Workday Community - Floyd Walterhouse

 Floyd Walterhouse

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Floyd Walterhouse is a very familiar name in the Workday Community. He is a super star in Workday Community. Those who login to the community would have at least once benefited by his solutions or ideas.

I am not exaggerating,  he knows stuff more than any Workday resource out there.

Currently he works with McKee Foods Corporation. And is a member of Workday Community for the past 13 years.

He is the first ever Workday Community member to achieve 50,000 reputation points , currently with 68k points. With his contributions, innovative brainstorm ideas, and member support over the years he gained a great respect in the community.

Looking at his activity, he certainly spends some time on Community every single day! It could be helping others, posting an innovative brainstorm idea or suggesting best practices and much more. 

These are his beautiful words form his Bio:

"Spend very little time complaining about today. Use the challenges of today to inform discussions of how to improve in the future.

Spend most of your time trying to help shape the future, but remember that it takes all of us working together to do that."

Delegation (Switch Account) vs Proxy

Delegation (Switch Account) vs Proxy

This one of the questions asked in the interviews. We all know what Proxy is right! Here a refresher if you are new to this concept.

What is Proxy?

The authority to represent someone else. For example if your Manager went on leave for 10 days, and there are multiple approvals pending on his/her side which are very important or urgent. In an ideal scenario your manager can delegate his/her work items to one of his peer or manager, so that they can complete the tasks on this behalf. This is called as delegation, which usually happens in the Production tenants.

What is Delegation?

Delegation is the assignment of any responsibility or authority to another person (normally from a manager to a subordinate) to carry out specific activities. Here in Workday, we can say that Tasks and Reports and inbox items can be delegated to other peers or managers to be completed on their behalf.

This Delegation is majorly used when a manager is on Leave and certain task needs to be completed, the Manager can delegate his tasks to someone else who can complete in his absence. And this is used in Production Tenants.

When you have delegations. you will see switch account. In the below example, Logan McNeil is able to see Joy Banks account to switch where in the delegations of Joy Banks some of the tasks or initiate items are delegated to Logan McNeil.

Mass Advance Business Process

 Mass Advance Business Process

As the task name suggests, it is used to advance any bulk / individual Business Processes. You can advance one BP type at a time. Not multiple BP's

Remember that not every Business Process can be advanceable. 

For example: You may use it for Time Entry, Performance Review, Talent Review, Time Off, Change Job etc.,

Once you key in the parameters based on what you wanted to see in the results. Date range can not be more than 180 days. Most widely used filters are by Assigned To and About Workers.

NSC Tenant Management View

 Tenant Management

Not every one will have the access to the Customer Central. Here is the view of how a NSC would create Tenant request and what options are available to request.

Any request related to refresh, exemption, renew, Implementer access etc. will be taken care here.

How many Exemptions are allowed on Sandbox?

Sandbox Refresh Exemptions

Workday allows up to two consecutive exemptions for refreshing Sandbox. 

What is Refresh Exemption ?

    Requesting a Sandbox Refresh Exemption simply means that the data and configurations aren't refreshed from Production that week.   

Where can we request the exemption ?

    Workday Customer Central. Navigation:

        Tenant Management > Create Tenant Request

Who can request for the exemption ?

    Exemptions can be requested by your organization's NSC (Named support contact) [usually the owners of the product in your organization] 

Points to Ponder:

• Every week Friday PST evening there will be a scheduled refresh activity in Sandbox. i.e. PROD data will be copied to SBX.
• You can't request a Sandbox refresh exemption prior to the Feature Release.
• Ad hoc Sandbox tenant refresh requests outside of our Weekly Service Update are not entertained.