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  1. Entry Error - Invalid Transaction

    Entry Error - Invalid Transaction! A transaction record exists for WORTHJAC000 and class 527/1 on a later date.
    You must change the current Effective Date or update the existing transaction(s) before this transaction an be completed. And any date we enter won't work.

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  2. Adding new pay codes

    We use True Time and we are currently trying to be more descriptive with our Pay Codes. So we have added a number of Pay Codes for payroll purposes to make sense for staff when viewing their paycheck. We also have a number of True Time rule sets for our district. Right now when we add a pay code, it automatically adds that pay code to True Time rule sets. Can it not automatically be added to True Time rule sets?? The logic doesn't make sense and I'd rather be forced to add it as needed. It's a lot of…

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  3. Keyword Search in Vendor Names

    Add the ability to search for key words in vendor names. Some vendors have DBAs or abbreviations in their names. Searching for a vendor means you have to know the exact way it exists. We have many duplicate vendors that could have been prevented if there was a way to search for a portion of the name

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  4. Have Auto Approval available for Credit Card transactions (similar to Requisition Auto Approval) so

    Create Auto Approval for Credit Card transactions (similar to Requisition Auto Approval) that would allow managers to automatically approve transactions under a specific dollar amount.

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  5. Add option to have building limits on specific time off request. Especially for personal days for teachers and aides.

    Add option to have building limits on specific time off request. Especially for personal days for teachers and aides.

    3 votes

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    Thank you for submitting the product idea!


    Could you expand on the use case for this?


    Would this be used for employees who work in multiple buildings and have different supervisors, so they would be submitting time off requests to different supervisors based on their building they are working at?


    Thank you for your input!


    Erik O.

  6. Separate SSO settings for True Time & Employee Access. We needs the option to remove the "Login using Google" SSO button for True Time only

    Mulvane USD 263 is a Google district which is working to use Google SSO as much as possible. We use kiosk machines for True Time. Having the Google SSO button on the True Time screen is creating issues because a variety of staff members use these kiosk machines, and many users have limited technology skills. Please make the needed programing changes to allow only the "Access Code" field/button on the True Time login/home screen. Certifies (salary) and classified (hourly) staff have different Skyward needs.

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  7. Mass Populate Parapro Cert

    There should be a way to mass populate the Parapro Cert screen with information from the Certification tab.

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  8. Field pertaining to certification status on service record.

    Would like a certification field in the Service Record Information data. With changes pertaining to Texas service records, we need to designate whether the employee was certified for the reported year.

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  9. Can you add the option of Auxillary Role from the new area that is pulled into ED-fi to be pulled into data mining?

    Can you add the option of Auxiliary Role from the new area that is pulled into ED-fi to be pulled into data mining?

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    Thank you for your suggestion! This is planned for development with PR 5328779 and will be implemented in the near future for the new fields - Auxiliary Role, ParaPro Cert, and Staff Type tabs


    You can reference this PR # as it progresses.


    Thank you!

    Erik O.

  10. PII access should be a separate security tier, prompt for elevation for PII, smartcard elevation for PII

    Part 1: As a skyward admin with all system access, I don't really need access to see social security numbers, the names of parents and guardians, their phone numbers, bank routing / account information for all staff and students, their birthdays, their addresses to do 99% of my job.

    It is an unnecessary hazard to the district for system admins like me to have this PII access on a routine basis every day as part of my job. I believe this also extends to HR Directors and Payroll / Accounting. 99% of the time we don't need to see any…

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  11. I think it would great if you could choose payrolls and not only dates on the payroll expense report

    I think it would great if you could choose payrolls and not only dates on the payroll expense report. You already do this on the deduction benefit history report. If you could choose specific payrolls on the payroll expense report it would be your best payroll report. Also is there any way to tie the Sequence ID to saved reports from payroll for example the check verification register. If I did 5 payrolls in July, I would love to not have run the report on each one in payroll expenses to see which one it is. I am attaching a…

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  12. Expense Reimbursement Attachments

    When entering in an expense reimbursement it would be helpful if a warning showed up when attachments are not included before they can submit the reimbursement for certain expense codes. This would help employees understand they need to submit receipts for certain expenses.

    4 votes

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  13. attachment option under the "degrees" field in web

    I would like at attachment option under the degrees field so we can scan and attach the correlating transcripts to an entered degree.

    We have this option for credits, but why not under degrees also?

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  14. Staff Attendance by percentage

    Please consider a report similar to ADA ran for Students. We need a report for staff. We would like to track our staff attendance with ease.

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  15. For PA customers using Custom Forms / Employee Leave History, please add the ability to cross-walk Leave Reasons to valid state codes .

    For PA customers using Custom Forms / Employee Leave History, please add the ability to cross-walk Leave Reasons to valid state codes that populate the Active/Inactive field in the Staff template.

    1 vote

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  16. Be able to add a ship to name without adding a vendor

    I previously had the ability to add a ship to name without setting up a new vendor. I need to be able to ship to our Ag Barn, but that isn't a vendor. Please put a button back in the requisition/PO group set up where you can add a ship to name without creating a vendor.

    5 votes

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  17. Good Morning Joe, Service Call # 5630912 There is no report for this unfortunately, this is something that is programmed this way. You cou

    Looking for a report that would list the new account codes created during the payroll process. Many times we have to merge these codes and it would nice if we didn't have to search for them.
    Joe

    3 votes

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  18. Account Filter in Payroll Reports

    All payroll reports should have the ability to filter by account number.

    For example our auditors asked us to get them a report that showed all employees charged to ESSER (project 165). They wanted this report to show the employee, check date, check number, and at least the gross amount.

    I couldn't do this because the reports that show those things were not able to be filtered by project number. The only one I found able to be filtered by project number was the "Account Distribution" report in Historical Payroll Reports. This report did not have the option of showing…

    2 votes

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  19. Utility to remove Old WIP status Expense Reimbursement requests

    Clean up utility to remove WIP status expense reimbursement requests for former employees or for prior years. When you use the "Print WIP Report" you have a list of outstanding requests from all years and termed employees.
    To remove these request you need to make the employee active again and add them to the org chart. Then login as the employee to remove the request, remove them from the org chart, make account inactive again.

    4 votes

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  20. Add the option on the Pay Code for include OT and Comp Time on the Time Keeping Rule itself

    Add the option on the Pay Code for include OT and Comp Time on the Time Keeping Rule itself

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