Workday Glossary
Core Information System Replacement
CISR – Workday Glossary
Find glossary terms and definitions for the CISR Core Information System Replacement project at Southern Oregon University.
Cross Applications
Apps: A combination of dashboards and worklets. You can take actions and view analytics and custom reports all within configured and pre-configured apps.
Approve (business process): Designated participants in a business process with a defined responsibility in this type of event to indicate that they approve the proposed action. (The business process can proceed to the next step.)
Business Object: A set of related fields, similar to how a table or spreadsheet is composed of a set of related columns. Instances of a business object in Workday are like rows in a table or spreadsheet, with each instance representing a unique occurrence of that type of object, such as an organization or worker. A business object can have no instances, one instance, or many instances. Workday automatically links related business objects together.
Ex. Purchase order lines are linked to a purchase order header; the purchase order header is linked to a supplier; the supplier is linked to a company, and so on.
Business Process Definition: The set of tasks that need to be completed for an event to occur, the order in which they must be done, and who must do them. Workday includes a number of pre-defined business processes for different purposes. You can edit the default definitions for your organization. You can also create different versions of the same business process for different organizations.
Business Process Instance: A business process that the initiator has started.
Ex. The Hire Employee for Organization X business process definition becomes an instance when the initiator uses it to hire a particular pre-hire.
Cancel (business process): An action you can take on a business process. This stops the workflow in progress and reverses any changes made to Workday data. It is also a securable action in a business process security policy. You may need further approvals to cancel a business process.
Contextual Custom Report: A custom report created to simplify the selection of data and fields by limiting choices to those related to the context of the object. You can create a custom report by selecting Reporting > Create Custom Report from Here from a Workday object’s Related Actions.
Correct (business process): An action you can take on a business process. Correcting a business process changes a specification or data in the workflow while in progress. It is also a securable action in a business process security policy.
Dashboard: Pre-configured worklets that are specific to a functional area, like Talent Management or Workforce Planning. Since these worklets are built with the Report Writer and report-specific calculated fields, you can copy and modify them if you have unique requirements. You can add additional custom worklets to these dashboards using the Report Writer. Alternatively dashboards are combined with worklets called “apps.”
Data Source: A particular set of business object instances for reporting purposes. A data source is similar to a database view, except it is more flexible in two key areas. First, a database view always returns a flattened out tabular data structure, whereas a data source can return hierarchical data structures. Second, a database view requires that technical staff manually join related tables together, while a data source automatically allows reportable access to all business objects related to those in the data source.
Delegation (business process): An action you can take in a business process if you have been assigned a task. You can request the task be delegated. Requesting a delegation change is a business process that may require approvals and may or may not be included in your organization’s configuration.
Deny (business process): An action you can take on a step within a business process. If denied, the business process can no longer proceed to the next step. In some cases, the entire business process may be terminated, and all Workday data restored to its state before the business process started. The ability to deny a business process may depend on your system permissions.
Drilldown: A feature to view more data in a matrix report. When you click on a drillable element (such as a drillable field in the table view or a column, line, or pie segment in the chart view), a context menu appears that enables you to select a new View By field. If the Enable Drilldown to Detail Data checkbox is selected on the Advanced tab of the report definition, you can also select details associated with the selected report element.
Event: A transaction that occurs within your organization, such as hiring or terminating a worker.
Field (reporting): Contains data related to a particular primary or related business object within Report Writer.
Approve (business process): Designated participants in a business process with a defined responsibility in this type of event to indicate that they approve the proposed action. (The business process can proceed to the next step.)
Filter: A clickable icon used to narrow down data. Clicking this icon will create a row on your report where you filter data to display from one or more columns.
Functional Area: Grouping of tasks, reports, and objects.
Ex. The HCM solution includes functional areas such as Benefits, Talent & Performance, Absence and Manager or Employee self-service. Each of the Workday solutions (like Workday HCM and Workday Financial Management) is grouped into distinct functional areas.
Home: Your default page containing applications, search, notifications, Inbox, and your profile icon main menu.
Initiator : The user that initiates the business process instance.
Initiation Step: The first step of a business process.
Instance: One unique occurrence of a business object.
Ex. Your executive management organization, or John Doe, the worker.
