2022-08-25 SAH UAT Release Notes

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Last updated: Aug 26, 2022
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Due to the size of this release and some last moment name changes, ITS BIA is still updating the BI models and will release them to UAT as soon as we finish.  If you are expecting to see an updated view and do not, please check back later in the day.

Hello SAH Developers - The below enhancements are available for you in Hana QA now.  If you find an issue, please email busintel@ucsd.edu prior to end of day Wednesday, August 31 so we can address it before the Thursday, September 1 Production release.

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

For access to the Student Activity Hub (SAH) you must be pre-approved by the registrar's office.  Please reach out to them directly.


Hana QA Duty Cycle: 7pm-5am Nightly

A duty cycle has been implemented for Hana QA.  During this time, Hana QA will not be available:

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

Please schedule your UAT work around this duty cycle.


Thank You Report Developers!

Special thanks to the report developers who submitted enhancement requests. 

  • David Garrison
  • Bhavya Guntupalli
  • Patti Honda Nations
  • Rachael Lapidis
  • Elizabeth Perez
  • Janni Pedersen
  • Anthony Slay
  • Jonathan Whitman


Renaming and Deprecating

As we've adapted the SAH 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.

August Step 1&2 - Announcing that this field will be retired.

  • Instructor Name - will be replaced by Instructor Full Name.

August Step 3 - Field to be retired has been set to null.

  • Message Has Attachements - will be replaced by Message Has Attachments


New View Going to Production September 29: SAH-StudentHoldsNarrow-View

BIA and the Registrar's Office are excited to  release a new view that will allow report building per student per hold.

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


Your Requested Enhancements!

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


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

Use this UAT time to adjust your reports as needed prior to the Production release where your customers will be able to see any issues these enhancements cause. 
  • Cognos: Use the packages in Cognos DEV > Student Activity Hub > Student Activity Hub Packages UAT to build your report and select Hana QA.  Do not select Hana Prod as the report will fail.  Using Hana QA will allow you to see the below enhancements with Production data. 
  • Tableau: Sign into Tableau 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.  Using this data source will allow you to see the below enhancements with Production data.
  • Hana QA:  SAH data in Hana QA is production data loaded daily, just like in Hana PROD.

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?  Or Tableau?
  • What data source / package are you using?
  • What results were you expecting?