How to set up the Announcements in Workday?

Announcements

You can notice Announcements on your home page and they are different for each employee based on the configurations. Understand that this is part of your Home (Landing Page) Dashboard, which is configurable.

Access the Configure Announcements task and identify the Home Dashboard to configure.

Notice the Rule column, this can be setup with the task Create Announcement Rule. Based on the rule you condition, it will show up the group of employees if they satisfy the condition. 

Also up on expiration date, it will not show up to view on the page. 

Also you can use the Edit Dashboard (Home)task to control all your announcements.

How to setup Required Worklets in the Tenant?

Maintain Dashboard - Home

Most of the people know how to set the Worklets / Applications on the Home Page. If not, you will see a Setting / gear icon on the home page which lets you configure what you want to see on the Worklets. You can set the Optional Worklets but the required Worklets on the left does not allow you to edit or change. 

You can edit those Required Worklets as what should be shown and to Whom.

Meanwhile, worklets are the easily accessible icons which we can say shortcuts for your tasks or reports or both of them grouped as a folder. What ever you see in the worklets can be searchable in the search bar.

Naviage to the task - Edit Tenant Setup - Worklets  and click on Maintain Dashboards. 

Or you can directly access the task - Maintain Dashboards.

Out of the listed Custom and Workday Delivered dashboards, search for Home and click on Edit.

Here it will take you to Content, which allows you to add or remove Worklets. Also notice the Required for Groups and Required checkbox which is making it mandate for those security group users. 

How to configure the Summary Page of Worker?

Configure Profile Summary

Different companies would like to show up different summarized sections on the Worker's profile. Navigation: Go to Worker's Profile >> Summary

Workday allows you to configure Summary through the task - Configure Profile Summary.

As shown below are the available profiles that you can configure the summary for. Most of them that you notice here are for Recruiting, and Student related.

Once you select the desired profile, you have the choice of selection as which cards / sections you wanted to show up on your Worker's profile and their order.

Where are the Id's getting generated in Workday

Where are the Id's getting generated in Workday

Ever wonder how the id's are getting generated when you create a new hire or a new position or a new job requisition or a new supervisory organization etc., Its from Edit Tenant Setup - HCM, with the help of ID Definition / Sequence Generator.

Use below tasks to access this.

Tasks: 

Edit Tenant Setup - HCM

• Edit ID Definition / Sequence Generator
• View ID Definition / Sequence Generator
• Create ID Definition / Sequence Generator

 

You can view the ID Definition / Sequence Generator for Applicant ID as a sample.

If you had ever worked on creating Sequence Generator in Integrations, you will make out easily that these are based out of Sequence Generators behind the scenes.

How to change Logos or Colors in WorkdayTenant?

Ever wonder if there is any possibility that we can change the colors or logos of the tenant that you are working.

Yes it is possible with the task Configure Tenant Branding.

The primary reason to change the Color of your tenant would be to differentiate the tenants (Production, Sandbox, Implementation, etc,.) as you know all the tenants including Production resembles same with respect to look and feel.

You can change the tenant colors which in deed will change the colors of the applications on the home dashboard.Changing these colors will change the color of your title bars and profile menus too.  It's not possible to change individual application/worklet colors.

Task: Configure Tenant Branding


To Change Branding Color


View Branding Logo

Branding banner View

Small Branding Banner View

Small Branding Logo View