file -   Added the ‘Date RPS Sent’ field to Sales records Reporting -   Added a year filter and a totals line to the MTT status report, also fixed an issue where values older than 3 years weren’t being printed correctly Program Security -   Added a Security Item to View Assessor’s Comments
10/21/2010	General -   Added a tool on the table views to mark the corresponding parcels for a block of records Reporting -   Added the MTT Status report -   Fixed an issue running running reports for parcels without previous year information -   Added the option when printing Record Cards to print the picture on a separate page Exports -   Fixed an issue exporting long text fields to DBase III files in the Generic Export
10/20/2010	General -   Fixed a program crash that sometimes would occur when searching for parcels -   Fixed an issue filtering by unit/class type in the L-4015 report utility Reporting -   Fixed an issue running advanced queries on Permit reports Exports -   Fixed an issue when running generic exports to Dbase III files
10/14/2010	General -   Fixed an issue that would cause the ECF Analysis to fail in certain situations -   Added the option to include sales from all units when running the ECF Analysis
10/14/2010	Reporting -   Fixed an issue printing certain fields on Commerical/Industrial building reports -   Fixed an issue saving the results of the L-4015 for the L-2793 Exports -   The IFT export now defaults the filename to exactly match the State's format -   Fixed an issue querying on the Year of Assessment on personal property generic exports -   Fixed an issue with generic exports on the Extra Addresses table
10/11/2010	GIS -   Fixed an issue running reports over a map set
10/08/2010	General -   Fixed an issue converting the PRE values for previous years -   The Comparable Sales Analysis tool now shows the appreciated/depreciated values of porches, decks and built-ins -   Fixed a program crash that would sometimes happen when deleting attachments -   Fixed an issue creating a new database -   Allow multiple neighborhoods to be selected when saving the results of an ECF analysis Reporting -   The L-4015 now sorts by parcel number in each band Exports -   Fixed an issue using advanced filters on exports -   Added the ability to change the unit and filename on the IFT export
10/05/2010	Calculation Changes -   Fixed an issue with the Possible Calculation Problems report when comparing losses Reporting -   Fixed an issue running the Database Compare report Exports -   Fixed an issue creating the file name on the IFT export
10/04/2010	General -   Added "CFT - PA227 of 2008" to the Special Act list -   Adding/Deleting attachments from the "Edit Parcel" screen now hits the Audit Trail Reporting -   Fixed an issue querying on the number of Residential/Agricultural/Commercial/Personal Property/Income records -   Added the millages/non PRE millages for a school district to the Report Writer GIS -   Added Zoning to the Thematic layers in GIS
09/28/2010	General -   Fixed an issue where local cost items would sometimes appear out of order -   Added the "Date Finaled" index to the Permits table -   Added an option in program setup to specify the number of previous year totals to show on the "Edit Parcel" screen -   Fixed an issue that sometimes would occur when restoring attachments Reporting -   The L-4015 report now prints both 1 year and 2 year statistics GIS -   Fixed an issue saving record sets in the GIS view when the layer is set to add/remove the county code from parcel numbers
09/20/2010	Reporting -   Fix to Assessment Roll Report where in some rare cases it would not allow certain records to be successfully printed. Imports -   Fix to the Generic CSV Import for Tuscola County.
09/17/2010	General -   Added the ability to mark records to Residential Buildings, Ag. Buildings, C/I Buildings, Permits, and Income Statements tables. -   Fixed an issue where after changing weighting factors on the Comp. Analysis feature, it would not reload the sales. -   Fixed an issue with the Comp. Analysis where if you manually changed the order of the comparables, it was not updating the pictures. -   Added the display of the caption on attachments that are considered 'External Documents' on the Attach tab on the main Edit Parcel screen. -   Updated the program such that when adding a new Land Table it fills in the default Rate Table Adjustments to be set to 100%. -   Added the 'Taxpayer Name Extra' to the set data fields options. -   Updated the Parcel Copy feature to allow users to copy Personal Property and/or Income Statements. Reporting -   Added new fields to the report writer that allow you to pull up additional previous year adjustment comments.
09/14/2010	General -   Added a 'street suffix' field to the street master area of the program as well as to the extra addresses. -   Updated the Governmental Units copy options to clear when exiting the setup screen to avoid accidentally copying data the next time the tool is used. -   Fixed an issue with editing the Activity Descriptions when having multiple governmental units in your database where in some cases it wouldn't save the changes to the correct unit. -   Updated the layout of some of the checkbox options in the Land Table copy feature. -   Fixed an issue with the Sales -> Set Fields utility where it would not successfully save the changes. Reporting -   Fixed an issue where the L-4015 could in certain cases incorrectly use filters from the Sales Search & Analysis area of the program. -   Fixed an issue with running the Audit Report for Lenawee County where it wasn't printing records that a given CVT user had access to.
09/09/2010	General -   Fixed an uncommon display issue in the Public Viewing Mode where it wouldn't show the school code and description in some cases. Reporting -   Fixed a recently introduced issue where printout reports weren't working correctly with GIS Map Sets.
09/08/2010	General -   Added the ability to show the ECF Area and Value on the Sales Search & Analysis - Plot on Map feature. -   Fixed an issue where if in the Commercial Buildings - Segregated Items area you had an invalid value selected it would give you DataGridView error messages that made no sense. Now it will give you a logical error telling you which row specifically was bad and that it was reset to the blank/default value. Reporting -   Fixed an issue with the L-4015 not printing the correct count in some cases as well as it not placing a sale in the correct date period band. Imports -   Added insert/update options to the Generic CSV Import.
09/08/2010	General -   Added a new checkbox column to the parcel MTT screen for Class Appeals. -   Fixed an issue where a duplicate hotkey was being used for the Copy shortcut in the owner/address screen. -   Updated the process of adding a permit to a parcel so it copies the default permit work description from the 'DefaultForReal' parcel. -   Updated the options used when resetting to default on the ECF Analysis. -   Updated the database backup so it now defaults to use the Generic Backup option. -   Fixed an issue with the F5/F6/F7 hotkeys that would only occur if you were using the 'Change Index after search' user preference. The problem was that it would usually not take you to the right record, often taking you to the first record in the given table view. -   Fixed an issue with the parcel land area of the program where if you were using a rate group that did not have a description assigned to it, it would clear out the selection setting it back to the first possible selection (Frontage A). Reporting -   Fixed a Database Compare Report issue with comparing parcels from villages. -   Updated the Report Filters area such that if you import a single report filter, it will prompt you asking if you'd like to have that query loaded. -   Updated the L-4015 custom selections report option screen to show the to and from dates using a label that doesn't cause confusion making users think it's editable. Program Setup -   Fixed an issue with the public viewing mode user settings where it wasn't holding the checkbox setting values. GIS -   Fixed an issue where the 'Add' button would disappear on the Manage Custom Layers window if you'd recently done a land map from the Land Table.
09/01/2010	General -   Fix to rare issue with a commercial building calculation where it would shut down the program. -   Added technical support utility to fix a problem for a customer. Reporting -   Fix to ECF Export Report heading.
08/31/2010	General -   Updated the Permits Table to subsort by Issue Date when sorted by the Assessor Status column. -   Fixed an issue with not giving a user that had appropriate rights the ability to edit the Assessor Eyes only comments. Reporting -   Added a post IFT Export Report that occurs after running the IFT Export.
08/30/2010	Reporting -   A couple fixes to calculated fields in reports.
08/27/2010	General -   Fixed an issue with the Set fields utility. -   Fixed an issue in the previous year detail screen to show the Assessor Change Reasons when using the magnifying glass rather than the Adjustment Reasons. Exports -   Added custom Midland County export.
08/25/2010	General -   Added the ability to specify only certain reports to be available while in the Public Viewing Mode, this is located under the User Preferences screen. -   Added logic to correctly copy the correlating default real/personal comment text when first entering a comment area that hasn't been entered before for a given parcel. -   Updated the Permits table list's 'Category' index to always sub sort by Issue Date. -   Added a new prompt when entering a Redemption or Uncapping date on a parcel sale that allows you to optionally have a reminder created in the system for that date. Reporting -   Fixed an issue with trying to set a filter that used some of the 'MM1_' comment related fields where it wasn't working. -   Added the 'Choose Units' population to the Printout Reports category.
08/23/2010	General -   Fixed an issue with placing a parcel into a land bank sale where it could in some cases duplicate text that gets inserted into the legal description for the given parcel. Reporting -   Fixed an issue with widowed sales and the L-4015 property class title that gets printed on the top of the page(s) of the report. -   Fixed an issue to no longer print class types that don't apply when running the various Equalization Report utilities.
08/20/2010	Calculation Changes -   Fixed a mobile home rate issue. General -   Fixed a couple issues with Attachments for CVT licensed units. -   Fixed an issue with the 'Copy Land Table' utility. Reporting -   Fixed a security item issue with printing personal property information on Record Cards on Valuation Statements when not having the 'View Confidential Data' turned on. -   A few updates to be consistent with Pervasive Assessing.
08/18/2010	General -   Fixed a conversion issue that could occur where it would not successfully complete while converting the permits file.
08/18/2010	Reporting -   Fixed an issue where when printing the Real Property Statement it wasn't correctly pulling the address and unit name for village parcels.
08/17/2010	General -   Fixed an issue that happens in certain grid fields where typing in something like a '.05' would give you an error and would not accept the value. -   Fixed a rare issue with land tables where if you have different casing stored on the parcel than was typed in when setting up your neighborhoods it would clear the rate group value when opening the parcel land window. Reporting -   Fixed an issue with the L-4015 not grouping sales correctly. -   Fixed a few issues with the L-2793 report.
08/17/2010	Reporting -   Fixed an issue with the dates on the L-2793 report. GIS -   Fixed a few small and rare GIS related issues.
08/12/2010	Reporting -   Fixed an issue with saving totals from the L-2793 to the L-4018. -   Updated L-4015 to break down the sales by date period.
08/10/2010	Imports -   Fixed an issue with the sale import that was not allowing dates set to 1/1/1753 (minimum SQL date) to import.
08/10/2010	General -   Fixed an error that would occur when trying to view the L-4018 values under Governmental Unit setup. Reporting -   Fixed an issue with saving the L-4015 totals.
08/05/2010	General -   Updated the MTT Information screen to have multiple status options rather than just having a single checkbox. Also added a prompt to confirm if you want to actually clear out all of the MTT detail data when removing a pending status. Reporting -   Fixed an issue recently introduced that was causing images in the Real Estate Summary to not print correctly. -   Fixed an issue with reporting and the Reference Special Personal property class type. -   Updated a handful of reports to provide more room to fit larger database names without them getting chopped off the report page.
08/04/2010	General -   Fix to database conversion from Pervasive Assessing. -   Fix to update log viewing so it should show details once downloading this update. -   Fixed an issue with blocking in the Sales Table on the 'User Num.' field.
08/03/2010	General -   Updates to be consistent with the latest changes in Pervasive Assessing. -   Added the ability to print the L-4035A (Adjustment) report from the adjustment window. -   Fixed the Parcel F5 search to support partial searches again. -   Updated some custom logic to correctly obtain the unit codes for unit's from within Van Buren County. Reporting -   Fixed an issue where on the record card it would print a 'dummy' page that it shouldn't have for Income Statements specified as being for informational purposes only. -   Fixed an issue when in public viewing mode and selecting a report and changing the printer then hitting the close button wasn't saving the printer setting. -   Updated the Real Estate Summary report to fit more of the Legal Description text on the page without clipping it off.
07/27/2010	General -   Got rid of a handful of debugging Ignore/Abort errors that accidentally got released with the update from earlier in the day. Exports -   Fixed a couple database merge issues.
07/27/2010	General -   Custom fix for Clare County and Public Viewing Mode and Reports.
07/23/2010	Calculation Changes -   Fixed an issue with conditional PRE's for the 2011 assessment year. General -   Fixed an issue where in some rare cases typing in a value to a number box would result in a value being a few numbers off of the originally typed in value. -   Fixed an issue where the zip code plus 4 digits was not correctly validating. Reporting -   Update to JBOR Change Notice report to fix some issues. -   Added the L-4035A (Adjustment) report to the system.
07/20/2010	General -   Fixed an issue with the 'Edit Records' feature on the Residential Building Style lookup results window. -   Fixed an issue with the F5 parcel search not always working correctly. -   Fixed an issue with the way Residential Bi-Level and Tri-Level buildings calculated total basement area. -   Fixed an issue with the Parcel Filters feature in the Comparable Analysis where it wouldn't always successfully load the sales from the specified parcels.
