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About Monthly Release Notes
Campus Cafe continually deploys new versions of its platform with enhancements to the platform. Below provides an ongoing list of updates to the platform. For notes prior to this calendar year, visit Archived Monthly Release Notes.
Release Schedule
Campus Cafe typically deploys new versions throughout the first week of each month to cloud customer. No action on behalf of the customer is required. The platform will be unavailable for roughly 15 minutes during the upgrade. For on-premise customers, Campus Cafe provides notification with directions on obtaining the latest version.
Version Updates
Version: February (Expected Release Date: 3/5/23-3/10/23)
Module | Category | Case | Description | Documentation |
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Academic | Bug | Fixed an issue when Custom Control setting TRANS_PDF 1-5 is set to 'Y,' the transcript activity tracking feature wasn't assigning the tracking to student's record | Transcript | |
Academic | Bug | DEV-860 | Fixed Registration page elements from being blocked By X-Frame_options denial | |
Admissions | Enhancement | DEV-841 | Added new fields to duplicate holding table: ID number column, Cell phone number, Form Name, Date of Inquiry record | Holding Table |
Admissions | Bug | DEV-815 | Application Status link has been added back to admissions menu | |
Admissions | Bug | DEV-813 | Fixed an issue on the application where if a customized major name was used in an application, triggerable text fields may not show up | |
Admissions | Bug | DEV-830 | Fixed an issue where the application Detail Page would not update/save data when a student had a certain organizational relationships | |
Admissions | Bug | DEV-798 | Fixed an issue where activities were still showing up on the dashboard even though the progress code of the student was not valid to show up, set on the workflow detail page for those activities | Dashboards |
Accounting | Change | DEV-711 | A/P Control has now been moved off the client to the Web | |
Attendance | Enhancement | DEV-694 DEV-750 | Added Geofencing to mobile Attendance App by course site | Self Service Attendance |
Financial Aid | Bug | DEV-802 | Fixed issue where Sub loan packaging was not properly taking some need reducing aid into the calculation | |
Financial Aid | Bug | DEV-799 | All date fields on Disbursement Roster will now sort correctly | Disbursement Notifications |
Financial Aid | Change | DEV-801 | Financial aid acceptance is now only cleared on increase of aid, and does not clear on a decrease | Student Financing Review and Acceptance |
Financial Aid | Bug | Fixed an issue where the COD Documents/PLUS Loan Application detail popup to delete a batch was being cut off screen | ||
Financial Aid | Bug | DEV-845 | GFAS Link is now showing properly under student financials menu | Global Financial Aid Solutions |
Student Financials | Enhancement | DEV-812 | Added New permissions 1263 & 1264 control whether the billing statement displays the sponsored billing transactions at the bottom. | Billing Statement Design |
Student Financials | Enhancement | DEV-780 | Added ability to remove the E-Check button for both Admins looking at a student, and the student doing self-service payments with Custom Control/MSPARM WEBPAYMENT 3-2 set to N | Authorize.net (Payment Processor) |
Student Financials | Bug | DEV-771 | Billing Payment Page no longer hides the previous balance | |
Student Financials | Bug | DEV-743 | Changing date on A/R Ledger will now properly change the date on both sides of the transactions | Student A/R Ledger |
Student Financials | Bug | DEV-769 | Fixed issue where a bill batch would not post if the member contains a “#” sign | Bill Batch |
Student Financials | Bug | DEV-826/ DEV-829 | Fixed an issue where the Printed version of the billing statement margins were being shifted over to the right | Billing Statement Design |
Student Financials | Bug | DEV-850 | Fixed issue where Student Refund Batch was not uploading if a user had multiple periods in the file name | Student Refunds |
System | Bug | SP-1049 | Home/Logo button has returned to the menu | |
System | Bug | DEV-816 | Fixed issue where menu kept popping up after page refresh as well as the shifting of links | |
System | Bug | DEV-827 | Fixed issue where the search bar on mobile devices was hidden | |
System | Bug | DEV-849 | Fixed issue where user search would cause a tomcat process error | |
System | Bug | DEV-858 | Fixed an issue where the Registration Hold notification text was preventing links from being clicked. | |
System | Bug | SP-1356 | Fixed an issue where menu subcategory title's were being shown when there were no links showing | |
System | Bug | DEV-763 | Fixed issue where comment field in App Status pages were being hidden on certain screen scaling settings | |
Third-Party Integration | Bug | DEV-688 | Fixed an issue with Brightspace assignment course handing overlaying the earned date even if no earned points were assigned | Brightspace (LMS) |
Third-Party Integration | Bug | DEV-856 | Fixed 3rd party web hook issue that was allowing http, which would cause connections to break, and now forces https integrate properly | |
Workflows, Activities and Database Triggers |
Version: January (Expected Release Date: 2/5/23-2/10/23)
Although this will be an adjustment for all users as the location for many of the links may have changed, the options have now been appropriately categorized into appropriate sub-headings.

