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Student Financial Aid
Discussion List
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Optimizing PLUS LoansThe SFP product management team wanted to share additional set-up options outside of the product that should be considered to optimize PLUS and Grad PLUS packaging. Belo… -
Preparing for the 23D ReleaseWe are excited for the upcoming 23D release, which will be available October 9, 2023, and we wanted to share several resources available to assist with preparing for the… -
Oracle Analytics Server Static AddressEffective immediately, we have implemented a configuration change resulting in egress traffic sourcing from Oracle Analytics Server (OAS) deployments within Oracle Stude… -
What is the SFP OAS SQL for the ISIR used by student enrollment / package version / award year?Summary: How do I use SQL in SFP OAS to get ISIR fields for the ISIR that was used for a student enrollment's package version and award year? Content (required): How do … -
How can we change the time zone used by OAS?Summary: OAS uses GMT time. Our business operations and SFP are all based on Pacific time. The 8 hour difference causes gap in our Right to Cancel Letter generation and …
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Consolidated Appropriations Act: Letter Impacts for ISIR FieldsAs we continue to review the Consolidated Appropriations Act effects on financial aid processing within SFP we are looking into possible updates needed for letter genera…
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Consolidated Appropriations Act: ISIR Discrepancy Corrections for Financial FieldsAs we start to dive into the 2024-2025 ISIR updates, we are working on updating our baseline configuration to support all the upcoming changes. As you may know, the new …
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System Updates that may impact Fall DisbursementsOracle understands that multiple institutions will be disbursing for the Fall in the next several weeks and wanted to inform you of an update that was made to increase r…
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How will SFP beign reporting Federal Work Study (FWS) wages to COD?Summary: Content (required): We are required to begin reporting FWS wages to COD in the coming months. In a webinar yesterday schools were stating that they will be usin…
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Consolidated Appropriations Act: Need determinations using the SAII wanted to provide an update on the topic of calculating need in packaging using the new Student Aid Index (SAI) value. The attached document outlines our approach with…
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Yearly FISAP UpdateThis year's yearly FISAP updates contain cosmetic enhancements to the file layout as well as updated dates within the report itself. These changes will be included in th…
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Updates to OAS SQL for “Failed to Load SQL” errorWhile testing the BI Publisher to OAS migration in 23C, an issue was discovered where certain data models received a "Failed to Load SQL" error. It was determined this w…
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July 11th 23C & Beyond CCC Event Q&A Follow UpThank you all for joining our last Cloud Connect Event where we where able to share details regarding the 23C Release, preview our upcoming Automated Selective Packaging…
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Oracle's guidance regarding GLBA RequirementsRecently the Department of Education published an announcement regarding Updates to the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act Cybersecurity Requirements that went into effect June 9, 2…
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Introducing the Oracle SFP Administration Community Toolkit (SACT)We are excited to announce a Beta release of Oracle SFP Administration Community Toolkit (SACT), that can be tested, adopted, and updated as you see fit. What does it do…
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Consolidated Appropriations Act: Pell UpdatesThank you for joining our last CCC event and as discussed we are creating this follow up post to cover Pell examples in more detail. Below you will find our latest appro…
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What is the best way to export Cal Grant Payment information on CSAC's Grant Roster Layout Format?Summary: Content (required): The California Student Aid Commission (CSAC) requires payments of the California State Grant (Cal Grant) to be reported on their website. On…
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How to Prevent Current students from seeing Enrollment Status?Summary: Currently we import SDI/SDU and SAFIs into SFP after a first round of admissions decisions in order to start packaging and creating FA Offer Letters. The issue … -
Customer Feedback Requested for Consolidated Appropriations Act ImpactThank you to those who joined the Cloud Customer Event that the product management team held on March 8, 2023 to discuss the Consolidated Appropriations Act and the impa…
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Optimizing your BI Publisher Configuration SettingsThe Product Management team wanted to provide a quick guide on what updates can be made within the administrative console of BI Publisher to aid in memory expansion and …
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Considerations for Upcoming Summer EnhancementsWe would like to an announce the upcoming release of two features focused on Summer packaging intended to increase automation and improve general student experience and …
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Recommendations for Housing COA ConfigurationsIn working with the Student Financial Planning Student Advisory Group (SAG) which is made up of students from SFP customer institutions, it was brought to the SFP produc…
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Updated Application Processing Guides for 22/23 and 23/24On March 24, 2023, ED published updates to the 22/23 and 23/24 EDE Technical References, ISIR Guides, and SAR Comment Codes and Text Guides. A major change from these up…
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Assistance with Updating Letters using FasStudentAwardInformationV2EventThe product management team would like to provide an update on letters triggered using the FasStudentAwardInformationV2Event. We have recently discovered an issue (Bug 3…
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Deprecating JasperSoft and VM Schema AccessThe Product Management team wanted to provide an update on timelines for JasperSoft and access to the VM Schema. With the 23C release, we will be deprecating JasperSoft …
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How to debug the groovy script in SFPSummary: I have the below groovy code : if (previousPell.isEligible()) { log.debug("PREVIOUS PELL IS ELIGIBLE"); I want to know where can i see these log messages? Is th…
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Recommendations for completely automatic OTBI reports and data extraction on a preset schedule?Summary: Recommendations for completely automatic OTBI reports and data extraction on a preset schedule? Content (required): We wish to use an OTBI report as a data sour…
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Impact of Packaging & Disbursing OverridesThe Product Management team wanted to provide a quick guide on how various packaging and disbursing overrides are used in the system and the impact they have to subseque…
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FAFSA Simplification Act Changes for the 23/24 Award YearWe wanted to inform this community about recent policy updates effective for the 23/24 Award Year that were announced by the Department on November 4, 2022. A Federal Re…
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Preparing for the November Maintenance Pack for 22D ReleaseWith the November Maintenance Pack for 22D, we wanted to highlight the configuration changes to the Notification Framework and share several resources available to assis…