Related Terms & Glossary: Absence Management

Related Terms & Glossary: Absence Management

Reported Time

A worker's time that has been entered, but has not had any time calculations applied.

Prospect

Someone you are interested in tracking who isn't associated with a specific job. You can use tags, prospect types, and prospect statuses to help track these individuals.

Leave of Absence Rule

A rule that defines worker eligibility for leaves of absence.

Linked Leave

A leave type that shares an entitlement with other leave types or time offs. Eligibility rules, validation rules, and supporting data reference the combined balance of the associated leave types and time offs. Also known as coordinated leaves and time off.

Multiplier-Based Coverage

Insurance coverage based on multiples of salary, such as 1x, 2x, or 3x salary.

Passive Event

Events that result from the passage of time rather than from a specific change to employee data.

Related Terms & Glossary: Integrations

Related Terms & Glossary: Integrations

Integration System

A tenanted definition of an integration between Workday and an external system based on a template that provides the methodology for communicating data.

Reference ID

A unique identifier used to look up data for integration purposes.

System User

An account associated with and required to launch a Connector or Studio integration. Workday delivered integrations and custom integrations require a system user account for authentication and web service calls. A system user account is not associated with a person in Workday.

Integration Template

A collection of integration services that enables communication between Workday and an external system. Workday provides integration templates in categories such as Benefits, Financials, HCM, Payroll, Payroll Interface, Procurement, Recruiting, Security, and Settlement. Many of the delivered templates contain default values for attributes, as well as prompt values for attributes and maps, to define the integration further.

Integration Event

The record of an integration process. Every integration—current or past, involving the import or export of data, successful or not—gets recorded as an integration event. The integration event contains all the information about the integration process, including its status.

Connector

A set of  one or more integration templates that provide a framework for building integrations in a particular functional area. The integration can support a specific type of data, or can support a specific endpoint ( vendor, legacy system, third party payroll )

Enterprise Interface Builder (EIB)

An integration tool that enables you to create simple, secure, and customizable integrations with Workday. Alternately, an EIB is a simple integration created by the integration tool. An EIB consists of an integration system, an integration data source, an integration transformation, and an integration transport protocol.

Integration Field Overrides

A service that lets you customize integration systems that are based on a connector template. Field overrides are managed through an integration service. They use calculated fields or report fields to supply values to an integration system. Example: member IDs in benefit provider integrations.

Integration Attribute

An integration component that specifies the tenanted value of a data element in Workday. Example: Master Policy Number is a type of attribute in benefit provider integrations.

Integration Data Source

Indicates the type of data that Workday receives from or exports to an external system and its location.

Workday Web Services

Workday’s public API. Based on open standards, Workday Web Services (WWS) provide the core method for integration with Workday.

Integration Map

An integration component that specifies how values in Workday map to values in an external system. Example: Pay Rate Frequency is a type of map in third-party payroll integrations.

Integration Service

A group of related integration attributes, maps, and XSLT that provides a framework to transform Workday data into the format required by an external system.

Integration Transformation

Converts data into a format that Workday or a receiving external system can understand. Workday provides some delivered transformations, and you can also create custom transformations.

Integration Transport Protocol

Controls how Workday exports data to an external endpoint or service or imports the data from an external endpoint or service. Workday supports several types of transport protocols, including email, FTP and SFTP, HTTP/SSL, Workday attachments, and Workday Web Services.

Workday Studio

An Eclipse-based development environment that enables you to build more complex integrations with Workday.

Business Process: Rescind vs Cancel

Rescind vs Cancel

Its very important to understand the difference between Rescind and Cancel with in Business Processes. At times you get confused as why you are not seeing Rescind option or Cancel option during or after completing the BP.

Rescind is like rolling back your BP.
- You will happen to see this 'Rescind' only when the process is in a status of "Successfully Completed"
- It completely reverses all changes made to Workday data.
- Can only be done by security groups with appropriate permission (Role: Business Process Administrator)

Cancel is like aborting the BP in the middle.
- You will happen to see this 'Cancel' only when the process is in status of "In Progress"
- It completely reverses all changes made to Workday data.
- Can be done by security groups with appropriate permission as well as worker who initiated the process.

Business Process: BP Step Types

Business Process Step Types

For better understanding on Business Process Step types, below shows the categorization of the same. 

User Input                     : Needs an input from the user (You see these typically in the inbox as tasks )

Approval                       : Needs approval from a specific security group (Manager, HR Partner, etc.)

Background Processing: These step types does not need any user intervention. Taken care by Workday.

Reporting: Manage and Create - Custom Reports

Manage and Create - Custom Reports

Workday delivers the below list of reports to help you create and manage custom reports. 

All Custom Reports
All Calculated Fields
Business Objects by Category
Business Object Details
Calculated Fields Defined
Custom Reports for Person
My Custom Reports with "Don’t Use" Items
Report Fields
Report Run History
View Business Form Layout
View Delivered Business Form Layout
View Indexed Fields for Data Source
Workday Data Dictionary
Workday Standard Reports

Security for custom reports : 

Manage: All Custom Reports  - View, Edit and Delete custom report

Data Translation - Translate custom report

Custom Report Administration - Transfer ownership of custom report

To provide users with view-only access to custom reports, use the Manage: All Custom Reports domain in the System functional area for permissions.