Introduction

Cloud

No relational database

Workday
Architecture
Tenants (SB, Preview, PROD
and GMS)

Workday Community
Workday HCM
Workday Integrations
WORKDAY HCM
 • Supervisory Organizations: The foundation of
Workday HCM. This type of organization groups
workers into a management hierarchy

• Staffing Models: Defines how jobs and positions

are created and filled in a supervisory organization

• Job Profiles: Defines generic features and

characteristics of a job and of a position that is built

Core off that profile

• Compensation: The umbrella term for

Concepts compensation packages, grades, grade profiles and
plans.

• Security: A security group is 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.

• Business Processes: A sequence of one or more

tasks that accomplishes a desired business
 Members: Who
are in the
Organization

Staffing: Who
we want in the
Supervisory Organization
Organization
Roles: Who can
support the
Organization
• Assignable roles are assigned to Positions not to the worker directly
• Manager is an important role (Security group)
• You can have multiple Managers for a Sup org
• Manager never sits in the Org that they support, but in the superior
org one level above
• The only exception is the top level org (C.E.O)
Supervisory Organization
Staffing Models
Security
 Tasks

Approvals

Workflow
Business What, When and Who
Process
Hire BP
• Who Initiates – HR Partner
• On boarding – Employee
• Propose comp – Comp Partner
• Background check – HR Admin
ORGANIZATIONS
Organizations
 • HR • Hierarchy
Organizations • Supervisory • Company
• Matrix Hierarchy
• Retiree • Cost Center
• Costing Hierarchy
• Company • Location
Hierarchy
• Cost center
• Region
• Location
Hierarchy
• Region • Custom
• Pay • Union etc
• Pay Group
 Location

Physical Location

Business Site

Workspace

Campus
 Heart of Financial System

Help us with Financial

transactions

Company
Statutory reporting (Inc,
Ltd, Corp Loc etc)

All Org definition looks

similar to Sup Org and go
hand in hand
Hierarchies
Hierarchies
 Edit the Organization
structure

Common Effective Date

Re-
Organization
Creating Sub-ordinate
Supervisory organization

Divide Supervisory
organization
 Assign
Organizations

Organization Allowed and

Default
Assignments Organizations

Change
Organization
Assignments
 Create a Location (Boston)

Create a Supervisory Organization

(Talent Hunt)

Activity Create Sub-ordinate (Learning and

Development -> Training)
1
Divide the Supervisory Organization
(Training -> Course Development)

Assign Superior Organization

(Human Resources)
 Create a Company (Knowledge Mgmt
Pvt Ltd)

Create a Cost Center (Talent Hunt)

Create a Cost Center Hierarchy

Activity (Education Services)

2 Add Cost Centers to Cost Center

Hierarchy (36500,41400)

Add Location to Location Hierarchy(EU

Northern Europe)

Matrix Organization
Business Objects
Business Objects

Single Multi Instance

Instance
JOB PROFILE &
POSITION
 Job Profile &
Positions
• Job Profile
• Job Family
• Job Family group

• Create Position
• Edit Position
• Edit Position Restrictions

• Job Requisitions
Job Profile
& Positions
Job Family
and Group
 Position Level

Hiring Organization Level

Restrictions

Edit Position
Restrictions Vs Edit
Position
 Hiring Restrictions
Revision – Position Restrictions
 Staffing Models
Revision – Staffing Models
Hiring Restrictions
Revision – Position
 Hiring Restrictions
Revision – Position Restrictions
 Position
Revision – Position Restrictions
COMPENSATION
Compensation
 Compensation Components

Compensation Rules

Compensation Compensation Grade

Compensation Plans

Compensation Package
 Create Compensation
Elements (Maintain
Compensation Elements)

Create Compensation
Packages

Compensation
Create Eligibility Rules

Assign Compensation
components to eligibility
rules
 Types: Amount, Percent and
Unit based

Base Pay (Salary and

Hourly)
Compensation
Plans
Allowance (Car, Phone etc)

One-time Payments
(employee referral,
retention bonus etc)
Compensation
Package

• Combination of Grades, Plans and Eligibility Rules

• One plan and grade can be part of multiple packages
 Propose Propose Compensation (Hire)

