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SMS 2.0 Student Management Suite


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  1. Commodity code

    I would recommend that a commodity code be added to check requests and payment of direct pay invoices. Auditors look for this during their audits.

    1 vote

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  2. GTL - Hourly Employees - Need UPLOAD CAPABILITY

    GTL - Hourly Employees (w/o Contracts), need Upload Capability for GTL, not manually updating one-by-one.

    2 votes

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  3. invoice field for credit card transactions

    Please add an invoice number field for credit card transactions so that when you cross reference a vendor it will also cross reference those invoice numbers.

    6 votes

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  4. report

    Mass Print PO's. Is it possible to add the ability to print a range for history reports? This would be helpful when an open records request comes in with a specific date range.

    6 votes

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  5. Leave Without Pay allowing for approval without denying timesheet once switched from used to unpaid

    This is a timing issue with Leave Without Pay that is put in as used and when TRS Reporting is done the LWOP is switched to unpaid, in the mean time the employee has submitted the timesheet with used LWOP and when the approver tries to approve it will not let the approver approve because it has been switched to unpaid. The only way is for the approver to deny the timesheet and have the employee resubmit. I feel if the employee is submitting LWOP that it should allow for an approver to approve without having to deny. This takes…

    4 votes

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  6. WF\AM\GI\CA\RE Cash Receipt Report

    Can you offer more reports for Cash Receipts? Something like the PaC version which allows you to select the batches and not have you enter receipt numbers. The Report for cash receipts is very basic.

    4 votes

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  7. Make 'notes' in the Vendor and Account Management areas reportable.

    When using the 'notes' in both A/P and Account Management to notate an error, it would be nice to be able to see these notes when a report is printed. Make the 'notes' a data-mineable field. Using the 'notes' to "correct" an error in the description or adding to the description after something has been posted does no good if it can't be seen when the information is printed in a report....the information still looks incorrect or incomplete.

    5 votes

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  8. Clone Button For Screener Groups - FastTrack

    MCSD HR team would like to suggest the addition of a Clone button to the Screener Groups menu. There is currently only an Add, Edit, Delete, and Back. A clone button would make adding many at once more efficient for our HR users.

    7 votes

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  9. Add Columns to Retirement Detailed Hours

    On the employee profile, the Retirement section has a part called "Detail Hrs". This section should show all things that pull into Annual report. I would add a a column that would track what WRS benefit and another column that shows the WRS deduction and another column to show what category they were recorded in. This would help that you could quickly see where an error was made and how log it was going on.

    4 votes

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  10. Add a number of User Defined Fields to Personnel Tab that are Reportable.

    There are a couple of fields we would get great use out of that we would like added to Skyward, but we realize that each district is different, so it would be great if each district could define those fields themselves, and report on them.

    Example: We very much would benefit from an Insurance Eligibility Date, an OPEB Eligibility Date (would be even better if this one had history similar to Leave History, but also with an FTE field linked to it), and an OPEB Eligible field with Yes/No as drop-drop down or radio button.

    Reporting on the OPEB eligibility…

    2 votes

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    Thank you for submitting this Product Idea. We suggest using a Custom Form to capture and report on this information.

    Here is a link to the SkyDoc: https://support.skyward.com/DeptDocs/Corporate/Documentation/Public%20Website/Tutorials/Software/WH_EP_PS_CF_CF_1368567_100_T.pdf

    If you need additional assistance setting up this Custom Form, please submit a Service Call to Skyward and one of our Customer Consulting and Support Representatives will be able to assist you.

    Thank you!

  11. Date Range Time Off Request for Partial Hours

    When an employee wants to enter a date range for time off requests and only is taking 2.5 hours per day, the date range feature cannot be used. It automatically assumes 8.0 hours are being taken. The employee must enter each day individually. Can the number of hours be added when choosing a date range for time off?

    4 votes

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  12. Processing TRS in 2 FY

    Distinguishing between July, August and September Starts. Documentation suggests that Employee Types are tied to paid start dates. We should have the option to generate a list using Employee Types and then delete specific employees before processing.

    2 votes

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  13. Scheduled Task for Create Accounts under DOE-399

    Under Federal/State Reporting, DOE-399, you have to manually run create accounts for each project. A scheduled task similar to other areas of the system would be helpful to catch all new accounts added during the week. The task could be set and run once a week (after hours) to make sure each project listed n DOE-399 includes any and all accounts being used.

    7 votes

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  14. TRS-Illinois has a utility to update Contribution Category and Job Category would you please add TRS Employment Type to that .

    TRS-Illinois has a utility to update Contribution Category and Job Category would you please add TRS Employment Type to that also please.

    1 vote

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  15. An additional place for a name on the mailing address

    I think there should be a place to add an additional name on the mailing address portion of the vendor. Sometimes the name to mail to is different than the main name. It would be nice to be able to put that name in, not just the address.

    1 vote

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  16. Add Req Entry Option to make Commodity Codes a REQUIRED field on YDA/YMA requisitions.

    More and more districts want to use Commodity Codes, but so often the field is forgotten when the detail is being added.

    Add a Purchasing > Setup > Configuration > Req Entry Option to make Commodity Code Field a required field on each line item for YDA, or entire PO for YMA and/or Blanket POs.

    3 votes

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  17. Receiving Records, quantities remaining

    In Purchasing > Purchasing Activity under the Receiving Records, it would be beneficial to see the records added together to give the remaining quantities yet to be received. I think adding an extra column after "PO Quantity received" titled something like "Line Nbr. Quantity remaining" would be possible.

    3 votes

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  18. SBAA - Display "Payee Name as it Appeared" on the Check Reconciliation Screen

    Add the "Display Payee Name as it Appeared on Check" field to the SBAA Check Reconciliation screen. This will allow a more efficient workaround for creating a Positive Pay file for SBAA accounts, until SBAA functionality starts catching up with regular accounting. The user can use the Excel export to get the correct name for a full-match on their Positive Pay file.

    3 votes

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  19. Enhancing the "I" View of an Employee's Profile

    Currently the "I" view of an employee's profile does not match what the employee sees through Employee Access. This makes it difficult for our staff to assist employees in locating add-ons attached to their assignment.

    The only other way to see exactly what the employee sees is by Super Using in as the employee in Web Product Setup area.

    We would like the Add-On area to be added in the "I" view of employee profile. We would like it to match, word for word.

    8 votes

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  20. SBAA Outstanding Check List

    Create the same reports in SBAA for Account and Check Reconciliation as are available for the District level (Accounts Payable). Currently in SBAA the check reconciliation report will not pull in the correct data if you are trying to generate an Outstanding Check list either for a month in the past or if ANY checks have been cleared in the current month prior to running the Bank Reconciliation. This functionality is available in Accounts Payable.

    4 votes

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