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  • Coming Soon: Changes to Non-Catalog Spend Category Name 

    Richard Hunter | April 28, 2023
    In order to improve the Workday purchasing experience for end users, on Monday, May 8, the SC99999 spend category will be renamed from: OFFICE USE ONLY - Do Not Change (SC99999) to *Do Not Know (SC99999) This renaming allows for this spend category to default as the first selection option when Spend Categories are searched in transactions. Please note, Service Center employees and Health System...

  • Vita Faculty Information System to Retire August 1

    Randi Honkonen | April 25, 2023
    Vita, powered by Elements, is the current faculty information tool at Ohio State where faculty and staff have been tracking publications, presentations and other accomplishments. Vita is currently deprecated and will be retired on August 1 to make way for a new faculty information process and tool. While the Office of Academic Affairs is developing the new process and piloting a new tool, those...

  • Required Information for Position Restriction and Job Requisition Business Processes

    Richard Hunter | April 24, 2023
    To continually improve the candidate recruiting experience, Workday updates were made last week to ensure all position information is captured during the edit position restriction and job requisition business processes. Both business processes will include validations as part of the submission process, which means if required fields are left empty or do not meet the necessary criteria, an error...

  • Next Round of Workstation Updates Available April 18

    Sydney Kuehn | April 19, 2023
    The next round of software updates is now available to install for OTDI-managed workstations via Software Center (for Windows PC) or Ohio State Application Self Service (for Mac). The IT Service Desk remotely deployed these updates on Tuesday, April 18 which will require you to restart your machine and/or close applications. You can make these updates at your convenience prior to then via your...

  • Urgent Update for Macs, iPhones, and iPads

    Stacie Nelson | April 18, 2023
    Apple users are encouraged to install an urgent security update to all Mac devices, iPhones and iPads as soon as possible to their most current supported versions (i.e. MacOS 13.3.1 or iOS 16.4.1). This urgent update is being recommended as a security precaution after Apple discovered a vulnerability in previous versions. To update your iPhone, iPad or Mac: Plug your device into power and connect...

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