Ariel: Fedena 3.9 Release Note

About this document
This document contains information about the new and enhanced features in the latest release of Fedena. We strongly recommend that you read the entire document.
What’s new in Fedena

Here is the list of new features included with this release of Fedena 3.9
Feature |
Description |
User Role |
Module |
Assignment Revamp |
Assignment module has been upgraded to bring a lot of new features to enhance your experience with the application. Assignment Logs Now you can track the assignment publish date and username details through assignment logs. The following details will be available: the employee who created the assignment, assignment name, students who have been assigned the task, Date and time of creation. |
Administrator, Subject Tutor, |
Assignment |
Assignment Revamp |
Graph Report You can see assignments listed in tabular form according to the selected period along with the status. Advanced search is provided for more appropriate search results. Settings |
Administrator, |
Assignment |
View Assignments Privilege |
Administrator |
Assignment |
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Assignment Revamp Mobile App |
You can now create new assignments with new features such as assignment type, enable/disable comments, enable/disable submission, Marks/Grade Entry, Save Assignment as Draft/Publish in mobile apps. You can also track assignment logs from the mobile app using the Assignment logs tab. Students can submit answers for online assignments through the mobile app. Admin login has been introduced in the mobile app with overview and graphical analysis features with advanced filters. |
Administrator, Privileged Employee, Subject Tutor, Batch Tutor |
Assignment |
Online Exam in Mobile app |
Students can now attend online exams from their mobile app. They will receive notifications in their mobile app about the exams and results published. Also, view the results in the mobile app itself. |
Student |
Online Exam |
Gate Management |
You can now use the new Gate Management feature to record the entry and exit of different users from various locations of the institution. There will be three main types of actions that can be performed with the gate management feature:
Only the admin/privileged employee will have access to the gate management feature in the web app where they can view the reports(graph and tabular view) and configure the settings(form settings, general settings like notification, and prefix for the pass number). The entry/actions in visitor management, user entry management, and gate pass management will be marked and handled in the mobile app.
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Administrator, Gate Management Admin, Gatekeeper, Visitor entry approver |
Gate Management |
Floating Elective Subject |
You can now enable an elective group as a floating elective to group subjects that are not always taught simultaneously. Subjects added to this group can be assigned individually to timetable slots and can be mismatched with other floating elective subjects in a timetable slot. |
Administrator, |
Subject Center |
Paybooks Integration |
You can now use paybooks to handle payroll and payslip-related details. Once enabled, payroll generation will be through paybooks. Its powerful Wizard and intuitive design makes it easy to use even for users who have no experience in using payroll software. This integration keeps employee records in line with Paybooks across the fields, reflecting any changes made in the ERP. Employees can access their Paybooks-generated payslips with the salary structure, and deductions made. To learn more about Paybooks, click here. |
Administrator, |
Human Resource |
Gradebook Marks Entry Through Mobile App |
Entering marks/grades is now more flexible for users. Employees can now enter marks/grades from the mobile app for a specific exam, term, skill, and activity. We can check whether the marks are entered or not through submission status. After entering marks the user can see the result on behalf of entered marks immediately. |
Administrator, Privileged Employee, Subject Tutor |
GradeBook |
Notification Management |
Notification Control Settings Set control for different features: Enable/disable push notifications for Examination/Gradebook scheduled, Fee Scheduled, Assignment Response, Gallery Published |
Administrator, Privileged employee |
Configuration |
Quickbooks Integration |
You can now use Quickbooks for accounting purposes. QuickBooks is a very stable, reliable, and proven product. Once the authorization is completed, data from Fedena will be synced to Quickbooks in the following way – Master particulars as Products and Services; Fee collections as Invoice; Student and Employee as Customers. The instant discounts and fines will be restricted, that is, they cannot be applied once the accounting software has been authorized. |
Administrator, |
Quickbooks Sync |
BBPS Integration |