07/14/2010	Calculation Changes -   Fixed a calculation error that rarely could occur if you happened to have an invalid Segregated Item entered on a Commercial Building. Also added a better detailed error message in this case to assist you with fixing the error. -   Fixed an issue with Residential Building 4-inch concrete porches if you had entered a separate % good. General -   Added a new area named 'Automotive Manufacturing Equipment' to the Personal Property statements. -   Updated a label on the PRE tab page to be changed from 'Applicant/Current Owner' to just say 'PRE Applicant'. Reporting -   Fixed an issue with comparing fields in a Report Query where in certain cases you couldn't see all numeric fields in the selection list. -   Added lookup buttons for finding fields in the Report Query building window to make it easier to find fields. -   Fixed an issue where in some cases if you print a Record Card with the sketch in place of the calculations it would still show some of the calculations on the right side of the sketch.
07/08/2010	General -   Fixed an issue in the 'Advanced Set Database Fields' tool and making sure a valid population is selected upon opening the tool window. Imports -   Fixed a few issues in the Generic Data Import.
07/07/2010	General -   Updated the 'Public Viewing Mode' to only show a list of reports then a simple printing window rather than the full blown reporting window with all of the various add/edit/delete tools as well as the audit button. -   Fixed the PRE tab control where in some cases some of the date fields would auto fill with a date that was a day or so older than the current day. Also fixed an issue where it wouldn't update the tab's text when changing the current PRE until saving and reloading the current record. -   Fixed an issue where selecting the REHAB - Ad Valorem rate (frozen) was not displaying the frozen value field when it should. Exports -   Updated the Generic Data Export to strip all of the CR/LF from the legal description text when doing an export to be consistent with Pervasive Assessing.
07/01/2010	General -   Added new special population types to reports and exports to only include or exclude 211.7d parcels. -   Added a linked unit check with a message prompt if you select a unit that has linked units to it in the Sales Search & Analysis - Governmental Unit filters. Reporting -   Added new attachment image/caption fields to the report writer. These fields are named 'Image_Res', 'Image_Ag', 'ImageCI' and 'Image_Res_caption', 'Image_Ag_caption', and 'Image_CI_caption' respectively. -   Fixed an issue where the 'primaryClassType' report field was not working correctly when using queries on reports.
06/30/2010	General -   Fixed an issue with the Sales -> Tools -> Edit Name and Address information. When editing information from that screen it would break the name/address fields on the main screen on the owner tab page making it so they no longer would get updated or affect the database when modifying them.
06/25/2010	General -   Updates to be consistent with the Pervasive Assessing application. -   Updated the 'Tax Info' tab such that if you change from having a Land Bank classification to a Non-Land Bank classification it'll automatically clear the land bank field information. -   Updated the prior year data entry windows so if editing a 'Reason for Change' field it won't prompt you making sure you want to change a prior year value. Reporting -   Updated the 'MostRecentTranferred' report writer fields to behave correctly in sale reports. -   Fixed a few areas where if a sale was confidential it was not correctly printing '***' in its place on reports.
06/24/2010	General -   Fixed an issue where for some users in certain cases the Active Directory Auto-Login feature was not working. Reporting -   Added new reports 'DDA Report (Current Year - Multi-Lined)' and 'DDA Report (Prior Year - Multi-Lined)' which include all DDA/LDFA entries on a given parcel as well as totals by DDA/LDFA at the end of the report. -   Fixed 'MostRecentTransferred' fields in the report writer to correctly fill in with the last transfer percent and date. -   Added the '4025 SEV' report under the School District Setup area of the program. Exports -   Added a preventative measure to not allow users to merge all parcel information on a source/target database where the assessment year's don't match because it causes issues.
06/22/2010	General -   Fixed an issue in the 'Public Viewing Mode' where certain actions would cause the program to shut down. Exports -   Added the 'IFT Export for STC'.
06/22/2010	General -   A handful of updates to be consistent with Pervasive Assessing.
06/18/2010	Reporting -   Fixed a totaling issue on the Misc. Totals and Statistics Report with class adjustments. GIS -   Fixed an issue with adjusting GIS labels on the 'Land Value Map' feature.
06/18/2010	General -   Added 'Price Per Acre' fields to the Land Information screen. -   Fixed a copy parcel issue with copying prior year values. Reporting -   Fixed an issue with the 'Warrant Report' where it was previously in certain cases printing multiple redundant totals lines. -   Fixed an issue with the 'Real Estate Summary' report for Wexford County. -   Added the ability to 'Combine related units' in the Equalization -> School Districts Report. GIS -   Update to 'Land Value Map' feature to display all labels at all times on the GIS Map even when they overlap at certain zoom levels. -   Added dynamic tool tip display when drawing a shape label on the GIS Map so you can get feedback with how long the currently drawn segment is. Exports -   Added the 'Send to E-Mail' field to the ASCII Names Export, and also added the ability to select to import the field on the corresponding Import. -   Fixed an issue with the Courtsey Split Export where if you chose to compress the files it was not including all of the necessary files in the selected zip file.
06/16/2010	General -   Added a fix to a Rollover issue that could occur causing it to not complete.
06/15/2010	General -   Allow parcels to be entered in the 'other parcels in sale' area that do not exist necessarily in the database. Reporting -   Fixed a spacing issue where a varying number of blank spaces would show up in between schools on the Warrant Report. Exports -   Fixed an issue with the database merge and parcels from village units.
06/15/2010	General -   Updated the 'Edit Parcel' view such that when you change the current class to a REF REAL/BLL class type, it'll prompt you if you have any CFR Acreage filled in if you'd like the system to clear the acreage entered. -   Updated the previous year calculation detail screen to only allow valid percentages from 0-100 on the percent transferred field. -   Updated the 'Sketches' tab on the 'Edit Parcel' view so the image drawing would not distort sketch thumbnail images if the aspect ratio's were different on the thumbnail and with the picture box size on the tab page. -   Updated the permits area under the 'Edit Parcel' view so when printing a handful of reports (the same in Pervasive) in the Permit category, it'll include all of the permits on the parcel. -   Updated the ECF and Land Tables deletion logic to allow non 'XXXXX' tables to be deleted if your database is setup to use the global ecf and/or land tables respectively. Reporting -   Added a new field (that previously existed in the Pervasive program) named MM1_UseCodeDesc to the report writer. -   Updated the Land Improvement Valuation Statement so it would print any improvements regardless if the value was 0 or not. -   Added a user preference that allows you to always have the Report Selection window close upon the completion of running a report. Program Setup -   Added the ability to set the Governmental Unit freeze options for all units under the Tools button. Sketch -   Added a new field for Residential Building sketches to notate that the sketch integration for that specific building should permanently be turned off. Exports -   Updated the database merge to provide a Source/Target option when merging Land Tables.
06/08/2010	Reporting -   Updated a few reports such as the Record Card to print sketch images with the correct scale so the images are not distorted. Exports -   Fixed an issue in the database merge that could in some cases prevent ECF's from coming over to the target database. Imports -   Added a utility to repair names and addresses for Grand Haven.
06/04/2010	General -   Fixed an issue that could occur with the out of country adress logic where the fields wouldn't show correctly on the screen. Reporting -   Fixed an issue where some Enterprise Administrators could not print Record Cards and Valuation Statements for personal property parcels.s GIS -   Added the ability for users to edit GIS layers directly from the legend control using the right mouse click (context menu). -   Added the ability to display some basic land value maps from the Land Table view. Exports -   Some fixes to the Database Merge in regards to some of the data like 'Residential Styles' getting cleared when it shouldn't for unrelated units. -   Added an option to use the source or target database during the Database Merge for ECF Records. -   Added a custom Legals export for Otsego County.
06/01/2010	General -   Fixed a few things that could cause issues relating to images in the program. -   Made it so when adding a new ECF, the default values for all of the residential styles default to a value of 1. Reporting -   Fixed an issue that could cause reports on parcels with no neighborhood setup or with databases that contain a blank neighborhood record to not complete.
05/28/2010	General -   Added the ability to define a default Effective Age adjustment in the Comparable Analysis area. -   Added the ability to re-order the comparable sales used in a Comparable Analysis. -   Added the ability to define a collection of parcels from which the sales should be taken from when doing a Comparable Analysis. Exports -   Fixed an issue that could prevent the Generic Data Export from successfully completing.
05/27/2010	General -   Updates to be consistent with Pervasive Assessing.
05/26/2010	General -   Update to the Pervasive Conversion to handle the converting of the current/previous tax status better on 'Default' parcels. -   Added the ability to have a 'Time Adjustment' based on the subject parcel appraisal date and sale date of a given comparable parcel while doing a Comparable Analysis. -   Added the ability to select 'Effective Age' while doing a Comparable Analysis. Reporting -   Added new fields 'lastSaleLiberPage' and 'lastSaleTermsOfSale' to the ParcelReadonly table for Reports. Imports -   Fixed an issue with the ASCII Import where in certain cases it would shut down the program while importing the Values file.
05/25/2010	General -   Fixed an issue with the set fields tool in the Sales Table area. -   Attempted fix to an issue that is difficult to recreate where you would see a large red X in the 'Record Card Image' thumbnail box on the left pane of the program often followed by some action which would unexpectedly shut down the program. Reporting -   Fixed an issue that could cause the wrong rate from the costmanual to be printed for porch areas on the Valuation Statement and Record Card. -   Added new fields named 'lastSaleGrantor' and 'lastSaleGrantee' to the ParcelReadonly table. -   Fixed an issue on the 'Simple List Report' where if you selected previous year values (i.e. July, Dec.) it was not printing the correct value in the detail column, however was printing the correct totals. GIS -   Added the display of the current zoom level while in the GIS View in the lower left of the status bar. Exports -   Fixed an issue with the Generic Data Exports - Sales where the legal description was not being loaded and consequently no data was exported with the selected sales.
05/21/2010	General -   Updated Assessing.NET to be consistent with the latest pervasive Assessing changes. -   Added a new 'PTA Penalty Applies' checkbox field to the Sales area. Reporting -   Added back in the L-4024 with the correct equalized values using the 'Recommended CEV' values that show on the L-4023 Report. -   Updated the 'Sales Period' date labels on the L-4047 report. GIS -   Added the ability to reposition custom features in the GIS map. -   Added the ability to define thematic GIS layers (using your GIS Data) under program setup. -   Added the ability to do a parcel search from the GIS View.
05/18/2010	Reporting -   Fixed an issue where you could not print to the printer if you selected 'Printer' as your report destination.
05/18/2010	Reporting -   Fixed an issue in the L-4028 report where it was not reporting inter county numbers correctly.
05/17/2010	Calculation Changes -   Fixed an issue with DNR-PILT parcels and the taxable value on 2011 databases. General -   Updated attachment backup to rename file when entering the utility by including the date as part of the name.
05/13/2010	General -   Added the ability to filter sales using the 'Flag this Sale for ECF Analysis' under the Sales Search & Analysis view. -   Fixed an issue with updating the sales/assessement ratio on multi-parcel sales when running the 'Update Physical Characteristics' tool. -   Fixed an issue where running the 'Change Unit Code' tool under the Governmental Unit Setup would sometimes not successfully work. -   Removed some new error messages that would point out invalid values that existed in the data for a given parcel. Reporting -   Added support for printing really large reports (very large number of pages) to a PDF file. This will allow you to print things like Record Cards on large populations to a PDF File destination. -   Updates to Industrial Real and Personal Reports. -   Fixed an issue with the L-4028 with reporting the previous school district if different than the current school district for a parcel. GIS -   Fixed an issue where trying to add labels to a 'Custom Layer' in GIS would not display on the map.
05/12/2010	Program Security -   User group security update.
05/11/2010	General -   Added a new field named 'PAR_IsSpecialAct' which is either a 0 or 1 value where 0 is Ad Valorem and 1 is a Special Act. Reporting -   Fixed an issue with the Calculated Expression editor and using the advanced window where it wouldn't save your expression correctly. -   Updates to the Industrial Real/Personal Reports. Program Security -   Updated some recently added security items for the table's within the program to make them listed as 'Hide Sales Table', 'Hide Audit Table', etc.... Exports -   Added support to the Generic Data Export to use related Neighborhood fields. -   Added the ability in the Generic Data Export to select fields that are in your 'Report Favorites'. To add a field to your Report Favorites list, use the right mouse button and click the 'Add to Report Favorites' option for a given field. Imports -   Updated the ASCII import for permits where if you decide to not import a new category, it won't keep asking you if you would like to add that new category for the remainder of the import process. -   Updated the ASCII import for permits to allow you to define a list of permit categories where all permits with that category will always be skipped. This will make it easier to always exclude certain permits from being imported into your database. -   Updated the ASCII values import to allow PRE Information to be imported from a database that has an Assessment Year 1 year ahead of it.
05/03/2010	Imports -   Added support for the 'Sales' table to the CSV Import.
05/03/2010	General -   Fixed an issue with converting Attachments where if somehow the caption was larger than the database it would fail. -   Fixed an issue that could shut down the program when deleting and copying building information on a parcel.
