School Business Suite
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EXPORT TO EXCEL DATE NEEDED
It would be nice if there was a date you could enter when looking at history to only export from that date forward. This is available on a lot of the screens in PAC where the export to excel option is.
This would save time waiting on years of data exporting.40 votesThank you for submitting this idea. We are not considering this request for development. We’ve conducted research on this request and the scope of this update does not align with our roadmap. This idea will remain open for continued voting and commenting by our Skyward user community.
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Selecting Multiple Codes, Names, Numbers, etc.
When selecting multiple codes names numbers checks etc. in PaC you can hold the shift key and select a range. You cannot do this on the Web. It is time consuming when you're selecting more than a few.
49 votesThank you for submitting and voting on this idea. After review we have decided not to pursue development at this time. This framework function would require significant time for development.
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Multiple building fields on Personnel tab
It would be very helpful to show all buildings if an employee actually works at more than one location on the Personnel tab. If we had a primary building and alternate buildings showing it would be great to have these new fields available in Data Mining. Users now run building reports in DM but the employee may not be on their list since it does not appear in Personnel as the "main" building so the report is not accurate. We want them to be able to see all their buildings at a glance on the main screen. his could even…
105 votesThank you for submitting and voting on this Idea. We’ve spent some time here at Skyward doing research for this request and have determined after a thorough analysis that we will not be pursing this development.
We discovered, that if we add multiple buildings to the employee profile, this change would create large ramifications. Building is found in many places throughout the system and the effort, impact and risk to update is not something we will be able to address at this time.
We recommend using Employee Management Data Mining to report on Employees and all their Assigned Buildings.
In Data Mining use Assignment as the Driver Table, In Field Areas select Position, and under Position select Position Building Code, Position Building state, and Position Building Desc. To report on all buildings associated with an Employee.
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PO/req group assigns in security
It would be very helpful to see the total set up areas that a user has in the Secured screen for a user. Purchase order requisition groups and the inventory req group assignments listed in this area would make a huge difference. It would help keep things updated as users change positions and also let you know if you are cloning security to a PO/Inv req group not needed. Many times I have removed the security in the Secured screen for a user without remembering that they could also be a member of a PO/Inv req group. When printing a…
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Add the ability to import data into AR Invoices
We need the ability to import data from EXCEL into AR invoices in the same manner it is possible to populate journal entries from an EXCEL Spreadsheet. Unlike schools we do not receive state funding and therefore operate more like a business which requires monthly bills for services rendered--so an efficient AR process is critical to our success.
Our billing data comes primarily from two separate databases--one is our workshop registration software the other is an internal database built in Drupal. Inputting the data into Skyward is too laborious with too many clicks and is of course a redundant process…22 votesThank you for submitting this idea. We’ve spent some time reviewing the request and researching our options. We’ve decided that this request is not considered for development at this time. The scope of the enhancement does not fit within out roadmap.
This idea will remain open for continued voting and commenting by the Skyward user community.
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Allow approvers to get notificaton of PO Overage
Allowing an approver instead of the submitter of a purchase order to get notification that the PO went over. The negative impact would be that the person doing the budget has to go into each PO to see which ones are over.
35 votesThank you for submitting this idea. We need your feedback.
Would you expect to receive a notification if a certain account goes over budget, or if the PO goes over budget? Would you expect to receive a notification if both went over budget?
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Proxy on Expense reports
Goal: Be able to enter an expense report on another persons behalf. This would be helpful if a manager hands off a receipt for reimbursement the assistant is able to enter this as an expense and be the "proxy" for the manager. The assistant would enter the information and the approval would go to the manager for approval and then through workflow if needed.
The expected outcome would be keeping the check request and expense reimbursements separated and still be able to see workflow.34 votesThank you for submitting this idea. We’ve reviewed it and conducted internal analysis. At this time it is not under consideration for future development. The required scope of this request does not align with our road map priorities.
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Add description field to payroll worksheet screen
This would allow users who are entering a limited access worksheet the ability to put in a description of why an employee is getting the pay. This would help the Payroll department to audit what is being entered and would be retained for historical tracking.
