Release Notes 6.040.0

Performance: MCT continues to strive to identify and implement performance optimization changes when possible. With this, a change was made to the manner in which policies load to the UI. Historically, when a policy loaded, the Policies tab (which lists all policies for the grower) and the Detail Lines tab (for the first coverage on the policy) loaded along with the policy searched for. As such, there was a wait time associated with loading all of the data on the page on the initial load of the policy, especially if the user never navigated to the first coverages' Detail Line tab or the Policies tab. So, a change was made to the manner in which a policy loads after a search. Now, only the Coverages tab will be loaded, and the other policy tabs will load when a user makes a selection to view that set of data.

Policy: Previously, on the Maintain Commodity page for Whole Farm Revenue Protection (WFRP) policies, to navigate between commodities, users had to Cancel or Save & Exit from the Maintain Commodity page, return to the Commodities tab, and then select the link to open the next commodity line. A request was received to implement better navigation between commodities on WFRP policies. To maintain System consistency, this navigation will be similar to that used on MPCI policies for detail lines and APHs. This includes Next and Back buttons as well as a dropdown of all commodities to allow users to navigate between commodity lines.

Quotes: A bug was identified with SBI validations when converting a quote to a policy. When converting a quote to a policy, the System checks to see if the policy has the minimum number of SBIs required based on the grower’s Entity Type and Tax ID type. The System uses RMA's ICE Table "Entity Type Primary Producer SBI" (D00020) to determine the minimum number of SBIs based on the grower’s Entity Type and Tax ID type. This ICE table includes a record for each SBI Entity Type and Tax ID type that is valid for the grower’s Entity Type and Tax ID type. In addition, each of these records includes a minimum number of SBIs required.

Prior to 2018, the minimum SBIs required in this ICE table was "0" for all entity types. However, beginning in 2018, RMA updated the minimum SBI count for grower entity types of "J", "P", "R", and "X" from "0" to "1". This update occurred with the July PASS release. Following this update, users began receiving errors when attempting to convert a quote to a policy for growers with entity types of "J", "P", "R", and "X".

The reason for these errors was that the System was looking for at least one SBI record (based on the new minimum SBI required in the ICE Table) that matched the SBI Entity Type and SBI Tax ID type for every single record in ICE D00020 for the grower Entity Type and Tax ID type. The System should have been looking for at least one SBI record total rather than one SBI record for each Entity Type and Tax ID type combination in the ICE table. The SBI validation logic that triggers when converting a quote to a policy has been updated to require at least one SBI record total rather than at least one record for every Entity Type and Tax ID type combination in the ICE table.

WFRP: In the 2018 RY, PRF ADMs added more intervals (practice codes) with the introduction of organic, organic transitional, and other practices to the standard irrigated/non-irrigated practice codes. To aid agents and AIPs processing WFRP, the practice codes were added in parentheses next to the different intervals on the detail line as well as next to the interval on the View Detail Line grid.