Bharat Bill Payment System (BBPS) is an integrated bill payment system offering interoperable and accessible bill payment methods. The institution needs to register with BBPS and the gateway has to be enabled from the accounts panel. Once enabled, it needs to be enabled in the Online Payment settings page as well. Students can be searched and the pending amount can be viewed in the BBPS system. |
Administrator, Privileged employee |
Online Payment |
What’s enhanced in Fedena
Here is the list of enhanced features included with this release of Fedena 3.9
Feature |
Description |
User Role |
Module |
Attendance notification |
Send attendance SMS/notification on save/submit in locked mode |
Administrator, |
Attendance |
Finance templates |
Receipt templates to be finance templates |
Administrator, |
Finance |
Voucher number setting for the expense. |
You can now enable the ‘Multiple Receipt sets’ option now renamed as ‘Multiple receipts and voucher sets’ to create different voucher number sequences for different transactions |
Administrator, |
Finance |
Inactivate action for payroll category |
Change the status of a payroll category from active to inactive by clicking the ‘Inactivate’ button in the ‘View payroll category’ page and revert the status of an ‘Inactive payroll’ category to ‘Active’ by clicking on the Activate button, all the payroll categories present in its formula will get activated but you will have to manually activate the dependent categories. |
Administrator, |
Human Resource |
Setting to disable available item quantity and price in Inventory |
You can use the new ‘Inventory settings’ to hide the quantity and price of the store items. When disabled, an employee with ‘inventory privilege’ will be able to raise indents but will not be able to view the quantity and price of the store items. Also, they will not have access to CSV reports. |
Administrator, |
Inventory |
Custom string for Absent in Gradebook reports |
You can now mention the custom string that needs to be displayed in the reports instead of a hyphen by enabling the new Custom String option in advanced settings of the student report settings available within a planner. This custom string will be displayed in the exam report, term report, and planner report that use the following templates: default and 3 core templates mentioned. |
Administrator, Privileged employee |
Gradebook |
Timestamp in receipts |
Enable this feature in finance settings to add timestamp(date and time) of receipt generation to all fee receipts as footer. |
Administrator, Privileged employee |
Finance |
Certificates and id cards files to have a proper name |
The downloaded ID cards and certificates will now be displayed in the following format, |
Administrator, Privileged employee |
Certificates and ID cards |
Show red for failure |
You can now show the failed subject score in Red color. A new setting ‘Enable highlighting of failed subject scores’ has been added to the advanced settings tab in the Student report settings of the planner. Once enabled, the failed subject scores in the exam report, term report, and planner report that use the following templates: default and 3 core templates will be displayed in red color. |
Administrator, Privileged employee |
Gradebook |
SMS Template for Fee Defaulters Sms |
The fee defaulters SMS can now be edited in the Message templates of the SMS module. New Keys Available: ward_total_balance_without_fine, ward_fine_amount, total_balance_without_fine, fine_amount |
Administrator, Privileged employee |
SMS |
UI/UX change in Online Payment transactions |
The transactions page in Online Payment has been improved to enable transaction ID and advanced search(Payment date range, Transaction ID, Fee name, Gateway name, and Gateway status) |
Administrator, Privileged employee |
Online Payment |
Send email and SMS on applicant submission |
You can now edit the applicant submission SMS in the Message templates of the SMS module. New Keys Available: academic_year, current_status, applicant_name, registration_no, course_name |
Administrator, Privileged employee |
Applicant |
Online Payment CSV search |
You can now export the filtered transactions as CSV using the Export CSV button. |
Administrator, Privileged employee |
Online Payment |
Issues Fixed
Here is the list of issues fixed in this release of Fedena 3.9
Applicant
- The issue with the deleted course being shown in applicant registration fixed
- HTML editor access issue in Application Registration Course Settings resolved
- The issue with active courses removal from enquiry form fixed
- Search button under applicant enquiry fixed to work for different pagination.
- The issue with viewing the inactive course name on the ‘Course applicant’ page resolved
- The issue with the order of the fields not being preserved while editing the Enquiry Form fixed
- Prevented updated form settings from affecting the existing form
Assignment
- The issue with the create button not being displayed in assignment creation for the Standalone app fixed.
