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SMS 2.0 Student Management Suite


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  1. Account Filter in Payroll Reports

    All payroll reports should have the ability to filter by account number.

    For example our auditors asked us to get them a report that showed all employees charged to ESSER (project 165). They wanted this report to show the employee, check date, check number, and at least the gross amount.

    I couldn't do this because the reports that show those things were not able to be filtered by project number. The only one I found able to be filtered by project number was the "Account Distribution" report in Historical Payroll Reports. This report did not have the option of showing…

    2 votes

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  2. Notify person who entered PO to receive PO

    It would be fantastic if there was some type of automated email to notify users who have entered PO's that their items need to be received.

    4 votes

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  3. Add option to have building limits on specific time off request. Especially for personal days for teachers and aides.

    Add option to have building limits on specific time off request. Especially for personal days for teachers and aides.

    3 votes

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    Thank you for submitting the product idea!


    Could you expand on the use case for this?


    Would this be used for employees who work in multiple buildings and have different supervisors, so they would be submitting time off requests to different supervisors based on their building they are working at?


    Thank you for your input!


    Erik O.

  4. Denial Note for Time off

    When a Time off request is denied it would be nice to note to employee WHY it was denied -- i.e. Sick time must be taken in one hour increments, so your request for 1.5 hours is denied.

    5 votes

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    Thank you for submitting the product idea! We are looking into the ability to add denial notes when a time off request is sent back to the user.


    The idea will remain open for continued voting and feedback.


    Thank you!

    Erik O.

  5. Emergency Contact

    Having to enter an emergency contact for an employee into the skyward database is not necessary and time consuming. Could we just have a field for a name and number?

    2 votes

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  6. Good Morning Joe, Service Call # 5630912 There is no report for this unfortunately, this is something that is programmed this way. You cou

    Looking for a report that would list the new account codes created during the payroll process. Many times we have to merge these codes and it would nice if we didn't have to search for them.
    Joe

    2 votes

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  7. Occupant Address Change Buttons

    Our users have said that the button choices on the Occupant Address Changes screen attached are not intuitive and have caused for changes to be made that should not be made. The question being asked is a yes/no question but the button choices are ok/cancel. Is there anyway to get the buttons changed to Yes to change and No to not change?

    1 vote

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  8. map account

    Sometimes we need to understand/make sure that our accounts are flowing through (or set up in) the system correctly. Would there be a way to run a report that would show the "expense" account used and the following levels of "cash", "equity", etc whatever the series of accounts were that were affected by whatever particular account you enter?

    1 vote

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  9. Expense Reimbursement Attachments

    When entering in an expense reimbursement it would be helpful if a warning showed up when attachments are not included before they can submit the reimbursement for certain expense codes. This would help employees understand they need to submit receipts for certain expenses.

    4 votes

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  10. Allow user to view notes on a Task Step that has been completed.

    After completing a step for a task, the user can see this in the Task History. They cannot see the note that they added. This would be useful when they need to reference this information after the fact.

    2 votes

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  11. contract status

    I would like to have the field "Contract Status" from the DOE Reporting screen available as a Skyward Field for Custom Forms. We use task manager to Reappointment our PC and AC Contract teachers and it would be helpful to be able to show the field on the custom form to make sure we do not accidently issue a Reappointment for a PS Contract teacher. See attachments for more information.

    2 votes

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  12. excel reports need to be in a database format

    detail reports downloadable into excel need to be in a database format

    2 votes

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  13. Enable API v6.1/Data Std v4

    I'm requesting that Skyward enable API v6.1/Data Standard v4 for the SMS Skyward HR/Finance sends that Skyward is certified for by Ed-Fi for Florida. https://techdocs.ed-fi.org/display/EDFICERT/Registry+of+Ed-Fi+Certified+Products indicates that API v6.1/Data Standard v4 is available to Texas and Wisconsin and other states upon request. This request would especially be helpful to Florida districts using FLCode.

    12 votes

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  14. Utility to remove Old WIP status Expense Reimbursement requests

    Clean up utility to remove WIP status expense reimbursement requests for former employees or for prior years. When you use the "Print WIP Report" you have a list of outstanding requests from all years and termed employees.
    To remove these request you need to make the employee active again and add them to the org chart. Then login as the employee to remove the request, remove them from the org chart, make account inactive again.

    4 votes

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  15. Contract hrs increase if pay code is exported for different time periods. Employee changes school site but same contract, the hrs are double

    Contract hours increase if a pay code is exported for different time periods. Employee changes school site but has same contract, the hours are doubled. Can this be limited to the hours on the employee's assignment? Contract Hours Per Day By Time Contract Active Contract Pay Code
    14:00 Y PARA5
    14:00 Y SG079
    16:00 Y ADM09
    15:00 Y CMM12
    16:00 Y BS254

    2 votes

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  16. Unpaid Hours on Timesheet

    Would like the total scheduled hours to appear on timesheet. A subtotal for paid hours worked, paid leave hours to total what is paid on the paycheck and also a subtotal of unpaid hours. The supervisors could then better track attendance. Unpaid hours are tracked in timeoff. Wish they could put the totals of unpaid hours on the timesheet instead of showing up as "0".

    2 votes

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  17. remove the notification in task manager that says the record will not be displayed because of the filter settings

    When you open the entire task manager, not just from our widget screen and you have a filter on, when you close it a pop up come up about 3 seconds later that says "the record you are working on cannot be displayed due to the filters you are working with". Could you please set up the option to not view those after each one. Once should be enough. When you are trying to close out 100 or so tasks at a time it is very time consuming to wait for the notification to click ok. Another beautiful option would…

    3 votes

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  18. Customer Access Support Tickets Marked as "Critical"

    When we are putting in a customer support ticket to Skyward, there is a "critical" checkbox that can be selected. Through research, we have discovered that these "critical" tickets go to a dispatcher. That dispatcher then identifies whether the need is actually "critical" or not. I understand the need to process tickets like this because, let's be honest, everybody things that all of their own issues are critical OR they have put things off to the last minute to handle. However, if this dispatcher does NOT read the entire message or fully understand what is happening then they might miss…

    3 votes

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  19. Font Type

    In Skyward > Preferences > User Preferences it would be LOVELY to be able to select a different font that users could change depending on their needs. I know that there are some font options but NOT ENOUGH we want to be able to have different styles and sizes. As I have said in other customized suggestions, we have little joy in our lives as office workers and these tiny adjustments can make our lives so much easier and can be the reason that we come to work every morning.
    Thank you!

    2 votes

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  20. Sharing Selection Parameters in True Time Utilities

    When you are in True Time > Setup > Utilities > Time Sheets Mass Deny I KNOW that you can share your selection parameters with other users. HOWEVER, when another user tries to use a selection parameter that I have set they are UNABLE to revise the times that the denial is for. Why have a share button if they can't edit all the fields?

    1 vote

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