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Blackboard Transact™

Product Feature Summary

eAccounts – Release 2.0.0

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Table of Contents

Table of Contents 3

Introduction 4

Product Description and Features 4

Description 4

Features 4

Compatibility Matrixes 12

Reference Materials 13


Introduction

About the Product Feature Summary The Product Feature Summary provides Administrators with information about the release. It includes a

summary features available in eAccounts 2.0.0. It does not include information on enhancements in any

prior release including full releases, service releases, and patches.

What is in the Product Feature Summary? The document contains the following sections:

Product Description and Features – Describes new features in this release.

Compatibility Matrixes – Includes information on which client browsers are supported with this release.

Reference materials – Lists and describes reference manuals available for this release.

Product Description and Features

Description

Blackboard eAccounts is a web service product providing real-time integration with Blackboard Transaction System 3.7.1.2 or greater to allow self-service online account management including:

real-time and scheduled stored value deposits stored value balance and transaction history board plan balance and transaction history basic card maintenance functions API for mobile and third party applications.

eAccounts is hosted by Blackboard in a secure data center meeting the Payment Card Industry - Data Security Standards (PCI-DSS) for processing credit card transactions.


Features

New Features for 2.0.0

New User Interface

Completely redesigned user interface featuring: o Cleaner, modern page design o New user landing page displaying all stored value and board accounts o Additional text areas for local campus information o Simplified deposit workflow o Simplified configuration options in management portal for custom look campus

branding.

Shibboleth Compatible Single Sign-On

Service Portal Display mode feature allows and institution to embed the functional parts of eAccounts (versus branding) into another site that is already branded for the institution.

o Coupled with SSO, this can provide a seamless user experience integrated to a secure campus portal.

Recurring Scheduled Deposits

Users with saved payment methods can schedule future deposits on a recurring basis with following options:

o Daily o Weekly o Monthly o Yearly o Time of day o Start and end date of schedule o Number of occurrences

Display Mode

Configuration options for SAML based Shibboleth compatible identity service.

Improvements

eAccounts Portal User Query

Additional query filter options allow administrator to more efficiently determine state of

users.

New filter options include:


o Lock status

o Last activity date

o Enable

o Effective start date

o Effective end date

eAccounts Portal User List Report

Additional query filter options allow administrator to more efficiently report on users.

New filter options include:

o Lock status

o Created date/time

o Last activity date

o Enable

o Effective start date

o Effective end date

The following filter options were removed (the data remains available in the report):

o Telephone

o Address Line 1

o Address Line 2

o Address Line 3

o City

o State/Province

o Postal Code

Infrastructure Improvements

Messaging services have been optimized to avoid email delays and better handle invalid

email addresses.

Message service configuration is now located in the Institution configuration area of the

Management Portal.


The following list contains a summary of the improvement and defect corrections.

Key Issue Type

Reported In Version

Summary

SP-151 Bug 1.1.1 eAccount Portal User Import - Bulk User Import email does not list the row that

failed to import

SP-147 Bug 1.2 Messaging - Duplicate TS Registration emails may have the "name" missing; difficult to determine possible fraudlent use

SP-156 Bug 1.2 Guest Deposit - confirmation email does not

have Account Owner name

SP-2682 Bug 1.2 Wrong ReplyTo address is being used

sometimes...

SP-1447 Bug 1.3 Management Portal - email confirmation of eAccount Portal User Import is not getting sent

SP-1488 Bug 1.3 Management Portal - eAccount Portal User Import email contents is missing "Job

Name"

SP-1526 Bug 1.3 eAccounts Portal - Deposit - Scheduled deposit after SVAT removal results in "terminated" deposit and event log error

SP-1828 Bug 1.4 eAccounts Portal - transaction date/time

showing seconds on Deposit Notification email (for both the self and guest emails)

SP-2683 Bug 1.4 Management Portal - Email not sent to user

after Duplicate TS Registration via User Query

SP-2840 Bug 1.4 Import to eAccounts, the field formatting causes the import to fail

SP-150 Bug 1.5 eAccount Portal User Import - invalid Country value resulted in import with

incorrect Country

SP-2196 Bug 1.5 Management Portal - Cannot delete newly

created eAccount Portal user

SP-2505 Bug 1.5 Management Portal - Identity Service Detail: Test does not fail or error when Attribute Name value does not exist

