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  • Decommission of eTools and Introduction to Source for Historical Data

    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).

  • Planned maintenance and downtime for Student applications Jan. 29

     From 5 p.m. on Saturday, January 29 to 11 a.m. on Sunday, January 30, multiple PeopleSoft Buckeye Link services (Campus Solutions/Student Information System) will be unavailable. See full post for details.
  • Updated Resources for One-Time Payments

    In alignment with the improvements to One-Time Payments business process, three job aids have been updated in the Administrative Resource Center:

  • New Job Aid for Initiating One-Time Payments for Taxable Items

    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 Consultants.

  • Changes to Graduate Fee Authorization Encumbrances

    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.

  • e-Activity Update Research Reporting Presentation

    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:

  • Conversion has Begun for Specific EIB Templates

    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.

    Beginning immediately, you must use the new templates listed, as available in the ARC:

  • Expense Report Workflow Change

    On January 6, 2022, a change was implemented with the intent to workflow any Expense Reports with different Cost Centers from the Spend Authorization to the Cost Center Manager(s) regardless of the 20% threshold. This change had an issue that wasn’t caught during testing and was workflowing for all conditions regardless of Cost Center being different. The Expense Report workflow has now been updated and is executing as expected as of today. All Expense Reports will do an additional routing to the Cost Center Manager if over 20% from Spend Authorization.

  • Use Marketplace Quotes in Buckeye Buy to Import Quotes into Workday

    As a reminder, the Buckeye Buy Marketplace Quote website hosts quotations from multiple contracted suppliers. Each supplier has their own portal within the site through which they submit quotations for their contracted services and goods.

  • Tuition Assistance Key Dates Spring 2022

    This article shares information about key dates for Spring 2022 tuition assistance (or fee authorization) processing as well as links to more information about the tuition assistance programs at the university.