Matrix Report: A custom report forming the foundation for custom analytics. It summarizes data by one or two fields that contain repeating values. The resulting matrix is displayed as either a table or chart that users can drill through to see the associated details. You control the specific detail data users should see when they drill down by selecting the desired fields when defining the report. Matrix reports also provide features such as filtering, run time prompts, worklets, and report sharing.
Modify (permission): The permission to view and gain direct access to securable items through the Workday user interface. It includes view permission.
Reassign Task (business process): An action you can take on a business process where you can request for a task to be reassigned. This may require further approvals.
Related Business Object: A set of objects related to the primary business object defined in a report. These related objects might have their own set of fields that can be included in the report as well.
Ex. You create a report using employee as your business object. To find the total default annual compensation defined for an employee’s position, you need to access a related business object off of employee, which would be position.
Rescind (business process): An action you can take on a business process to completely reverse all changes made to Workday data in a completed business process. A task must be successfully completed to perform this action.
Security Group: A collection of users, or a collection of objects that are related to users. Allowing a security group access to a securable item in a security policy grants access to the users associated with the security group.
Target: The object on which a business process operates.
Ex. For business processes that involve a worker record, the target is the worker. For business processes that involve a financial object, such as an accounting journal, the accounting journal is the target. Since the target determines the organization, it controls which business process custom definition Workday will use.
Task: An action you must take in a business process, unless you reassign or delegate the task.
Ex. Notifcations or Inbox alerts are triggered by steps in a business process.
To-Dos: Reminders to do something outside of the Workday system. They can be part of business processes, and have to be marked complete before the workflow will go to the next step.
View (business process): A feature within a business process, enabling you to see its status and report on it. This is a securable item in a business process security policy.
Application: A compact report displayed as an icon on your Home page, providing easy access to tasks and information you use on a regular basis.
Ex. Applications include Pay, Personal Information, Benefits, and Expenses.
Worktag: Keywords assigned to transactions and supporting data to make their business purposes’ clear and establish common relationships through classification. You can use them to find information more easily, filter searches down to focused results, and analyze information in aggregated and summarized reporting by business dimension.
Financials
Company: Usually represents a legal entity, and is the primary entity for recorded business transactions and financial reports. A Workday company equates to a single tax ID within an enterprise. A company is a type of Workday organization.
Resource: Any item you want to track, from company vehicles to software licenses and access cards. For capital resources, you can capture the acquisition cost and record depreciation based on the depletion schedule attributes. You can also track resource custodianship.
Procurement: The act of gaining goods or services from an external source. Procure-to-pay functionality within Workday includes: spend for goods, services, contingent workers, and project-based services; managing supplier contracts, requisitions, purchase and change orders, receipts, goods and services sourcing, and requests for quotes; maintaining purchase items, catalogs, supplier links, and a supplier portal; configuring requisition access to spend categories, catalogs, and supplier links; tracking and analyzing time, activity, and spend; and creating receipt accruals for approved, un-invoiced receipts.
Goods: Tracks spend for physical objects, which can be expensed, capitalized, or issued to a worker.
Ex. Include office supplies, IT hardware and software, etc. Purchase orders for goods will display information related to a purchase item, including item description, unit of measurement, and unit price.
Services: Services procurement tracks spending for services that are cost-based and not based on quantity.
Ex. include:
– Maintenance
– Warranty services
Project-Based Services: Tracks spending for a project or task-oriented endeavor.
Ex. of project-based services include:
– Marketing campaign
– Landscaping project
Purchase orders for deliverable project-based services will display information related to a project including tasks and phases.
Search Catalog : A question or requirement that may result in unintended discrimination of persons along the lines of a protected trait.
Requisition: A catalog of available goods, as well as supplier catalog items. Organizations’ catalogs will vary.
Ad Hoc Requisition: Request a non-standard good not found in the catalog. If you do not know all of the details, the buyer can fill them in later when processing the requisition.
Requisition Templates: A collection of goods and services that make the requisition process simpler, faster, and more manageable. Can also control access to private, shared, and public templates.
Purchase Order: Commercial document and official offer from the buyer to seller. In Workday, you create or edit purchase orders before issuing them to suppliers. Purchase orders based on requisitions can be automatically created.
