Opus 2.15

Opus 2.15 goes live on Sunday, March 8, 2020.  The new features for departments and schools:


Save your customized tables.  Up until now, all the filtering, sorting, and column selection that a user did on an Opus table (e.g., the Appointments page) would be lost when the user moved to another page or refreshed the table page.  Now, users can save the view they've created by clicking the button labeled "Opus Standard View" next to the Show Only button above the table.  On subsequent visits to the page, users can select the customized view they created or the Opus Standard View.  Users can create as many saved views as they need.


UC PATH's Employee Status.  The Appointments table has a new field, Employee Status, that displays the Payroll Status from UC PATH.  This field indicates whether an appointee has an active appointment, is on leave with or without pay, or has been terminated.  This information can help in creating a faculty committee, for example--a person on leave might not be available for committee service.  This information can also be a red flag: a person who's terminated in UC PATH shouldn't have a current appointment in Opus.  You can add the Employee Status column to your view by clicking the Change Columns button and selecting it from the available fields.


Appointee Location.  For faculty in the School of Medicine, their location (UCLA or an affiliate hospital) is now available on the Cases table.


Dean's Office to close Visiting Appointments.  Dean's Office staff can now close Visitng appointments.  If a proposed re-appointment for a Visiting appointee would mean a third consecutive year in a Visiting title, that case needs to be forwarded to APO for the Vice Chancellor to consider as an exception to the two-year limit on Visiting appointments.


Prior Personnel Actions.  The Profile page now has an Academic History tab on the left margin.  Clicking on it will display all the academic actions that took place for the appointee in Opus.  The Academic History page in Opus will, over the years, come to replace the appointment history cards that departments and dean's offices maintain.  For recent appointees, this Opus page might capture their full Academic History at UCLA.  If so, this page can be exported from Opus and then uploaded to the Data Summary section in Interfolio as the complete Academic History card.  For appointees with appointments prior to the full implementation of Opus, this Opus page and the Academic History maintained in the department or dean's office will both be required in the Data Summary section.  Some appointees have had academic personnel actions in Opus that were just corrections of bad data that was fed into Opus.  These items can be excluded from the Opus-produced Academic History card by leaving their row unchecked when clicking the Export Selected Rows to Excel button.

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