Propose Propose Compensation Change (Change Job)

Compensation
Events
Request Request Compensation Change

Request Request Grade Change

 Create Create Job Profile

Create Create Salary Plan

Create Create Hourly Plan

Activity Create Create 2 Allowance Plans

3 Create Create Compensation Grade with at least 2 Grade Profiles

Create Compensation Eligibility Criteria and link it to the ones

Create you created above

Create Create a Compensation Package

Create a 3 Position(2 –EMP and 1-Contingent Worker) in your

Create Supervisory Org
HIRING
Pre-Hires and Hiring
 At least one contact
information

Pre-hire status applies to a

position, not the pre-hire
Managing
Pre-hires Interviewers must be
assigned in order to be able
to enter interview results

Pre-Hire Mark Pre-Hires

for deletion
Deletion
WD Recruiting
WD Recruiting Integration
 Hire Date Position

Time Type (full

Job Profile
time or part time)

Hiring
Scheduled Weekly
Location
Hours

Compensation **
Package, Plan and MaintainWorker
Grade Documents
 HIRE EMPLOYEE

Re-Hire

CONTRACT
CONTINGENT WORKER
 Create Create a Pre-Hire

Hire Hire a Full-Time Employee into one

Position
Activity
4
Assign Assign this employee as the
manager for the sub-ordinate org

Hire Hire a Contingent Worker into

another Position
SECURITY
Configurable Security
 Security Group: groups of users who need to
perform actions or access data

Domain: defined tasks and reports that are

functionally similar.

Configurable Domain Security Policies: dictate which security

group can view or modify data within the domains
Security
Business Process: delivered by Workday; though
you cannot create new business processes you can
configure them to meet your workflow
requirements
Business process Policy: dictate which security
groups can participate in the business process and
in what ways they can participate
Configurable Security
Assignable Roles and Role based
Security Groups
• Role based Constraint (Org specific)
• Role based Un-Constraint
• Manually Assigned to a Position
• Equal to a responsibility
 User-Based
• Grants administrative access (setup and maintenance)
• Manually assigned to persons
 Relevant job criteria are:
• Job Profile
Job-Based • Job Category
• Job Family
• Management Level
• Work Shift
Examples : • Include Exempt Jobs
• Employee Type - Exempt; • Include Non Exempt Jobs
non-Exempt
• Job Profile - CEO; CHRO
• Job Family - HR-Payroll
• Management Level – Vice
President
 WORKDAY ASSIGNED
• Delivered by Workday
• Automatically Assigned
• Cannot Create, Edit or Delete

•Employee As Self •All Employees

•Contingent Worker As Self •All Terminees
•Terminee As Self •Implementers
•Pre-Employee As Self •Initiator
•All Users •Manager’s Manager
•All Contingent Workers
 Functional Area

Domain Security
Security Policy

Business process
Security Policy
Domain Security Policy
 Business process Security Policy

Who can do action Who can do

Who can start the
steps on the actions on the View
process
process entire process

Approve Cancel Rescind Correct

Whether
Who can be added Whether the
comments are
as an ad-hoc process can be
hidden from the
approver delegated
worker
Business process Security Policy
STEPS FOR CONFIGURING SECURITY
 Activity
• Create a Role Based Security Group
• Create a User Based Security Group
• Create a Document Security Segment
• Create a Segment Based Security for
Documents
• Assign Roles to the Employee
• Assign User Based Security Group to the
Employee
 Create Create a Role Based Security Group

Create Create a User Based Security Group

Create Create a Document Security Segment

Activity
5 Create Create a Segment Based Security for Documents

Assign Assign Roles to the Employee

Assign Assign User Based Security Group to the Employee

BUSINESS PROCESS
FRAMEWORK
 Action: Tasks or events within
Workday.

Approvals: Approval of a task or event

within Workday.

To Do: Reminder to do a task either

Business within Workday or outside the system.

Process
Services: Delivery, Retrieval, Create
Framework WD Account etc..