Spend Authorization: A budget of expenditures you plan to make for a future purpose. Your organization may require you to obtain pre-approval for anticipated expenditures before entering actual expenses in Workday. Spend authorizations act as a cost control or expense policy compliance tool. The process of creating a spend authorization is initiated by the worker, not the manager. Managers take actions on spend authorizations after they are submitted for approval.
Expense Reports: The output of money from an individual or group to pay for an item or services. You can create your own expense reports. You can also create them on behalf of other workers when delegated, or if you have security access to the Create Expense Report for Worker task.
Fiscal Year: A year period, without regard to the calendar year, where a company or government determines their fiscal condition. Fiscal years within Workday are created only within fiscal schedules. Each year within that schedule must share the same posting intervals – what differs is the end date from one year to the next.
Ex. In a 4-4-5 fiscal schedule, the end date of period 1 might be January 23 for fiscal year 2010 and January 25 for fiscal year 2011, but both years share January as period 1.
Supplier: A business entity from whom you purchase goods or services.
Supplier Request: A proposal made out to the source of goods or services that are requested. There is a supplier request business process available to those who have authorization. Once given, as the initiator, you are required to fill minimal information about the suppliers you wish to add, such as name and contact information.
Purchase Items: Goods and services that are not associated with a supplier or supplier contract. Create or edit each purchase item. They differ from supplier catalog items.
Purchase Item Groups: A way to organize goods and services not associated with a supplier or supplier contract. Purchase items can be grouped to facilitate searching, item selection, and reporting. An item might belong to more than one purchase item group.
Ex. A laptop could belong to both the “office supplies” and the “laptops and desktops” purchase item groups.
You can either assign purchase items to item groups or assign a group to an item when creating the item.
Supplier Groups: A way to organize suppliers of different goods and services into one or many groups that you find useful. Groups are a way to categorize suppliers for reporting and selection. They are also available for use in account posting rules, but not recommended as they are not required, and each supplier can have multiple groups.
Spend Categories: A way to organize, track, and report on business assets. All trackable items must have a spend category. It is likely that the business asset you want to track is already associated with a spend category. Spend categories are a prerequisite for capitalizing business assets and tracking custodianship. For capitalized business assets, make sure that the spend category has a depreciation profile associated with it.
A spend category is also used as a way to derive the correct ledger account to be used for the accounting journal. You can specify this in the posting rules for business assets.
Payroll
Additional Payment: An off-cycle payment made in addition to a worker’s scheduled on-cycle payment. You can process additional payments as part of a manual payment or on-demand payment.
Balance Period: The period of time, such as current period, month-to-date, quarter-to-quarter, or year-to-date, over which Workday calculates a pay component value.
Compensation Element: Smallest unit of compensation for a worker in a specific position. Workday uses compensation elements to determine the amount, currency, frequency, and other attributes of a worker’s compensation.
Ex. Base salary, bonus, benefits, commissions, allowances, etc.
Direct Deposit: A payment election. You can choose direct deposit as a payment type. If this is elected, any payment from the company will go directly to the bank account specified. You can set up your direct deposit to include several accounts and specify the percentage of payment that you would like to go into each account.
Manual Payment: An off-cycle calculation that records check or cash payments made outside Workday Payroll.
Off Cycle: A payment, such as a manual payment or on-demand payment, made outside the regularly scheduled payroll run. Reversals and history payments are also classified as off cycle. Off-cycle manual and on-demand payments enable you to issue additional or replacement payments.
On Cycle: A scheduled payroll run.
On-Demand Payment: An off-cycle payment that replaces, or is issued in addition to, a worker’s on-cycle pay.
Pay Component: An earning (such as base salary or bonus) or deduction (such as federal withholding taxes or medical) that applies to a worker’s gross-to-net pay calculation or tax liability.
Pay Component Group: A collection or combination of related earnings, deductions, or pay component-related calculations that are combined to simplify payroll calculations.
Ex. Employer-Paid Benefits, Pre-Tax Deductions, and Federal Taxable Wages.
Pay Group: A group of workers defined to have their pay calculated and processed together.
Pay Rate Type: Type of worker pay, such as a paid salary or a certain amount per unit of time.
Ex. Hourly or weekly.
