Thursday, September 3

Security Related Tasks and Reports

Security Tasks and Reports

View Security Groups for User 

Lists all the security groups on a given Workday account. The user’s access is a union across all the security group permissions.

Security Analysis for Workday Account

Provides a comprehensive view of a user’s access given all their security group permissions. 

View Security Group 

Shows details of a security group, including the description, type, and the domain and/or business process security policies that the security group has permissions to.

Action Summary for Security Group

Lists the domain and business process security policies the security group has permission to and details about each security policy. 

View Security for Securable Item 

Shows which domain or business process security policy provides access to a given securable item.

My Leadership Roles 

Displays any leadership roles to which your position is assigned. (You are also displayed on the organization chart as the leader of any organization(s) to which your position has a leadership role.)

My Supporting Roles

Displays any supporting roles to which your position is assigned. 

Role Assignments for Worker Position 

Displays an overview of assignable roles, security group membership, and access rights for the specified worker. The role information includes whether the role is inherited or directly assigned, and whether the role is active or inactive. You can limit results to specific roles as well as filter out inactive organizations and inherited role assignments.

Role Assignment Permissions

Displays the security group whose members can administer each role. Enables you to view or edit what security groups are allowed to assign workers to each assignable role. 

Roles for Organization and Subordinates 

Displays the organization hierarchy of subordinate organizations. Enables you to click on an organization in the hierarchy to see all the assignable roles, the worker in each, and whether they fill that role by assignment.

Unassigned Roles Audit

Displays roles for which no positions are assigned. Details include the organization type, unassigned roles, and the minimum roles to assign to each role. 

Unfilled Assigned Roles Audit 

Displays roles assigned to unfilled position(s). Enables you to include or exclude inactive roles in the results.

View Assignable Roles

Displays an overview of all assignable roles, including: the types of organizations for which each role is enabled; the default role, if any; and whether it is restricted to single assignment, hidden if not assigned, or a leadership role. You can also see which security groups are allowed to assign specific roles. This report also includes security group and access right information associated with each role. 

Worker Roles Audits 

Displays the workers in a specified organization and any assignable roles, user-or job-based security groups, or process-maintained roles to which they belong.

Wednesday, September 2

Security Related Question and Answers

Security Related Question and Answers


Below Q & A gives you a better deal to understand which task or report to use based on the scenario.

What can a security group do? What does it have access to? 
View Security Group 
Security Analysis for Security Group 
Action Summary for Security Group

How can I tell what security policy to update for a given item?
View Security for Securable Item 

How can I tell what security groups a user has? 
View Security Groups for User

How can I compare access between users?
Compare Security of Workday Accounts 

How can I compare security groups? 
Security Analysis for Security Groups

Who are the members of a security group?
If user-based, use View Security Group.
If not, write a custom report (PBO: Security Group, Report Field: Members).

How can I find out if a user is a member of a given security group? 
Test Security Group Membership

How can I tell if a user has access to a given target using a given security group?
Test Security Group Membership 

How did this user get to this task or item? What security group allowed it? 
Security Analysis for Action

Given a user’s security groups, what is their cumulative access in tenant?
Security Analysis for Workday Account 

How do I add or remove a security group from multiple domain security policies at once?
Maintain Permissions for Security Group

How can I tell who has access to a given task or item?
View Security for Securable Item

How can I see all the roles that are defined in tenant? 
View Assignable Roles

What if I need to add new roles?
Maintain Assignable Roles

How can I tell what roles are unassigned? 
Unassigned Organization Roles Audit 
Unassigned Roles Audit 
Unfilled Assigned Roles Audit

How can I tell what role assignments exist for a given worker?
Role Assignments for Worker Position 

How can I tell what role assignments exist for a given organization? 
Roles for Organization and Subordinates 
Worker Roles Audit

How can I tell which security groups are allowed to assign workers to each role?
Role Assignment Permissions

How can I see all the domains and business processes available for a given functional area? 
Functional Areas

How can I see the current security configuration for a given functional area?
Domain Security Policies for Functional Area
Business Process Security Policies for Functional Area 

How can I see all the security groups in the tenant? 
View Security Group

How can I see a full list of reports around security?
Run Workday Standard Reports for security-related categories. You can also write custom reports using security-related data sources.

