I searched help and the feature requests but didn't find anything on this so I am submitting one. I would like to have to opportunity to retire all of the entries under Financial Aid/Settings except the General Info. Award types can change or an unfixable mistake might be made and it would be nice to be able to make disappear these things no longer needed. I know that stuff has to be kept for historical purposes, but it would be nice not to have to look at these past dinosaurs.
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Carla Bender I see that nobody has supported this yet. Please do- if we could retire federal funds that are no longer used like ACG and SMART. Also, we have some federal funds that we have changed the name on, so would like to get these off the active list. PLEASE think about it?
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Carla Bender Anybody? Anybody?
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Marilyn Mast Hewitt I just placed a similar request today.
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Scholarship Department Where are we with this? From HC.
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Adam Sentz We added the ability to retire custom award types a while ago. I'm not sure what else folks want to retire since nothing specific has been mentioned. If there's something else in Financial Aid you want to be able to retire please open a new request.
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Jon Coffee I'm glad this feature was added. This is a great improvement!
However, when award types are retired, you lose the ability to search for them or view past awards made of that award type. It would be great if the retired awards worked in a similar way to retired courses in the course catalog, or retired applications in the admissions tab. Even though an award is retired and out of the way, there is still a need to go back a see prior awards of that type... Additionally, if we have an award revived after a few years - say with a major donation to the fund - it would be very useful to be able to un-retire an award and begin using again. -
Daniel Betting This feature is not fully implemented. Adam Sentz indicates it has been added a while ago but if it is one of the system award types with a padlock on it, we are not allowed to touch them...other than assign a GL to them. If we have no reason to use them, then I should be allowed to hide them (inactivate) them just like any other award type we do not want to use. Almost half the award types currently defined could be removed from the screen for us which would put all of the ones we care about visible on the screen at one time without scrolling.
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Adam Sentz Daniel Betting - In 2019, in response to another commenter's status request, I posted, "We added the ability to retire custom award types a while ago." and did not mark this request Completed.
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Daniel Betting Sorry - missed the word custom. So at least we know it is still on the wish list with another example of why. :)
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Adam Sentz Daniel Betting - No problem. The built-in ones just require more careful handling because of their built-in-ness.
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