Integration

Report
Business Process Framework

• Entry Conditions
• Notifications
Business Process Configurations Options
Configurable BP - Hire
Allowed Sub-Processes in Hire
Consolidated Approval
 Copy the Hire
Add steps as per your
business process onto
requirement
your Supervisory Org

Activity Create a condition

rule and add the step Add BP Notifications
entry condition
6
Add the condition Assign BP security to
rule to BP Notification security group
STAFFING
TRANSACTIONS
 Hire Employee

Contract Contingent Worker

Staffing Covert Contingent Worker to

Employee (Carrie Wong [C])
Transactions

Staffing Movement

Termination
 Change Job

Staffing Additional Job

Transactions

Switch Primary Job

Revision
 Landing Page

Workday Profile

Objects
Revision Related Actions
Search (Partial Search) and
categories
Worklets
 A work location that will include the physical address as
well as additional details such as email and phone
number(s).

Postal Code Validations can be set up using Maintain

Localization Settings > Contact Information.

You can validate or require codes, and be country

specific.

Revision – Time Profile defines the standard number of hours

worked in that location each week. Usually

Location this is 40 hours (8 hours per day), but in locations such

as Paris the work week might be defined as 35 hours.
The Time Profile is created prior to creating the
Location.

Locale controls the format for dates, times and

currency. If you specify a locale for a location,

users belonging to that site inherit that locale.

 Positions are only created within
a supervisory organization.

Employees must be hired into a

supervisory organization.
Revision –
Sup Org Assignable roles have
responsibilities within a
supervisory organization.

Unique business processes can

be assigned to a supervisory
organization.
 More than 1 position can occupy the Manager role.

2 or more managers share equal responsibility for workers in an

organization.

All managers have the same abilities to initiate, view, and

approve transactions on a group of workers.

Revision – All managers display as equals on organization charts.

Managers All managers will be seen in the assigned role of Manager for
the supervisory organization.

Multiple Managers will appear on the worker’s profile, show in

reporting and with workers’ history.

You can select one Manager as the ‘Main’ manager for reporting
fields and integrations using the ‘Single Assignment Manager’
section under assigned roles.
Revision – ReOrg
Revision – Organizations
Revision – Organizations
Revision – Hierarchies
Revision – Hierarchies
 Supervisory Organization

Staffing Model

Revision – Job Profile

Core
Concepts Compensation

Security

Business Process Framework

Revision – Staffing Models
 Revision – Staffing Models
POSITION MANAGEMENT
• A single position is created to be filled.
• To hire, promote, demote, contract or transfer
into a position, there must be an approved and
available position as of the worker’s start date.
• Positions can open after a job change.
• Positions can be moved from one supervisory
organization to another as part of a job change.
• A position can be closed if it is no longer needed
JOB MANAGEMENT
• Hiring restrictions are established at
the organization level.
• No quantity is defined for the
number of jobs available for hire
within an organization.
• Position no longer exists after a
worker is transferred, demoted,
promoted or terminated unless
moved with the employee.
Revision – Staffing Models
Revision – Job Profiles
 Include Job Code
Job Profile Name Restrict to
in Name
(required) Country
(checkbox)

Job Classification,
Management Job Family:
e.g. EEO
Level categorization
Professional

Revision – Company Insider

Type
Qualifications:
Knowledge, Skills,
Experience,
Certifications, etc.

Job
Job Code Job Exempt or
Profiles (required)
Job Title Default
Non-exempt

Job Category
Work Shift
(direct or indirect Pay Rate Type
Required
labor)

Metrics (Difficult
Compensation
to fill or critical
Grade and Rules
job)
Revision – Job Family and Group
Revision – Position
Revision – Position Restrictions
Revision – Position Restrictions
Revision – Position Restrictions
Revision – Compensation
 Compensation Components

Compensation Rules

Revision – Compensation Grade

Compensation

Compensation Plans

Compensation Package
 • Propose Compensation (Hire)
Revision – • Propose Compensation Change
Compensation (Change Job)
• Request Compensation Change
Events • Request Grade Change
Revision – Pre-Hires and Hiring
Revision – Configurable Security
 Security Group: groups of users who need to
perform actions or access data

Domain: defined tasks and reports that are

functionally similar.

