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e-Government – What’s New
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Overview – What’s New!

Table of Contents

Change in Behavior of Search Menu step (6.0 / 6.1)
Option to display detailed ST Total to Pay summary screen
Option to Change Create New Payor Behavior (6.0 / 6.1)
Development Testing – Direct Report Viewer
Release 6.0
Changes to GNA Web Site User Interface
eGovern Login Security
ePayment Screen Enhancements
Modification to ePayment and eFile Payment
Single Sign-on
Multimedia Documents in eRenewal
eGovern eRemittance behavior with Un-filed Accounts
Allow for Online Prepayments
Option to Display Tax Periods as Text on eGovern
ACH Debit & Credit / e-Remittance
Manage eFiling Account Access
“Is Read Only” flag for Self Reported Business Tax Form Parameters
Option for Debug Mode for Reports
Payment Process in HPG
Release 5.1
Platform Upgrade from Nelnet to CryptPay
Manage eProfile Logins
Change in Forms Designer (to be verified)
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Listed below are the recent changes and enhancements to the eGovernment – Public Self Service Portal. Features are listed in reverse chronological order, i.e. newest to oldest. Documentation that is available for the feature may be reviewed online, or downloaded.

Release 6.1

Change in Behavior of Search Menu step (6.0 / 6.1)

NEW! There are multiple steps in the account payment process. The first is the Search Account step. Previously if the Search Account step did not find any accounts, and no eSearch Style or Group is selected, this step is still initiated. A change in behavior has been introduced. If the Search Account step does not find any accounts, and no eSearch Style or Group is configured, this step will be bypassed.
In addition there is an updated label. When no outstanding balances are found, the label will read as, No outstanding balance found for Name Account <account>. Previously a non-specific message was displayed, e.g. No Outstanding Balance Found. The new build can be found in the WEBUSERINTERFACE_6.0.1707.0381.zip file.

Option to display detailed ST Total to Pay summary screen

Release 5.1.1407, 6.0.1706, 6.1.1706
In eGovern eRemittance, at the end of the filing process, users see a fee summary of the actual period displaying the total, the penalty, the discount, and the interest. Some users may only allow deposits, or have special fees calculated for Late Filings. For such cases, it is possible to display a detailed summary that shows deposits and fee charges. This option is configured and enabled in the Govern New Administration (GNA). Click this link to see the Documentation for eGovern Login Security Feature

Option to Change Create New Payor Behavior (6.0 / 6.1)

During the online payment process, the radio button option to define a New Payer, is displayed at the lower section of the interface. When an administrator selects this option located under the ePayment tab in GNA, the New Payer option will be hidden. This option can be found from the the GNA ribbon:
Application Configurations (tab) > Web Configuration (group) > Manage Web Site. Under the Web Site tab > ePayment (tab) > Disable Create New Payer.

Development Testing – Direct Report Viewer

Release 6.1
For development testing, this is a direct link to the e-Government eportal (no credentials or login are required). The link will show the report without any interaction by the user.
The name of the report and the parameters and parameters names are passed through the URL that is entered. See Installation Testing and Troubleshooting for detail information.

Release 6.0

Changes to GNA Web Site User Interface

Administrators of the eGovern – Public Web Portal that are familiar with the layout of the Manage Web Site form in the Govern New Administration (GNA), will notice a change to the tabs and sub-tabs of the Manage Web Site form. The new Site Security tab is a consolidation of user creation and security related options. The following tabs have now been moved under the new Security tab:

• eProfile – Used to view the parameters that set the default user access rights for the eProfile and the eComponents.
• Profile – Control user ability to create profiles.
• Subscription – Manage eSubscriber accounts.
• NEW! Access – Control user access, impose locks on accounts, and manage security levels. This feature, eGovern Login Security, is documented below.

eGovern Login Security

Administrators are able to specify the number of attempts that an eProfile account, or MAC address based session is allowed to access the site. With the monitor, suspicious activities can be denied access to to the site.
Documentation for eGovern Login Security Feature
201-all-eGov_eGovern_Login_Security.pdf

ePayment Screen Enhancements

Enhancements have been made to the ePayment Details screen that allow administrators to selectively show/hided details, change the layout, and change its behavior at the subsystem level.
Documentation for ePayment Screen Enhancements
201-all-eGov-ePayment Screen Enhancements.pdf

Modification to ePayment and eFile Payment

Currently the eGovern system allows users to pay ST subsystem accounts as type Payment (pmt). This system modification allows users of the eGovern – Public Self Service Portal to pay using a payment type of Deposit (dep). This change also streamlines the functioning of the payment processing by enabling Unfiled Periods that are to be paid, to be displayed. eGovern ePayments now work in the same manner as payment processing in the Govern system.

NOTE: This feature is only available for the Self Reported Tax subsystem.