Payment Elections: Designates the payment type (check or direct deposit), account information for direct deposits, payment order, and the distribution of balance for split payments. Controlled for each type of pay that you receive, such as regular payments and bonus payments.
Payslip: An online or printed summary of your gross-to-net earnings. Also referred to as a pay stub. Payslips can be found in the Pay application.
Period Schedule: When and how often to process payroll. Defines payment dates and forward accruals, using a Period Start Date, Period End Date, and Payroll Payment Date.
Proration: Creates subperiods when there is a mid-period change in the worker’s compensation. It can be based on calendar days or days worked (work shift).
Replacement Payment: An off-cycle payment that replaces a worker’s on-cycle payment in a period that is in progress or not yet started.
Subject Wages: All of your wages subject to a particular tax, including wages for exempt positions and those that exceed a wage cap.
Taxable Wages: All of your wages subject to a particular tax, excluding wages for exempt positions and those that exceed a wage cap.
Timesheets: Record work hours for submission, approval, and eventual payment through payroll, if enabled. (Often this is enabled via the Time Tracking application instead of Payroll.)
Withholding Elections: Income tax withheld from your salary based on a set of criteria. Includes federal, state, local elections, and tax allocations. From the Pay application, view withholding information on the State Elections tab to view or modify your federal elections.
Worker Eligibility: The conditions you must meet to be eligible to receive a particular earning or deduction.
Worker Tax Elections: Your marital status, number of elections, exemption status, and other information required for tax collections.
Recruiting
Interviewing
Adverse Impact: A question or requirement that may result in unintended discrimination of persons along the lines of a protected trait. Ex. A question asked on a requisition may inadvertently yield “yes” answers from all men and “no” answers from all women.
Behavioral Interview: Interviews that are based on the premise that a person’s past performance on a job is the best predictor of future performance.
Ex. Questions might include: “Tell me about a goal you reached and how you reached it.”
Case Interview: An interview in which the job applicant is given a question, situation, problem, or challenge and asked to resolve the situation.
Ex. Questions might include: “Two members of your team staffed on the same project are constantly fighting. How would you handle this situation?”
Competency: The ability of an individual to perform a task or do a job properly.
Criminal Check: An investigation of a candidate’s criminal history to assess the candidate’s trustworthiness and morality, often conducted by third-party vendors.
Data Confirmation: Corroboration of information provided on a resume.
Ex. Dates of employment, degrees earned, accomplishments, etc.
Drug Testing: A technical analysis of a candidate’s biological specimen (e.g., hair, sweat, urine) to determine the presence or absence of specified drugs. Often conducted by third-party vendors.
Panel Interview: A candidate is questioned by a team of people at the same time.
Pre-Hire: Used in staffing to identify individuals you are tracking before employment. Used in recruiting to identify candidates who are in the offer or background check stage.
Reference Check: Investigation that verifies dates of employment, title, and role; if the candidate is eligible for rehire; duties and responsibilities; etc.
Video Interview: A method of conducting a virtual interview with a candidate via video technology.
Other
eSignature: An electronic indication of intent to agree to approve the contents of a document.
Evergreen Requisition: A requisition for high-volume positions for which candidates are always needed.
Offer Letter: A job proposal to a candidate that includes such terms as the starting salary, benefits, dates, and times, etc.
Posting
Applicant Tracking System (ATS): A software application that enables the electronic handling of recruitment needs. An ATS can be implemented on a large-scale or small business level, depending on the needs of the company.
Job Posting Aggregator: Websites that match job seekers with job openings based on relevance, which is determined by their keyword searches.
Ex. Indeed.com, SimplyHired.com, GlassDoor.com
Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP): An agency with the U.S. Department of Labor that enforces the contractual promise of affirmative action and equal employment opportunity (EEO) required of those who do business with the federal government.
Post: To publish a job requisition to an internal or external website.
Search Engine Optimization (SEO): The process of affecting the visibility of a website or web page in a search engine’s search results.
Source of Hire: The job posting or recruiting effort that resulted in a hire. This information helps an organization focus on sources that yield higher rates of hire.
Ex. College recruiting, employee referral, external corporate website, etc.
Screening
Disqualification Questions: Questions to which certain answers are mandatory for job performance.
Ex. Asking an applicant if he or she is willing to travel for a traveling sales position.
