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SMS 2.0 School Business Suite


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SMS 2.0 Student Management Suite


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  1. 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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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. 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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  6. 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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  7. 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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    Tell us More  ·  Ashley Prinsen responded

    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!

  8. 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!

    3 votes

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    Tell us More  ·  Ashley Prinsen responded

    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!

  9. 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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    Tell us More  ·  Ashley Prinsen responded

    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. 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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    Tell us More  ·  Ashley Prinsen responded

    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. 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

    3 votes

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    Tell us More  ·  Ashley Prinsen responded

    Thank you for submitting this Product Idea. We have reviewed it and would like to see more support 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.

    Thank you!

  12. 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!

  13. Mass assign work schedules - ask for confirmation prior to update

    When mass assigning work schedules in TT, when viewing the report after hitting run, ask the question "Are you sure you want to commit to changes?" This is asked all over the place when making changes in employee management.

    3 votes

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    Tell us More  ·  Ashley Prinsen responded

    Thank you for submitting this idea. We'd like to see more support for this idea from the Skyward User Community prior to considering it for development. 

    This idea will remain open for continued voting and commenting.

    In the meantime, we suggest clicking "Report" to preview the mass assignment changes in the report first, and then clicking "Run" to commit changes. There will be a pop-up once you hit "Run" that says "Are you sure you want to Mass Assign the following work schedule for MM/DD/YYYY to MM/DD/YYYY to the selected employees?"

    Thank you!

  14. Limit TO by code and employee type

    Our teacher’s group has contractual cap for personal days. No more than 3% from this group can use a personal leave on any given day. Right now I need to pull a time tracker report and manually crosscheck the number of requests. It is very time consuming and it would be helpful to have the system prevent entering requests when the limit is reached.

    3 votes

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    Tell us More  ·  Ashley Prinsen responded

    Thank you for submitting this idea. We'd love to see more support from the Skyward User Community prior to considering it for development.

    This idea will remain open for continued voting and commenting.

    Thank you!

  15. Moving Bank Rec Notes to Page 1

    Move the Bank Reconciliation Notes from last page to first page. I don't know about anyone else but our district uses the Notes to explain manual adjustments.

    3 votes

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    Tell us More  ·  Ashley Prinsen responded

    Thank you for submitting this request. We'd like to see support from the Skyward User community prior to considering it for development. 

    This idea will remain open for the Skyward User community to vote and comment on it. 

    Thank you!

  16. Expand Attachments function to show more than 20 records

    Please do this ASAP!! We are trying to go paperless and are scanning old documents into the Attachments area of the Employee Profile but you are only allowed to view 20 records at a time. This way, if there are more than 20 documents, if you try to sort by title or date, only page 1 sorts and the items on page 2 don't sort with it so you would have to go in and sort page by page to find things. Almost every other field in Skyward allows you to expand what shows on a page up to 2000…

    3 votes

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    Deferred  ·  Ashley Prinsen responded

    "Thank you for submitting this idea. We researched implementation of this enhancement. At this time our priorities are State and Federal Reporting and Compliance. There is no timeline for implementation. Thank you"

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    Deferred  ·  Ashley Prinsen responded

    Thank you for submitting this product idea. We continue to make efforts to move certain features that are currently only available in PaC to the Web. These efforts are continuous and ongoing.

    Thank you!

  18. Add a Budgetary Data Mining Report under employee widgets

    Add under the "select widget" the ability to display Data Mining Reports. Teachers and Adminstration would love a quick link to their reports on one screen.

    3 votes

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    Tell us More  ·  Ashley Prinsen responded

    Thank you for submitting this request.

    Widgets typically allow for a specific action to be taken while using it. For example, the requisition widget allows users to approve/deny requisitions. What action would you expect your employees to be taking with a Budgetary Data Mining widget?

    We suggest employees who use Budgetary Data Mining that want a quick link to the area “Favorite” it for quick access.

  19. allow setting to keep dates set in the PAC true time workweek

    It is frustrating to always set the current dates we are working with for a payroll period after we leave that area to correct a time sheet.
    If we could have the system keep the dates entered until we change them or have a preference setting to hold the dates that would be very helpful in efficency.

    3 votes

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    Tell us More  ·  Ashley Prinsen responded

    Thank you for submitting this idea. Are you editing your timesheets outside of PaC?

    Thank you,

  20. Aging purchase order report

    I would like a purchase order aging report. I would like a report with the purchase order date on the report. The report would allow us to review which purchase orders remain open 30, 45, or 60+ similar to a report a vendor sends regarding invoices that have not been paid. The purchase order has a PO date on it when it prints.

    3 votes

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    Tell us More  ·  Ashley Prinsen responded

    Thank you for submitting this idea. We’d like your feedback:

    (1) What options would you expect to use on the parameters screen prior to running an Aging Purchase Orders Report?

    (2) What fields would you expect to see on a Details report?

    (3) What fields would you expect to see on a Summary report?

    Thank you for your feedback!

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