Skybuild Interface Update/Overhaul Needed
Skybuild is perhaps one of the most potentially useful but cumbersome and user-hostile features in Skyward: I often must guess the input format or value needed for a field; Skybuild field names sometimes don't match the name of the display field name; importable field options are too limited (I believe I should be able to import any and all fields into Skyward); linking fields to CSV columns is very awkward; the error/import reports are incomplete and misleading and can easily make one think the import was successful when it was not; and it is not clear what data must exists before you can import additional data (e.g. Importing vehicle information). And it's not just me—I have been on several service calls in which the support reps express the same frustration.
Christopher Martell
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Barbie Laski
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I'd like to add to this overhaul:
- Make all fields available in SkyBuild to report on.
- Better description of Fields
- The ability to provide access to individual or group access to run and view only specific reports.
- Interface Files - a way to post SkyBuild Interface files in Skyward Support that can be accessed from other schools to utilize.
-Import and Export Interfaces - the ability to choose the export files you want to include.
- Clone a report from another Entity without having to use the export/import Interface options.
- Import File Builder - Make more fields available to be able to import - Such as:
- More course master fields to be able to update any field in the course or section master. Provide a preview screen. Same fields should be available in the course by course or course by section report so when updates are made in the spreadsheet the spreadsheet can be imported.
- The ability to create sections with all available fields