Keyword Search: The most common and default type of searching by entering words or phrases relevant to your topic into the search box.
Ranking: Involves imposing relationships among a group of candidates such that for any two candidates, the first is ranked higher than, lower than, or equal to the second.
Sourcing
Candidate Funnel: The process of narrowing candidates through several different sources.
Ex. Elements such as resumes, phone screens, and interviews assist in the process of narrowing down candidates until you are left with a candidate to whom you can make an offer.
Candidate Relationship Management (CRM): Organizing, automating, and synchronizing the attraction, communication, and management of talent.
Ex. Maintaining communications and reaching out to those who may not be ready to submit a resume.
Passive Candidate: A qualified candidate for employment who is not necessarily looking for work but may be interested if the right job comes along.
Pipeline: A group of candidates that the company would be interested in pursuing when a job opens that fits their skillset.
Time Tracking
Auto-fill: A time-entry method that copies time blocks from a worker’s schedule, or from a previous week into the current week on the time entry calendar.
Micro-edit: The ability to edit existing time blocks or add time blocks directly to a day by double-clicking on the time entry calendar.
Quick Add: A time-entry method that enables you to create a time block and copy it to multiple days in a week.
Time Entry Calendar: A set of self-service pages that you use to enter, edit, and view time.
Time Entry Validation: Errors or warnings that prevent you from entering invalid time. Critical validations prevent you from submitting time. Warnings appear on the time entry calendar, but do not prevent you from submitting time.
Time Off: Reported time that is not worked. Common types of time off include sick leave, jury duty, and vacation.
Time Type: The time you enter in your time entry calendar. Select the time type from a list of time off plans available to you such as maternity, vacation, etc.
Miscellaneous
Acronyms
APG (Administrative Process Guide):
Why It Matters: A step-by-step job aid without screenshots.
When It Happens: Training and Post-go-live Stages
BP (Business Process):
Why It Matters: A business process in Workday is a set of tasks that people initiate, act upon, and complete in order to accomplish a desired business objective.
When It Happens: On-going
CRR (Customer Readiness Review):
Why It Matters: Allows customer to use their language in a structured setting to increase customer confidence and assess their go-live readiness.
When It Happens: Plan, Architect & Configure
Test, Deploy Stages
CCS (Customer Confirmation Session):
Why It Matters: Validate configuration, functionality and features based on decisions gathered in the Architect stage.
When It Happens:Configure & Prototype Stages; occurs more often in Workday Student (one per workset, up to four)
CMAP(Change Managerment Adoption Plan):
Why It Matters: Alchemy’s plan and tools to support customer through Workday-related institutional change.
When It Happens: Throughout the life of the Project
CTCT(Customer Testing & Configuration Tenant):
Why It Matters: Allows customer to validate initial configuration found in the Foundation tenant.
When It Happens: Between Worksets A and B
E2E(End-to-End Testing):
Why It Matters: Ensure the flow of end-to-end processes between multiple functions and 3rd party integrations
When It Happens: Test Stage
EIB(Enterprise Interface Builder):
Why It Matters: Integration tool that enables simple inbound and outbound integrations between Workday and external endpoints. Does not require programming.
When It Happens: As needed
ESC(Executive Steering Committee):
Why It Matters: Top level of decision-making and escalation for the Project. Comprised of customer and Alchemy employees.
When It Happens: Throughout the life of the Project
ESS(Employee Self-Service):
Why It Matters: Employee access to Workday functions via pre-determined worklets on their personal homepage.
When It Happens: On-going
FAS(Foundation Alignment Sessions):
Why It Matters: Introduction of Foundation Tenant to the customer.
When It Happens: Architect & Configure Stage
FDM(Foundation Data Model):
Why It Matters: Purpose to capture customer-sprecific data for alignment sessions, ensure data integrity, identify reporting dimensions, and create flexibility through use of multiple worktags.
When It Happens: Primarily in Plan, with decreasing presence through Architect, Configure & Prototype, and Deploy Stages
FIN(Financials):
Why It Matters: With HCM and PATTS, Workday Platform
When It Happens: (not applicable)
HCM(Human Capital Management):
Why It Matters: With FIN and PATTS, Workday Platform
When It Happens: (not applicable)
MSS(Manager Self-Service):
Why It Matters: Manager access to Workday self-service tasks and reports via pre-determined worklets on their personal homepage.
