See the full post for more details about recent and upcoming reporting changes, including reports where users will need to update saved filters.
Find Supplier Invoice Request Summary and Detail Report Enhancements:
Enhancements have been made to both the "Find Supplier Invoice Request (SIR) Summary - OSU" and "Find Supplier Invoice Request (SIR) Detail - OSU" reports.
Coming Soon: Business Processes Awaiting Action Dashboard Changes:
To improve performance on the "Business Processes Awaiting Action" dashboard, changes will be made to the Requisition report on the dashboard.
Coming Soon: Saved Filters on Find Supplier Invoice Reporting:
On March 18 , changes will be made to prompts on the "Find Supplier Invoice Summary - OSU" and "Find Supplier Invoice Details - OSU" reports.
Coming Soon: Business Process Approval Times - Supplier Invoice Reporting:
To coincide with changes to workflow on supplier invoices, the Grants Operation Center Rep approval time will be added to both the "Business Approval Times - Supplier Invoice Summary" and "Business Process Approval Times - Supplier Invoice Detail" reports during the week of March 18 .
The Office of Technology and Digital Innovation (OTDI) will be hosting an Informational Microsoft Office Hours on Tuesday, March 19 from 2:30-3:30 p.m. There is no cost to attend this session, but...
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The Office of Undergraduate Education, The Drake Institute and The Office of Technology and Digital Innovation are hosting a series of conversations and workshops to familiarize our university community with the way ePortfolios are being used in the GE and elsewhere on campus, introduce the pedagogy of folio thinking, and train instructors interested in building workbooks and assignments in PebblePad, Ohio State’s ePortfolio platform.
Earlier this month, Ohio State students, faculty, and staff participated in the Big Ten Academic Alliance (BTAA) Love Data Week event.
Event highlights include 8 sessions conducted for Love Data Week 2024, 12 campuses in participation, 561 individuals in attendance, and 1,400 votes cast for the BTAA Love Data Week Viz Champion.
The university was well represented this year, as you'll see in the full post which lists participating Ohio State colleauges, many of them also listed in the BTAA Honorable Mentions gallery .
Changes are being made to help users leverage the Requisition Worklet to manage their requisitioning process.
Users of the "Create Requisitions" task will now see a "Try new Experience" button. This will redirect them to use the Requisition Worklet. Additionally, for Requisition Worklet users, on the top of the page to the left of the shopping cart, a new question mark icon will be available that when clicked will provide basics on how to use the tool. Stay tuned for more detailed information regarding the buying experience.
Beginning Friday, March 15 , all non-PO internal supplier invoice lines over $5,000 tied to the OSP Grant Hierarchy will route to the Grants Shared Service Center for review prior to posting. This review is to help ensure that grants are charged only approved internal billing rates, charges are in compliance with the grant agreement, and have appropriate supporting documentation. If there are no published rates and/or the rates do not match what is itemized on the requisition/quote or invoice that supports billing to OSP grants, the Grants Shared Service Center will be sending back the transactions.
A new Tableau report is now available to end users in "Enterprise" folder. This report allows users to customize worktags for finance data. Users can select worktags from the column headings and they will remain displayed on the page. Users can select up to 10 custom columns and those can be filtered from the details pane. The report displays beginning balance, activity, and ending balances for the worktag combinations selected.
The report can be found using the path Finance and Supply Chain Domain > Financial Accounting/General Ledger > Financial Balances Summarization with Flexible Selectable Columns . For those with access, the Tableau link is https://dataviz.rae.osu.edu/#/workbooks/9485/views .
OTDI’s Enterprise Business Solutions (EBS) team has made a few updates to the academic unit structure where academic appointments are maintained in Workday. The naming convention has been updated for 55 existing Academic Units, such as “Medicine, College of” to “College of Medicine” and added 53 new academic units, such as university centers and institutes.
Colleges and units may now add academic appointments as appropriate to the new academic units for their faculty in Workday. Faculty will be able to see these new academic appointments in their Workday profile as well as on Find People once the colleges and units make the changes.
This data is maintained and updated by the colleges and units as decisions are locally managed. A list of the changes will be emailed to the HR Business Partners. In addition, you will see changes to the prompts in the “OAA - Academic Appointments” report in Workday; please be mindful during your next report run. This information is also being shared through HR Now.
Over the next several weeks, Microsoft is making some changes to Microsoft 365 , which include rolling out the new version of Teams . In addition, Microsoft has enabled features to allow user to customize navigation, change audio and video settings while in a meeting, archive Team channels, forward chat messages and more.
