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.

Compare Workers / Compare Team

Compare Workers

Use the standard report Compare Workers to compare workers in the tenant. This helps in finding more than one employee's information at the same time side by side and take an informed decision. This allows you to compare a Contingent Worker along with the Worker.

Also there is another standard report by the name - Compare Team which helps in comparing the Workers in a given team.  This won't let you compare your workers along with the Contingent Workers.

Use the Report - Compare Talent by Organization to identify the right talent.

Packaged Connectors - Special Character Translations

Perform Character Translation

There are chances where your end-point would not be expecting any special characters in the output file that you send to them. When you are working on a Packaged Connector / Core Connector look out for the Integration attribute - Perform Character Translation, and check the check box, which will automatically take care of the translations in your file.

Any of the below special characters you may typically see from Name or an Address field.

Special Characters: 'àâäèéêëîïôœùûüÿÀÁÂÄÈÉÊËÎÏÔŒÙÛÜŸçÇáéíóúÁÉÍÓÚäöüÄÖÜßàèéìòóùÀÈÉÌÒÓÙáéíóúüÁÉÍÓÚÜñÑ¿¡
Translated Characters: aaaeeeeiioeuuuYAAAAEEEEIIOEUUUYCCaeiouAEIOUaouAOUBaeeioouAEEIOOUaeiouuAEIOUUnN?1

Navigation: Go to your Integration >> Related Actions >> Integration System >> Configure Integration Attributes

How to Test your Workday Integration Connection / Delivery Method?

Test Transport

Its always a good practice to test your transport (Delivery) before Launching the integration, this way you know whether your credentials say SFTP / FTP related are working fine or not. This can be for any type of integrations. 

If there is any challenges in the details that you had setup in the delivery method of your integrations you can always reconfirm with your end-point and fix it.

Here is an example of one Integration System as how to navigate and test.

Navigation: Go to your Integration System >> Related Actions >> Integration >> Test Transport

Pick up the required action that you want to perform during the test. Here you can see the selection Connect.

Once you click OK in above screen it tests the delivery method and gives you the response, it could be Completed or it may error if it could not connect.

Tip - Re Launch EIB or Core Connector or Studio Integration

Re-Launch Integration Event

While you launch your integration depending on the type say it EIB or a Core Connector, many a times you may need to provide the required / optional Launch Parameters. For one time it will be fine but during the testing you may want to repeatedly run your Integration with same or a different parameters. In that cases, instead of just launching the integration you may use the Relaunch Integration Event. 

This will populate the same integration event related parameters which you used in the last run. According to your need, you may change and quickly launch it.

So make use of Relaunch Integration to launch your integration to auto fill your launch parameters.

Access the task Integration Events and key in your integration name and hit enter to see the below screen. Go to the Integration Event related actions and then Relaunch Integration Event task. This will take you to the next screen.

Below shows the example of a Core Connector.

On this screen below, you can edit your launch Parameters according to your current need and Launch.