SP-2553 Bug 1.5 eAccounts Portal - ClearCommerce

Authorization: GetHttpResponse of NULL results in Transaction Status of Pending

SP-2554 Bug 1.5 PaymentGateway Timeout setting is ignored

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SP-2572 Bug 1.5 Management Portal - Log Configuration:

Configuration Information's PCI compliance statement and default Retention Days value

SP-2618 Bug 1.5 Management Portal - Transaction System Service Transaction Report - Date/Time

fields accept pasting of seconds into them

SP-2629 Bug 1.5 eAccount Portal - wrong error message when Payment Gateway Service is set to

the wrong port

SP-2639 Bug 1.5 Management Portal - Transaction Reports: Export to Excel includes blank Action column

SP-2641 Bug 1.5 Management Portal - Transaction System

Service Transaction Report - Session Information for Guest Deposit showing Anonymous User/GUID

SP-2649 Bug 1.5 Management Portal - Transaction System Service Transaction Report - Transaction

Entry Account Type filter not working

SP-2651 Bug 1.5 eAccounts Portal - Deposit: Transaction Result is Unknown when deposit performed with Payment Gateway service set to the

wrong port

SP-2657 Bug 1.5 eAccount Portal - wrong workflow messaging when user account credentials are expired


Service Transaction Report - Transaction Entry Account Type list not in alpha order

SP-2677 Bug 1.5 eAccounts Portal - All deposits using US Bank Account declined due to Engine.IPAddress error response from

Payment Gateway

SP-2687 Bug 1.5 Management Portal - Transaction System Service Transaction Report - closing Detail should bring the user back to their original

queried results.

SP-2689 Bug 1.5 When a user's credentials become 'must

change', Scheduled Deposits will fail, and the job instance status will never update.















Service Transaction Report - Detail Tender Line Item End Date/Time does not match

End Date/Time on Tender Detail page

SP-2701 Bug 1.5 eAccount Portal - sites do not fail if database connection is unavailable

SP-2702 Bug 1.5 eAccounts Portal - Password Recovery: System Exception when providing a user

name that does not have an email address

SP-2705 Bug 1.5 Management Portal - Reports "export to excel" button does not necessarily reflect

the currently chosen filter

SP-2706 Bug 1.5 Management Portal - eAccount Portal User List Report - filter is not saving for the session

SP-2708 Bug 1.5 eAccount Portal - "Back" button in User

Registration should maintain the previously entered values

SP-2710 Bug 1.5 Management Portal - eAccount Portal User View: Activation status is Pending even

after expiration date time passes

SP-2711 Bug 1.5 eAccounts Portal - Site Map: Links to inaccessible pages provided when user

flagged to "must change password"

SP-2712 Bug 1.5 Management Portal - eAccount Portal User Detail: Displays "Field is Missing" error

when clicking Cancel or Delete button

SP-2713 Bug 1.5 User Login - users locked due to inactivity do not get denied logon

SP-2714 Bug 1.5 eAccounts Portal - initial registration brings user to wrong Accounts sub-page

SP-2715 Bug 1.5 eAccount Portal - error logging in with imported TSP C/R user using "forgot

password" scenario`

SP-2736 Bug 1.5 eAccount Portal - Scheduled Deposit emails

not getting sent

SP-2756 Bug 1.5 eAccounts Portal - Bank Account type of

Savings results in transaction declined due to Payment Gateway processor error

SP-2863 Bug 1.5 Management Portal - Deposit Rule - error

when deleting all Payment Methods from a Deposit Rule

















SP-2952 Bug 1.5 Unhandled Exception in

AnonymoushomePassword because of bad guid formatting

SP-3015 Bug 1.5.2 eAccounts Portal - User Registration:

Invalid email address value results in message "is not a valid email address"

SP-3081 Bug 1.5.2 eAccounts Portal - Contact Us: Processing Request text label extends beyond the

Contact Us box

SP-3104 Bug 1.5.2 eAccounts Portal - Board Transactions: Data expands beyond designated panel on

Firefox and Chrome

SP-3116 Bug 1.5.2 eAccount Portal - TS registration with card number longer that 22 digits results in "Nonspecific Violation"

SP-3120 Bug 1.5.2 Database - Completed User Import job instance does not receive a CompletedDateTime value

