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SMS 2.0 Student Management Suite


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  1. subtracking

    When our Substitutes cover for an Open Position and the Subbed For is left blank, can we have it also be blank in their Employee Access so when they view their Sub Transactions it does not say *INVALID KEY*? It looks so messy and has a negative tone by using the word INVALID. If that could be removed it would look so much cleaner and accurate. Thank you!

    3 votes

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  2. Add Matching Custom Forms Tab Option to Employee Access

    The Custom Forms tab that was once a mess under Student Management continues to plague the Employee area of the Finance System. We have SO MANY different forms that the Custom Forms tab under Employee Profile is just a long disorganized list of scrolling and truncated names. Because we clone forms on an annual basis, this makes things messier because we then have to hover over them to make sure you're selecting the correct one. The staff dealing with these forms are too busy to find the needle in the haystack so to speak, so the format needs to match…

    3 votes

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    Thank you for submitting the product idea!

    This option does currently exist within the Business Suite.

    The option can be located through Web Human Resources > Employee > Setup > Configurations > Employee Configurations.

    You can then select Custom Forms and there will be the option "Display Custom Forms in Employee Profile as:"  Select the option "A browse" and save.

    You will then see the Active/Inactive tabs as you are expecting.

    Thank you!

    Erik O.

  3. PDF of PO

    I would like to be able to view a PDF of a PO that has been attached to an invoice from the 'view' hyperlink located next to the PO number within the invoice vs. having to manually attach each individual PO PDF to the invoice in the PO filing cabinet.

    3 votes

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  4. Please Update the Landing Page for FastTrack apply now button

    Please create two buttons on the apply page. One for New Users and One for Existing Applicants. What appears now is small font and hard to read. It should stand out and be clear on what to do based on whether you are new and want to apply now or you have an existing login.

    3 votes

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  5. Add Vendor Phone # to Vendor Info on Profile

    Add Vendor Phone # to Vendor Info on Profile - this will eliminate the need to open a new window or get out of Invoices and going to General Tab to get the phone number while working with vendor on AP Invoice issues

    3 votes

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    Thank you for submitting the product idea!

    We have reviewed it and would like to offer a suggestion on how to get the information you are looking for.

    In Vendor Browse (Web Financial Management > Vendor > Vendor Browse), you do also have the ability to create a custom filter which would allow you to see the phone number easily and re-arrange the fields to fit your needs.

    Thank you!

  6. Finance Data Mining-Free Form Comment Field Needed

    When formatting data mining reports to the correct layout for uploading to a third party, it is necessary to have a "Free Form Comment" field as a placeholder for data. This field is available on the Student side.

    3 votes

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  7. increase sud# characters to 9

    I am requesting the Sud# characters in the vendor profile be increased to 9 characters. I attempted to add 370-1273 in the SUD# box.

    3 votes

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  8. certification expiring soon automated email

    I would like an automated email to be sent to the employee when their certifications are 6 months, 3 months, & 30 days from expiring.

    3 votes

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  9. Time Off Attendance Report for Date Range Defined.

    Add an "Attendance" Report to Time Off. In this report it would have a designated date range, and the district must choose the Time Off codes to be included with calculating the attendance.

    The goal would be to find all employees how had NO USED DAYS for the codes selected during the date range. If they have not used a day then they were in attendance.

    3 votes

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  10. Online Forms - setting option for Skyward notification to form author that due date is coming up

    We would like to have the option within the Online Forms Master to display a reminder to the author/creator of the form, that the 'Form Must Be Completed By' date is upcoming. Ideally this reminder would show when the author/creator logs into Skyward and the current days date is either 48 or 72 hours out from the Form completion date.

    3 votes

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  11. Org Chart Supervisors by Pay Code

    Org Chart Supervisors by Pay Code:
    We have employees who have different hourly pay codes in different types of work. It would be nice to assign their approver by pay code.

    3 votes

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  12. Longer Org Chart list of supervisors

    Our employees have multiple paycodes which are approved by multiple supervisors. We'd love to be able to see more than just a list of 3 supervisors when we look at an employees org chart tab, to ensure we have them set up properly

    3 votes

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  13. Double entry for Direct Deposit account number. If it doesn't match, it will error out

    Double entry for Direct Deposit account number. If it doesn't match, it will error out

    3 votes

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  14. 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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  15. 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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  16. 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.

    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!

  17. Utility to mass assign approvers to PO groups

    A utility to mass assign approvers would be awesome. There is currently a utility to mass reassign approval groups to another person but no utility to mass add a new approver to a selection list of groups. Need the option to select the level and then set that same level of approval to all groups selected in a list.

    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.

    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!

  18. View Time off for same department employees and supervisors

    Supervisor wants everyone in the department to be able to see time off for everyone in the department at any level, but not to be able to see how they are using their time off. Another words, he want employees to be able to see the name of the other employees taking off, but not if they were NCD, sick, etc. This would be a great help to the department, because employees never know when supervisors are going to be off.

    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.

    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!

  19. SBAA - Create Export to Positive Pay feature in SBAA for checks similiar to that in Financial

    SBAA - Create Export to Positive Pay feature in SBAA for checks similiar to that in Financial

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  20. Allow text messaging option in addition to email for alerts and updates.

    Allow text messaging option in addition to email for alerts and updates. For example in Time Off, Fast Track; notification could be received via text to alert that a request has been submitted.

    3 votes

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    Thank you for submitting this Product Idea. We researched implementing Text Message within our system and determined the scope of development did not align with our Roadmap vision. 

    We do have Push Notifications for some areas in our Business Suite:

    Time Off: Request Awaiting Approval, Request Approved, and Request Denied

    True Time: Time Sheet Awaiting Approval, Time Sheet Denied

    Finance: Requisitions Awaiting Approval, Check Requests Awaiting Approval, and Credit Card Transaction Awaiting Approval

    To enable these Push Notifications please navigate to: Product Setup / System Administration / Push Notification Queue/ Configuration (PS\SA\NQ).

    We will evaluate implementing Fast Track pus notification as part of researching this Product Idea.

    Thank you!

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