Revision –
Domain Security Policies: dictate which security
Configurable group can view or modify data within the domains

Security Business Process: delivered by Workday; though

you cannot create new business processes you can
configure them to meet your workflow
requirements
Business process Policy: dictate which security
groups can participate in the business process and
in what ways they can participate
Revision – Configurable Security
Revision – Domain Security Policy
Revision – Business process Security Policy
Revision – STEPS FOR CONFIGURING SECURITY
 Report Writer

Types of
Reporting Reports
Standard Report
Custom Report

Data Source
 Reporting

• Custom Report Types

– Simple Report
– Advanced Report
– Matrix Report
– Transposed Report
– Composite Report
– Search Report
– nBox Report
Data Source
Data Source - CRFs
 Report Security
• Data Sources report – Security Groups
• Field Level Security
• Sharing will not override the security
 Workday Standard
Reports

Copy Standard
Reports report to custom
report

Contextual
reporting
Configurable Reports
Custom Objects
• Up to 40 custom objects per Business
object
• Custom Object Management Security
Domain
 • Create Custom field type
Custom fields • Create Custom field list
• Custom Object Validation
 Object Related

Text Related

Date Related

Calculated Number Related

Fields
Evaluate Expression

Arithmetic Calculation

Lookup Organization and Hierarchies (Level)

Integration Architecture
Inbound Integration
Outbound Integration
EIB Integration
 Data Source: There are a number of
options for retrieving data:

Attachment (Inbound)

(S)FTP(s)-based file (Inbound)

Retrieve
Data REST URL (Inbound)

Workday Custom Report (Outbound)

Workday Web Service API (Outbound)

 There are also multiple
options for transforming
data using the EIB:

Alternate Output Format

Transform
Data Custom Report
Transformation

Custom XSLT
 Transport Protocol:
Workday also provides Workday Web Service
a number of different API (Inbound)
transport protocols:

Custom Object API

Workday Attachment
(Inbound)

Transport
Protocol (S)FTP(s) HTTP(s)

Email AS2
Transport Protocol
 Attachment – 30MB
File Size SFTP – 300MB

Document retention – up to 180

days

Limitations Custom XSLT transformation should

not take more than 2 hours
of EIB
HTTP requests(WS/RaaS) processing
time – 6 hours

RaaS output should not be more

than 2GB
EIB Inbound - Template
Business
Process
Guidelines
 Workday ID

Integration Reference IDs

IDs

External IDs
 • Template
– Keep the template in its original XML
SPREADSHEET 2003 format. Do not
save a template to any other format.
– Only add data values to the generated
spreadsheet. Do not make formatting
Spreadsheet changes, introduce hard breaks or
returns, rearrange rows or columns, or
Guidelines add new rows and columns. Doing so
may cause the upload to fail.
• Required Data
• Data Types
• Lookup Columns – Reference IDs
• ID Columns – Some are Auto-Generated if
left blank
Launch Parameter
Integration
Security
 Outbound EIB

• Custom Report
Source • Web service

• None
Transformation • Custom Report Transformation
• Custom Transformation (XSLT)

• SFTP
Delivery • Email
 Custom Report – New Hires in Date
Range

Output Format – CSV

New Hire Delivery – Workday Attachment

EIB
Launch Integration

Schedule Every Day

Integration
 Event Driven

Custom report with Worker

filter
Call EIB
from BP Configure Integration in
Hire BP

Test Hire
 Prefix
Columns Suffix
Padding

Header

Custom Report Footer

Transformation

Pipe Delimited

Grid View
 Outbound EIB with WWS
Workday
Web
Workday Public Web services (Soap)
services
• Request References: Specify the instances (e.g.
individual workers) to be returned
• Request Criteria: Set object-type specific
parameters that limit the scope of data (e.g.
workers’ supervisory organization or location)
• Response Filter: Filter the results by entry
date/time, effective date, and/or number of
records
• Response Group: Limit the result set to certain
types of data (e.g. compensation)
 Custom Transformation - XSLT

SFTP

EIB - Email – PGP Encryption

Miscellaneous

Sequence Generator

Notifications
 End-to-End Connectors

Core Connectors

Services
Packaged Attributes
Integrations
Maps

Transaction Log

Change Detection