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SMS 2.0 Student Management Suite


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  1. Add Phone Category Codes in Employee Access

    Need Employees to be able to select a phone category code when entering their phone numbers in employee access. The category codes are available on Employee Profile/Phone/Email tab. This will allow the district to create category codes that will identify the phone number that employees want to use for third party software list, i.e. school messenger.

    11 votes

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  2. PAC Payroll Worksheet Reset Option for Account number

    PAC Payroll Worksheet. In the reset processing, add "Account number" to fields to be reset so you can "Reset values from Pay Record" for account numbers that have been changed

    3 votes

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  3. Worksheets

    I am requesting that worksheets be changed back to the original format before the recent update (last couple of weeks). You have moved the "master" & "detail" columns which I think is confusing. Also, now on the "Detail for Selected Worksheet Master", it is in some sort of Skyward format which cannot be changed. I can no longer see both the amount and the factor which is necessary. I can move the arrow on the bottom, but then the name disappears. Not sure why this change was made........

    Also, for the report for the worksheet entries, when I print out…

    1 vote

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  4. "Detail for Selected Worksheet Master" the viewing order has changed due to an update.

    Payroll Worksheet Screen on the right side "Detail for Selected Worksheet Master" the viewing order has changed. I'm told this is due to the recent update. This is where we quickly double check our entries. Can you please bring back or allow us to change the view on the Detail for Selected Worksheet. We need to view Name, Factor Hours, pay code and amount.

    1 vote

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  5. budget requisitions - ability to have multiple accounts

    In budget requisitions the account number is limited to one account to expense the requisition to. It would be very helpful if you could put it to multiple accounts. Right now our teachers are having to duplicate budget requisitions if they have more than one general ledger account to post to. This can cause our school district to be charged minimum order charges, minimum shipping charges etc.

    2 votes

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  6. employee letters - filters

    Could they be a filter on the employee letters build and post sections?

    8 votes

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  7. send multiple emails for purchase orders

    Can we be able to send a purchase order to multiple email addresses at once in the auto email purchase order?

    2 votes

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  8. Mass Delete Pay Code

    In the Mass Processing utility I'd like to see a way to mass delete a pay code with a particular account number even if it has history. We tend to have grants that pay salaries that are only good for a number of years. To be able to mass delete a number of pay codes at the same time would be helpful and time saving.

    39 votes

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    Thank you for submitting this idea. We’ve completed research and team analysis. We’ve decided not to pursue this request in the near future because of the data integrity ramifications of deleting historical records.

    This Idea will remain available for continued voting and commenting.

    Thank you!

  9. Employee Cost Report in Employee Management

    I would like to see a report under Employee Administration - Employee Management similar to the Employee Cost by Account Report in Salary Negotiations. This report provides all of the costing we need for staff budgeting but cannot be created from the "live" plans.

    6 votes

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  10. To include entire PO numbers on Invoices. Right now if a PO starts with a zero, the leading zeros are being left off.

    Our PO's start with our entity numbers, however when they are printed on Invoices the leading zeros are being left off. For Example one entity is 001 and so when the PO number shows up on the Invoice it starts with 1 instead of showing 001.

    1 vote

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  11. Credit Cards

    I've noticed a couple things that could be changed since working with the credit cards and training our staff on how to submit their transactions. I would like to see a pop up to flag the user to select a PO or something along those lines. It's too easy to add detail and acct codes without selecting a PO. Also, there is some confusion when assigning the PO detail to the transaction with the Assign All PO lines and Close as the options. I particularly like the Assign all PO lines option but it seems to confuse some. And if…

    6 votes

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  12. custom forms/fields

    Need to have custom forms and fields available to all sections/modules as HR and vendors are not the only place additional information is needed.

    2 votes

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  13. Daily Maximums - Time Off in Buildings

    We currently have daily maximums for time off set for each building in Aesop, but this is currently not a feature in Employee Access. For example, only four employees can be absent for personal reasons from each building, each day. Right now, supervisors have to monitor this but things do slip through the cracks and it ends up being a bigger issue after the fact.

    2 votes

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  14. Track Probation

    Support Staff are eligible for time off after they have completed 90 days of employment. It would be helpful to have a field on the Salary Information/Term of Position screen which would calculate that date based on 90 days from their start date using the calendar in their Salary Information in Assignment Maintenance.

    3 votes

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    Thank you for submitting and voting on this idea. We suggest that you try this instead:

    Navigate to Web Human Resources > Time Off > Setup > Utilities > Run the Probation Utility to Calculate Time Off Eligibility.

    Next, navigate to My Print Queue, select the Probation Utility to Calculate Time Off, which you just ran, then click on “Tasks”.

    Next, click on “Schedule This” to create a Scheduled Task with the selected utility (Probation Utility to Calculate Time Off).

    Thank you!
    Ashley Prinsen
    Product Owner

  15. Security Groupds - 1099M 3rd Party Import

    Per support ticket 3960037, appears this option is not driven by the security groups and is only available to users who have system wide access. This option needs to be added to the security group settings.

    2 votes

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  16. Wisconsin Retirement System

    The current Wisconsin Retirement System requirements dictate that a percentage gets applied to each the employee benefit and deduction. Can there be a payroll exception added, similar to FICA and Medicare, that will identify if there is a pay code with one or the other, but not both?

    5 votes

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  17. Inactivate funds

    We need to be able to in activate funds. The funds have changed over the years and so some are no longer used. Having them show up on our cash summary as zero's takes up unneeded space. It would be cleaner and more clear to the user if the funds could be inactivated and not show up on reports.

    34 votes

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  18. Check for duplicate Employee Expense Reimbursement requests

    Would like to be able to check for duplicate payment history of expense reimbursements within the expense reimbursement itself instead of having to perform a lookup in the vendor area.

    5 votes

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  19. Pseduo Approvals

    Be able to get an email when you have a Request approval change from Employee Access

    4 votes

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  20. Utility to Mass Add Active Screener by Employee Type

    Now that the process has changed in Skyward that someone has to be in a screener group and also be an active screeners . It would be helpful to have a utility that we could mass add active screener to a certain employee type (ex. principles, counselors, etc). If the utility is not an option at least have a way to update active screener from the screener group area.

    3 votes

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