JIS Updates and Information Blog

Software updates will be applied to the Trial Court System (TCS/WebTCS) and will be available for use on Monday, June 30, 2025.

Click TCS/WebTCS Updates – June 30, 2025 to view details.

Updates In Brief

• Caseload Report updated
• Event Types added
• Offense Codes added
• Case Type Categories updated

To prepare for future development work and to align with MiFILE, software updates regarding party types will be applied to the Trial Court System (TCS/WebTCS), effective Monday, June 30, 2025.  

Updates include:

• Work with Party Types (PYY) screen will have a new Effective Date field for party types. Party type codes can be inactivated by JIS and reused with next effective date.  See screen capture below.
• Court users will no longer have security to make changes on PYY.  If a user attempts to use options: 2=Change, 4=Delete, F6=Create, an error message will display.
• When adding a new party to a case, the application will evaluate the file date and only display valid party types with an effective date equal to, or greater than, the file date.
• Reports: Warrant List, Case List, Probate Fiduciary Reports and Probate Guardian List.  When F4 (Prompt) is used on the Party Type field, all party types will display including those with inactive dates, in the event a user needs to select inactive parties when generating the aforementioned reports.

If changes to Party Types are desired, please contact the JIS Support Center at https://support.courts.michigan.gov/portal.  All requests will be evaluated and assessed.

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Software updates will be applied to the Trial Court System (TCS/WebTCS) and will be available for use on Monday, May 19, 2025.

Click TCS/WebTCS Updates – May 19, 2025 to view details.

Updates In Brief

• Event Type Codes added, modified, and expired.
• CLA (CLAIMANT/CREDITOR) Party Type added.
• Several functions removed from the Probate Report Menu.

Software updates will be applied to the Trial Court System (TCS/WebTCS) and will be available for use on Monday, April 28, 2025 (formerly April 21, 2025).

Click TCS/WebTCS Updates – April 28, 2025 to view details.

Updates In Brief

• Offense codes added.
• Event Type Codes added, expired, and expanded.
• Reassign Professional/Attorney list updated.
• Updates to Crime Victim Rights Report.

Good morning,

JIS will be performing system maintenance on Sunday, March 23rd between 5 PM and 10 PM. Case Management Systems (DCS/WebDCS, TCS/WebTCS, PCS, and the Jury application) will not be available during this time. MiFILE, Case Search, and Public Case Search will be available; however, integration with the Case Management System will be unavailable until the completion of maintenance.

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Attention TCS/WebTCS Courts (Circuit, Juvenile, Probate)

JIS has revised the TCS Caseload Quick Reference Guides (QRG) to better align with the caseload instructions.   The following updates were made:

• In the Circuit Court Quick Reference Guide:
  • Juvenile case types, Adoption case types, Miscellaneous Family and Ancillary case types have all been incorporated into the Circuit QRG.   These case types are all reported under Circuit Court for caseload purposes.
  • Some terminology and helpful troubleshooting tips have been reworded to accommodate both Circuit and Juvenile.
• The Juvenile Quick Reference Guide has been retired.
• In the Probate Quick Reference Guide:
  • Adoption case types, Miscellaneous Family and Ancillary case types were removed. These case types are reported under Circuit Court for caseload purposes.

Please be mindful that if a Probate clerk processes Adoptions and other Probate case types in the Probate office, they will need to have both QRG booklets available (Circuit and Probate) for reference depending on the case type being processed.

These two caseload quick reference guides can be found on the JIS Self-Service Portal/Knowledge Base.  https://servicedesk.courts.michigan.gov

Hotfix Update

• Following our most recent TCS/WebTCS release, we were made aware that updates made to the PZ Case Type processing flow required some corrections. We would like to announce that those corrections have been made, were applied to the TCS application last night, and are now ready for use.

Software updates will be applied to the Trial Court System (TCS/WebTCS) and will be available for use on Friday, February 28, 2025.

Click TCS/WebTCS Updates – February 28, 2025 to view details.

Update In Brief

• Following the most recent release, it was discovered that if restitution was paid in full, the voucher process was not working as expected. This has been updated and will work properly now.

Software updates will be applied to the Trial Court System (TCS/WebTCS) and will be available for use on Monday, February 24, 2025.

Click TCS/WebTCS Updates – February 24, 2025 to view details.

Updates In Brief

• Updates to CHR disposition code NMI (Nolo Contendere Mentally Ill).
• Event codes added, removed, and modified.
• Party requirements for PC, PZ, and AS case types updated.

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Whether you're a beginner to the Portal or just looking to enhance your knowledge, this quick training will help users familiarize themselves with the layout, menus, and icons to navigate efficiently, and it will also offer an introductory tutorial to Ticket Submission, Managing Incidents, and the Knowledge Base. This Lunch and Learn will be valuable to all JIS users including DCS/WebDCS, TCS/WebTCS, PCS, Jury, MiCOURT Platform, and Portal tools!

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