When It Happens: On-going
MTP(Move to Production):
Why It Matters: Point(s) in the Implementation when tested functionality is added to the Production tenant.
When It Happens: MTP-1 (about 12 months into implementation) and MTP-2 (about 17 months into implementation) are sometimes combined just before go-live
PATTS(Payroll, Absence, Time Tracking and Scheduling):
Why It Matters:With FIN and HCM, Workday Platform
When It Happens: (not applicable)
PP&A (Pre-Planning and Alignment):
Why It Matters: Preparatory meetings held to accelerate the implementation process.
When It Happens: Prior to the Plan Stage
QRG (Quick Reference Guide):
Why It Matters: A step-by-step job aid with related screenshots created by both customer and Alchemy CM lead.
When It Happens: Some ready for UAT/URR
SME(Subject Matter Expert):
Why It Matters: A person who has a deep understanding of a topic based upon experience and education.
When It Happens: (not applicable)
SOR (System of Record):
Why It Matters: A data management term for an information storage system that is the authorative data source.
When It Happens: (not applicable)
SME(Subject Matter Expert):
Why It Matters: A person who has a deep understanding of a topic based upon experience and education.
When It Happens: (not applicable)
SOW (Statement of Work):
Why It Matters: Legally binding document that captures and defines all project management work.
When It Happens: Once customer selects Workday and Alchemy
TCU (Transaction Catch-up):
Why It Matters: Method by which the production tenant is updated to account for transactions that have happened since the freeze date.
When It Happens: End of Deploy
UAT (User Acceptance Testing):
Why It Matters: Customer performs a series of guided tests to ensure configured product meets their needs.
Term commonly used within industry.
When It Happens: End of E2E testing, just before Deploy
SOW (Statement of Work):
Why It Matters: Legally binding document that captures and defines all project management work.
When It Happens: Once customer selects Workday and Alchemy
URR (Statement of Work):
Why It Matters: Determines if end-user can and is ready to use Workday.
Term Workday uses for UAT.
When It Happens: End of E2E testing, just before Deploy
HCM & Navigate
Application
Absence: An application linking you to common actions and views related to time off, including time off correction, leave of absence, view your time off, and time off balance.
Benefits: An application linking you to common actions and views related to benefits, including change benefits, beneficiaries, and dependents. View your benefit elections and current benefits cost.
Career: An application linking you to common actions and views related to your career, including refer candidates and view your certifications, education, languages, job history, and awards.
Compensation: An application linking you to common actions and views related to compensation including comparing a direct report’s pay and salary range to others on the team. Use this application to request one-time payments, stock grants, and compensation changes for your team, and to view their compensation history.
Dashboards: An application containing key management reports and actions.
Directory: An application linking you to common actions and views related to your organization’s directory. You can view a list of your coworkers and see information about other workers in the company, including their work addresses and phone numbers. You can also view your organizational chart, your management chain, and organizations to which you belong.
Expenses: An application linking you to common actions and views related to expenses, including creating and editing expense reports and viewing expense policies, reports, transactions, payment elections, and recent expenses.
Favorites: An application containing favorite reports and tasks for easy access.
My Team: An application linking you to common actions and views related to your team including viewing your direct reports and their employment information. Transfer, promote, or change the job of a direct report.
Pay: An application linking you to common actions and views related to your pay. You can use this application to access withholding elections and payment elections and to view payslips, total compensation, bonus and one-time payment history, tax documents, and allowance plans.
Performance: An application linking you to common actions and views related to performance, including viewing goals, reviews, feedback received, and skills.
Personal Information: An application linking you to common actions and views related to your pay. You can use this application to access withholding elections and payment elections and to view payslips, total compensation, bonus and one-time payment history, tax documents, and allowance plans.
Recruiting: An application linking you to common recruiting actions and views, and a list of recent requisitions. Depending on your role, you can find candidates, invite candidates to apply, create a job application on behalf of an individual, open your job requisitions, search for requisitions by their status, or search all requisitions by name and search for referrals.
Spend Management: An application linking you to common actions and views related to spend management, including viewing your team’s total spending and its details and viewing team members’ expense reports.
