20221104 EAH Start UAT Release Notes

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Last updated: Nov 10, 2022
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Hello EAH Developers - The below fields are now available for you in UAT.  If you find an issue, please email busintel@ucsd.edu right away with the subject line “EAH UAT due November 9” so we can address it prior to the Thursday, November 10, 2022 release to Production.

Keep up with our future enhancements here: EAH Bugs and Enhancements In Progress


Table of Contents

Items marked with an asterisk (*) are report breaking enhancements if you have these fields in your report.


Thank You Report Developers!

Special thanks to the report developers who submitted enhancement requests. 

  • Kevin Chou
  • Cheryl Kettnich
  • Brian Lorentz
  • David Mandell
  • Maria Obtera


Renaming and Deprecating

As we've adapted the EAH views to your needs, we have found changing field names is painful for both report developers and our team due to the name change breaking reports, data integrations and packages / data sources.  In an effort to avoid this pain, we are going to introduce a new name change strategy. 

  1. ITS-BIA will release new fields with the revised field name in the views that contain the field to be renamed, or where a view is to be renamed ITS-BIA will release as a new view the view with the revised name.

  2. ITS-BIA will allow a transition period for report developers to repoint their reports at the new fields / views.

  3. ITS-BIA will remove the data from the old fields / views and allow a second transition period.  This will not break the report but will highlight where the fields / views are still in use as they will become blank.

  4. ITS-BIA will deprecate the fields / views.  Any reports the have not transitioned by this point will break.

We'll be using this strategy on the following items that require name changes.

Step 1&2 - Fields to be retired.

  • Employee Phone Number Current will be replaced by Employee Home Phone Number Current
  • Employee Phone Number AsOf will be replaced by Employee Home Phone Number AsOf

Step 4 - Field retirement.

  • Employee Display Name will be replaced by Employee Display Name Current


New View Going to Production December 8: EAH-WorkforceAllRows-View

BIA and the UCPath Reporting Project Team are excited to  release a new view that will allow EAH-Workforce-View reports to display all departments and employees.

REMINDER: Report developers are responsible for the audience viewing their reports. Reports built from this new view should appropriately summarize and/or only made available to the audiences with Employee data steward approval to the data they are seeing.

Per our regular release for new views, EAH-WorkforceAllRows-View will remain in UAT for an extended period and go to Production in our December release in order to provide additional UAT time.

All fields you see available in EAH-Workforce-View will also be available in EAH-WorkforceAllRows-View.


New View Going to Production December 8: EAH-ApprovalSmartHRDetail-View

BIA and the UCPath Reporting Project Team are excited to  release a new view that will allow reporting around the details of approval workflow transactions.  This view shows Smart HR approval process types, approval status, requester identity, approver identity, approval date, employee impacted by the change and more.

Per our regular release for new views, EAH-ApprovalSmartHRDetail-View will remain in UAT for an extended period and go to Production in our December release in order to provide additional UAT time.


View Your Requested Enhancements


Customer Service Reminder

Data in UAT is not ready to be shared with end customers, is not considered completely validated and can change suddenly.  For optimal customer satisfaction, do not connect your production solutions to packages / data sources that are in UAT.  If you choose to share UAT items with end customer, be explicit that the data and report is in UAT and can change suddenly or be broken by UAT changes.

A duty cycle has been implemented for Hana QA.  During this time, Hana QA will not be available.  Please schedule your UAT work around this duty cycle.

  • Hana QA will not be available from 7pm-5am nightly
  • Hana QA will not be available Saturday and Sunday
  • Data loads will occur from 5am-10am on weekdays

Follow our Enhancement Testing Steps

Please use this UAT time to adjust your reports as needed prior to the Production release when your customers will be able to see any issues these enhancements cause. 
  • In Cognos DEV open your report and replace the current package with the package of the same name from the Team Content > Employee Activity Hub > EAH Analytics Packages UAT folder.  Run the report and select Hana QA.  Do not select Hana Prod as the report will fail.  Using the new package from the EAH Analytics Packages UAT folder will allow you to see the below enhancement.  EAH data is the same in Hana Prod and Hana QA.
  • Sign into Tableau Prod on your Tableau desktop tool and open your report.  Add a new data source with the same name and -QA at the end of the title.  Replace the original data source with the –QA data source.  Using the –QA data source will allow you to see the below enhancements.  EAH data is the same in Hana Prod and Hana QA. 

If you find an issue, please include in your email to busintel@ucsd.edu the following:

  • What browser are you using?
  • What environment are you using?  Cognos DEV, QA or PROD? 
  • What data source / package are you using?
  • What results were you expecting?