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SMS 2.0 Student Management Suite


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  1. Payroll - Direct Deposit Entry

    When staff enter in Routing Numbers and Banking information - This should ONLY be a numbers field and the system should error out if there is letters typed within this field.

    Our bank will not accept bank accounts with letters listed within the account string.... Not sure if other Banks allow letters within their account string...?

    2 votes

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  2. Datamine in FastTrack - include the notes section in options to select to include with the status code when pulling data.

    When data mining in FastTrack, we would like to have the option to include the status code notes when pulling our report. Currently you can hover over or open each app individually which is very time consuming. Add the option to select when setting up the data mine parameters.

    3 votes

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  3. Inventory Receiving Approval Chain

    Have an approval chain for inventory items received to verify PO Units to Receive, PO Received Unit Cost, PO Received Total Cost agrees with Stock Received Units, Stock Received Unit Cost and Stock Total Cost and that the Stock Units per PO Unit Received are correct so there are no large quantities received in the hundreds, or thousands that are not correct and result in large cost to district by having to account for large amount of dollars not in inventory and/or having to write off.

    1 vote

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  4. Add Employee Access > Personal Information > Calendar widget

    Add a widget for Employee Access > Personal Information > Calendar. This calendar if unique to the Employee. The widget should jump to the Personal Calendar for the employee when Calendar Options can be set. But the widget should then display for the 'current day' any entries the Employee has defined, such as My Employee's Time Off, as well as their Assignment Calendar information

    4 votes

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  5. 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.


  6. Remove Batch lock feature

    What is the purpose of the "Batch lock"? Several of the secretaries gets block and I have to unblock them before I can update PO's. It's such a waste of time.

    6 votes

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  7. Show Password

    I would like for the to be a "Show Password" option on the Skyward login screen. This would be very beneficial to most of my employees.

    3 votes

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  8. Why is there not a clone option on the certifcation tab under human resources-almost every screen has a clone option, but this doesn't. It w

    Why is there not a clone option on the certifcation tab under human resources-almost every screen has a clone option, but this doesn't. It would be nice to just clone their previous certs and add endorsemets or just update the new expiration dates.

    3 votes

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  9. Credit Card Maintenance Screen Needs the Recieved Quanity

    'Assign Po Detail to Credit Card Detail' screen needs Received Quantity. So the end user can verify the receipt of items.

    1 vote

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    Thank you for submitting this Product Idea. We have reviewed it and would like to see more support and use cases submitted from the Skyward user community prior to considering it for development.


    This Idea will remain open for the Skyward user community to show support by voting and commenting on it with additional use cases.


    Additionally, you now have the ability to indicate the level of importance when submitting or voting on an idea. Please take into consideration all the possible enhancements Skyward could complete for you and rank this idea with the global picture in mind.


    Thank you!

  10. I'd like the Expense Reimbursement Org Chart to show in Employee Profile>Org Cart.

    Right now the only org chart that shows on the employee profile is the time off org chart. We don't use time off in Skyward. It would be more helpful for us if there was a choice on which org charts show on the profile.

    2 votes

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    Thank you for submitting this Product Idea. We have reviewed it and would like to see more support and use cases submitted from the Skyward user community prior to considering it for development.


    This Idea will remain open for the Skyward user community to show support by voting and commenting on it with additional use cases.


    Additionally, you now have the ability to indicate the level of importance when submitting or voting on an idea. Please take into consideration all the possible enhancements Skyward could complete for you and rank this idea with the global picture in mind.


    Thank you!

  11. Journal Entry POST DATE

    Could you add a Post Date to the Journal Entry Screens in Web? All I can find is Create Date, which is insignificant. Thank you.

    2 votes

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    Thank you for submitting this Product Idea. We have reviewed it and would like to see more support and use cases submitted from the Skyward user community prior to considering it for development.


    This Idea will remain open for the Skyward user community to show support by voting and commenting on it with additional use cases.


    Additionally, you now have the ability to indicate the level of importance when submitting or voting on an idea. Please take into consideration all the possible enhancements Skyward could complete for you and rank this idea with the global picture in mind.


    Thank you!