A user may also contract the menu option titles by default; with mouse-over the menu will auto expand.

Download link for appropriate version: Download
Cloud customers do not need to adjust any settings as their instances have already been upgraded
If a user logs into Fogbugz as a community user to correspond with a submitted ticket, we will no longer be notified.
Please be sure to make all correspondence through the new JIRA portal or through emailing support@campuscafesoftware.com .
The new system will allow you to login and track the tickets that you have submitted and review the current status of those tickets.
You will also receive notifications on the status of those tickets including when those tickets are resolved.


To submit a ticket through the portal start by clicking on the "Campus Cafe Support" as shown here:

Please note: In this transition phase, we will still retain Fogbugz for reference in order to make sure the details of your issues are not lost. However, when viewing the transitioned tickets in the JIRA system you may or may not see the entire conversation thread of current Fogbugz tickets.
Module | Category | Case | Description | Documentation |
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Academic | Bug | DEV-457 | Fixed issue When permissions 457 under Student is set to NA, it was still allowing a user to view the deficiency and final grades. | Permissions |
Academic | Bug | DEV-770 | Fixed the Batch Drop All function to maintain withdraws and final letter grades | Batch Drop |
Academic | Change | DEV-699 | Add back in the old-style Gradebook Calculation algorithm as an option for some institutions who are using a mixed max points grade set MSParm/Custom Control GRDBK_AVG2-1-2=Y | Gradebook Maintenance |
Admissions | Bug | DEV-719 | Resolved issue where phone numbers were not uploading in common app upload process | Set up Common Application |
Admissions | Bug | DEV-751 | Fixed an issue where the admissions residency and progress code was not able to be changed | Applicant Detail (Change Admissions Progress Code) |
Admissions | Bug | DEV-785 | Prevented change of admissions portal name after it has been used to prevent students' admissions records from being disconnected from a portal form | Admissions Applications and Inquiry Forms Set up |
Admissions | Bug | DEV-788 | Resolved issue where an extra degree record was being created when a progress code change took place | Applicant Detail (Change Admissions Progress Code) |
Accounting | Enhancement | DEV-754 | Added Cash Disbursement ACH fields to the GL Fund Detail interface. | General Ledger Funds |
Accounting | Bug | DEV-754 | Fixed the issue where the saved Titles & Descriptions in the GL Fund Detail would not appear after a new one was saved. | General Ledger Funds |
Student Financials | Bug | DEV-735 | Resolved issue where the billing statement sorting by date and semester was not properly sorting | View Student Billing Statement |
Student Financials | Bug | DEV-791 | Resolved an issue where a student's statement would not load if a transaction had a blank description field | Student A/R Ledger |
System | Enhancement | FB55972 | Complete new Menu Redesign UI Format has been released | Main Menu Permissions |
System | Bug | DEV-755 | Fixed issue with the student search bar producing an error while on various pages | |
System | Bug | DEV-761 | Fixed issue that showed a rejected file type error when uploading student images when the file uploaded successfully | |
System | Bug | DEV-782 | Fixed an issue where in certain cases the "Require password change" flag was selected for an account, the user wasn't required to change the password | Users |
Workflows, Activities and Database Triggers | Enhancement | DEV-779 | Expand Retention Field in Workflow Detail to 3 characters to allow for more than 2 digit adjustments | Creating Workflows |
Workflows, Activities and Database Triggers | Bug | DEV-756 | Fixed an issue where student's were unable to see their activities on their profile even though permissions were set correctly | Permissions |
Workflows, Activities and Database Triggers | Bug | DEV-767 | Fixed an error that would occur when an activity tracking template would have a comma in its name; and also added prevention of commas being added to activity tracking names | Creating Activities |