05/03/2010	General -   Added a new Sort Index 'PRE Type' to the Parcels table. -   Added security items that allow you to turn on or off the ability to list on the various program tables. -   Fixed an issue where debugging/error messages were showing up in the program on various things such as reports. -   Added support for command line Public Viewing Mode access. To do this add a command line parameter of '/PublicMode' without the quotes. NOTE: You should also specify the username/password in the command line (/u and /p) if you are not using the Active Directory authentication to make the program enter the mode without prompting for a username and password.
04/28/2010	Reporting -   Fix to the L-4028 to not allow the Headlee MRF to exceed 1.0000.
04/23/2010	Calculation Changes -   Fixed an issue in regards to DNR-PILT parcels and the final taxable value being 0 when it shouldn't be. General -   Fixed an issue with displaying TIF images on the main parcel view attachment tab control. -   A handful of updates to stay consistent with Pervasive Assessing changes. -   Updated system to allow the Base Tax Rate Fraction for Truth in Taxation to go above 1.0000. -   Updated the behavior of the system after adding a sale and leaving the sale window to work the same for both County and Local Units. -   Fix to Comparable Analysis (side-by-side view) to correctly display the garage capacity. Reporting -   Fixed an issue with the L-4028 and totaling for Community Colleges. -   Updated the L-4028 to not show the 'Not in CC' as well as the 'Not in ISD' entries in the totals.
04/19/2010	Calculation Changes -   Fixed an issue with the Commercial/Industrial buildings where it could incorrectly pull the Industrial ECF multiplier rather than the Commercial ECF multiplier. General -   Fixed an issue with displaying TIF images in the program where it would always show them as an external document, now it shows the actual image. Reporting -   Fixed an issue in the L-4028 where if you had duplicate ISD's (with different casing) it wouldn't handle it correctly and lump the two together.
04/16/2010	General -   Fixed a typo with the word 'Pergo' under the Residential Flooring. Reporting -   Updated eEqualization Report and county totals. -   Updated Qualified Ag. Form (2599). -   Update to the 4626 Report options to formulate the correct name for the STC CSV file. -   Updated L-4028 to make the ISD's and Community College names work case insensitive when computing totals. -   Updated the Special Real and Reference Special Real to default to Industrial type in all cases. -   Fixed an issue with the Summary of Assessed/Recommended Eq. Values Report.
04/12/2010	Reporting -   Fixed an issue in the eEqualization Export with the totals. -   Fixed an issue with the L-4028 with the county totals not showing any values.
04/09/2010	General -   Updated the wording on the previous year detail screen from 'Senior Citizen Exemption' to 'Frozen Table'. -   Fixed an issue with the Street Master table lookup where it wasn't always correctly validating if a street existed in the table. -   Fixed an issue with property related searches where if only one match is found in the parcel and extra address tables it will now take you directly to the parcel rather than show the search results window. -   Fixed an issue that was recently introduced in the 4/8 version where the Comparable Analysis was not honoring various filters such as sales dates when loading the sales to use. Reporting -   Various updates to the 3127 Report. -   Fixed an issue with 64 bit machines where the printer window would lose focus and not allow you to click on it. Exports -   Added an Attachment Information Export located under the File->Exports menu. Imports -   Fixed an issue during the Standard ASCII import that could cause many unit option detail records (i.e. Assessor Change Reasons, Activity Descriptions) to be created on the County (XXXXX) governmental unit record.
04/08/2010	General -   Made some large changes to the Comparable Analysis Side-by-Side view to allow users to select which fields they would like to include as part of the analysis, these are under the 'Preferences' button of the side-by-side view. You can also control the order now of the items as the appear in the editing grid, spreadsheet, and report. -   Removed the user preference of 'View this database as' and now have it tied to the program license. -   Fixed an issue in 2011 databases where the prior year detail (2010) was not showing the correct CPI. Reporting -   Fixed an issue with the L-4025 Report. -   Fixed an issue with the L-4025 SEV Report. -   Fixed a reporting issue to make sure to not report 'RZ-NEZ - New Non PRE 25/50/75%' as Ad-Valorem.
04/01/2010	Reporting -   Fix to L-4024 to only include the AdValorem Parcels.
03/31/2010	Exports -   Fixed an issue with some of the readonly fields not filling in with data in the Generic Data Export.
03/30/2010	General -   Updated the Quick Text screen to also remember the last category you were in by each attachment type. -   Fixed an error in some wording on a message you get when trying to use a block on the index of 'MBOR Occurred'. Reporting -   Fixed an issue with the L-4023 and computed factors.
03/25/2010	Reporting -   Added a new field for reporting located in the 'MemoryFieldsTable' named 'sketch_Land', this is the field you use to print the land sketch thumbnail on reports.
03/24/2010	Calculation Changes -   Updated the program to correctly handle the Reference Permanent class type on parcels. Reporting -   Fixed an issue with the Possible Calculation Problems report. -   Updated under Governmental Unit Setup the Unit Listing report to always print all records. GIS -   Fixed a handful of issues that were occurring on some Shape File's when trying to build/rebuild an index file. Exports -   Fixed a rare issue where under certain circumstances a user could be prevented from exporting data from the system. Imports -   Updated ASCII import to better report date issues if the data is bad in the import file.
03/23/2010	Reporting -   Fixed an issue where the L-4022 AV was not displaying the cross foot asterisks correctly in certain cases.
03/23/2010	Reporting -   Fixed an issue where index based fields in calculated expressions was returning numerical values rather than the string values.
03/22/2010	GIS -   Updated the 'Highlight in GIS' option for blocked and marked records from the Table View's to allow you to turn on/off the push-pin option. -   Added under the 'Map' toolbar button in the Edit Parcel view the ability to show a map tool window that shows/zooms to the current parcel while in that view. As you change records, it automatically updates the map to show the location of the current record.
03/16/2010	Reporting -   Update to MBOR Action Report to speed up the performance. -   Fixed a space issue where the entire page number was not being printed on the MBOR Log Report. GIS -   Fix to a GIS issue where creating an empty layer would use the 'Use Table' population if you added a label.
03/15/2010	Reporting -   Fixed an issue where if you had enough 'Reasons for Change' codes entered on a parcel, you would get an error when running a report to the effect of 'Error can not set column 'ReasonsForChange''.
03/15/2010	General -   Fixed an issue with the conversion that would only occur when converting previous year databases along with your current database conversion. Reporting -   Fixed an issue with the MBOR Action Report where it wasn't printing the correct totals on the report.
03/12/2010	General -   Fixed an issue that was causing errors in various areas of the program. The error message was saying that the column 'parcelMaster' did not exist.
03/10/2010	General -   Updated the program to copy over some various information for permits if it's not yet been set such as property class, neighborhood, zoning when running procedures that save parcel data such as the write floating values. Reporting -   Updated the MBOR Action report which previously was not printing correctly. -   Fixed an issue in the Real Estate Summary where it would print building data incorrectly on vacant properties if the prior record printed had building data. GIS -   Fixed an issue where selecting to display a field/label on a custom layer in GIS was not showing the label text. -   Fixed an issue where if you had multiple map windows opened it would minimize the window if you mouse hovered over the main GIS View in the program. -   Updated the GIS map to allow you to zoom in much closer than previously allowed.
03/09/2010	General -   Fixed an issue where you could not set the 'Poverty' field under the current year MBOR screen to the Poverty Denied value.
03/09/2010	General -   Fixed an issue when editing attachments and if you cleared out the caption field where it would shutdown the program. -   Added the 'Remove Commas from Legal Descriptions' utility. Reporting -   Added a Comments Report to the Assessing Report category.
03/05/2010	General -   Added an option on reminders to notify all users. Reporting -   Added Comments Report to the Assessing Report Category. Imports -   Fixed an issue that caused the ASCII Import with turning on the option to not import Inactive Parcels.
03/04/2010	General -   Added the ability to set and use a date range for all date fields throughout the program under General Settings. This is intended to allow you to set reasonable minimum and maximum date thresholds to prevent bad data from being entered into the system. -   Added a few fixes to be consistent with Pervasive Assessing. Reporting -   Fixed a duplexing issue when printing the Record Card Report.
03/02/2010	General -   Now forcing a valid date prior to leaving the currenty year MBOR window if one is specified. -   Fixed a label display issue on the Residential Building - Plumbing display where it wasn't showing the full 'Ceramic Tile Wainscoat' label as it was being clipped to only show 'Ceramic Tile'. GIS -   Fixed an issue with loading the GIS Map during program startup.
02/26/2010	Calculation Changes -   Updated the system to handle cases where if a Personal Property parcel have value in the prior year but the current year value is set to zero, it will now automatically force the loss and losses. Previously the system only forced loss but not losses, this change will only affect the 2011 Assessment Year and beyond. General -   Fixed an issue where the 'MST_NumberOfSketches' field was not being updated correctly in the parcel save and write floating values process. This consequently caused report filters to not work correctly on this field. -   Added the Advanced Set Data Fields feature to the Personal Property table. -   Fixed a loophole in data entry that could potentially allow you to enter bad data in lookup fields. -   Made it such that when using the Quick Text feature while entering data in a field, it now remembers the last category you had selected for the next time you enter the Quick Text window. Reporting -   Fixed a column heading issue with the L-4021 (Resource format) report. -   Added a new report to print Apex Sketches through the Apex program to provide the same functionality as the Pervasive Assessing program. This new printout report is named Apex Sketches Report (Using Apex).
02/24/2010	General -   Added the ability to search through the program update text. -   Fixed an issue with zip codes where having two with the same value wouldn't prompt you with a lookup window and would rather tell you that it was invalid. Reporting -   Updated the 'Edit Report Condition' window to use a dropdown selection list when trying to filter by special act classification.
02/23/2010	General -   Fixed an issue with the record pagination on the Edit Parcel screen where if you were indexed by a given column and changed it's value, it wouldn't retain your position prior to the change, instead it would jump to the new location of the parcel in the list. Now it behaves the same as the Pervasive Assessing application with regards to this situation. Reporting -   Fixed a bug in the Assessment Roll report where it could potentially clip off and not print the PRE % times the taxable value on the report.
02/23/2010	General -   Added better error messages when encountering problems with calculating data.
02/22/2010	General -   A handful of updates to be consistent with the Pervasive Assessing system. Program Security -   Fixed an issue with Public Viewing Mode. -   Fixed an issue where as an Administrator you still couldn't unlock parcels that weren't locked by you. -   Fixed a password check problem to public viewing mode that only affected certain configurations.
02/18/2010	Reporting -   Updates to the Change Notice (Self Mailer) report. -   Fixed an issue with the TV-SEV Report.
02/16/2010	General -   Added a new tab in the Residential Apex Integration area where it shows values before and after importing data named 'Questionable Areas'. This tab will show any areas that were correctly mapped but had a different value specified than there was specified as the default under the area code mapping setup. -   Added a feature to the Database Restore procedure where after you restore you database it'll show you the previous attachment path if it was different than the one that was restored and give you an opprotunity to change it back to the previous path (or any other path). Reporting -   Fixed an issue where you could sometimes print a Valuation Statement for a Personal Property Statement and end up with a blank report. -   Fixed an issue where you could add a report favorite then try and use it in a report and it wouldn't create the correct data binding path causing the field to not print the correct data. -   Fixed a bug with the Record Count shown in the report preview window. -   Fixed an issue in the Change Notice (Laser) report where it could print on multiple pages if you didn't have any margins set.
02/11/2010	General -   Added a new 'Revoked' field that allows you to now set the 'Frozen$' field value to 0 without it getting set back to the previous year taxable. -   Fixed a bug when deleting a child record (i.e. building, pp statement, sale) and immediately trying to print a 'printout' report it would give you an error and not work. Reporting -   Fix to an issue with the 'CurrentRecordCounter' field in the Report Writer. -   Fixed a font sizing issue with the L-4021 where on the Resource format it would clip the Change Reason Codes. Imports -   Fixed an issue with converting and importing legal descriptions and comments that contain extended ASCII characters such as the degree symbol and fractional symbols.
02/08/2010	General -   Fixed an issue where when you set the number of characters to use from the parcel number in the Split/Combine process it wasn't using it correctly in the parent parcel window. -   Fixed an issue with when you set a parcel to use the 'Senior Citizen / Disabled Housing' special act, it would automatically set the Qualified Ag. option to Sup. Hsng. -   Added the Change Notice Export Layout and Personal Property Export Layout to the Help -> View Documentation area. -   Updated the attachment sort option such that it sorts correctly using the 'Attachment Date' field. -   Updated the 'Tax Bill' tab to correctly show the 'Frozen $' field where applicable. -   Added an option under General Settings that allow you to have the 'Processed By' field filled in on the personal property statements with your initials when you change the statement status from 'Statement not received' to 'Statement received'. -   Updated text entry fields to support the entry of special characters such as the degree symbol (ALT + 0176). -   Added the ability to select 'Income Capitalization/GRM' in the database merge utility. Reporting -   Fixed an issue with the Valuation Statement where it was not printing the Unit Description on the top header of the report pages. -   Fixed an issue with the Image Report where it would not successfully print. -   Fixed Assessment Roll Certificate report to correctly print the assessor's certificate number. -   Updates to Change Notice Reports to show the percentage signs all on the same side and to show a 0.00 value rather than an empty string value. -   Updated Change Notice (Leasehold) report as well as the PRE Affidavit (Laster) report.