SP-3128 Bug 1.5.2 eAccounts Portal - Invalid or locked Payment Gateway user name or password

results in system exception error

SP-3129 Bug 1.5.2 User in Must Change Password state can access other parts of application now

SP-3167 Bug 1.5.2 eAccounts Portal - clicking Sign In does "nothing"

SP-3178 Bug 1.5.2 Management Portal - Upper case URL suffix

results in improper page redirection after authentication

SP-3212 Bug 1.5.2 eAccounts Portal - First Time registration for LDAP user with certain characters in

email address causes Data Layer Fault

SP-3216 Bug 1.5.2 Management Portal - User imports result in InvalidCastException error

SP-3218 Bug 1.5.2 eAccounts Portal - Change Password page redirects to wrong TS registration page

SP-3221 Bug 1.5.2 eAccounts Portal - Monthly Account Statements: Results page navigation does

not work

SP-3243 Bug 1.5.2 eAccounts Portal - Error condition for invalid

LDAP attribute value when performing first time registration with a Portal Feature

restriction

















SP-3270 Bug 1.5.2 Management Portal - links to which a user

does not have rights do not appear greyed out

SP-3348 Bug 1.5.2 Application Tier - Management Portal can time out if cache cannot be flushed

SP-3383 Bug 1.5.2 Management Portal - eAccount Portal User Import - import drops every 101st element

SP-3384 Bug 1.5.2 Management Portal - eAccount Portal User Import - error when running a 3rd

concurrent import

SP-3397 Bug 1.5.2 Duplicate emails are generated for Card Lost and Card Found events

SP-3535 Bug 1.5.3 Management Portal - eAccount Transaction Report is timing out

SP-3702 Bug 1.5.3 eAccount Portal ContentPage.resx CSS Basic resource element has an error in it.

SP-3933 Bug 1.5.3 An eAccount sign in should only attempt to

pull the attributes from LDAP if the user does is not currently successfully registered with TS.

SP-3939 Bug 1.5.3 Management Portal: eAccount Transaction Report - Report Definition Transaction Begin

Date/Time and Transaction End Date/Time should be in one row.

SP-3940 Bug 1.5.3 Management Portal: Payment Gateway Service Transaction Report does not match agreed upon definition.

SP-3941 Bug 1.5.3 Management Portal: Transaction System Service Transaction Report does not match agreed upon definition.

SP-3942 Bug 1.5.3 Management Portal: User Event Log Query

Begin Date/Time and Transaction End Date/Time should be in one row.














Compatibility Matrixes

Compatible Software Products

Publisher Product Family Min Version Max Version

Blackboard Transaction System 3.6 Patch 7 >3.9

Blackboard Payment Gateway 5.10 SP 1 5.10 SP 1

.

Supported Client Infrastructure

Management Portal Web Client Requirement

Browser

Publisher Family Min Version

Max Version

Operating System

Microsoft Internet

Explorer

8.0 Current

version

Windows XP SP3, Windows 7, Server 2008 SP2,

Server 2008 R2 SP1

eAccounts Portal Web Client

Supported Browsers

Publisher Family Tested Version Operating System

Apple Safari 5.1.7 Mac OS X 10.7.4

Google Chrome 20.0.1.1132.43 Mac OS X 10.7.4

Mozilla Firefox 13.0.1 Mac OS X 10.7.4

Apple Safari 5.1.2 Windows 7, Server 2008

Google Chrome 19.0.1084.56 Windows 7, Server 2008

Microsoft Internet Explorer 9.0.8112.16421 Windows 7, Server 2008

Mozilla Firefox 13.0.1 Windows 7, Server 2008

Google Chrome 19.0.1.1084.46 Ubuntu Linux

Mozilla Firefox 12.0 Ubuntu Linux

Other

Display Resolution Color Depth Javascript Enabled

Cookie Enabled (first party)

Computer display XGA - 1024 x 768 or greater

32 bits or greater

Required Required


Reference Materials

About Reference Materials A full suite of reference materials is available with Blackboard Transact products. All materials are

located in the Reference Center at http://behind.blackboard.com. These materials include:

Document Name Document Description

Transact SP System Administrator Guide Reference manual detailing the operation

and configuration options for eAccounts.

TX 3.x System Administrator Guide Reference manual detailing the operation

and configuration options for the

Transaction System.

http://behind.blackboard.com/

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