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  1. Allocated Leave Column

    Under Human Resources > Employee Profile > Time Off > Setup the allocation column shows the number of hours allocated the entire time that that employee has been in Skyward. It would be AWESOME if we could adjust this to be the beginning of the fiscal year.

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  2. Merge Duplicate Vendors

    It would be helpful if there was a way to merge vendors that are duplicate entries. Over the years we have had duplicate vendors added, i.e., Region 10, Region X, and ESC 10. These separate vendors will always be in the system because they were all used at some point. If we could merge vendor profiles we could greatly reduce our database and make finding the correct vendors a lot easier.

    2 votes

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  3. Check box to indicate that an employee is a rehired annuitant for Wisconsin WRS.

    I would love to have a check box somewhere that indicates an employee is a rehired annuitant for WRS. If it was able to be picked as a field in data mining it might eliminate the need for a separate spreadsheet for tracking rehired annuitants.

    1 vote

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  4. Ability to place term dates/reasons in Mass Deactivate Option

    Since the mass deactivate option was released, it allows a user to mass remove resigning employees from security groups. I'd like to see this have some more options. I'd also like to have the ability to add term dates and term reasons via the mass deactivate feature. This would be of a tremendous help when teachers all have a last day of 8/31, with the reason "resigned." It would allow us to save time as we would not have to touch every employee that has resigned. We could mass deactivate them in Employee Profile.

    1 vote

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  5. View PO liquidation status on Invoice Entry screen

    In the Invoice Entry - Batch view, it would be nice to see the purchase order liquidation status. The only way I know to see whether Partially Received or Fully Received is selected is by opening each invoice and clicking Edit Master. Or, by running an Invoice Listing Report and reviewing the status of each PO. Both options are time consuming when we could quickly check the Batch screen for any potential liquidation errors.

    6 votes

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  6. 5 votes

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  7. It would be really great if most screens had filters so the user can adjust, organize, hide and resize columns etc to our needs.

    It would be a lot more time efficient without having to do all the scrolling to get to a last column when a lot of the middle columns are not needed for each report, etc.

    1 vote

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  8. Popup box and lock including the name - showing someone is in the file you are accessing.

    Have a popup display when another user is in someone's application or employee profile including who they are locking the file until the person has exited the file. This would be beneficial for both FastTrack and EM.

    2 votes

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  9. User report

    We are looking for user reports. We are needing data on requisition, commodity code approvals, etc. for individuals.

    1 vote

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  10. Add PO to Invoice Import

    The requisition/purchase order function is an important cost/classification control process that is used extensively by many customers. The ability to import invoices, with ties to PO’s seems a natural extension of this process and could save customers many hours of manual input. Most other accounting software systems do this, so we believe this is a reasonable enhancement to request.

    3 votes

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  11. Create a utility to mass change accounts in the chart of accounts. For example, one could mass inactivate accounts that hadn't been used i

    Create a utility to mass change accounts in the chart of accounts. For example, one could mass inactivate accounts that hadn't been used in years.

    4 votes

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  12. Add the ability to create/modify Filters in the Online Form Status by Employee Screen.

    I wish we could create/edit/delete filters in the Online Form Status by Employee screen.

    1 vote

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  13. True Time Edits

    Currently True Time has widgets for Timesheets Waiting My Approval and Time Off Waiting My Approval. Could you add a widget for True Time Edits or Timesheets Edits Waiting My Approval. Employees can add an Edit Note, but Approvers have to go and find the requests rather than being notified. We would like an email notification to go to Approver when an Edit is requested and then also a widget so they can see Edit requests on their Home Page.

    24 votes

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    Thank you for submitting the product idea!

    1. Just for clarification, whenever a user makes an edit to a timesheet note, you would want the approvers to get an email notification?

    a. With this, would this only be if they edited after submission of the timesheet?

    2. The 2nd portion you are looking for a similar widget to the time off approvals widget?

    Thank you for your additional input, the idea will remain open for continued voting by the Skyward community.

    Erik O.

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    1 vote

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  15. Years of Experience

    We would like to make the years of service automatically update when a person hits their anniversary date. Example: Katie's first day is 7/1/22 we want the system to automatically update me to 1 year on 7/1/23. Or if my first day is 12/15/22 on 12/15/23 we want the system to automatically roll me to 1 year of service. This way we do not have to do the years of service roll every year.

    2 votes

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  16. subtracking

    When our Substitutes cover for an Open Position and the Subbed For is left blank, can we have it also be blank in their Employee Access so when they view their Sub Transactions it does not say *INVALID KEY*? It looks so messy and has a negative tone by using the word INVALID. If that could be removed it would look so much cleaner and accurate. Thank you!

    3 votes

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  17. Vendor Application System

    It would be a HUGE enhancement to have a vendor "application" system that worked the same way as FastTrack. A separate login page for vendors to enter their own information to register/apply with the district as a vendor that allow them to enter information into the fields from the Vendor Profile screens that we prescribe. That application could then be rolled to Vendor Profile, just as employment applications are rolled to Employee Profile. Vendors could have the ability to upload attachments (W-9s, contracts, red light/green light letters, etc.) and district staff could screen and approve the vendors' applications. If follow…

    1 vote

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  18. Pennsylvania retirement

    Per the instructions for PA retirement processing of demographics, the address needs to be in LINE 3 instead of line 1. It auto-populates into line 1. Since the configuration for the retirement demographics requires line 3, can it be reconfigured so that it populates into line 3 so that every single employee does not need to be adjusted?

    1 vote

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  19. Add Matching Custom Forms Tab Option to Employee Access

    The Custom Forms tab that was once a mess under Student Management continues to plague the Employee area of the Finance System. We have SO MANY different forms that the Custom Forms tab under Employee Profile is just a long disorganized list of scrolling and truncated names. Because we clone forms on an annual basis, this makes things messier because we then have to hover over them to make sure you're selecting the correct one. The staff dealing with these forms are too busy to find the needle in the haystack so to speak, so the format needs to match…

    3 votes

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    Thank you for submitting the product idea!

    This option does currently exist within the Business Suite.

    The option can be located through Web Human Resources > Employee > Setup > Configurations > Employee Configurations.

    You can then select Custom Forms and there will be the option "Display Custom Forms in Employee Profile as:"  Select the option "A browse" and save.

    You will then see the Active/Inactive tabs as you are expecting.

    Thank you!

    Erik O.

  20. Allow default email format to be in upper case

    We prefer to have all our HR data in all caps. Under PS\CA\SE\PS\CF\AU\ES, we can set the Default Email Format, but the part before the @ symbol is always lower-case. Please provide the option for the field to be Upper case, or let it use the case of the fields chosen (for example, we choose to use the First.Last in the email address, and even though the First and Last name fields are typed in all upper case, the Default Email Format pulls it in as lower-case).

    1 vote

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