How to Group Post for Housing
In this case, the initial charge was part of a mass charge instead of a manual charge so we have to use Group Post to process the prorated meal plan on this student.
Follow the navigation:

Click on Add a New Value and click the Add Button (leave the Group ID: = NEXT)

Fill in the fields with HDS Transactions, HDS, and the amount—Don't forget the minus sign as this is a credit.

On the next tab, you will put the student ID, HDS, Item Type, and again the MINUS sign with the difference between your initial meal plan charge and the prorated amount. Then you will enter the term and click Save.

Once you have saved it there will be a new Group ID- Copy this new Group ID number for the next couple steps.


Follow the navigation:

Create a run control:

Here you will select H for HDS transactions. Next paste your Group ID we copied a couple steps back. Click Run.

Select PSUNX or PSUNX1 as your server name. Then select the bottom two boxes and wait a few seconds (sometimes the second box will uncheck as the first box registers it has been checked). Click ok.

Click refresh until you see the top two rows have a Run Status of Success and Distribution Status as Posted. If you see something other than this there was an error in your previous steps.

Now that we have posted the first proration we can look at the student account to see if it posted correctly. In this How To, the amount of Dining Dollars- Base Cost we wanted to see after the proration was $753.35 and that is what is showing in the student account so it posted correctly.

For the second proration we can go back and repeat the steps we used on the first proration. Insert the student ID, HDS, item type (This will be different from your first one), and the difference between your initial amount and prorated amount—don't forget your minus sign, and last insert the term.

On the second tab, you will again enter Group Type- HDS Transactions and Origin ID-HDS. Then you will insert the difference between your initial amount and prorated amount—don't forget your minus sign. Once you have saved it there will be a new Group ID- Copy this new Group ID number for the next couple steps.

Follow the navigation:

Here you will select H for HDS transactions. Next paste your Group ID we copied a couple steps back. Click Run.



Select PSUNX or PSUNX1 as your server name. Then select the bottom two boxes and wait a few seconds (sometimes the second box will uncheck as the first box registers it has been checked). Click ok.

Click refresh until you see the top two rows have a Run Status of Success and Distribution Status as Posted. If you see something other than this there was an error in your previous steps.

Now that we have posted the first proration we can look at the student account to see if it posted correctly. In this How To, the amount of RDA 1 we wanted to see after the proration was $782.71 and that is what is showing in the student account so it posted correctly.

If we click into the details of Dining Dollars- RDA Level 1 we can also see the transaction we just posted with the item type as well.