This has been a road block to using the limited access worksheets in our district.69 votesWe currently have the Transaction Pay Code in Payroll Worksheet which can be used to add a description why an employee is getting paid. Currently, what happens is when you select the Worksheet Detail record into Payroll, it pulls all the deductions/benefits from the Pay Record Pay Code, then renames the Pay Code to the Transaction Pay Code. When it comes through on the check, it’s the Transaction Pay Code, but everything is pulled from the Pay Record with the Pay Record Pay Code. Our suggestion is to create Transaction Pay Codes, but you won’t need to create pay records with them. By doing it this way, you’ll also create consistency between the different records vs a free form description box. This way will also handle any concerns about combining worksheet detail records into payroll transactions.
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On the YTD tab add the ability to accumulate TRS w
This would be VERY helpful when processing the TRS annual report. The outcome would be a quick way to check TRS wages when completing the annual report. It could be done by adding the ability to accumulate wages by a date range that would be manually entered. It is already accumulating by a predetermined date range.
35 votesThank you for submitting this idea and voting on it.
We suggest you try running the Update Retirement Earnings with Summer Payroll Amounts. This can be found by navigating to PaC > Human Resources > Payroll > Reporting > Retirement Processing TRS. Click on the “Options” button to run the Update Retirement Earnings with Summer Payroll Amounts.
Keep an eye out for Emails from Skyward for TRS Annual & TRS Pay Period Report Webinars and Training available this summer.
The TRS Pay Period Report goes live January 2021.
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We want the ability to auto approve the Primary ma
Auto approving address in employee access. You will not be able to use the auto approve option for the reason below:
When an employee changes their address they enter a new street direction city zip. If the employee chooses a street city or zip that is not entered in your system already Skyward doesn't have a data table to pull this information from. Remember when you enter an address in profile there is a table that auto fills with the street info. If you are entering a street that has never been entered before you have to add that street…
25 votesThank you for submitting this idea. We are not considering it for development as the program is working as intended as a security and privacy precaution. This idea will remain open for continued voting and commenting by our Skyward user community.
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Enhancements to Pay Distribution Report
Make the following enhancements to the Pay Distribution Report:
1) Add an option to print either the SSN Employee ID or neither
2) Add the Calc FTE to the report. Since this is sorted by the Account Number we will have to prorate the FTE and add an asterisk to the line if someone has a split distribution.
3) Add the YTD payments and contract balance
58 votesThank you for submitting and voting on this idea.
We’ve requested feedback while researching this request. Going forward, we are not considering this request for development.
Please continue to contribute your ideas — they push us to innovate, problem solve, and really understand your needs.
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Ashley Prinsen
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Ability to rename time off allotment codes.
It would be helpful to be able to rename time off allotment codes. The description can be edited but the code itself can't be renamed. As groups change their time off agreements the allotment code can become less helpful when selecting. Creating new allotment codes isn't efficient because then it needs to be changed at the employee level and the list of codes is a mixture of current and outdated codes.
A process similar to the renaming of pay codes deductions benefits and employee types would be great. The code is renamed everywhere it is used in the system. For…
38 votesThank you for submitting this idea and responding to requests for feedback. We’ve conducted a thorough analysis and have determined that we will not be pursuing this update for development. The scope and risk involved does not align with our roadmap priorities. This idea will remain open for continued voting and commenting by our Skyward user community.
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Purchase Orders
Purchase Order "Deliver To" Needs to have the phone number added as when venders call with a concern or question they always call the Billing Office as that's the only phone number available and they don't know the answer so then the call is forwarded to me.
With the phone number added to the delivery address calls would be directed directly to the correct school without delay in answers. Deliveries wouldn't be delayed and the Billing office would not be given unnecessary calls. You have built into the system address 1 & address 2 - address 1 could be the…46 votesThank you for submitting this idea!
