Cal Answers Financials and BAIRS Community,
We’ve now completed all the releases necessary to transition from BAIRS to Cal Answers. BAIRS will remain available through December 21. On December 22, 2018we will close down BAIRS and the system will no longer be accessible. These last few weeks are your final opportunity to use Cal Answers while BAIRS is still available, so please take the opportunity to transition to Cal Answers now.
We’re pleased to announce that we’ve implemented new updates to the Cal Answers Financials dashboards, based on user feedback. These are the final updates before BAIRS retirement in December.
Updates include
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Created ability to use the Fund Code, Dept ID and Account Code "between" prompts by themselves in the Financial Management Reporting and General Ledger Reporting dashboards to retrieve data, along with journal ID and employee ID. Review the wiki pages (linked above) for more information.
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Set the default value in Payroll to be the last closed month.
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Added new includable columns in the Workforce Detail dashboard.
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Modified the PRT Error Report in Permanent Budget Reporting to include rows with “Missing HR Record.”
Join us at Cal Assessment Network (CAN) on December 7
Save the date and join us on Friday, December 7 from 10:30am-12pm to celebrate BAIRS retirement and CAN’s 100th session. We’ll be presenting an overview of the Cal Answers Financials dashboards, helpful resources for dashboards and ad hoc, and outlining what to expect in the new year after BAIRS is retired. There will be an opportunity to ask questions and celebrate this huge milestone in improving the campus reporting environment.
Training resources
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Visit the training page and review the Basic Navigation Learning Map on the Cal Answers website.
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Training resources specific to each dashboard are located in the Cal Answers Finance wiki site and on the dashboard pages of the Cal Answers Financials webpage.
Access
Learn more about Finance access and which dashboards are included by visiting the access page on the Cal Answers website.
Questions
If you have questions about using Cal Answers, please contact the Cal Answers Help Desk at 664-9000 (option 1, then option 2) or calanswers-help@berkeley.edu
Thank you,
Cal Answers Financials Team
Office of the Vice Chancellor of Finance