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After feedback was received during the December Research Reporting Office Hours session, the column “Created by Worker” was added to the "Payroll Accounting Adjustment Status" report. This change allows viewers to see who initiated the payroll accounting adjustment, therefore making it easier to reach out to the initiators. This change also makes the report more consistent with our financial reporting, because the “Created by Worker” field is a common output of reporting.

Based on feedback from users in the grants/research community, the “Other Funding” report within the Principal Investigator and Grants Administration dashboards now includes a new column for “Revenue.” The "Transfers In and Out" information is still in a separate column. This ensures a full view of balances is contained within this report.

This year marks the 3-year anniversary of Ohio State’s Tableau implementation. The Data and Analytics team surveyed leaders and stakeholders in January to gather data about Ohio State’s last three years of Tableau use. Check out the full post for an initial overview of results that will factor into future planning and the continual service improvement of Tableau.

Effective January 21, 2022, eRequest and eTravel were officially decommissioned. Access to historical data from those systems is now available using the Reporting and Analytics Environment (RAE) and Tableau Server.

Related job aids are available in the Administrative Resource Center (ARC).

Beginning for the Spring 2022 Academic Period, the Graduate Fee Authorization encumbrances will generate for Tuition and Technology fees for the University and OSP. Non-Resident fees will no longer be included in the encumbrances for Graduate Fee Authorizations, as most Non-Resident fees are centrally reimbursed.

Workday is requiring the conversion of Enterprise Interface Builder (EIB) templates from an XML Excel file format to an XLSX Excel file format. Ohio State will convert all of its EIB templates over the next few months. Once a template conversion is completed and uploaded to the Administrative Resource Center (ARC), the old template will no longer be available. The release of each new template and a link to it in the ARC will be announced in NewsLink.

The next Research Reporting presentation is Thursday, February 10, 2022, from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. During this session we will review how to use the updated e-Activity regarding award proposals and awards. The session is optional and is intended for grant administrators who use e-Activity. A session focusing on expenditures in e-Activity will be scheduled later.

Prerequisites for this session:

A new job aid that outlines how to initiate ad-hoc one-time payments when an employee has received a taxable item is now available for managers, leaders and HR C