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  1. On the Web in Data Mining have Lines per Inch like PAC, so you use less paper when printing the reports.

    On the Web in Data Mining have Lines per Inch like PAC, so you use less paper when printing the reports

    3 votes

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  2. Snapshot of what a fund looked like based upon a specific date

    Our SBOA auditors have been asking us for a "snapshot" of our Federal Funds based upon a specific date of their choosing. This currently isn't possible because everything is like a living document in Skyward. So if we need to reproduce a data mining report from a prior date (say 8-31-19 for example) to verify something such as our reimbursement request for August expenditures will never be correct or the same as it was from 8-31-19 due to activity throughout the following months. We should be able to print the same report we did from a year ago and get…

    2 votes

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    1 comment  ·  Data Mining  ·  Admin →
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    Thank you for submitting this idea. We need your feedback!

    We’re looking for clarity on this idea: Is this idea requesting an update to the reporting capabilities or does it deal more with the fact that if you backdate something we don’t have a tracker field in Data Mining to indicate that the transaction was backdated?

    Thank you for your feedback!

  3. Data Mining Reports to Print Balances for More Than a 12 Month Span

    Currently all data mining reports allow you to ask it to print an unencumbered or unencumbered remaining balance. However, the remaining balance is only for the final year that you are asking the report to print for. So if you have a fund (which most of us do have funds that run more than 12 months) that runs July 1, 2018 and ends December 2019 (or later), your available balance will never be correct since your fund runs beyond the 12 month period. It will give you the available balance based upon January 2019 through December 2019 but won't include…

    2 votes

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  4. Employee Usernames

    Contact Access- Setup- Configuration- Employee Users

    Please add a space position as an option for part 2 of the login format, so user names can be first name, space, last name. Currently I have to manually add the space before emailing the account re-set link to new hires.

    4 votes

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  5. Need to Remove Requirement for Gender Selection

    When entering a new employee, we are forced to assign a gender under the Personal Information tab. We have individuals who choose NOT to gender identify. The system will not let us pass unless we make a gender selection. We need to either be able to leave this blank or at the very least have the option to select other or no selection.

    3 votes

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  6. For Student and Business provide wellness screening fields in Data Mining

    For Student and Business provide wellness screening fields in Data Mining

    5 votes

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  7. Org Chart

    Add a utility to Org Chart to remove Inactive employees from the selected org chart.

    19 votes

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  8. Reports to Excel

    Excel is basically a data base management tool, with some cool features to allow making forms. The Excel download would be much more useful if it was not based on the paper report and instead just downloaded the requested data.

    For example, on a detailed operating system report, Column A lists the account number with several pieces of data across the columns showing budgets, balances, etc. It would be more useful to have the account number listed on all lines and no-subtotals. Then Excel can be used as it is designed to allow data manipulation through Pivot Tables or other…

    6 votes

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  9. Employee Wellness Screenings - allow the district to change or add questions to fit guidelines of our district needs and local health dept

    Employee Wellness Screenings - allow the district to change or add questions to fit guidelines of our district needs and local health dept guidelines

    12 votes

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    Planned  ·  Clayton Bentz responded

    Thank you for submitting your idea to the portal.

    We have an upcoming project to allow districts to define their own questions within Wellness Screening.

    We will continue to work our hardest to provide this functionality to you in a timely manner.

    Thanks!

  10. Walmart as an Ecom vendor

    Any chance we can get Walmart.com - tax exempt as an ecom vendor?

    4 votes

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  11. Vendor Req, PO's, Inv, Checks button screen selection

    I regularly use the Req, PO's, Inv, Check button in Vendor Browse. Please allow us to clone and organize the columns as to what is most pertinent to the user. I would also like o see the po number used if the invoice was entered this way.

    2 votes

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  12. vendor account number information efficiency

    Most businesses use account numbers and invoice numbers 99% of the time when working with their clients. If we are taking the time to enter an account number for our vendors into the 1099 Form Section the checkmark should auto populate on the Print Account Number on A/P Check Stub and PO. This should be the same for A/P Contact information.

    5 votes

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  13. A/P Check Request Activity

    We in A/P do not usually see check request numbers. When searching for things under check request. Please add additional "find" options like invoice number or vendor.

    1 vote

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  14. Ability to see account numbers when entering invoices

    I am trying to clean up vendor records with more data at our fingertips. When we have the invoice in front us for entering for payment is when we can see account number the vendor uses for us , their address, remit to address, terms etc. Please show the account number for that vendor on our invoice entry screen. Please see example.

    4 votes

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  15. recurring entries

    In recurring entries when multiple accounts are listed with dollar amounts, but only a couple of the account number dollars changed, not all, then the computer uses the new dollar amount and divides it according to percentages. Please leave the numbers as saved in the entry alone and allow us to select and choose the one or two accounts that need the dollars edited to make the difference up instead of having to edit all the dollar amounts for all the accounts. Also, do not auto bring up the Select Account Number box when selecting update accounts. The numbers are…

    1 vote

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  16. Have the ability to print my check stubs in Alphabetical order.

    I would like to have the ability to print my direct deposit pay check stubs in alphabetical order. At this time, they will only print in order of check location. I am surprised that this is not an option. Thank you for your consideration.

    10 votes

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  17. Processing Lists

    We would like to be able to Clone co-workers Processing Lists. Also it would be nice to be able to delete old lists of employees that have not been here for years.

    4 votes

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  18. ACH email to vendor needs to include invoice, description, and amount

    When sending ACH emails, currently it is just a generic "you are getting a deposit on this date". This does not help when sending multiple ACHs out with multiple invoices included to the vendor. The vendor does not know where to apply the credit. It would be nice to have the email generate the invoice number, description, and amount that is entered for the check request. The email should show the same information that the check stub shows when you print a regular check.

    6 votes

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    Thank you for submitting this idea.

    This functionality already exists in SMS and is hard coded into the system.

    The email that is sent to the vendor when an ACH payment is processed contains a breakdown of the invoice information:

    1. Direct Deposit Amount
    2. Date
    3. Invoice #
    4. Description
    5. Invoice Amount

    The above information is only sent in the email itself. There is no preview information in the email setup.

    You can go to Product Setup>System Admin>Email History
    From here you can find the email sent to the Vendor, expand it, and see the actual info sent to the vendor.

    Thank you!

  19. 6 votes

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    Thank you for submitting this idea. We’d love to see more support from the Skyward user community before considering this idea for development.

    We’d also like to better understand this request. Could you tell us more about who would be using an employee type filter and why it will be useful.

    Thank you!

  20. Do not drop the attachment when applying a PO to a pcard transaction.

    Do not drop the attachment when applying a PO to a pcard transaction. It would be nice if the attachments included in the PO would stick when applying that PO to a pcard transaction. Then we don't have to reattach the invoice when that transaction finally comes through a few weeks after the order was placed.

    7 votes

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