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PExD Release Notes

The following release notes are for PExD Version 3.5: Release Date: December 2023

PExD Release 3.5 consists of the following:

  • Removed the 'Other' category for Harmful Organisms throughout PCIT and PExD.
  • Removed erroneous text from the Commodity Summary screen.
  • Simplified the display of ineligible products.
  • When a Harmful Organism is unchecked on a country's Update Harmful Organisms screen, do a hard delete.

The following release notes are for PExD Version 3.4: Release Date: October 2022

PExD Release 3.4 consists of the following:

  • Increase the Additional Declaration fields to the maximum allowable size of 32,767 characters.

The following release notes are for PExD Version 3.3: Release Date: August 2022

PExD Release 3.3 consists of the following:

  • Maintenance updates.

The following release notes are for PExD Version 3.2: Release Date: July 2022

PExD Release 3.2 consists of the following:

  • Updates to Additional Declarations to accommodate longer text up to 8000 characters.
  • Increase the size of the Notes to Exporter field to 4000 characters.
  • Maintenance updates.

The following release notes are for PExD Version 3.1.1: Release Date: May 2022

PExD Release 3.1.1 consists of the following:

  • Maintenance updates.

The following release notes are for PExD Version 3.1: Release Date: March 2022

PExD Release 3.1 consists of the following:

  • Updates to handle square brackets in Additional Declaration text.
  • Removed an extraneous bullet for Part in the commodity summary preview.
  • Maintenance updates.

The following release notes are for PExD Version 3.0: Release Date: February 2022

PExD Release 3.0 consists of the following:

  • Implemented a Technology Upgrade.
  • Removed the Future Commodity Summary functionality.
  • Removed Processed Products from the left menu and from the PExD Administrative Functions.
  • Updated ES contact information.
  • Added the show all/collapse buttons to pagination lists.

The following release notes are for PExD Version 2.7.3: Release Date: December 2021

PExD Release 2.7.3 consists of the following:

  • Year end maintenance.

The following release notes are for PExD Version 2.7.2: Release Date: May 2021

PExD Release 2.7.2 consists of the following:

  • Updated the note on the European Union Summary screen that the United Kingdom-Northern Ireland follows the European Union requirements.

The following release notes are for PExD Version 2.7.1: Release Date: October 2020

PExD Release 2.7.1 consists of the following:

  • Fix for intermittent error when connecting to PExD from PCIT.

The following release notes are for PExD Version 2.7: Release Date: July 2020

PExD Release 2.7 consists of the following:

  • Modified reports to launch in a new tab rather than a popup window.

The following release notes are for PExD Version 2.6: Release Date: February 2019

PExD Release 2.6 consists of the following:

  • Consolidated Eurasian Customs Union group to maintain one set of summary data.
  • Removed Albania from the European Union group. Moved EU summary data to Germany.
  • Updated the Myanmar country flag.

The following release notes are for PExD Version 2.5: Release Date: November 2018

PExD Release 2.5 consists of the following:

  • Updated Commodity Summary Save functionality. Removed the red update block that is displayed after save.
  • General Requirements - saved update date per title.
  • Enabled search across all Harmful Organism types.
  • Removed the red update block confirmation for Country-Specific data.

The following release notes are for PExD Version 2.4: Release Date: August 2018

PExD Release 2.4 consists of the following:

  • Foreign Points of Contact - increased the title by 20 characters, now allowing up to 60 characters to be entered.
  • Enabled commodity search by two characters for View Country Information/Historical Data.
  • Added an All tab to the View Country Information/Definitions screen.
  • Added the Point of Entry Type 'Undefined'.

The following release notes are for PExD Version 2.3: Release Date: June 2017

PExD Release 2.3 consists of the following:

  • Data update request for Eurasian Customs Union country group.
  • Updated ECS List link on page footer.
  • Enabled updates to Country Specific Treatment, AD, Destination and Important Notes to update Last update date for a country summary.
  • Fix to enable users to retrieve last viewed commodity summary for European Union country group.

