Changes Made to FAMIS FRS Module

SEPTEMBER 2009

The following updates in FAMIS are related to ARRA Funds - American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009:

FRS
Screens 9 and 52 - "Funding:" field displays "ARRA Stimulus" if either "AFR Fund Group:" field contains "41" or the "Sub-Sub:" field contains "AR" on Screen 6.

SPR
Screen 113 - "Funding:" field is modifiable and should be filled in by the operator to indicate Stimulus funds. You can view the current values using "?" or "F2" Help on the field. Current values include "blank" and "AR".

EPA (Employee Payroll Action)
Added the ability to route EPA documents to "other" departmental routing based on the entry of an extra account; by entering an account, the EPA document proceeds to the department routing for that account.

Added the ability to create a "Student" routing path within the EPA Processing Office (Office of PAYROLLWS for many); documents with student title codes and a check in the student routing box will route to a special path (must be named "student") in the processing office. Creates the ability to separate students from other EWR forms for purposes of routing.

Added a new flag - the "Roll to New FY"; this is only available between when the Prep Budget is rolled to Active and the Beginning of the New Fiscal Year. When payroll changes occur after the budget process, this new flag will automatically copy the new EPA into both years to eliminate double entry. If this flag is set to "YES" when the EPA reaches BPP, a new iteration will be created in both the old fiscal year and the new fiscal year.

DCR (Department Correction Request)
New types of corrections have been added to the DCR functionality: IDTs, Journal Entries and Deposit corrections are now possible. See updated "Departmental Correction Request (DCR Guide" on our web site.

Added the ability to restrict accounts from using Transaction Corrections; see Screen 933, PF8 to enter or view the list of restricted accounts.

FRS
JULY 2009

FAMIS implemented several changes in preparation for working with Maestro web application. Maestro is a web application being developed and implemented as part of the Texas A&M University System Integrated Research Administration Project announced in December 2007 by the Office of the Chancellor. While this is not a FAMIS project, FAMIS and Maestro will be sharing data, hence we are involved.

The following changes were made to further this project:

Screen 860 - Department Fields
Several new fields were added to the Department Table on Screen 860. You may leave them blank for now as the programming behind these fields continues to be developed. More information will be coming on the purpose of these fields.

Screen 6 and Screen 52 - New Department Attributes:
New fields were added to the account setup Screens 6, 8, 51 and 52. You may leave them blank for now. Again, more information will be coming on the purpose of these fields.

Screen 4 in SPR - Sponsors
Screen 4 in SPR now contains a field for the Maestro Sponsor. Sponsors in SPR must be mapped to a valid Maestro Sponsor. Full information on how this will work, will be coming in the future. For the time being, if you do not know the Maestro Sponsor number, please put the number 9999999999 in the Maestro Sponsor: field.

As always, please contact FAMIS Help whenever you experience something unexpected using FAMIS.

CANOPY FRS
MARCH 2009
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