02/03/2010	General -   Fixed an issue that could occur and cause a timeout when saving a parcel. This issue would typically occur if you had an attachment tied to an area where there were no child records such as a sales attachment but no sales.
02/03/2010	General -   Fixed an issue where you will get an error when trying to add a new Personal Property Statement. -   Fixed an issue in the 'Quick Data Entry' where it could incorrectly create an MBOR on a Parcel. Reporting -   Updated the Change Notice (Change in Taxes) report. -   Updated the L-4035 Report.
02/03/2010	General -   Updated the comparable analysis feature such that when computing the adjusted price per sq. ft., it now uses the subject parcel's square feet. -   Updated the comparable analysis feature to allow you to now define an unlimited number of 'Miscellaneous Adjustments' which are included in the new MS Excel spreadsheet dump. -   Added a to the side by side comparable analysis (as well as the spreadsheet dump) the net and gross adjustment information including both the dollar amount and percentage. -   Fixed an issue in the Pervasive conversion with handling the degree symbol that sometimes exists in legal descriptions. -   Added the ASCII export file layout information to the program's help menu area. -   Added the 'Set Data Fields' feature to the Parcel Sales table. -   Fixed an issue that could occur when trying to save a parcel that would give you the error message 'Collection was modified; enumeration operation might not execute.'. -   Added the ability to specify if you want to use the 'Current Assessment' or 'Assessment when Sold' value on a given sale record when doing a comparable analysis. Reporting -   Fixed the L-4021 Report to correctly print the change reason codes. -   Fixed an issue where printing ECF table descriptions in a group header band was not working correctly. -   Updated a handful of things in the Change Notice reports including support for carriage return (new lines) in the change notice text. -   Fixed an issue where the 'Send to Address' fields were not always compressed removing empty lines.
01/27/2010	General -   Added the ability to dump the Comparable Analysis side by side data to an Excel Spreadsheet. -   Added a new Personal Property e-file status for the City of Grand Rapids. -   Fixed an issue with zip code fields when entering the 'plus 4' values it wouldn't accept the input as valid data or work right in lookups. -   Fixed a label issue within the Commercial Buildings - Sprinkler Information area. -   Fixed an issue with an incorrect warning message when editing some of the previous year values. -   Fixed an issue when adding an attachment where you could get an error that the 'OriginalFileName' length was to long. -   Fixed an occasional bug in the Split/Combine parent parcel entry window where you could get an error while adding parent parcels. Reporting -   Fix to the Change Notice (Laser) to make it fit on one page when you have the default margins set. Program Setup -   Fixed a bug where you couldn't successfully enter and save the last digit on the assessor's phone number under the Governmental Unit setup. -   Updated the program such that adding a new Governmental Unit will default to having current and previous equalization factors of 1. Imports -   Fixed a couple issues relating to an ASCII import into a new database and correctly adding and using new units that are detected on parcels being imported.
01/22/2010	General -   Large change to the way attachment paths are stored and can be used. By default the system behaves as it previously did where it will locate and use any attachment associated with the parcel number, however now there is a new option that will allow you to only use attachments from the path entered for the current database. Reporting -   Fix to reporting and group footer realated summary fields. -   Minor updates to Change Notice reports. -   Fixed an issue where certain filters would not work on child tables (i.e. ResidentialBuildings).
01/14/2010	Calculation Changes -   Updated Senior Citizen special act related calculation. General -   Fixed the Bing Maps (formerly Microsoft Virtual Earth) feature to view a property on the map. -   Updated the Land Apex sketch area of the program to give the same message prompts as the various building sketch areas. -   Fixed an issue where the appropriate files were not being copied for Internet Services. -   Fixed an issue with saving Quick Data Entry adjustments. Reporting -   Updated the ECF Detailed printout to include the GRM on the report. -   Updated the PRE Conditional Rescind (4640) report. -   Fixed an issue in reporting where some Agricultural Building index based fields were not being converted to strings correctly. -   Fixed an issue on Record Cards with the Residential Building - Interior information. -   Updated Change Notice (Laser), Change Notice (Change in Taxes) and Change Notice (Self-Mailer) reports. GIS -   Fixed an issue with dumping sales to a GIS map and nothing showing up. Imports -   Fixed an issue with importing tax billing information when going from a special act to ad-valorem.
01/08/2010	General -   Minor update to wording regarding the Senior Citizen special act choice. -   Added two new indices to the Parcel Sales table: 'Redemption Date' and 'Uncapping Date'. -   Fixed an issue with the Set Data Fields feature where it was incorrectly appending a space immediately following any existing Reason Codes before appending the new Reason Code. -   Added the ability to access the REZ fields under the Tax Billing information area regardless of what the classification of the parcel is. -   Updated the copy parcel function to fill in the parent parcel number by default if one is set. -   Updated the parcel current year detail screen to auto advance to the same fields in the same order as the Pervasive Assessing version. -   Fixed an issue with saving the Map Quarter section under the Land Screen for a parcel. -   Updated the program to auto-generate Personal Property Access codes needed for e-filing. Reporting -   Fixed an issue where with a property class adjustment on a parcel depending on the new class type it could double the assessed value on some reports such as the L-4023 Report. -   Fixed an issue where printing a Personal Property statement where if you had the option for it to only print the current year and it wasn't it will now give you an error message and not print a blank sheet. -   Fix to current year DDA Report to display the correct year. -   Updated the Change Notice reports to not use decimal places for the Taxable, Assessed, and SEV values. -   Added a prompt when running the L-4023 report if you do not have the Projected TCV's entered already for the given property class. -   Fixed an issue with printing the correct Assessor Certificate Number on the L-4022 report. -   Fixed several issues with converting Personal Property reports from the Pervasive Assessing version. Sketch -   Updated the way the program works when adding a new Apex sketch, now you no longer need to hit the edit button immediately following to begin editing the new sketch, it will now automatically open the sketch for editing. Exports -   Updated the Generic Export to populate various comment fields such as the general comments.
01/05/2010	Calculation Changes -   Fixed some issues regarding NEZ/OPRA special acts. -   Updated program in regards to 'Senior Citizen/Disabled Housing'. General -   Updated program to work on 64 bit operating systems. -   Added a new 'Street Light Frontage' field to the Tax Information tab on the main edit parcel screen.
12/23/2009	General -   Fixed an issue with Neighborhood filters when you use database wide Neighborhood tables.
12/22/2009	General -   Fixed an issue in the Commercial Buildings area with the quality drop down items. Reporting -   Fixed some issues in the Report Writer with handling drop down (index based) fields in the calculated expressions. -   Fixed a couple issues in the Change Notice reports. -   Updated reporting logic on village unit to copy and use the linked unit's return address information in reports. -   Fixed an issue with trying to use the 'marked' field in report filters where they previously did not work. Sketch -   Added an advanced utility to remove all sketches from the current database.
12/17/2009	General -   Added new classifications in the NEZ group. -   Fixed an issue that could occur in some Pervasive database conversions where you could get a 'divide by 0' SQL error. Reporting -   Updated July and December BOR Summary Report to have 5 lines for members signatures. -   Fixed an issue with the MM1_LastAdjustmentComment field in the report writer. -   Hooked up and fixed handful of comment related fields to the field list in the report writer such as the MM1_ExtendedSaleComment field as well as the JBOR/DBOR/Trib comment fields. -   Fixed an issue with the L-4018 County wide report where the total TCV was not adding up exactly to the sum of all the local units TCV, the issue was related to a rounding error. -   Added a summary window to show the selected units and schools as well as a 'Sort List Alphabetically' option to the 'Choose Units' population window in the reporting area of the program.
12/14/2009	General -   Fixed the 'Property Address' and 'Property Number' search to include extra addresses in the results even when there is exactly 1 property address match. Reporting -   Updated the Ratios and Factors report to correct an alignment issue when column values exceeded two digits. -   Updated the L-4031 report to print 3 lines of comment text rather than 1. Sketch -   Fixed an issue with the Sketch integration where in certain rare cases it would shut down the program.
12/11/2009	Reporting -   Updates to the Form 3594 (Comm. Towers) report as well as the PRE Affidavit (Military) report.
12/11/2009	General -   Fix to a Neighborhood filter issue where in some cases it would not show any items in the filter list. Reporting -   Fix to the User Report editor issue where when trying to edit a report the application would hang. -   Fix to the L-4018 county wide report.
12/09/2009	General -   Miscellaneous updates to be consistent with Pervasive Assessing. -   Added the ability to convert your Pervasive Sketches after you've already completed a conversion into the .NET system. -   Fixed an issue that was very recently introduced where some general settings wouldn't persist when changing databases. -   Fixed an issue with setting the correct liber/page value on the Parcel Master record when saving a parcel. If you use this summary field, you'll want to write floating values to update this field. Sketch -   Fixed an issue to properly display nested Apex Area codes when setting up your Residential Building integration mappings. Exports -   Fixed an issue with the TMA Export not handling sales with no date entered.
12/07/2009	General -   Fixed an issue that would cause various options in the Sales Search & Analysis to seemingly no longer work. Reporting -   Updated the Valuation Statement such that it prints the parcel number at the top of each page. -   Fixed an issue with the 'Choose Units' population where it wasn't always working correctly. -   Fixed an issue with using the Range population on the date/time index. -   Fixed an issue with running the L-4015 from the Equalization Utility where it was not honoring any 'Terms of Sale' filters that were applied. -   Fixed an issue with the Land Table printout report that could under rare circumstances not allow the report to run. Exports -   Fixed an issue in the Personal Property Label Export where the progress indicator showed the wrong record count. Also added a message to the end of the export that shows how many total records were exported. -   Added the custom TMA Export. Imports -   Some fixes for the custom Farmington Hills import.
12/01/2009	General -   Fixed an issue with total land value on a sale record that involved other parcels. -   Fixed an issue with 'Terms of Sale' filters not always working correctly in mult-unit databases. Reporting -   Fixed an issue with Audit Reports that could cause a report to not complete successfully. -   Fixed an issue where the second page of a Personal Property Record Card was not printing the correct parcel number. -   Fixed an issue where the owner information was not printing in box 1 of the RPS Foreclosure report.
11/25/2009	General -   Updated the Sales Analysis output to be sorted by parcel number. -   Added a user preference to warn you when you've changed Legal Descriptions or Comments on a parcel prior to leaving the editing window. This is located under the User Preferences window. -   Fixed an issue when doing a 'Quick Search' by property address and it would inadvertently change the street direction option after typing in a street name (only applies if you use the Street Master feature). -   Fixed an issue with numeric fields that support expressions where typing in a value would occasionally not accept your input and give you an error message "Object reference not set to instance of object". -   Added an option to sort your system attachments in ascending or descending order by when they were added. -   Added a user preference to not auto-fill in a handful of sale fields when adding a new sale record. -   Fixed a rare error that could shut down the program in the PRE area of the program. -   Fixed an rare issue where you could make changes on a parcel then not be allowed to leave it with no apparent reason why. Reporting -   Added support for converting Pervasive Assessing Audit Reports. -   Added new report options to the Personal Property reports. -   Updated the Personal Property Statement report as well as the Page 1 report. -   Added the ability to select fields from the Parcel and ParcelMaster tables when editing Audit Reports. -   Fixed a reporting issue where parcel images would not print. -   Updated the program to filter out Village units when using the Equalization Reporting utilities. -   Fixed an issue with running an L-4018 report for the County under program setup. Program Security -   Fixed a user security issue with the Add/Edit/Delete sketches not working correctly. Exports -   Fixed a bug relating to the Generic Data Export when doing an MS Excel format export. Imports -   Fixed an issue with using the ASCII import and importing the correct Appeal Type on prior year adjustments.
11/17/2009	General -   Added a new Remove Punctuation from Address Fields utility located under the Utilities menu. -   Updated the Write Floating Values process to make sure the number of images field located in the ParcelMaster table was updated. -   Fixed an issue with the History Graph located on the main Edit Parcel screen where it wasn't showing the Final Assessed value correctly for prior years. -   Updated the Parcel Sales screen such that when you add a new sale record it will set the default values (using the first entered record from program setup) for the Sale Terms, Instrument, and Verified By fields. -   Added a new user preference to the various Personal Property screens that allow you to skip the Move-Ins column while entering data. This preference is located in the actual data entry screens themselves. Reporting -   Added support for 'MemoryFieldsTable' fields to the Report Queries. -   Fixed some issues with the Ratio and Factor Report located under Program Setup -> Governmental Unit Setup. Exports -   Added support for a command line BS&A ASCII Export.
