Managing Batch Processing

If you select Batch as the processing option on the Awarding Options setup page, you must run batch processing to update the Pending Update status of the student's package. When you run the batch process and no errors are detected, the system posts the data from the staging tables to the final award tables in the database. When the student returns to the Award Package page, the outcome of the batch process results in one of the following statuses: Successful, Successful with Adjustments, Revised Package, Rejected or Needs Review. The student may need to meet with a financial aid counselor if the status is either Rejected or Needs Review. Consequently, the administrator must determine why the status is either Needs Review or Rejected, fix the condition, reaward the student as necessary, and rerun the batch process. If the status is Revised Package, the student may need to resubmit the changes.

If you set the Background Errors Allowed field to 1 or some other integer on the Financial Aid Defaults page select (Set Up SACR, then select Install, then select Financial Aid Installation) the system ends the batch process when it encounters a single student or multiple students who receive either a Needs Review or Rejected status based on the tolerance.