The following release notes are for PExD Version 2.2: Release Date: August 2016

PExD Release 2.2 consists of the following:

  • Add an 'All Other Counties' selection for commodity origins.
  • Miscellaneous application updates and fixes.

The following release notes are for PExD Version 2.1: Release Date: May 2016

PExD Release 2.1 consists of the following:

  • Enable a common summary for European Union countries.
  • Miscellaneous report updates.

The following release notes are for PExD Version 2.0.7: Release Date: May 2015

PExD Release 2.0.7 consists of the following:

  • Enhancements made with the purpose of tightening code from undesirable updates.
  • Fixed the function of providing asterisks against search results for commodities which no longer exist in PCIT.

The following release notes are for PExD Version 2.0.6: Release Date: July 30, 2014

PExD Release 2.06 consists of the following:

  • Update the telephone number on the Export Services Contact Information screen.
  • Miscellaneous data entry, retrieval and display enhancements.

The following release notes are for PExD Version 2.0: Release Date: September 27, 2013

PExD Release 2.0 consists of the following:

  • Enable government users to view Commodity Summary's historical data.
  • Miscellaneous data entry, retrieval and display enhancements.

The following release notes are for PExD Version 1.7.5: Release Date: August 11, 2012

PExD Release 1.7.5 consists of the following:

  • Allow Export Services to save Additional Declaration groupings as an AD group template to be used later.
  • Miscellaneous data entry, retrieval and display enhancements.

The following release notes are for PExD Version 1.7.1: Release Date: March 9, 2012

PExD Release 1.7.1 consists of the following:

  • Allow Export Services to delete mass commodity summaries.
  • Miscellaneous data entry, retrieval and display enhancements.

The following release notes are for PExD Version 1.7: Release Date: March 3, 2012

PExD Release 1.7 consists of the following:

  • Enable viewing users to return to the previously opened Commodity Summary after viewing other Country-Specific Data.
  • The full exception list is now accessible on View Commodity Summary.
  • In Add/Update Commodity Summary, enable Export Services to select multiple states then select counties.
  • Moved Standard Documentation Requirements to the bottom of the Add/Update Commodity Summary screen.
  • Allow Export Services to use an existing summary as a template to create a new summary.
  • Allowing country-level documents to be linked on commodity summaries.
  • Enable Export Services to link PIM Staff notes to commodity summaries.
  • Addition of a new report, Country List of Commodity Summaries Report.
  • Miscellaneous data entry, retrieval and display enhancements.

The following release notes are for PExD Version 1.6: Release Date: August 27, 2011

PExD Release 1.6 consists of the following:

  • A new messages section on the View Country Information page.
  • Addition of commodity and part groups for use when creating commodity summaries.
  • New reports section with two reports, Commodity Requirements Report and Harmful Organism Report.
  • Miscellaneous data entry, retrieval and display enhancements.

The following release notes are for PExD Version 1.5: Release Date: May 4, 2011

PExD Release 1.5 consists of the following:

  • Ability for all users to access PExD to view commodity summaries.
  • Ability for supporting documents to be included with all summaries.
  • Miscellaneous data entry, retrieval and display enhancements.

The following release notes are for PExD Version 1.4: Release Date: February 25, 2011

PExD Release 1.4 consists of the following:

  • Miscellaneous data entry and data display enhancements.

The following release notes are for PExD Version 1.3: Release Date: December 11, 2010

PExD Release 1.3 consists of the following:

  • Enable entry of future commodity summaries.
  • Enhance botanical name commodity wildcard '*' search to only return commodities with active commodity summaries.
  • Enhance commodity summary retrieval by displaying only the parts related to active commodity summaries.
  • Miscellaneous data entry and data display enhancements.

The following release notes are for PExD Version 1.2: Release Date: September 25, 2010

PExD Release 1.2 consists of the following:

  • Enable view of country information.
  • Miscellaneous data entry enhancements.

The following release notes are for PExD Version 1.0: Release Date: July 17, 2010

PExD Release 1.0 consists of the following:

  • Enable entry and preview of country information.