  12. Commodity code

    I am requesting for commodity code to be added to Expense Reimbursement, Check request and direct payments? We are a self-certified district and track purchases up to $49,999.99 on a daily basis.

    3 votes

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    Thank you for submitting this Product Idea. We have reviewed it and would like to see more support and use cases submitted from the Skyward user community prior to considering it for development.


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  13. True Time

    I have input a Skyward ticket to see if setting the order of pay codes in the employee's True Time clock view was possible and was told there was not a way to do this and to submit as an idea.

    I want to be able to have pay codes listed in a specific order within the True Time time clock view. For some employees with multiple codes, it would decrease errors if we could list the codes in a way that makes sense. I am not a big believer in multiple codes, it increases the risk of error and…

    5 votes

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    Thank you for submitting this product idea, all the supporting details and documentation. We have reviewed it and would like to see more support and use cases submitted from the Skyward user community prior to considering it for development.


    This Idea will remain open for the Skyward user community to show support by voting and commenting on it with additional use cases.


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  14. It would be nice to have the option of lockbox under the address tab in vendor profile.

    It would be nice to have the option of lockbox under the address tab in vendor profile.

    2 votes

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  15. Requesting Time Off for a Specific Fiscal Year/From that Specific Year's Allocations

    We would like to suggest that Time Off can be requested for a specified fiscal year. Example: current school year is 2022-2023 and the employee has a scheduled trip during the 2023-2024 (following) school year. We would like the employee to have the option to select the calendar year to submit their request from 'that fiscal year's time off allocations' (not the current year's allocations).

    1 vote

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  16. search for specific dates and dollar amounts

    add search function to find specific dollar amounts or dates

    1 vote

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    Thank you for submitting this Product Idea.  

    Can you help me understand this idea better?


    Where in the system would you like to be able to search for specific dollar amounts or dates?


    How would you expect this search to work?


    Could you help me understand the full process, and how being able to search on dollar amounts or dates will improve your day to day?


    Thank you!

  17. language

    Could we add Language in Employee Access as a field that connects to the Language field in Profile? And, also make it a field that an employee can request to change?

    1 vote

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  18. Add "Select All" option when deactivating an employee

    When deactivating an employee, I'd like to see a "Select All" option on the screen where you have to select each record you want to deactivate. Now you have to click on each thing (Contracts, Pay Records, Time off set up, Employee Access, Security, Vendor Master, Org Charts). It could mean saving up to 7 clicks when deactivating a person if you had one "Select All" button that would place a check in each field and then deactivate.
    Menu Path HR\PR\PE\PE

    What the screen currently says...
    "Employee has been made inactive.
    Please select all other records that should be made…

    11 votes

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  19. Time Off Options

    Since I have to do the calculation manually I take the number of days worked divided by the total days available to work that month and multiply the number of leave hours to be awarded for sick leave.
    IE 10 days worked/23 days available to be worked that month = .4347826086956522 / 11 sick hours leave available for accrual for an 8 hr employee = 4.78 or rounded to 4.75 Sick Leave Hours for that month.

    • I know that is a complex calculation as we have paras that only work 7.5 hrs and only earn 10 Sick Leave Hours.

    1 vote

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    Thank you for submitting this Product Idea.


    Can you help me understand this idea better? 

    How often are you doing these manual calculations? Is there periods during the school year that you need to run these calculations more often than others?


    Could you explain what would you expect the system to do differently to help with your calculations?


    Thank you!

  20. Add Position Control information to data mining fields

    Because Position Control information could differ from the Assignment information, we would like to be able to add Position Control fields to either data mining, or run some type of other reporting option, to be able to review and compare the data fields between Position Control and Assignment.

    We would need to be able to run this report for both Employee Management and for Salary Negotiations, including vacancies.

    Thank you!

    2 votes

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    1 comment  ·  Data Mining  ·  Admin →
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    Thank you for submitting this Product Idea.  


    Can you help me understand this idea better?  


    Which specific fields from Position Control would you expect to pull in Data Mining?


    Are there differences in the fields you would expect depending on whether you come from Employee Management or from Salary Negotiations? 


     Thank you!

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