11/13/2009	General -   Added the ability to select filter fields (such as neighborhood filters) using a range. -   Added a report option to the ECF and Land Table printouts to only include records that are assigned to the same unit as the current record. Also added the printing of the Unit Code/Description on the reports if you are viewing the database as an 'Equalization Database'. -   Added the unit name next to the unit code on the ECF and Land Table views. -   Added Report Favorite support (this feature can be found using your right mouse button, also known as a context menu) to the various grids used throughout the program. -   Added new Supportive Housing list item under the Ql Ag/Frst/MBT field of the PRE tab. -   Added a user preference for when adding new attachments to either have it reuse the last edited/used caption or to use the filename as the caption by default. This option is located on the actual attachment add window. -   Fixed an issue with the Advanced Set Fields where using a Block population would not work successfully. Reporting -   Added the ability to export and import multiple user reports. -   Fixed an issue with the Courtesy Split Cross Reference report where it was printing multiple previous years. -   Added a check of the CPI for the year 2010 to the Possible Calculation Problems report. Exports -   Added a Tab Delimited format to the Generic Data Export. -   Updated Generic Data Export to allow you to select a 'Map Set' as a population choice.
11/06/2009	General -   Fixed an issue dealing with the Liber/Page field under the Sales window. It now will not try and format existing data that may have been formatted differently than your current format you have defined, it will leave existing data intact and only try and format new data as it's entered. -   Added search/filtering capabilities to the select field window used in the dynamic GIS labeling area as well as the Advanced Set Data Fields area. -   Enhanced the Advanced Set Data Fields feature located under various tables to provide more features for building custom update expressions as well as providing a handful of example expressions. -   Added the Advanced Set Data Fields feature to now be available under the Parcels, Sales, Permits, Residential Buildings, Commercial Buildings, Agricultural Buildings tables under the Tools button. -   Updated the ECF analysis to provide a better error message which now includes the parcel number when it's unable to find a residential style based on what's been set on a given sale record. -   Fixed an issue with looking up residential styles when in the Sales -> Building Details window. Program Setup -   Fixed an issue with saving User Preferences under the Program Setup -> My Preferences area. -   Added a feature under the Use Codes setup area that allows you to auto generate all of the default Use Codes. Sketch -   Fixed an issue that could cause the program to shut down if you had 3 or more Garage areas defined in an Apex sketch and if you are using the full sketch integration feature. Exports -   Added a custom REGIS export for a handful of units that consolidates what was previously 5 or so Generic Data Exports into one single export process. Imports -   Added a custom Extra Address import for Farmington Hills.
11/03/2009	Reporting -   Fix to an issue with printing Land Table reports. -   Fix to an issue where you could not edit a calculated expression in the report designer. GIS -   Fix to an issue where depending on your GIS parcel formatting settings some tools would not work correctly such as the radius selection tool.
10/30/2009	General -   Updated reminders to save your last settings when leaving the window so next time you view them it uses your last settings. -   Updated the attachments window to display the attachments in descending order with the most recent showing first. -   Added a new user preference to allow you to have the 'Show Image to Public' checkbox ON or OFF by default when adding new attachments. This is located under the Program Setup -> My Settings -> My Preferences window. -   Fixed an issue with the Split/Combine screen that could in certain cases prevent you from using the screen. Reporting -   Fixed an issue with printing a handful of index based (drop down) fields from the parcel land area. It was previously printing the number rather than the actual text. -   Made it so you can no longer create user reports based on the Real Estate Summary report as it was not very useful due to the majority of the fields and controls on the report being locked down. Sketch -   Fixed an issue where you could not assign an Apex area to the solar room list. -   Added a printout report to the Apex Sketch integration area that lists all of your mapped residential areas. Imports -   Added some custom importing tools for City of Grand Rapids.
10/28/2009	General -   Added a performance increase to the new Advanced Set Fields tool. Reporting -   Fixed some issues dealing with converting FPC reports that contained problematic calculated fields.
10/28/2009	General -   Use the last loaded/typed attachment caption as the new caption when adding new Attachments. -   Fixed an issue with Quick Block including records it shouldn't when the field being blocked on is a drop down list field. -   Fixed an issue with the Sales table and the Address field that was noticed in the ECF Analysis Report. -   Fixed an issue with the Database Merge and duplicate Residential Styles hit by East Lansing. -   Fixed an issue where the Sale Search & Analysis filters output was not updating correctly. -   Added an Advanced Set Fields utility on the Parcels Table intended for only advanced users that allows you to do high end updates to fields (such as factoring values up or down by a percent or flat value). Please contact BS&A Software Technical Support if you need assistance in doing an advanced set field. -   Fixed a minor issue where trying to view some generic audit entry in the program in certain cases wouldn't display any data. Reporting -   Fixed an issue with the Database Compare Report hit by Mason County. -   Fixed an issue with the L-4028 Report hit by Mason County. -   Added a report option for printing the owner name on the July/December BOR Summary Report. -   Fixed some printing issues for index based fields with ParceMaster residential summary fields. Exports -   Fixed an issue where the Generic Data Export DBASE export was not working for some of the record type categories (i.e. Sales, Residential Buildings, etc.). Imports -   Added a custom import for West Bloomfield.
10/22/2009	General -   Fixed an issue with the ECF Increase/Decrease tool where it would sometimes revert back your selection from Increase to Decrease in drop down list on the options grid. -   Added a technical support utility to fix an attachment issue for St. Clair County. Reporting -   Fixed an issue where some index based fields were not being displayed correctly in various reports. This includes fields such as PAR_AppealTypeYear1-4 and PAR_yardimprclass. -   Fixed an issue with the Database Compare Report where in certain cases it would not successfully run. -   Fixed a unique issue with a User Report where attempting to use the Fire_11 field in a calculated expression was causing some problems and would not allow you to save the expression. Imports -   Fixed an issue in the St. Clair County sale import.
10/20/2009	Reporting -   Locked down a bunch of designer elements in the Real Estate Summary Report that should not be removed from a user report. -   Updated Personal Property Business Info report to show the 'Legal Name of Taxpayer' label on the report. Exports -   Fixed an issue when attempting to load a Generic Data Export. -   Fixed an issue with the Database Export/Merge where Assessor Eyes, General, and Equalization comments were not being copied over.
10/15/2009	General -   Fixed an issue where the program would encounter an error when attempting to view a previous year record from the Edit Parcel screen -   Corrected an issue with the Sale Search and Analysis screen where the Terms of Sale and Neighborhood filters were not properly loading
10/13/2009	General -   Added a handful of updates to be consistent with the latest Pervasive Assessing changes. -   Updated the 'Terms of Sale' column to be the same as the Unit/Terms of Sale column in the Sales Table. Also this column secondarly sorts by the Sale Date.' -   Fixed an issue with the Split/Combine process where if you left off without completing a split, it wouldn't appropriately give you a message and allow you to continue it. Reporting -   Fixed an issue with the sketch image duplicating on reports if a particular parcel did not have a primary sketch indicated on it. -   Fixed an issue with printing the Legal Descriptions on the Assessment Roll Report for any DNR-PILT parcels.
10/08/2009	General -   Added a warning message when attempting to change prior year values that can be optionally turned off in the General Settings window. -   Fixed an issue in the Parcel Search window where if your 'Active Table' was the Audit Table it would shut down the program. -   Fixed an issue with the ECF Analysis where if you didn't have Residential Building style set in the building detail area of the sale it wouldn't handle it correctly and would give you an error. -   Updated the Other Informational Items under the Residential Buildings window to consolidate all of the information into one larger screen rather than a number of smaller screens. -   Added a new feature that allows you to resize the text size inside various multi-lined text windows such as the Legal Description and Comment windows. Reporting -   Fixed some issues with Pervasive User Reports not converting into the correct category. -   Fixed an issue where drop down (index based) fields were not being evaluated correctly in calculated expressions. -   Fixed an issue with printing the correct Basement Foundation information on the Record Card Report. -   Fixed the L-4021 Report - Manatron version so the reason codes print. -   Fixed an issue where the last sale date and last sale price were not being correctly reported from the ParcelMaster table. GIS -   Fixed a couple minor GIS issues that could occur if you removed custom layers from the active map. Exports -   Updated the various Data Exports success prompt window to now allow you to browse to the directory where the files were created. -   Added the ability to create a Generic Data Export based on an existing User Report.
10/02/2009	General -   Now disabling the 'Show Image to Public' checkbox if the current parcel is a personal parcel. -   Added a property class field to the previous year details screen which is not retroactive but will populate with data as databases are rolled over. Reporting -   Fix to an issue issue from earlier this morning (same day as this update) where the parcel based reports might not print any records.
10/02/2009	General -   Fix to conditional PRE to be consistent with the Pervasive Assessing. -   Added to the main 'Edit Parcel' screen the unit code display if you are in Equalization display mode. -   Updated report query window to display a drop down list of items for cond. PRE rather than asking the user for a number. -   Fixed a performance issue where you could see the Property Address window under the Building Permits area get incrementally slower as you try and enter in address information. Reporting -   Updated reports so when you try and cancel a report, in some situations it should cancel quicker. Program Setup -   Fixed an issue with displaying the wrong text in the heading of a window under the Governmental Unit Setup L-4017 Values area. Exports -   Fixed an issue with displaying the wrong count in the progress window when doing various ASCII exports. -   Made various performance improvements to the Generic Data Export process to help it go faster and be more comparable in speed to reports.
09/28/2009	General -   Fixed an issue where deleting a sketch if you have the 'Generate Sketch JPG' turned on it would not allow you to save the parcel and give you an error. Reporting -   Fixed an issue with the User Security Settings Report.
09/28/2009	General -   Fixed an issue on the Land Information screen where if an invalid section or range existed it wouldn't gracefully handle it in the program and would shut down the program. -   Fixed an issue when typing in and saving the Property Address on the Building Permit screen. The system would never allow it to save and would shut down the program. -   Added a new sort index to the Building Permits table named 'Unit/Class'. -   Fixed an some issues found in the program related to a rare problem that would occur after leaving the program open for a long period of time that could potentially cause the program to shut down. These were found through user error log submissions to us. -   Fixed an issue with using the Database wide ECF tables where if you selected the ECF from the main parcel screen, it would not update the ECF multipliers until after you saved the parcel. -   Fixed an issue with the analysis filters hit by Mason County where it was duplicating some of the analysis options over and over again. -   Fixed an issue where the 'Allow ZERO Property Address Numbers' option was not working correctly. -   Fixed an issue in the Land Improvements - Ad Hoc Unit In Place area where it was incorrectly using the UIP 17 area and not the UIP 16 for looking up items. -   Added the Assessing.NET manual to the program which is available under the Help menu. Reporting -   Fixed an issue with the Parcel/Map/Address Cross Reference Report where it was not correctly sorting in property address order when selected. -   Require the user to select a 'Type of Sale' before leaving the Equalization Reporting - Global Report Options screen. -   Fixed and issue by providing a better error message when hitting an uncommon issue in the 4022-AV report. -   Fixed an issue on the Change Notices where the assessment change reason codes and the message were not being correctly updated and displayed on the report. -   Hooked up the print button on the current year MBOR screen which allows you to print the 4035 (Both Sides) report. Program Setup -   Added the ability to set the background and text colors on any of the controls that are in a 'read-only' state. Imports -   Fixed an issue with the Sales Import hit by Ottawa County.
09/22/2009	Reporting -   Updated the 'Edit Condition' window to show the list of sale terms when using the Sal_termsofsaleListNum field. GIS -   Fixed an issue with the Zoom In and Zoom Out tool bar buttons in the GIS View.
09/21/2009	General -   Added the ability to set a color scheme for a database which will override the user's color settings for the given database. This feature is located under the General Settings window. -   Fixed an issue with 'Universal Land Tables' where it wouldn't load the correct information in the land views. -   Fixed an issue in the ECF Analysis screen where the 1 year study was using the incorrect dates. -   Added a new checkbox field to the sales area to specify the sale to be used in the ECF Analysis. To use the feature you basically select which sales you would to have included, then under the ECF Analysis options you select the option 'Only use Sales Flagged for ECF Analysis'. -   Added a limitation to the Driving Directions feature to only allow up to 25 waypoints as this is Microsoft's set limit. -   Added more MTT pending fields which now has a total of 10 rows available for entry. Also added a new checkbox column named 'PRE Applied' to the MTT pending area. -   Updated the process of adding a new Building Permit so it pulls the default permit status and category from the 'Default Real Parcel' defined in the database. -   Fixed another issue where the 'Discard Changes' button would become enabled simply from loading a record when it shouldn't have. -   Updated the Pervasive Assessing conversion to always write all issues found in the conversion to an ASCII file at the end of the conversion just incase you forget to run/print the Conversion Issues report so you can still get access to the issues that were found. -   Fixed an issue with the 'Change Index on Search' feature where doing a Parcel Search (using the text box on the Edit Parcel view) or using a Quick Search was not updating the index. Reporting -   Updated the 'Advanced Sort' under the Reporting window to now allow you to not have to load/save a sort in order to use one. This is to be consistent with how the Pervasive Assessing feature behaved. -   Fixed an issue in the Report Writer where dragging a parcel field on a 'child' record band wouldn't correctly create the data binding resulting in the same data being printed for each child record (unless you manually fixed the data binding). -   Got rid of incorrect Report Writer warning messages when dragging fields from various tables onto a report. Program Security -   Now require an Enterprise Administrator to edit the Password Security Settings information.
