Overview
The Berkeley Financial System (BFS) team is updating the BFS system in order to stay up-to-date with security recommendations and best practices. The upgrade will take place from Saturday, November 2, 2024, 6 a.m. to Sunday, November 3, 2024, 9 p.m. The update is to keep our software current with Oracle PeopleSoft releases, improve security, and ensure that Oracle continues to support BFS.
Updates in This Release
Chartfield Order Correction
The chartfield display order will be fixed with the CF1/CF2 values displayed before PC chartfield values. This applies to a majority of pages that list chartfields in BFS, including Journals and Vouchers.
Currently, in the Production environment, the CF1/CF2 values are displayed after the PC chartfields.
Following the 2024 fall release, the CF1/CF2 values will be displayed before PC chartfields.
GRLN Enabled
BFS is aligning with the campus-wide initiative to implement the Gender Recognition and Lived Names (GRLN) Policy. This policy ensures that all students, employees, alumni, and affiliates are accurately identified by their gender identity and lived name on university-issued documents and in UC’s information systems.
As part of the previous release, lived names entered in UCPath began displaying in the BFS Card Program and Approvals functions. In the upcoming fall release, this feature will be extended to the remaining BFS systems, with one exception: the BFS Card Program will revert to displaying legal names, as credit cards require legal names for processing.
We remain committed to supporting this important policy and fostering a more inclusive environment for all members of our community.
Resources
Using the Search Feature in BFS
Approving Procurement Card Transactions
Contact
If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to the BFS Help Desk at bfs@berkeley.edu.