2025-08 SAH Release Notes
Hello SAH Developers - The below enhancements are included in this month's SAH 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.
Schedule
Thursday, August 21, end of day: release enhancements to User Acceptance Testing
Wednesday, August 27, UAT feedback due
Thursday, August 28, end of day: release enhancements to Production
Friday, August 29, end of day: delete QA models
Thank You Report Developers!
Special thanks to the report developers who submitted enhancement requests.
Cheryl Kettnich
Renaming & 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 utilize the following 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. This will not break the report but will highlight where the fields / views are still in use as they will become blank.
ITS-BIA will deprecate the fields / views. Any reports the have not transitioned by this point will break.
The following fields will be set to deprecated in September.
Graduation Degree Application Date as it is a duplicate of Award Application DateTime.
Your Requested Enhancements!
Items marked with an asterisk (*) are report breaking enhancements if you have these fields in your report.
Fields Added
Fields Added | Views Impacted | Tickets Addressed / Jira Epic |
|---|---|---|
UCOP Degree Program Code 1 | All Views Joined With SAH-StudentStatsPerTermSAH-AR-TransactionDetail-View |
CS2415704 |
UAT - 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 User Acceptance Testing (UAT) 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?
Reminder: QA data sources will be deleted the Friday after the enhancements are migrated to Production.