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As a result of user community feedback, the "Equity Balances by Balancing/Carry Forward Worktags" report will receive two updates.

An enhancement has been made to the Sources and Uses suite of reports to allow users to select "book" when running a report.  

Please note that if you have saved filters on this report you will need to ensure your report is running on the common book to return the results your saved filters would have normally returned.  When you apply a saved filter the book default of common book will blank out.  Please update your filters to select the common book if appropriate.

An additional view has been created in the "Payroll Expense Details and Flexible Payroll Expense Data" to show hours associated with salary expense. The new tabs are called "Prepopulated Monthly Payroll Actuals (Hours and Amount)" and "Flexible Monthly Payroll Actuals (Hours and Amount)." 

A new university-wide contract was recently awarded to four flower and gift basket suppliers by the Sourcing team. Instances where you might order from these suppliers could include expressions of acknowledgement and support for life events such as birth or adoption of a child, injury/illness of an employee, or the injury, illness or death of an immediate family member, etc.

We use words like “student” and “employee” every day, but did you know that we don’t have standard definitions for these terms across the university and medical center? The Ohio State Data Governance team has launched a new initiative to standardize institutional definitions to increase clarity and accuracy in data reporting and analysis. As part of this effort, a team is facilitating the development of working groups, consisting of subject matter experts and data stewards, from across the university and medical center.

Don't miss out! The Cybersecurity Days Colleague Forum for Ohio State faculty, staff and students is this Wednesday, October 19. Register now for your chance to learn about the university's cybersecurity threat landscape, its challenges, and help us develop innovative solutions for the future. Registrations accepted until the day of the event!

A new Workday tenant is now available to all Ohio State Workday users for training and practice. Access in the training tenant will mirror access in production. All Ohio State Workday users have access to this training tenant; you do not need special security roles in order to use the training tenant. The tenant will be refreshed, or updated, from production every weekend, at minimum. The refresh timing is important because new employees and changes to existing employees, including access changes, will not be available in the tenant until it is refreshed.

New Reporting 2.0 functionality in BuckeyeLearn allows managers to quickly view completed training information for their direct and indirect employees, covering many common training titles.

Available reports include: Report = Support! [FY23], Institutional Data Policy 2022, and Digital Accessibility Policy 2022.

Expenses related to the tuition assistance benefit for eligible graduate students (graduate fee authorizations or GFA) are posted during the ninth week of the semester. For Autumn 2022, expenses will post on Tuesday, 10/18.

We use words like “student” and “employee” every day, but did you know that we don’t have standard definitions for these terms across the university and medical center? The Data Governance team is launching an initiative to standardize institutional definitions and is seeking assistance from colleagues across the university and medical center.