Talent: An application linking you to common actions and views related to talent, including managing a succession plan, assessing potential, and giving and getting feedback, and viewing a talent snapshot.
Team Time Off: An application linking you to common actions and views related to your team’s time off, including managing your direct report’s time off requests, correcting time off requests, and placing employees on leave.
Time: An application linking you to common actions and views related to your time, including entering your time and viewing your time off balance.
Learning: An application linking you to courses that you can enroll in, such as learn in person or on-demand courses.
Application Header
Main Menu: The main menu displayed on the home page that displays your profile photo with a blue icon for pending notifications and a red count badge for Inbox items, and these menu options:
• View Profile – displays your worker profile.
• Home – displays the Home landing page.
• Sitemap – This allows you to view your available reports and tasks.
• Favorites – a configurable list of favorite tasks, reports, business objects, and custom and shared custom reports available to you, sorted by category (secured to the Favorites domain in the System functional area). Use the Manage Favorites task to configure this list.
• My Reports – a virtual drive where you can store generated reports (secured to the W: Drive domain in the System functional area). This is not a mapped drive on your computer.
• Documentation – links to the Workday Documentation on Workday Community, secured to the Workday Documentation Link domain in the System functional area. Not recommended for self-service users.
• Help – An example of a document your company can use to display FAQs and helpful tips for navigating your company’s Workday system.
• My Account – provides access to these account management tasks:
– Change Password
– Change Preferences
– Manage Password Challenge Questions (if enabled)
– View Signon History
• Recovery Assistant – This allows the recovery of interim transactions that were lost due to a time-out or loss of connection.
• Sign Out
Inbox: Displays a count for your action items and takes you to your Inbox.
Notifications: Displays a count for your new notifications and takes you to your Notifications page.
Search: A field on the home page that enables you to find tasks, reports, and people within your organization. Search allows you to narrow results by categories including common, organizations, and all of Workday. Search also allows you to filter results by specified criteria.
For example, if you select the Find Jobs task, you can sort results by organization, location, worker type, etc.
Workday Logo: Displays your Home page. This icon can also be used to navigate back to your home page.
HCM Terminology
Benefit Event: An event that gives you the opportunity to change your benefit elections. These include staffing changes (such as getting hired or promoted) and life events (such as getting married or having a child).
Business Process : A business process in Workday includes tasks that you can initiate, act on, and complete in order to accomplish a desired business objective. Business processes are created using a combination of actions, approvals, approval chains, To Dos, or checklists. An action can be a single task or subprocess, which is also a combination of actions, to dos, or checklists. Within the process, conditions can be defined to identify whether a step will be initiated. Notifications can also be created to let a Workday user know that a step has begun or been completed, or that a particular review response was selected.
Examples of business processes include Hire, Change Job, Request Compensation Change, Terminate Employee, etc.
Contingent Worker: A worker who is not an employee. You can use contingent worker types, such as contractor or consultant, to categorize and track contingent workers in your organization.
Full Time Equivalent (FTE) %: The ratio of a worker’s scheduled weekly hours to the weekly hours for the business site. If a worker works 20 hours a week, and the business site weekly hours are 40, then the worker’s FTE is 50 percent.
Functional Area: A collection of domain or business process security policies that are related to the same set of product features, for example, benefits or compensation.
I-9: An employment eligibility verification. A document all workers must complete to verify the identity and employment authorization of each employee.
Life Event: A benefit event that occurs in your personal life, such as getting married or having a child.
Open Enrollment Event: A type of enrollment event. This event controls the benefits open enrollment process. Unlike benefit event enrollment, which is triggered by a life event or job change, an open enrollment event applies to an entire employee population.
Performance Review Process: A process where you receive formal feedback on your performance during a given period of time. This process includes a performance evaluation.
Pre-Hire: In staffing, an individual you are tracking before employment. In recruiting, a candidate who is in the offer or background check stage.
Staffing Event: Any event that changes your position or job, such as a hire, transfer, or promotion. Staffing events usually trigger an opportunity to edit or modify benefit elections.
Supervisory Organization: Supervisory organizations group workers into a management hierarchy and are the primary organization type in Workday HCM. All workers are hired into supervisory organizations. Organization assignments such as company, cost center, and region can be configured for supervisory organizations, and unique business processes can be configured for them as well.