How can I see an audit trail of changes to security policies? Who did what, and when? 
Domain Security Policy History 
Business Process Security Policy History 
Domain Security Policies Changed within Time Range 
Business Process Security Policies Changed within Time Range 
Audit Trial - Security

How can I audit a given Workday Account?
View User or Task or Object Audit Trail

How can I audit what a user viewed or changed? 
View User Activity

How can I see a history of security changes for either an organization (e.g., role assignments) or for a worker?
Security History
Security History for User

How can I activate changes to security policies? 
Activate Pending Security Policy Changes

Can I select which pending security policies to activate?
No – The Activate Security Policy Changes task will activate all pending security policy changes in the tenant since the last activation. 

If there is more than one person making security policy changes in the tenant, when one person activates pending security policy changes will it only activate that person’s changes? 
No – the Activate Security Policy Changes task will activate all pending security policy changes in the tenant since the last activation, regardless of who made the change.

How can I see what security policy edits are pending activation?
Domain Security Policies with Pending Changes
Business Process Security Policies with Pending Changes 

How can I revert back to a previous security configuration in the tenant? 
Activate Previous Security Timestamp

When I activate a previous timestamp, do my changes since that timestamp get removed or deleted?
No – your changes will still be there but instead in a pending state. You must edit the security policy manually to correct or remove the changes. 

How can I see how many times security has been activated in tenant? 
View All Security Timestamps

How can I see if there are issues with the security configuration?
Security Exception Audit

Wednesday, August 12

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.

Tuesday, August 11

News: Workday Rising 2020 Cancelled

Workday Rising


Workday Rising is an annual event conducted by workday for an educational, networking, and inspirational experience.

It was communicated by Workday earlier that this year 2020 Workday Rising would be moving to a global digital experience in order to protect the safety and well-being of Workday Community in the tough times of COVID19.
However, Workday withdrew the thought of planning the Workday Rising digital experience too for 2020. Hence it is officially Cancelled

Instead of Workday Rising, in the month of  October 2020 there will be a planned digital event - Conversations for a Changing World

The next anticipated Workday Rising will be in 2021 at Las Vegas and Stockholm 


A  typical Workday Rising will have

Kickoff Keynote
Workday Executive Keynote
Workday Customer Keynote
Business Leader Forums

👉 Workday Rising

Monday, August 10

2020 Release 2 In Preview Tenants

 2020 R2 - Available In Preview Tenants

With around 300 new or enhanced features Workday geared up for the new 2020 Release 2. As you all know we have two releases every year, its the version change (upgrade) of Workday in the second half of this year too. This is the second release in this year, the last one was in the month of March 2020 [2020 R1].

The preview tenants will get the version change one month prior to the release in Production. On the 8th of August 2020 we got the Preview tenants (Sandbox Preview and Implementation Preview) upgraded with the latest version i.e. 2020 R2

Here are some details regarding the Release. 

Aug  8,  2020 - Features available for Preview (Sandbox Preview, Implementation Preview)
Sep 12,  2020 - 2020 R2 available in all tenants (PROD, Sandbox, Implementation also)

Workday Data Centers - Workday Tenants















Here are the Sandbox Preview URLs that you can pick to login according to your organizations data centers.. Make sure you give your tenant name:

Atlanta:   impl.workday.com/<tenantname_preview>/login.htmld

Portland: wd5-impl.workday.com/<tenantname_preview>/login.htmld

WD3:       wd3-impl.workday.com/ <tenantname_preview> /login.htmld

WD10:     impl.wd10.myworkday.com/ <tenantname_preview> /login.htmld

WD12:     impl.wd12.myworkday.com/ <tenantname_preview> /login.htmld

WD102:   impl.wd102.myworkday.com/<tenantname_preview>/login.htmld

Access  the below Standard reports to see the new features and enhancements.

What's new in Workday

What's new in Last 7 days

What's new in Last 6 Months

What's new in Workday Data Sources

What's new in Workday Report Fields

What's new in Workday Reports