09/16/2009	General -   Fixed a problem where occasionally the program would enter 'Edit' mode upon loading a parcel record in the 'Edit Parcel' view. -   Added new indices to the Parcels Table: Prev. MBOR Asmt, Prev. MBOR Tax, and Adj. Class. Reporting -   Updated Record Card Report to word wrap the County/Unit name so it no longer clips off. -   Updated the Property Class List Report under Program Setup -> Property Class setup to show the Exclude from Eq $, and BLL fields. Imports -   Fixed an issue with the St. Clair County sales import.
09/15/2009	General -   Fixed an issue with the Public Viewing Mode maximize window option so it works correctly. -   Made it so you cannot edit the prior class if the MBOR values are frozen. -   Fixed an issue in the Plumbing area where the 3 fixture baths wasn't using the 'Data Entry Threshold' correctly. -   Added the 'Modify Parcel Number' process which located under the utility menu. -   Added an 'Edit Records' button to the terms of sale area under the sales window. -   Fixed an issue where some of the options on the User Preference window would not persist to the database such as the 'Change Index on Search' option. -   Added special logic to warn a user if they enter a Residential Class modifier that is > than 20 to prevent mistakes, also I warn users if they attempt to enter a modifier on a CD or BC class as they shouldn't have a modifier applied. -   Fixed an issue when your active table was the 'Parcel Sales' and you execute a Quick Search it wouldn't load the right parcel that you had selected into the Edit Parcel view. -   Added a user preference that allows you to display the User Fields on the 'Main' tab rather than on the 'Misc' tab. -   Fixed an issue where you may not see any Neighborhoods in the 'Select Neighborhoods' window when doing an ECF Analysis. Reporting -   Added 'Excel Spreadsheet' output option to the L-4015 Sales Report. -   Fixed an issue where the 'Assessed' range values from the Sales - Custom Selection population was not working correctly. Now it is using the assessment when sold value. -   Fixed an issue with printing Legal Description Labels report. -   Added the selected units to the Miscellaneous Totals/Statistics Report heading area if the 'Choose Units' population is selected. -   Fixed an issue hit when running a L-4015 and if you had a filter set such Sale Ratios that wouldn't allow the report to complete all the way and it wouldn't print any totals. Imports -   Fix to St. Clair County custom sales import.
09/10/2009	General -   Added the ability to define 'Data Entry Thresholds' on various fields that will warn you if you enter data that exceeds the specified maximum value. -   Fixed an issue with the ECF Single Family set fields feature that could shut down the program unintentionally. -   Added an 'Edit Records' button to the Sale Terms lookup under the sales screen. -   Fixed an issue where if you hit the TAB key or clicked away from a numeric field you just edited, it wouldn't persist your change. -   Fixed an issue with the field 'buildingHasSketch' which was not correctly being set in reports and filters. -   Added a new index to the Residential Buildings table for the class modifier (+/-). Reporting -   Updated the Legal Mailing Labels report to default to 50 on the second column offset value. -   Added a select/unselect all feature to the 'Choose Units' population in reports. -   Updated the L-4031 printout to also show the original and adjusted property class and school district.
09/09/2009	General -   Fixed an issue with Set Fields on the Parcel Table where it would not work correctly in all cases with the Gov. Unit field. -   Fixed an issue with the Archive/Un-Archive database password checking to work with Active Directory. -   Fixed an issue with the 'Terms of Sale' lookup incorrectly showing the Edit Records button that displayed the Zoning Codes values.
09/04/2009	General -   Fixed a minor issue where the Advanced Database menu when using the arrow keys would behave strangely. Program Setup -   Fixed a rare issue that occurred when trying to delete Property Classes that would prevent you from successfully being able to delete them.
09/03/2009	Reporting -   Fixed an issue that would prevent the Real Estate Summary report from running. The error was related to not being able to find an 'author' column. GIS -   Added the ability to put 'ad-hoc' labels onto the GIS View.
09/02/2009	General -   Fixed an issue relating to when you were viewing and using a 'child' table related to a parcel, then went to view the parcel, then deleted the child record it would unintentionally delete the parcel. -   Added an additional alternate parcel number format. -   Added a user preference option to allow thePublic Viewing Mode feature to be able to be minimized. Reporting -   Added a print button to the Tax Information screen that you can view when linked to the Tax.NET System. -   Updated the L-4017, L-4047, and PRE Affidavit (Laser) reports. -   Added the ability to use an advanced sort using value fields from the prior year. -   Updated Attachment Image printout to include the Parcel Number, Address, and Caption on the report. -   Added new report option to the Possible Calculation Problems report to allow you to identify any ZERO base value parcels. Exports -   Fixed an issue with the progress window update text on the Generic Data Export. -   Fixed an issue when doing a DBASE format Generic Data Export that wouldn't allow it to successfully complete.
09/01/2009	Reporting -   Updated L-4017 and L-4047 Report layouts.
09/01/2009	General -   Added an Export all sketches to individual files utility under the utilities menu. Reporting -   Fix to an issue with printing Valuation Statements. -   Fix to an issue with printing a 'printout' report after having deleted a Residential Building. Imports -   Fix to St. Clair County custom import.
08/28/2009	General -   Updated the Aging tool to allow a minimum value for residential buildings of 45 and maximum of 100. -   Updated the Audit Trail so moving forward on previous year value changes you can see which year the changes are tied to in the Audit Detail screen rather than showing the underlying record id. -   Default new attachments when they are added to have the 'Show this image to the Public' option turned on. -   Fixed a bug that would allow you to enter a Commercial Building comment larger than was allowed in the database. -   Fixed an issue with the PRE Denial not filling in the right year denied value. Reporting -   Fix to some totaling in L-4015 to follow suit with the Pervasive Assessing system. -   Fixed an issue where with certain options turned on the Possible Calculation Problems report would not successfully complete. -   Added a new report writer field named sketch_Primary_author which allows you to display the author of the primary sketch. GIS -   Fixed the Sales Analysis - Plot on Map feature so the new GIS window is not minimized and is focused on the screen. Imports -   Fixed some issues with the CASS Certification import to better handle spaces (if they exist) between the comma delimiter.
08/27/2009	General -   Added a Change Index on Search user preference which changes the active index to the last searched field. -   Fixed the Land Table and ECF Last Edit dates to also get updated when using the Increase/Decrease rate tools. -   Made it so when hitting the escape key while on the Edit Parcel screen to put focus on the application view's list will prompt you with your save options rather than waiting until you leave the Edit Parcel view all together. -   Added a new option to run the Comparable Analysis on a subject property using a custom sale date range. -   Fixed an issue where if you just created a new database then tried to restore a database, it would not select your active database as the default database to restore to. -   Update the Zoning Codes lookup so it has an 'Edit Records' button that allows you to edit the zoning codes without having to go to the program setup area. -   Updated the previous year detail windows to display the previous year C.P.I. %. -   Updated the Edit Parcel screen to display 3 decimal places for acreage to be consistent with the Land Screen. Reporting -   Updated the Real Estate Summary report to fit a much larger amount of the legal description on the report. Now it should rarely if ever not be able to fit the entire legal description on the printout. -   Updated the report progress window to show how many records have been processed and how many records have been found. -   Allow users to run reports using a Block population on the JBOR/DBOR/MTT occurred population. Now there is just a warning message that informs you it will only contain the most previous year's changes.
08/25/2009	General -   Fixed an issue with number fields and the 'Do Not Clear text when editing Multi-Lined text fields' option. -   Added a new field named Dwelling Units on the PRE tab on the main Edit Parcel View. -   Added a print button to the scatter graph in the ECF Analysis. -   Added a display count for the parcel snapshot feature so you know there is a snapshot in your status bar. Reporting -   Fixed an issue with printing the primary sketch in 'Printout Reports' when changes haven't been saved. GIS -   Fixed an issue with displaying point shape layers in GIS. Exports -   Fixed an issue with loading Generic Data Exports where it could shut down the program.
08/20/2009	General -   Fixed an issue that could cause using a block not to work on some utilities. -   Added a new 'One Year Study', 'Two Year Study', and 'Custom Date Range' drop down option to the ECF Analysis.
08/19/2009	General -   Fix to an issue that could occur where your changes would not persist with out of country addresses in the owner and taxpayer information. -   Fixed an Index sorting issue with the Percent Changed column in the Parcels Table. Reporting -   Fixed an issue in the User Report Editor to no longer 'merge' a data field onto an existing label when you drag a new field onto the report. -   Fixed an issue with not honoring the 'don't print duplicate names' option in the Mailing Labels report. -   Fixed an issue with not correctly printing active/inactive records when using the respective special populations for a report.
08/18/2009	General -   Added summary text to show on all of the filter buttons so you don't have to click the button to see if you have filters set. -   Fixed an issue with marking a block of records. Reporting -   Fixed the printing of multiline legal descriptions on the Real Estate Summary report. -   Updated the L-4015 Report options to automatically set the starting and ending dates for the one year and two year study. You can optionally select a 'Custom Date Range' to manually enter any date range you would like to have. -   Fixed an issue with printing the Sample Parcel Report. Exports -   Updated Generic Data Export to swap index based field values with the actual string values. -   Updated Generic Data Export to include various memory fields for selection such as MM1_CurAssessmentYear.
08/17/2009	General -   Updated Parcel Snapshot feature to automatically discard your current changes upon taking a snapshot. Exports -   Fixed an issue with exporting MAA Sale Data.
08/17/2009	General -   Added a Parcel Snapshot feature that allows you to save any changes you've made on a parcel in the Edit Parcel screen so you can leave the screen and go do any other tasks in the program, and when you return to the Edit Parcel you can restore your snapshot and resume your work. -   Fixed an issue in the Sales screen when entering a percent transferred. Reporting -   Fixed an issue when printing a residential property with an agricultural building on it in the Real Estate Summary Report. -   Made it so the Print button on the Edit Parcel screen does not automatically save yoru changes. This allows you to print those reports without having to commit your changes to the database. This is consistent with how the Pervasive Assessing System worked. -   Fixed an issue with printing the correct dates on the L-4015 Report. Exports -   Fixed an issue with saving a Generic Data Export.
08/14/2009	Reporting -   Fixed an issue with printing legal descriptions and general comments in the Building Permits report category.
08/14/2009	General -   Added Attachment Backup and Restore feature under the File menu. -   Got rid of an unnecessary prompt when adding a new sale record. -   Fixed an issue with Residential Garages and not updating the main screen with the changes made. -   Moved the 'Tables' application view to the top of the list of views. This is consistent with the Pervasive Assessing program and was requested by a handful of customers. -   Updated numeric data entry fields where applicable to support simple arithmetic to be consistent with the Pervasive Assessing program. This will allow you for example to enter in 24 * 10 then hit the enter key and have it compute the value in place for you. -   Added support for the CMP image format. -   Fixed an issue that would occur while changing indices on some of the table views and it would change your currently selected record. -   Updated the Commercial Buildings area of the program to support 30 UIP Items as opposed to 10 items. -   Added the Liber/Page column to the Land Analysis MS Excel export located in the Sales Search & Analysis. -   Fixed an issue with incorrectly clearing mortgage codes and leaving a '0000' value in the field. -   Fixed an issue with comments not correctly displaying for Commercial Buildings. -   Added hotkeys to tab pages for Residential Garages. -   Fixed an issue with not jumping to the next item match in a non-alphabetical dropdown list. Previously if you typed a letter it would not jump to the next match in the list. Reporting -   Fixed an issue hit by Pere Marquette that was causing the Database Compare Report not to complete. -   Updated Real Estate Summary report using a newer and nicer format. -   Fixed an issue with the Delinquent Affidavit Report Options window where if you tried to edit the message body it wouldn't do anything. -   Fixed an issue found with the L-4015 (but also could happen in other reports) where the right hand side of the report was having text incorrectly clipped from the edge. -   Fixed an issue with printing total floor area on the Record Card Report for mobile homes. -   Updated User Reports to correctly display text rather than the index based values on various drop down fields in the system. Exports -   Fixed an issue with exporting legal descriptions using the Generic Data Export. -   Fixed an issue with a sale based export using the Generic Data Export hit by Oshtemo Township.
08/04/2009	Imports -   Added City of Grand Rapids custom import.
