Tuesday, June 23

Business Processes: Mass Cancel To Dos

To Do's


To Do's are typically used in the Business Processes. Also used in Checklist, again with in Business Processes.

To Do's won't have much priority when you compare with other BP Step types, so users comfortably skip them if they were optional.

The task Mass Cancel To Dos helps in canceling the To Dos which you don't want to visit anymore and complete them and which have been long pending.






















Select the To Do events and cancel.


Other Tasks and Reports related to To Dos that you can check out:

To Dos
Maintain To Dos

Create To Do is the task that you see in the Business Process Step Type - To Do.

Monday, June 22

Workday 2020 R1: Highlights

Highlights of Workday 2020 R1 (Released in March 2020)


Workday Assistant (Chat Bot) - Innovation Services

Natural Workspaces - 
  • Workday for Microsoft Teams
  • Workday for Slack
Voice on Mobile For Workday Assistant

REST API Update

Integration Enhancements 

Security and Data Privacy Updates

Active Dashboards

 Data-as-a-Service Bench-marking
  • Compensation
  • Absence and Time
  • U.S. Veteran Benchmark
Prism Analytics

Worker Hiring Enhancements etc.,

Sunday, June 21

Tasks & Reports: Compensation

Compensation Tasks and Reports

Here are some of the commonly used Compensation related Tasks and Reports:

Compensation Eligibility Rules
View Compensation Eligibility Rule (also Create, Edit)

Create Compensation Grade (Edit)
Edit Compensation Grade Profile (View)

Compensation Package
Compensation Packages
Create Compensation Package (Edit)

Create Hourly Plan
Create One-Time Payment Plan
Create Salary Plan
Create Allowance Plan
Create Commission Plan

Compensation Steps
Compensation Rule Assignment
Employee Compensation Audit
Compensation Spreadsheet
Compensation Changes Report

Maintain Compensation Elements
Compensation Elements
Maintain Compensation Element Groups
Compensation Element Groups

Total Compensation
Total Compensation Template Audit
Compensation Summary
Employee Compensation Details by Job Profile
In Progress Compensation Changes
Out of Order Compensation Changes

Saturday, June 20

General: How to maintain URLs within Workday

QuickLinks / URLs in Workday


Workday offers you to store urls and use it else where for references of some websites, documentation or help books for your organization. These urls could be internal or external.

Use the task Maintain Quicklinks to edit existing delivered URL's or add a new URL on need basis. Here you can see a  (-) on the first column which represents it was added by someone like you, and if it is blank it represents Workday delivered. You can still change or edit the url's delivered by Workday.

URL is Often called as Quicklink in Workday.


You have an option to restrict based on a Condition Rule. For example you wanted the URLs to be visible only for certain group of Employees in your organization you can set it up here using Condition Rule.

You can group your URL's like Benefit Related, Payroll Related, Workday Related etc.. And those groups will automatically show up in the Maintain Quicklinks task (Last Column).

Use the below Tasks to maintain the Quicklink Groups.

Create Quicklink Group
Delete Quicklink Group
Edit Quicklink Group

Use the below Reports related to Quicklinks

View Quicklinks 
View Quicklink Group

To report URL's use Quicklink Assignment as Primary Business Object with Quicklinks as Datasource. Other related BO's are Quicklink Group, Quicklink Item.

Friday, June 12

Integrations: Integration System User (ISU)

7 Steps to create and Assign ISU to the Integrations


Integration Security Users also popularly known as ISU are used to assign the integration Worker Account. (It is created in majority of the cases for your vendors / third party systems)

Here are the 7 Steps to Create and Assign your ISU's to the Integrations.

1. Create Integration System User (ISU)

2. Create Security Group - Integration System Security Group (ISSG)

3. Assign the Integration System User to Security Group ( ISU --> ISSG )

4. Find out the list of all domains required for the particular template in WD Community 

5. Assign Newly created security group to all the domains (ISSG --> Domains)

6. Activate pending security policy Changes

7. Assign the Integration System User to the Integration - (Related actions > Workday Account > Assign ISU)