Documentation for ePayment and eFile Payment
201-all-eGov-ePayment_and_eFile_Payment_Modification.pdf

Single Sign-on

GA Release 6.0 (to be developed)
When using multiple web-sites on the ePortal, it is now possible for the user to sign in once only and navigate between sites

Multimedia Documents in eRenewal

GA Release 6.0.1503
It is now possible to add multimedia documents in the eRenewal process. The process is similar to that of the ePermit; the document types permitted are based on the Permit type.

eGovern eRemittance behavior with Un-filed Accounts

Release 6.0.1503
Changes have been made to how the system handles Unfiled Accounts that are related to **Self Reported Business Tax**. During the set year, when a user in a profile performs a search, the system will verify if any resulting accounts are unfiled. If no filings are outstanding, the system will display a status message at the top of the interface. When outstanding filings are found, the user will be redirected to the filing page. A navigation button has been added to facilitate navigation back to the home page. Users that want to customize the displayed message, can do so with the Resource Editor in GNA Release 6.x. The associated keys is the following: WB > WEB_SRT_SELFREPORTEDTAX > CVSSELECTEDACCOUNTS

Allow for Online Prepayments

Users of Governs’ eGovern – Public Self Service Portal (Release 5.1.1407), that are using eRemittance to submit their filings online, are now able to search for a zero balance AR record and make a prepayment on that record.
Documentation for Option to Allow Online Prepayments
201-all-eGov-Allow_online_prepayments.pdf

Option to Display Tax Periods as Text on eGovern

Available in Release 6.0.1609
Users of the Govern eGovern – Public Self Service Portal, that are using eRemittance to submit their filings online, will note the following enhancement. The periods for eFiling that are displayed online are, by default, only displayed as numeric values which correspond to the period of the filing. This method of representation may be error prone, and as a result, an enhancement has been made that will display periods as text from the long descriptions saved by the user in (Table: VT_USER) and (Table: ST_PARM_DETAIL).
Documentation for Option to Display Tax Periods as Text on eGovern
201-all-eGov-Display_Periods_as_Text.pdf

ACH Debit & Credit / e-Remittance

Available in Release 6.0.1609
This is a feature that can enforce the business rule that Govern Business Tax or online eGovern users must settle the balance of a Business Tax Filing via ACH. When configured by an administrator, any filing made through Govern Business Tax, or online through eGovern, can require that the balance amount be settled at the same time.
Documentation for ACH Debit & Credit
201-all-eGov-ACH_Debit_Credit.pdf

Manage eFiling Account Access

Individuals that are Owners in an eProfile can remove the ability of account holders to file on their behalf; this enhancement provides an interface for removing filing access.
Documentation for eRemittance Filing Access control
201-all-eGov-Manage_eRemittance_Filing_Access.pdf

Platform Updgrade from Nelnet to CryptPay
Available for Release 6.0 and 5.1
NelNet has upgraded their platform from Commerce Manager to Cryptpay, a platform that provides electronic processing of credit card transactions and electronic payments via a global computer network. See CryptPay Payment Processor for details.

“Is Read Only” flag for Self Reported Business Tax Form Parameters

Available in Release 6.0.1511 and later.
In the form for “Categories Form Setup” in the Govern New Administration (GNA), options are available to restrict user access to the parameters that are presented on the OpenForm in the application. With the new Is read Only flag, the user can view a parameter but cannot access the content to change it. This option is available for use in the OpenForm Settings and the Web Site Settings. Note that by default a parameter is editable.

Option for Debug Mode for Reports

A Report Debug Mode is available in Release 6.0 that can aid in troubleshooting issues with Reports. The option is enabled in the Web Config Editor in GNA. When enabled (Value = 1), a debug screen will be displayed directly below the embedded Crystal Viewer in the browser. By default the option is disabled (Value = 0).For report troubleshooting purposes, the debug screen will display parameter names, identify Session ID and Govern ID’s that are referenced by the report.

Payment Process in HPG

Deprecated in 6.1 / Not supported as of December 31st 2016
There may at times be timing issues during transactions with external transaction servers. As a result modifications have been made to the payment process with the Harris Payment Gateway (HPG). This modification is presented as a interim “retry” screen with a message. This screen with a message will instruct the user to retry the action to obtain a receipt. The message can be modified by the user using the Govern Resource Editor in GNA (Resource Key: WEB_AR_PAYMENT_HPG). This background change with the Retry screen is available in Release 6.0.
Schema of New Transaction Process
eGOV60_HPG_Timing01.pdf

Release 5.1

Platform Upgrade from Nelnet to CryptPay

Available in 5,1
NelNet has upgraded their platform from Commerce Manager to Cryptpay, a platform that provides electronic processing of credit card transactions and electronic payments via a global computer network. See CryptPay Payment Processor for details.
his new update will allow users that were formerly using NelNet to now collect payments (echecks) online with the new CryptPay interface.

Manage eProfile Logins

Name and Address Standard Feature to Set e-Profile Password (201-na-fea-201).

Change in Forms Designer (to be verified)

The Forms Designer is no longer functioning; the (Table: USR_FIELDS_DEF) is no longer in use. Currently no scripts have been developed to convert already defined forms

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