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On Friday, August 12, the display name for emails sent by Workday will change. The current display name “OSU Workday Administrator” will become “Ohio State Workday Notification” when the change takes place.

This update will ensure the sender is clear to email recipients outside of the university. The actual email address will not change, just the display name. If you have set up email rules for messages from Workday, you may need to update them after the display name changes.

Newark Corporation offers a full selection of electronic components at discount pricing in their RoundTrip (punch-out) catalog in Buckeye Buy. Newark is a recent awardee of Ohio State contract SPC-100006568 22-Electronic Components-Newark.

Batteries Plus offers batteries and other power supply products for multiple applications in their RoundTrip (punch-out) catalog in Buckeye Buy. Product pricing is up to 73% off retail, based on the E&I Cooperative contract SPC-1000006636 - UNIV: CNR01505-BPB.

During the week of September 5, the Data and Analytics team made significant progress in loading and validating the Journal Line reload to the Reporting and Analytics Environment (RAE). The final validations were successful with some explainable variances due to test environments. With the upcoming Workday 2022R2 update this Saturday, 9/10, we need some additional time to work around this critical event. 

An issue with offer letters and onboarding documents flowing to OnBase has been resolved as of July 27, 2022. With the resolution implemented, offer letters and onboarding documents will be loaded to the employee personnel file within OnBase nightly around 11 p.m. EST. Documents will load to OnBase once the individual has completed one of the following:

• For offer letters: Completing an onboarding activity such as:
  • Completing the Name and Contact information step for the onboarding to be considered complete.

To provide a better job application experience and clear guidance for applicants and managers, Workday notifications throughout the job application process have been enhanced. The new and updated notifications will help applicants and managers be engaged and informed throughout important hiring milestones to highlight action items and meet deadlines, creating a more efficient hiring process. The new and enhanced notifications will be live in Workday by early August 2022.

The "Cost Center - FDM Values" report has been updated to include the Cost Center Manager(s) assigned to each specific cost center, if applicable. This report enhancement can help identify missing cost center manager security assignments. 

After identifying significant accounting issues with negative expense report balances since this original update was shared, a custom validation was added to prevent an expense report from being submitted with the Personal Expense checkbox selected.

In response to user requests, payroll expense reports are now available in Tableau (link: https://dataviz.rae.osu.edu/#/workbooks/6448/views). A dashboard (titled Payroll Expense Details) was created under the Finance and Supply Chain/Financial Accounting/General Ledger domain in Tableau.

The dashboard contains two worksheets: