202412 FACAH Release Notes
- Saparnell
Hello FACAH Developers - The below enhancements are included in this month's FACAH Release.
Keep up with our future enhancements here: FacAH Bugs and Enhancements in Progress
Learn more about the Facilities Activity Hub in the FACAH Quick Start Guides.
Table of Contents
Items marked with an asterisk (*) are report breaking enhancements if you have these fields in your report.
Schedule for December
5 Thursday: release enhancements to User Acceptance Testing
12 Thursday, end of day: release enhancement to Production
13 Friday, end of day: delete QA models
No Release for January
Thank You FACAH Report Developers!
Special thanks to those who have requested enhancements.
- Vlad Orlic
Renaming & Deprecating
As we've adapted the 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.
- 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.
- ITS-BIA will allow a transition period for report developers to repoint their reports at the new fields / views.
- ITS-BIA will remove the data from the old fields / views and allow a second transition period. *Any reports or data integrations using these fields as filters or joins will break.
- ITS-BIA will deprecate the fields / views. Any reports the have not transitioned by this point will break. *Any reports or data integrations using these fields will break.
We'll be using this strategy on the following items that require name changes.
FACAH-SpaceAllocationDetail-View
Epic: FACAHE-114 - Getting issue details... STATUS
SNOW ticket(s) addressed: CS2285364
Because the Financial Unit fields have always been empty in FACAH we will be combining steps 1, 2, and 3. These fields will be removed in February 2025.
Added the following new fields:
| Deprecated Field - February 2025 | Replace With |
|---|---|
| Financial Unit | Cluster Responsible Space Dept Financial Unit or Space Dept Financial Unit |
| Financial Unit Code | Cluster Responsible Space Dept Financial Unit Code or Space Dept Financial Unit Code |
| Financial Unit L1 | Cluster Responsible Space Dept Financial Unit L1 or Space Dept Financial Unit L1 |
| Financial Unit L1 Code | Cluster Responsible Space Dept Financial Unit L1 Code or Space Dept Financial Unit L1 Code |
| Financial Unit L1 Code and Name | Cluster Responsible Space Dept Financial Unit L1 Code and Name or Space Dept Financial Unit L1 Code and Name |
| Financial Unit L2 | Cluster Responsible Space Dept Financial Unit L2 or Space Dept Financial Unit L2 |
| Financial Unit L2 Code | Cluster Responsible Space Dept Financial Unit L2 Code or Space Dept Financial Unit L2 Code |
| Financial Unit L2 Code and Name | Cluster Responsible Space Dept Financial Unit L2 Code and Name or Space Dept Financial Unit L2 Code and Name |
| Financial Unit L3 | Cluster Responsible Space Dept Financial Unit L3 or Space Dept Financial Unit L3 |
| Financial Unit L3 Code | Cluster Responsible Space Dept Financial Unit L3 Code or Space Dept Financial Unit L3 Code |
| Financial Unit L3 Code and Name | Cluster Responsible Space Dept Financial Unit L3 Code and Name or Space Dept Financial Unit L3 Code and Name |
| Financial Unit L4 | Cluster Responsible Space Dept Financial Unit L4 or Space Dept Financial Unit L4 |
| Financial Unit L4 Code | Cluster Responsible Space Dept Financial Unit L4 Code or Space Dept Financial Unit L4 Code |
| Financial Unit L4 Code and Name | Cluster Responsible Space Dept Financial Unit L4 Code and Name or Space Dept Financial Unit L4 Code and Name |
View Your Requested Enhancements
FACAH-PersonLocation-View
Epic: FACAHE-101 - Getting issue details... STATUS
SNOW ticket(s) addressed: CS2285364, CS2267929
Added the following new fields:
Space Person Primary Department Org Path
Logic Updates:
- Updated “Variable Schedule Flag” to always have the value, will display 'N/A' when the field is null.
- Updated “On Site <Day of the Week> Flag” fields so that values are null if employee does not have a regular schedule.
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.
Follow our Enhancement Testing Steps
- 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?