08/03/2009	General -   Added the Equalization Quick Data Entry Tool under the Edit Parcel view tools button. -   Added statistical data onto the main Comparable Analysis results screen. -   Added new adjustment areas 'Finished Basement' and 'Miscellaneous Adjustments' to the Comparable Analysis. -   Added new indices Unit/Property Address and Unit/Property Number to the Parcel Table. Reporting -   Fixed a problem where printing sketch images on various reports would not work. -   Added a new report titled History Report located under the Assessing Reports category. This report shows a list of all previous year parcel values currently in the database. -   Added a Comparable Analysis Side-By-Side Report. This report shows the comparable sales side by side in a similar fashion to the existing side-by-side view. -   Updated Query Building window to use friendly field names. Sketch -   Fixed an issue with setting the last edit date/author on a sketch when a change wasn't made. Exports -   Fixed an issue with Generic Data Exports when trying to load an existing export.
07/29/2009	General -   Added new indexes Unit/ECF Description and Unit/ECF Code on the E.C.F. Table. -   Added new indexes Unit/Land Description and Unit/Land Code on the Land Table. -   Updated the parcel search from the main screen parcel field to properly display results on partial searches. -   Fixed an issue with Residential Buildings where it appeared to duplicate data from an existing building to a newly added building. -   Fixed an issue when clearing out the Date Denied field in the PRE area of the edit parcel view. -   Fixed an issue with setting a block on the marked column in various tables that support marking. -   Updated the Parcel Sales table to have both a Unit / Terms of Sale as well as a simple Terms of Sale index. -   Updated the program to better handle Locked Parcels. Now you can fully access and edit locked parcels from other users, however you are not prompted and not allowed to save any changes. Reporting -   Fix to reports that had images on them where it could give you an error that it ran out of memory while trying to run the report for a larger number of records. Program Security -   Fixed an issue to make sure the verifying of passwords for features such as the Public Viewing Mode correctly uses the active directory password if the option was specified under program setup. Exports -   Updated the Export/Database merge to allow the user to optionally lock all of the exported source parcels. This feature also existed in the Pervasive Assessing program.
07/24/2009	General -   Implemented all recent changes to match the Pervasive Assessing system. -   Fixed an auditing issue with deleting parcels. -   Updated the Related Real/Personal parcel number field so it doesn't require a valid parcel number. -   Updated the PRE Denial Information area to allow editing of the Date Denied, Denied By, Tax Year Denied, and Reason Denied even if the Exemption/Ag. Denied checkbox is not turned on. -   Updated resizable windows so they retain the previous size upon next viewing/editing. This applies to areas such as comments and the legal description windows. -   Fixed a bug where if you had a confidential sale it was not correctly showing that on the main edit parcel view button. -   Fixed the use XX characters from the current parcel number for searches to work better with various parcel number formats. -   Fixed an issue with the flashing flag field where it would still blink if there was only a single space in the text field. Reporting -   Fixed an issue with running the JBOR Change Notice report. -   Fixed an issue with the Value Change Report totals. Program Security -   Updated a number of areas to allow users with read-only access to the program to still click on buttons to view various data, but not edit the data. Exports -   Added the Morley Custom Export.
07/15/2009	General -   Made all comment windows resizable. -   Added a new tool under the ECF area to Increase/Decrease factors en masse similar to the Land Table tool to Increase/Decrease rates. -   Fixed an issue with incorrectly disabling the PRE % field in the previous year adjustments for personal parcels. -   Fixed an issue in the Unit In Place items area. -   Correctly update the Date Parcel Changed when an edit is done on the parcel. -   Fix to an issue where the Land Improvements -> Local Cost Items was not retaining the Arch Multiplier value. Reporting -   Updated ECF Analysis output report to show the property address on the report as well. Also fixed a bug with printing images on the report. -   Updated Report Query/Filter window to show commas in the numerical fields. -   Fixed the Real Estate Summary report as there was an issue with printing images. -   Fix to the L-4023 Report to exclude some properties that were incorrectly being included in the totals. Program Setup -   Added a new user preference located in the My Preferences window to always append text when entering editing mode on a multi-lined text field. This will prevent text from being cleared when you hit your first key stroke. GIS -   Fixed an issue with plotting on the map comparable properties from the Comparable Analysis. Imports -   Fixed a couple minor issues with the CASS Certification Import.
07/09/2009	General -   Fixed an issue that could be hit when clearing out PRE Date Rescinded field. -   Updated heading on sheriff's deed/foreclosure fields (in sales area) to indicate that they are informational only. -   Added separate CASS certification fields for both Owner and Taxpayer addresses. -   Added an option to the Copy feature on the main parcel screen which allows you to either overwrite or append to existing building data on a given parcel. -   Updated the Comparable Sales -> Assessed Value Method to use the actual sale price when computing an estimate rather than using the adjusted sale price. -   Updated the Unit In Place Items area to correctly show the description at all times for the selected UIP items. -   Fixed an issue where CTRL + C would not copy to clipboard when having focus on the parcel number field. -   Updated the main parcel screen to where if you do an accidental class change while in the same editing session and if there was no previous new and loss values it will automatically remove the new and loss to help avoid balancing issues. If there was pre-existing values entered, you will still be prompted to confirm removal of the new and loss values. -   Fixed an issue where if you had the letter 'L' in your Liber/Page format it would not correctly honor the 'L' in the format. -   Updated expression editor (prompted by hitting CTRL + E while editing a number field) to handle decimal values without requiring a pre-pended 0 when the value was less than 1. -   Fixed an issue with not properly displaying the 'Effective Frontage' in the sales screen. -   Fixed an issue in the Sales Analysis - Sales Dump where it sometimes could fail. Reporting -   Added a handful of new fields to the report field list under the MemoryFieldsTable. There is a new set of fields for Record Card Image and Caption as well as the Primary Sketch and Caption. Also, there are 10 image attachment fields and captions from the main parcel attachment category that were added to the field list as well which is the same as the pervasive system. -   Fixed an issue hit by Delta Township when printing reports with a group header band. -   Added several fields to the report field list to display unit setup information. -   Added report option to turn of the printing of the Taxpayer name information on the Record Card Report. -   Fixed some issues hit while trying to convert a Pervasive Assessing FPC report by Roscommon County. -   Fixed an issue when trying to print an L-4031 for a previous year hit by Gaines Township. Program Setup -   Added a tool under Program Setup -> Property Class Setup which allows you to change your existing property class codes over to the STC recommended codes en masse. Program Security -   Updated program such that if you only have read-only access to the program, you can still click through the buttons to view read only information in the various residential buildings areas. Exports -   Added a new CASS Certification Export. Imports -   Added a new CASS Certification Import. -   Added custom St. Clair County Import.
06/30/2009	General -   Fixed a problem where the Miscellaneous UIP items for Commercial Buildings were not showing up in the lookup. -   Updated the sales area to not allow any date past the current date when filling in the 'Date PTA filed' field. -   Fixed a problem where the program could shut down when marking a sale record. Reporting -   Fixed a problem when printing a valuation statement with a special population set. -   Updated Real Estate Summary and Record Card reports to show the word 'Tax Description:' rather than 'Legal Description:'. Program Security -   Updated the program to require the Active Directory password used by the user for various password prompts in the program if they are setup to do so. Previously it would require the correct BSA user password. GIS -   Updated the program to use a new version of libraries for displaying GIS maps. This updated set of libraries will support displaying a handful of customers maps that previously couldn't be displayed.
06/25/2009	Calculation Changes -   Fixed an issue with changing property classes and new/loss. General -   Fix to some lingering shared program folder issues that were found. -   Fixed a few typos found in the program. -   Updated the 'Nez Applies' wording to be changed to 'NEZ District'.
06/23/2009	General -   Fixed an issue you could hit while running the Assessing Pervasive conversion that would not allow it to successfully finish. The error message was something to the effect of 'Year must be between 1 and 9999'. Sketch -   Added the ability to have the system create Sketch JPG files into a given directory while using the program. Setting the directory and initially generating all of the images can both be done under Program Setup -> Sketch Settings. The Assessing.NET program does not need to use these files in any way; the thumbnails used in the system and in the reports are stored separately from this.
06/22/2009	General -   Fixed an issue with the Sales Window where it could shut down the program related to a recent change to correct a sales ratio issue. -   Added the ability to revert back your changes if you added a new sale with and incorrectly entered % transferred and it uncapped the parcel and your % transferred was wrong so you change it again. -   Fixed an issue with reloading the current parcel to show the updated class and values after running a split/combine. Reporting -   Fixed an issue with the Audit Reports not displaying any of the records. -   Fixed an issue with printing the Record Card Report and both the Vacant and Improved checkboxes being checked. -   Fixed a problem with report totaling user reports. Exports -   Fixed an issue with the Database Merge not working with parcels that have sketches on them.
06/18/2009	Calculation Changes -   Fixed an issue with Allocated Tax and Allocated SEV when doing a Split/Combine. Reporting -   Added Assessors Comments and Equalization Comments as fields available in the Assessing Reports category.
06/17/2009	General -   Fix to a duplicate sketch issue. -   Fix to an audit trail creation problem where it would use the previous year when creating the summary incorrectly. Reporting -   Fix to Valuation Statement duplexing option.
06/16/2009	General -   Added a user preference to allow the cursor focus to advance when clicking on or pressing the enter key on a search/lookup button. -   Fixed an issue with the Sales Ratio not updating and displaying correctly. -   Fixed some issues with deleting attachments and rotating attachments.
06/12/2009	General -   Fix to an error message from Program Updates that was incorrectly showing. Also, in a network environment the program will now run the update from the network rather than copy it down locally. Exports -   Fix to Generic Data Export when using the DBASE III format where it wasn't handling certain data fields correctly causing it not to export successfully.
06/11/2009	Calculation Changes -   Fixed an issue where if you changed some sort of external/global multiplier (i.e. County Multiplier, ECF, etc..) it could incorrectly prompt you to place your additions and losses when it wasn't the expected behavior. Reporting -   Fixed the Mailing Label Report where if you had all of the owner, name extra, care of, and address fields filled in, it wouldn't print the street address on the label.
06/11/2009	General -   Added Other Zoning 1-4 fields to the Set Fields tool in the Parcels Table. -   Updated the default system Attachment Viewer to include the ability to adjust the gamma/brightness of an image. -   Fixed an issue for Union Township relating to being locked on a parcel record and not being able to leave it. -   Fixed an issue with converting old databases that City of Novi hit where some date fields were being converted as bad dates, however they showed up as good dates in the Pervasive Assessing System. -   Fixed a display issue in the PRE tab page in the Edit Parcel screen where you would sometimes see text overlapping the column headers at the bottom of the screen. -   Fixed an issue for Stockbridge dealing with inferring units from parcel numbers. -   Fixed a rare bug that would shut down the program when entering/leaving the table views. Reporting -   Fixed an issue where the upper left hand of the Valuation Statement report was clipping off the year from the date. -   Fixed an issue where the Property Transfer Affidavit report was not displaying a heading. -   Fixed a page break issue on the Record Card Report that would occur immediately following an apex sketch being printed. -   Fixed a page layout issue where if you were printing the Valuation Statement using multiple parcels the layout would get messed up. -   Added the ability to optionally print a watermark on all reports if you are in an archived database. This option is available under Program Setup -> General Settings. -   Fixed an issue with the Record Card Image not printing on vacant land on the Real Estate Summary Report. Program Security -   Updated program security to work with attachments where you can still view the attachments regardless if you have security to add/edit/delete them. This was to be consistent with the Pervasive Assessing System. Exports -   Added the ability to convert existing Generic Data Exports from the Pervasive Assessing System. This is available under the Generic Data Export window under a new Tools button. Imports -   Fixed an issue Pere Marquette hit with attempting to import Permit information.
06/05/2009	General -   Fixed a Database Rollover issue that would cause personal property parcels with greater than the number of statements specified to remove to not correctly create the new year statement. -   Fixed an issue with the Copy Parcel where attachments wouldn't always successfully copy. -   Fixed a few issues with the Land and the drop down selection items. -   Updated the Percent Adjustment in the Commercial Buildings area to allow for negative values to be entered. -   Fixed an issue where the Reason field under the Land section L's/Adj was not being saved. -   Fixed a display issue with somtimes not correctly displaying the (No Rates) text when there are no rates on a few commercial building fields. -   Fixed some cursor movement issues in the Commercial Buildings -> Calculator Cost Total area. -   Added various zoom and scrolling capabilities to the default Attachment Viewer. Also increased the default window size. -   Fixed a few issues with drop down fields not correctly selecting the item in the list when hitting enter. -   Updated the drop down fields to allow the [Page Up] and [Page Down] keys to work. -   Updated the drop down fields to support the space key (if it's the first key you hit) to select the first item in the drop down. -   Updated to be consistent with latest changes in Pervasive Assessing. -   Updated Marking feature on tables to allow up to 16 different unique markings to be applied to a record without marking/unmarking a different user's records. Reporting -   Fixed a duplex printing bug with the Record Card report. -   Added Jump to Page feature in reporting output window. -   Fixed an issue when printing a Record Card where the Agricultural Buildings page was not displaying the correct parcel number.
