Release Notes: Item 2407-03
Schema 5.0b
All 2025 Common Record documents must be sent using COD Common Record XML Schema Version 5.0b. All 2025 Common Record responses will be sent by the COD System using COD Common Record XML Schema Version 5.0b. Changes have been made to both the Direct lending export process and to the Grant export process. The only change made with this release to any of the import programs is to the namespace part of the Common Record file.
- A new Enrollment Intensity Percentage field will be added, and schools are required to report it on each Pell disbursement for Award Year 2024-25 and forward. The Enrollment Intensity Percentage reflects the student enrollment level for that payment period. The Enrollment Intensity Percentage field will allow for a minimum of 1 character and a maximum of 3 characters. Valid values include whole numbers between 0 and 100. This gets passed in WFFID25N and will need to be coded by the schools. This only impacts the Pell disbursements in the Pell export.
- The First Name field will be modified to allow for a maximum of 35 characters.
- The Middle Initial field and tag will be redefined as Middle Name and allow for a maximum of 35 characters.
- The Postal Code field will be modified to allow for a maximum of 10 characters
- The #E-ORIG-FEDID-TRAN was renamed to be #E-ORIG-TRANS-NO
- CPS will be replaced with FPS in the FPSTransactionNumber tag in the Direct Loan export and the Federal Grant export
- For any loan files that include fields with EFC as the name, we kept those fields to limit source changes. Since these are just being passed around, there is no visual impact.
- We did not implement optional tags and we did not increase the occurances of Cipcode.
This release also updates the display of SAI across all locations in Financier for more consistency.
Note: The ADD Load event is created at the time that the student is loaded into FINANCIER. For students previously loaded in Aid Year 2025 and had a blank SAI, the SAI displayed as $0. After the fix, students loaded with a blank SAI will display with the word blank in the Event.
- For the places that show zero instead of blank for a blank SAI, this is due to the SAI value being pulled from the Aidyear file (M1 column) which is stored as a numeric value. (Primarily used in the calculation of Need)
| SAI LOCATION |
BLANK SAI |
ZERO SAI |
-1500 SAI |
POS SAI |
NEG SAI |
| FPS screen |
BLANK |
ZERO |
-1500 |
POS |
NEG |
| Add/Financier Comp-top |
BLANK |
ZERO |
-1500 |
POS |
NEG |
| Add/Financier Comp-bottom |
ZERO |
ZERO |
-1500 |
POS |
NEG |
| Need Analysis Calc screen |
BLANK |
ZERO |
-1500 |
POS |
NEG |
| Aid Need Eval screen |
ZERO |
ZERO |
-1500 |
POS |
NEG |
| Loan Snapshot popup |
ZERO |
ZERO |
-1500 |
POS |
NEG |
| Event History |
BLANK |
ZERO |
-1500 |
POS |
NEG |
| Budget/Need Eval screen |
ZERO |
ZERO |
-1500 |
POS |
NEG |
Implementation Notes
This item is required at all client sites but might have been previously updated manually
- Load the updated modules from the SYSOBJH input file (sy240703.txt) in the attached zip file. Or, you may apply source changes manually for the updated modules. Click on the "mods" link next to the module name for the Differences Report, which shows the previous and current versions of the module side by side. For a further description of the Differences features, click the "Help" link at the top right when the report is displayed.
Data areas:
Updated Maps/Subroutines,Subprograms,Programs:
No other modules are affected.