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From 5 p.m. on Saturday, November 16 to 11 a.m. on Sunday, November 17, the following PeopleSoft Buckeye Link (Campus Solutions/Student Information System) services will be unavailable including:

• Student Center functions accessed through Buckeye Link
• Faculty Center
• Grad Forms
• Grad Recommendation
• Curriculum
   

The Ohio State App (mobile) will not be affected by the downtime.

This change and other planned maintenance at Ohio State can be found on the System Status (ocio.osu.edu/status) page.

Questions regarding this planned maintenance should be directed to the IT Service Desk by calling 614-688-4357 (HELP), emailing servicedesk@osu.edu or visiting Self Service (go.osu.edu/it). Please reference change number CHG0102168.

Additional Quick Tip text will be visible for Create Spend Authorization, Create Expense Report, and Edit Expense Report tasks. The new Quick Tips will be visible to self-entry workers and provide guidance next to the fields being populated which can be accessed by clicking on the blue circled question mark icon.

Note: This functionality is not currently available on the related Expense Data Entry Specialist tasks of Create Expense Report/Spend Authorization for Worker and Non-Worker.

Effective immediately, the following unused fields will be hidden on a project’s summary Workday page: Billable, Customer, Include Project ID in Names, Optional Balancing Worktags, Optional Project Hierarchies, and Project Currency.

These fields will still appear on existing reports.

To facilitate ad-hoc financial reporting in Tableau, a new Tableau Data Source which contains Adaptive Operating plan lines data for UNIV from Workday has been created in the RAE. The data source has loaded the items listed below.

• FY23 Autumn Forecast - UNIV
• FY23 Operating Plan - UNIV
• FY23 Spring Forecast - UNIV
• FY24 Autumn Forecast - UNIV
• FY24 Operating plan - UNIV
• FY24 Spring Forecast - UNIV
• FY24 Summer Forecast - UNIV
• FY25 Operating plan - UNIV
• FY25 Summer Forecast - UNIV

This data source will be updated as new plan lines are loaded in Workday. The Tableau Data Source name is Workday - Adaptive Operating Plan lines. This data source will be available to all Finance users who have access to this folder “Financial Accounting/General Ledger.”

Please contact CTL-BusinessProcesses ctl-businessprocesses@osu.edu with questions.

The "Plan Versus Actuals by Plan Worktag" and "Plan versus Actuals by Plan Worktag - With Ledger Account" reports have been enhanced with new dynamic column headings to provide greater clarity to the selections made at report runtime. Now instead of simply displaying "Plan," the column heading will display the Plan/Forecast Name that was selected at report runtime.

Please send questions about these updates to ctl-businessprocesses@osu.edu