For years I have had the Mass Delete Grades By Grade Bucket run as a 2 part Scheduled Task. The tasks that I had saved were no longer working so I created new templates to run the utility. However now from my Print Queue when I select the Task button "Schedule This" is not available to select. After submitting a Skyward service call I am told: "We recently changed an option to be able to schedule a process that has a preview. Any utility that has a preview at the beginning is no longer able to be scheduled. I apologize if this is an inconvenience but I suggest submitting an RFE if this is something you want to add back in as an option."

I do not know why they took this ability away but I believe that we should be able to schedule any utility to run as a task if it needed for the completion of tasks without having to manually complete the same thing daily. This was used by our district with respect to eligibility reporting to insure that grades in grade buckets were removed before the auto posting of the athletic grade bucket ran daily.

The ability to schedule tasks for any utilities that have a preview should be restored in the programming. I do not know why reasoning was applied to remove the ability to schedule these types of tasks. I never had any issue with running the 2 part scheduled task in the many years it ran for our district.