- Notification for Assignment in mobile app & Click action for push notification in mobile app fixed
- The issue with Assignment where unassociated employees with no assignment related privilege able access to assignments resolved
- The problem in Assignment where students are getting edit and delete privilege fixed
Attendance
- The issue with marked attendance not getting saved if the batch in inactive academic year fixed
- Problem with lock icon not being displayed in the register resolved
- Showing future date in the attendance page of employee login(Mobile app) issue fixed
- The disappearance of marked attendance after an attempt to cancel the class resolved
- The issue with displaying of attendance register and page redirecting to the dashboard fixed
- The issue with attendance marking after marking for few records resolved
- Absence of timeout in Consolidated Subjectwise Attendance Report resolved
- Problem with updating leave of employee on Attendance register resolved
- Automatic SMS issue in attendance register fixed
Finance
- The issue where deleted student transaction is displayed in Advance Fees Credit amount of finance report fixed
- Display of wrong expected amounts issue in master particular report fixed
- The spacing issue in fee due reminder message resolved
- The issue with payment not getting restricted due to the presence of particular wise payment resolved
- Problem retaining Total Amount Due and Amount Paid checkbox value in finance general settings upon refreshing the page fixed
- The issue with fee receipt amount being displayed in the wrong language resolved
- Removed fine restoring issue occurring after partial payment resolved
- Wrong amount showing against the “advance fees debit” available in the Finance transaction report fixed
- The issue in the View Discount page where students who are not added while creating a Particular discount are displayed fixed
- The issue with the display of archived student advance fee debit transactions in the transaction report resolved
- Error while applying a waiver discount for particular students in Pay all fee page fixed.
- Missing school_id index in finance_payments & payments table resolved
- Missing index added to finance_fee_particulars & fee_collection_particulars
- Instant particular deletion after fees is paid prevented.
- Student category-wise particular disappearing issue in assigned fee collections on changing the category of the student fixed
- The issue in the digit count after decimal on fee receipt fixed
- Overlapping issue of links and help text in finance settings on selecting Verdena resolved
- Unable to apply Transport Fee amount discount from Pay All fee option.
- Shows wrong discount amount on pay all fees page.
- Difference in the’ Advance fee reports ‘ between view ‘Advance fees report’ and when printed as PDF,CSV.
Gradebook
- The issue with Gradebook report generation for inactive batch and archived students if attendance enabled in report settings fixed
- Style Issue(RTL) in Firefox: ‘Mark Entry Last Last date’ in gradebook resolved
- Wrong display of mark entry status as ‘Submitted’ in ‘Generate term exam’ report page fixed
- Problem with Gradebook report generation where generation doesn’t finish fixed
- The issue with term exam creation due to the presence of only activity exam type exam groups fixed
- Words overlapping issue in the CBSE template report when student photo enabled in the template settings fixed
- Problem with Failed import message not being in user understandable manner fixed
- Gradebook Report card Alignment Issue fixed
- Problem with attributes not being shown on mark submission page according to change in attribute profile fixed
- Alignment issue in Gradebook remarks fixed
- Error while downloading Batch-Wise Report in Gradebook fixed
- The issue with the display of whole numbers for ‘0’ decimal rounding off after round-off feature enhancement fixed
- Problem with the update of new Gradebook Remarks of Archived Students in report fixed
- Exam groups(scoring type:Grade) are not listed while creating term exams.
- Subjects excluded from the total score are getting included in Average, Highest, and Rank calculation in the consolidated report.
Human Resource
- Error in payslip generation which redirects the user to dashboard fixed
- The issue with display of no. of leaves taken and total leaves taken by employees in Advance Payslip Report due to presence of half-day leave fixed
- Wrong order of Employee names in generate pay slip page resolved
- Payroll Categories misplacing issue on editing the payroll group in Mac fixed
Inventory
- The issue with deleted Store item being displayed while indent creation fixed
- Space optimization of inventory invoice covered
- Style issue in inventory invoice print fixed
- Problem with display of accept, delete button in indent details page fixed
Report Center
- Difference in the’ Advance fee reports ‘ between view ‘Advance fees report’ and when printed as PDF,CSV
- Class name column should break properly in Student-wise fee defaulters details
- Precision is not applied for amounts in finance report csv
- Consolidated report’s radio button field shows 0 responses even if it is filled
User Privilege
- Employees without ‘Manage Transfer Certificate’ privilege are able to generate transfer certificates.
- Not able to access exam report from student and parent login
Library
- When taking the CSV file in the library module it is throwing an error as ‘414 Request-URI Too Large’.
ID Card
- Background image uploaded for ID card and certificate template getting cropped.
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