Blackbaud Education Management Solutions: What’s New for February 13, 2024

Bob Costanzo

Here are all the latest new features for Blackbaud Education Management Solutions.

To access information about this release, use the following links:

• What’s New

• Help Center

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Lindsey Bryant

I've got two comments:

1. I prefer the old format better. To get to any details on what is released, you now have to click a link (if receiving it through email), click the “What's New” link, which launches a new page, and then click each hyperlink to expand what's new. What was wrong with keeping it simple?
2. On the Core > More countries available for addresses and citizenship section I'm confused. The citizenship is configurable within Settings > General Settings > Table values. Is this getting replaced?

Andrew Teets

I agree with Lindsey - the old format was much better - you have to click multiple times to get to what's new - why make this more complicated?

The 20,000 row limit on advanced lists really hurts us. We can't even pull the current year attendance data without breaking it into multiple queries. This should be a configurable limit for those who are running into issues with timeouts (we never have). Grr.

Matt Clemmens

Agreed Andrew!! This is beyond ridiculous - we can adjust the list structure to prevent the advanced list from failing, and the fact that only 20,000 rows are displayed even when there are more than 20,000 rows of data will make these nearly impossible to use for most users. Can we at least get a message that tells us that there are more than 20,000 rows of data but that the output is being truncated? And/or can the products team talk to actual users to understand the use-cases for these lists rather than just making arbitrary and harmful changes?

Veronica Zermani

Agreed! Sky reporting and canned reports are already close to useless, we rely entirely on advanced reports to get accurate data. This 20,000 row limit now means BB has no reliable reporting tool.

Lindsey Bryant

I haven't found sky, canned or advance list helpful. We've built tables to pull data down through APIs and then do everything through SQL. Advance list doesn't allow you to get to some fields, sky list doesn't allow you to get to the other fields, and the advance query builder is cumbersome and difficult to use.

Seth Battis

+1 to this new format being unhelpful. And there's no way to subscribe to the direct links in the knowledgebase either.

Seth Battis

Also +1 to limiting advanced lists to 20,000 rows. I'd be happy to request fewer rows if I could parameterize my list either via API or interactively. Having to edit the list manually every time (and remembering to edit the list manually every time) really hits me in the automation gut.

John Ronan

I'm confused. I just ran an Adv, List and it returned 28,000+ rows.

Have they rolled back this “feature”?

[Hope so. ]

Andrew Teets

Our attendance reports are working again - I think they rolled back the 20,000 limit.