05/28/2009	General -   Fixed a Custom Map URL creation problem for City of Kentwood. -   Fixed a problem with calculating land value that would only occur when opening the Frontage/Sites/Lots window. -   Fixed a problem when viewing the Info on Cap/Taxable Calculations window. -   Added the ability to use a Block population when running the Set Default Record Card Image technical support utility. Reporting -   Added a Duplex printing option to the RPS Foreclosure Report. Exports -   Added DBASE III format support for Generic Data Exports.
05/22/2009	General -   Added support for the 1998 and 2003 Cost Manuals to allow for older Pervasive Assessing databases to be converted. -   Various updates to be consistent with Pervasive Assessing. Reporting -   Updated Mailing Label (Customizable) Reports under the Sales and Printout categories to use the combined City/State/Zip field. -   Fixed an issue with not properly including parcels indicated as Parcel Exists for DDA/LDFA Reference in some reports. -   Fix to RPS Foreclosure Report getting its layout pushed down when a legal description was larger than could fix in the box containing it. -   Fixed an issue with printing the Real Estate Summary Report. -   Fixed an issue with not always loading data into some of the memory fields for a given report.
05/21/2009	General -   Fixed an issue when adding new sales where it was previously not filling in the physical characteristics until you ran the tool. Now they get filled in immediately upon adding a sale record. -   Fixed a bug with the tool Find Child Parcels located in the 'Parcels Table'. -   Fixed an issue that would occur in some cases where you would be placed at the bottom of a search results window or the bottom of a table view incorrectly typically when indexed by Parcel Number. -   Fixed some issues with Assessing data loaded and displayed on Internet Services. -   Give a confirmation message at the end of an export if they have completed successfully. Reporting -   Fixed an issue with printing the Apex Sketch Report where not all sketches would show up in the report. -   Fixed a printing issue with the Record Card Report not correctly working with the 'Duplex' option. Program Setup -   Added the ability to give custom labels/names to your Building Permit user fields. This is located under Program Setup -> Governmental Units -> Customize Field Labels. Exports -   Fixed a minor issue with the SWIMRIC message you get if you are trying to export from a database that isn't the current year.
05/20/2009	General -   Added an attachment image viewer that is selected by default to use for viewing attachments that are not notated as 'External Documents'. This is a much faster way to view and print the image compared to using the default associated program if you are using the 'Windows Picture and Fax viewer'. There is a user preference you can toggle on to still use your default associated windows program to view images if you wish to use it, but this is not on by default. Reporting -   Added to the L-4626 Report the ability to write results to a CSV file. -   Fixed a bug with printing a Record Card for a parcel that didn't have a record card image set. -   Fixed a totaling issue that was found in the DDA/LDFA Report (Current Year) report. Program Setup -   Fixed a bug with viewing Audit Details that would occasionally occur under various program setup windows. Exports -   Added SWIMRIC data export. -   Added an option when doing the ASCII export for other BS&A Systems to use the old Pervasive Assessing format.
05/19/2009	General -   Fix to a Sale File conversion issue.
05/15/2009	General -   Fixed an issue with importing images from a TWAIN device. It was creating a duplicate file and was giving it an incorrect name. -   Added two new fields named Redemption Date and Uncapping Date that are used for Sheriff's Deeds/Foreclosures in the Sales area. -   Fixed an issue when searching by parcel number and it putting your initial focus to the bottom of the results. Reporting -   Fixed an issue where the most recent Sale record would not always print on the Real Estate Summary Report. Sketch -   Fixed an issue of not saving the Sketch Thumbnail image when cancelling out of editing a sketch.
05/14/2009	General -   Updates to match Pervasive Assessing changes. -   Fix to an issue where using the Audit Summary table was causing the program to shut down if you left the table to go to a parcel then returned to the table again. This issue was hit by several users whom submitted error logs. -   We now sort the 'Index List' drop down in the search results in alphabetical order. -   Fixed a bug with displaying the Extended Sale comments. -   Fix to date field entry to display the current year when you enter with a numerical keystroke. -   Updated conversion from Pervasive Assessing to check for an empty Taxable Status on parcels converted and report them in the post-conversion report. -   Updated various windows that have print buttons on the main 'Edit Parcel' view to allow you to print a Valuation Statement without having to save the parcel record. -   Fixed an issue where record card images may not print on a report if it originated from another database. Reporting -   Fix to Current and Prior Year DDA report totals. -   Fix to a report totaling issue that would occur if you had a blank property class code setup under Program Setup. This symptoms of this totaling issue could be found in the Misc. Totals and Statistics report.
05/07/2009	General -   Fixed an recently added issue that was causing the roll over to fail at the very end of the process.
05/07/2009	General -   Fixed an issue with viewing attachments added from another database where the '&' symbol was contained in the attachment path. -   Fixed an issue with the 'Go To Child Parcel' tool. Also added the message informing the user that CTRL + P can be pressed to return to the parent parcel. -   Fixed an issue with the Go To Parent/Go to Related parcel hotkey features.
05/07/2009	General -   Added technical support utility to set the Record Card Image for all parcels to the first attachment found for each parcel. -   Added Program Utility to set the default Primary Sketch for all parcels. Primary Sketches are currently used in the Real Estate Summary Report and will likely be used in a variety of areas in the future. -   Fixed a bug where the Property Class and Neighborhood was not being updated when adding a new Building Permit. -   Updated the 'Generate JPG Sketch' tool under the Parcel table to skip over sketches that already have thumbnails. -   Fixed a minor display issue with Residential buildings and the button text when importing a sketch using the integration feature. -   Fix to a bug where attachments would not always display and you would see an 'Error Loading File' message. -   Added support for the 'CTRL + P' to go to the parent parcel of the current parcel you are viewing. Also added support for 'CTRL + L' to go to the related parcel for the current parcel you are viewing.
05/06/2009	General -   Updated Attachement System logic to better handle pulling images that were added from different databases where the attachment path is different. -   Added information to the Attachment window to show which database the attachment was added from and where exactly the attachment is located on disk. -   Added option to Pervasive Attachment Conversion to allow you to only convert files that haven't already been converted. -   Updated Assessing .NET to contain latest features added to Pervasive Assessing. -   Disabled and disallow the 'Show to Public' option the PRE Attachments. -   Fixed a bug with deleting a block of parcels from the parcels table. -   Fixed a bug with trying to run the Set Fields Utility specifically on the Record Status field. -   Added default values for the Age/Renew Real Improvements on new databases. -   Updated Attachment System to remember the last selected option when adding a new attachment (i.e. from existing file or from a twain device). -   Fixed a bug when trying to copy Personal Property Statements. -   Fixed a bug with sorting Personal Property Statements. -   Fixed an issue with viewing linked data from other BS&A .NET programs. Reporting -   Updated PRE Affidavit (Laser) Report with new layout changes. -   Updated Property Transfer Affidavit Report with new layout changes. -   Added a new field on sketches where you can notate a sketch as the Primary Sketch for a given parcel. This primary sketch can now used on the Real Estate Summary Report as well as the record card image if you choose. A report option was added to this report to allow you to select what image(s) to print. -   Fixed some minor layout issues with the MBOR Change Notice Report. -   Updated Real Estate Summary Report to print in Portrait mode not Landscape. -   Added the ability to select a GIS Map Set as a population on printout reports. -   Fixed an issue with the Improvement Data - Class field display in the Real Estate Summary Report. GIS -   Added the ability to create a 'Blank' custom layer. This is useful when using the radius selection tool when creating a GIS Record Set. -   Updated the radius selection tool to use the actual parcel polygon boundries (that contains the point you place on the map) when measuring to find parcels within the defined radius. Previously, it was just using the specified point. -   Fixed the Simple tool tip. -   Added a new Measuring Tape tool to the GIS Legend -> Tools. To use this tool you just click the measuring tape button then draw a line on the map and it'll give you the computed distance for the line. Sketch -   Fixed a bug where the Subject Information was not being updated on Apex Sketches.
04/30/2009	General -   Fixed an error bug that would occasionally occur with changing the active table views. -   Now displaying the code and description for fields with School Districts, Property Classes, and Use Codes in them within the various table views. -   Updated application when using local machine for your SQL database to look for the new default SQL Server instance name of BSA. -   Fixed an issue where occasionally the initial record card image in a given table view might not display until changing records. -   Updated the Misc Fields button on the Edit Parcel screen to always show the text 'Misc' regardless of what additional text on the button is shown. -   Added Print button hotkey from all of the Table Views. -   Fixed a bug that would rarely occur where you would enter the Edit Parcel view and only see part of the data loaded and get an 'Object reference not set to instance of object' exception when trying to save the parcel. -   Fixed an issue when using the 'inferring units' option and villages. Reporting -   Added Industrial Real Property report. Program Setup -   Updated button layout under Program Setup -> Administration Tab to have a consistent layout with all other BS&A Software .NET programs. -   Added an example of how the Property Address leading zeros feature works under Governmental Units -> Return Address/Miscellaneous -> Miscellaneous Tab.
04/24/2009	General -   Fixed an issue where turning on the 'Partial Construction' flag on a Building Permit would not display the red partial flag on the main Edit Parcel screen. -   Fixed the Unit/Class index in the Parcels table to display both the Unit and Class. Previously it was only showing the Class. Reporting -   Fixed an issue with the Mailing Labels Report not aligning correctly when printing. -   Fixed a bug that would shut down the program relating to the Special Population in the reporting window.
04/23/2009	General -   Updated City/State/Zip fields on the Owner, Taxpayer, and Property Address areas to allow for entry in all fields with with validation being applied to all fields. -   Fix to bug that would shut down the program if you clicked on any of the 'Apex' buttons to view an Apex Sketch but didn't have the sketch program installed. -   Fix to infrequent bug that would shut down the program if you selected a record from a table that was not the 'Parcels' table. -   Fix to some flickering issues that would occur when opening then closing various windows in the 'Edit Parcel' screen. -   A number of performance increases to opening windows throughout the application. Previously some windows were sluggish and would have a delay when opening. An example of this problem is the Personal Property details screens. -   Handful of updates made to Parcel Comparable Analysis view. -   Hide the Additions/Losses calculation details button for parcels that aren't classified as personal property. -   Include the parcel number on the Additions/Lossess calculation details printout. -   Fixed an issue with turning of the 'Move cursor to next field (data entry mode)' option and it not being honored when hitting enter on the year detail grid to view details. -   Fixed the Sale and Permit windows on the Edit Parcel view to use the correct current record when printing. -   Added a prompt to the Parcel Sale -> Tools -> Edit Name/Address Fields if you make an Owner Name change that allows you to copy the change to the Grantee field on the current sale record. Reporting -   Added the display of friendly fields to the report writer field selection list, Generic Data Export field selection list, and all applicable Report Filter (query) windows. -   Fixed a few issues relating to importing FPC reports into the .NET Assessing System. -   Added miscellaneous fixes relating to Ren. Zones and reporting (updates from pervasive application). -   Updated the various Report Categories to have the 'Current Record' set to the first record of that type for the currently loaded parcel if it is not your 'Active Table'.  An example of this is if you loaded a parcel that had a Residential Building, and your Active Table is not Res. Buildings, it will now set the current record to be the first building for the current parcel. -   Fixed an issue with printing Record Cards found by Bangor Township. -   Fix to problem when trying to save a report's output to a text file and it not saving correctly. -   Fixed an issue with the DNR-PILT, Property Class Changes, and Previous Poverty Exemption Special Populations. Program Security -   Fixed a user/group security issue where setting the Personal Property: View Confidential Data item to OFF for a given user or group was not being honored. -   Fixed security message issue when hitting the escape key on a given field without having tried to edit it was giving you an security error message.
04/13/2009	General -   Hooked up some additional features in the Public Viewing Mode screen. -   Fix to Property Address Quick Search item not always correctly loading the selected record when on the 'Edit Parcel' view. -   Minor change with 'Rescind existing PRE' prompt logic in the parcel sale area. Reporting -   Added some warning information on Report FPC file conversions on fields that couldn't convert.
04/09/2009	General -   Updated logic needed for Internet Services and .NET Assessing. -   Comparable Analysis feature has been updated to include a handful of new features. -   Fixed conversion wizard bug where you would get an error message when first entering the window for adding a prior year database. -   Added new Special Act choices: RZ-New NEZ 25%, 50%, 75% and RZ-Rehab NEZ 25%, 50%, 75%. -   Fix to conversion with special symbol characters embedded in legal or comment text. -   Fix to owner and taxpayer address area to auto advance to the zipcode field if you hit the [Enter] key while in the address field.   NOTE: This only applies if the city and state fields are disabled for the zip code lookup fefature, otherwise it will advance to the city field. Reporting -   Fixed a bug related to some reports and new parcels with no prior year values.
03/01/2007	Other Import / Export Changes -   Corrected error preventing the Complete Assessment Roll Import from Cloud from completing.