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Edit the default flag on Employee Assignment
In discussing an issue in automating Active Directory record creation from Skyward the problem of staff assigned to multiple schools was identified. As Active Directory should only have a single record for a user a way to select the correct record of the multiple assignments that a staff member user could have in a year is needed. One suggestion was to make the current HPMASN-ASSIGNMENTS.HPMASN-PRIMARY-X field accessible in the UI so Personnel could make this determination of the primary 'home' assignment in these cases. The SIF agent could then pick this up for use in creating a single active directory…
42 votesThank you for submitting and voting on this idea. We’ve review this request and conducted some research for implementation. At this time, we are not considering this request for development. This request impacts many areas of the system that could introduce risk of instability.
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Holidays split between pay codes
The goal would be to have the system look at the employees detail schedule and split the holiday pay between pay codes rather then basing it on the primary pay code. The only way to currently do this is to manually split it and this leaves too much room for error.
The expected outcome would be for the system to look at the detail schedule rather then the primary pay code when determining holiday hours.64 votes -
"Other Name" or "Nickname" field
I would like to see an Other-Name field or Nickname field be added to the "Name" table.
I'm trying to utilize Skyward as the authoritative source for our staff data. I have found that many employees do not go by their legal first name OR other language(Chinese/Spanish) name i.e. "Cynthia" goes by "Cindy" OR "Hsin Jung" goes by "Amy"... (How does one find Amy in the staff directory when her name is listed as Hsin Jing?Why is there an other-name field for students but not for staff?
I want to be able to use this field to map to…75 votesThank you for submitting this Product Idea.
We've reviewed it and are not considering it for immediate development.
This idea will remain open for continued voting, and commenting. Thank you!
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Preferred Vendor Management
Some districts have special pricing agreements with particular vendors making using those vendors the fiscally responsible choice when entering a requisition; however there are legitimate situations where a user may need to use a non-preferred vendor (i.e. The preferred vendor doesn't have a specific item). Currently there is not systematic way to help users know which vendors to use nor a way to handle requisitions where users needed to use a non-preferred vendor instead of a preferred vendor.
1) There would be a new vendor code under WF\VE\PS\CO called Vendor Types where districts could define vendor types like "Office Supplies"…
49 votesThanks for the feedback! After thorough research and team analysis we’ve decided to not pursue this idea in the near future because of the scope.
This idea will remain on the ideas portal for continued voting and comments.
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Mass selecting recurring entries to create invoice
It would be great if we could mass select recurring entries for creating invoices for payment. Having to select each one at a time is much more time consuming than if we could select several at a time from the list.
50 votesThank you for submitting and voting on this idea. We’ve reviewed it and will not be pursing this development in the near future. While we see the value of this request it would require a lot of development time and it doesn’t align with our current road map.
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EXPORT FIXED REPORTS TO EXCEL; Sort on Class
It would be very helpful if we could export the fixed s Current Value Report to Excel to facilitate sorting/reporting/analyzing etc.
59 votesThank you for submitting this request. We’re researched implementing the request based on the information supplied. Thank you!
Ashley Prinsen
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Need ACA hours for docked day to equal hours workd
Need to have ACA hours for a docked day to equal daily hours worked in Employee Management. Currently the docked hours for ACA default to 8 and this is not correct in most cases.
Dock pay would automatically deduct the correct number of ACA hours when used.
Additional clarification from customer:We currently pull ACA hours from Employee Management. When processing a
payroll and an employee has dock pay it pulls up the hours associated with
the calendar for the employee. I would like the ACA hours to pull from the
hours per day on Employee Management. This way the…48 votesThank you for submitting this request and voting on it. We’ve had our experts run a few test at Skyward and we believe the system is working as intended as long as the set up is correct. Please review these steps & try this instead:
1) When running the Unpaid Time Off Import (Create Dock Pay) utility in Payroll Worksheets the ACA Hours are automatically created.
2) The hours are negative – to indicate taking ACA hours away from the total ACA hours for the payroll
3) The number of hours recorded is based on the Time Off Code Setup – Hours per Day
4) The ACA hours are written directly from the Unpaid Import. They are not derived from the ACA Import button in Payroll Select
5) Primary Pay’s ACA hours is pulled from the ACA Import in Select
6) The Import runs out to the web. It is…
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