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  1. SBAA Chart of Accounts

    On the Chart of Accounts, when using Filter Options - Destination Browse: Chart of Accounts with PO Amounts and Account Types: BS Accounts, show the PO Amount Remaining for purchase orders that were created using the Expense account that corresponds to the Equity account. Since the Q account is the net of the Revenue & Expense, why wouldn't the PO Amount show in that column? Treasurers would like to see at a glance what their actual account balance is, including their outstanding POs.

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  2. SBAA Entity Configuration

    Add the option in SBAA Entity Configuration to restrict Account use by Account Type for Receipts. I'd like to only allow the selection of Revenue accounts for Receipts. That restriction exists for Purchase Orders.

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  3. Customer Access Additional Information

    Regarding service call results, the summary email that is provided is great, but could the same information be added under the "View My Requests" section, or allow the user the ability to add an attachment of the summary in that area? This would be an excellent historical reference and may result in fewer duplicates of submissions because there is something organized to refer back to.

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  4. Total Amount Columns on Chart of Accounts

    Would like to see amount totals for each column in Chart of Accounts. When a filter is applied for a grant or group of accounts, it would be helpful if the view totaled the filtered accounts. See example attached from Skyward Competitor SchoolsOPEN Finance. Thank you for your consideration.

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  5. Mass delete records in maintain extracted TCRS data

    We have 300 employees with a Fringe benefit that can not be reported to TCRS (TN specific) and there is no option to mass delete these records in the maintain screen. I have to go one by one to delete each month I have to process the report.

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  6. Allow user to view notes on a Task Step that has been completed.

    After completing a step for a task, the user can see this in the Task History. They cannot see the note that they added. This would be useful when they need to reference this information after the fact.

    3 votes

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  7. Emergency Contact

    Having to enter an emergency contact for an employee into the skyward database is not necessary and time consuming. Could we just have a field for a name and number?

    2 votes

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  8. SBAA Online Catalog Requisitions

    It would be helpful to do requisitions from online catalog through SBAA.

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  9. Alternate/Back Up Approvers for Time Off and Time Sheets

    It would be useful if there was an option within Time Off Overseer to allow an overseer to not only see a specific supervisor's employees' time off but also be able to approve/deny time off requests when a supervisor is out for reasons such as illness, vacation or personal emergencies. I would also like to see an Overseer option in True Time with this same option. For example School Principals are the supervisors for their respective buildings. It would be quite useful if their Assistant Principal could approve time off and time sheets when Principal is out.

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  10. Security Group or System setting to allow use of Skyward Password for Employee Access users

    Use a Security Group or a System/authentication setting to allow use of Skyward Password for Employee Access users.

    We have many former staff who we would like to provide Employee Access to for one year after they leave. Current employees use their LDAP password and we do not want them to use a Skyward Password. Former Employees do not have an active LDAP account so they must use a Skyward Password.

    We have the "Enable Most Secure Authentication Method" option turned on and that is forcing LDAP on the former employees. We can override on an individual basis but would…

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  11. Our phone extensions are 6 digits but Skyward only allows 5 digits to be entered. Our Administration is quite adamant that we need this.

    We need the phone extension field to be extended to 6 digits from the 5 digits it currently holds.

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  12. Time Off Request by Range of Date

    Time Off Request by Range of Date does not allow an employee to include a weekend. The current error message reads that "none of the days in the date range are work days" which is misleading. Either make a change for the Request by Range to recognize and allow weekends or update the message to read "one or all of the days...".

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  13. remove the notification in task manager that says the record will not be displayed because of the filter settings

    When you open the entire task manager, not just from our widget screen and you have a filter on, when you close it a pop up come up about 3 seconds later that says "the record you are working on cannot be displayed due to the filters you are working with". Could you please set up the option to not view those after each one. Once should be enough. When you are trying to close out 100 or so tasks at a time it is very time consuming to wait for the notification to click ok. Another beautiful option would…

    3 votes

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  14. assignment import

    On a daily basis we in HR have to export individual assignments due to the addition of a stipend, a degree enhancement, adjust the FTE, to correct an error, etc. Having the capability to export an individual assignment from the “Emp Mgt Asn” screen would be greatly beneficial as a time saver. Using the Assignment Export/Payroll Import works great for exporting large groups of assignments but requires a good deal of clicks and con be time consuming just to export one assignment. I do not know if this would be possible but if so it would be greatly appreciated if…

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  15. Customer Access Support Tickets Marked as "Critical"

    When we are putting in a customer support ticket to Skyward, there is a "critical" checkbox that can be selected. Through research, we have discovered that these "critical" tickets go to a dispatcher. That dispatcher then identifies whether the need is actually "critical" or not. I understand the need to process tickets like this because, let's be honest, everybody things that all of their own issues are critical OR they have put things off to the last minute to handle. However, if this dispatcher does NOT read the entire message or fully understand what is happening then they might miss…

    3 votes

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  16. contract status

    I would like to have the field "Contract Status" from the DOE Reporting screen available as a Skyward Field for Custom Forms. We use task manager to Reappointment our PC and AC Contract teachers and it would be helpful to be able to show the field on the custom form to make sure we do not accidently issue a Reappointment for a PS Contract teacher. See attachments for more information.

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  17. excel reports need to be in a database format

    detail reports downloadable into excel need to be in a database format

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  18. Enhance Invoice Approvals

    If an invoice has been approved but the amount is later changed, the invoice reverts from Batch to Approval Pending. However, if the vendor is changed the invoice stays in Batch. Changes to invoice amounts, vendor and possibly account coding should all require re-approval.

    3 votes

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  19. True Time Totals Report Pay Pay Codes

    We have multiple employees who work multiple jobs, each under a different pay code. I would like to be able to pull a report in True Time for total hours worked BY PAY CODE. Right now, when pulling the True Time Report-Employee Summary Report, the report displays all hours worked. In order to pull hours just for para educator work, I have to go in week by week and manually add up the para hours as the report I mentioned above only displays total hours. There is no way to differentiate hours worked by job/pay code. This is a HUGE…

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  20. Contract hrs increase if pay code is exported for different time periods. Employee changes school site but same contract, the hrs are double

    Contract hours increase if a pay code is exported for different time periods. Employee changes school site but has same contract, the hours are doubled. Can this be limited to the hours on the employee's assignment? Contract Hours Per Day By Time Contract Active Contract Pay Code
    14:00 Y PARA5
    14:00 Y SG079
    16:00 Y ADM09
    15:00 Y CMM12
    16:00 Y BS254

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