Talent Reviews: A process in Workday that enables you to gather, evaluate, and report on a range of employee talent information such as skills and experience, performance and potential, career interests, and mobility preferences. The configuration of the talent review template, the Talent Review business process, and your security determine which actions employees and managers take during a talent review.
W-4: Your withholding allowance certificate. This will inform an employer how much income tax to withhold from your paycheck.
Worker: An employee or a contingent worker.
Task Page Icons
Actions and View : Buttons for commonly grouped tasks and reports. Accessed through worklets.
Add Button: A clickable button that lets you add additional information to any task.
Add Row Icon: A clickable icon to add a row to the current grid.
Alert Message: Soft warning message that alerts you about system limitations based on configuration. This message enables you to continue your work without resolving the issue.
Arrow: A clickable icon that opens the page to additional areas that can be edited. Also referred to as the More icon.
Attachments Icon: A clickable icon that lets you attach .pdf files, Word, and Excel documents to a task.
Back Button: A clickable button that returns you to the previous page.
Calendar: A clickable icon that opens a calendar to select a date.
Cancel Button: A button that disregards a change.
Change Payslip Printing Election Button: A clickable button from the Pay application, where you can change your payslip printing election.
Chart: A clickable icon used to view a report as a chart.
Comments Icon: A clickable icon you can use to leave comments for yourself or other users for a particular page or task.
Configure Worklets: A clickable icon on the home page where you can configure the worklets that appear on your home page. Depending on your organization’s configuration, some worklets may be required, while others are optional. This icon can also be used as a Settings icon.
Continue Button: A clickable button that advances you to the next page or the next step in your task’s process.
Delete Row:A clickable icon that removes the current row from a grid.
Details: A clickable icon that opens additional information relating to your task.
Done Button: A button that closes a confirmation screen.
Edit Button: A clickable button from the Payment Elections in the Pay application that you can use to change your account information.
Edit Icon: A clickable icon that enables the user to add and remove information on the page.
Error Message: Hard warning message that alerts you when there is a critical error. An error must be corrected to move forward in a process or to enable your configuration.
Excel : A clickable icon used to view a page as an Excel file. This can be restricted using the domain Export to PDF and Excel.
Filter: A clickable icon used to narrow down data. Clicking this icon will create a row on your report where you can filter data to display from one or more columns.
Go to Guided Editor: Walks you through the fields and sections of a task to assist you in completing it.
Guide Me Button: Guides you through the fields and sections of a task toward completion.
Location, Phone, Email Icons:Located in the Worker Profiles. Location is location of the worker, email is the email address of the worker, and phone is the phone number the worker has on file.
More Button: A button that displays several additional choices based on the business process.
My Account Preferences: Account information located in your main menu. Allows you to alter certain account information such as changing your password, changing your preferences, and managing your password questions.
Next Button: A clickable button that advances you to the next page or the next step in your task’s process.
More Button: A button that displays several additional choices based on the business process.
OK Button:A clickable button to accept and save your changes.
Open Button: A clickable button to open the desired task.
Progress Bar: The bar tracks your progress working through a task. It also allows you to move forward or return to a previous page within the task.
Prompt: A clickable icon that presents a list of options for a specific field.
Related Actions: A clickable icon that enables the user to perform additional actions for an object. Possible actions include viewing your current benefit elections, editing your contact information, and requesting time off.
Remove Button: A clickable icon that deletes an area.
Request Absence Button: A clickable button to request absence from the Request Absence worklet.
Required Field Indicator: A field with a red asterisk indicates you must enter a value for this field before saving or submitting the page.
Save Button: A clickable button to save the item you are working on.
Save for Later Button: A button that saves the item in your Inbox until action is taken.
Sign Out Button: A clickable button to sign out of the Workday system.
Submit Button: A clickable button to accept and submit your changes, while advancing the business process to the next step.
Tag: A clickable icon to insert a CRF into notications, emails, and other communications.
View Printable Version PDF: A clickable icon used to view a page as a printable PDF file. This can be restricted using the domain, Export to PDF and Excel.
View Team:A clickable icon that links directly to an organized chart of your team and organization. Can be accessed from the Worker Profile.
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