Workday Glossary Terms UPDATED ACTUAL Questions and CORRECT Answers
One of 3 custom reports in Workday. Provides access to
related business objects, multiple levels of headings and
• Advanced Report (custom) subtotals, use of sub filters, run time prompts, charts,
worklets, report sharing, and the ability to expose the
report as a web service.
A security group whose members are other security
• Aggregation Security Group groups. Grants access to workers associated with any in-
cluded security group.
An action in a business process that designated partici-
• Approve
pants select to progress the event to the next step.
• Assignable Roles Positions you can assign to organization roles
Objects used to store data in Workday (such as orga-
nizations or workers). A business object has fields and
instances, which are analogous to rows and columns in
• Business Object
a spreadsheet. Workday links related business objects (a
worker is associated with a position, the position to a job
profile, and so on).
The tasks that compose a business process, the order in
• Business Process Definition
which they must be done, and who can them.
This process is that the initiator has started. The Hire
Employee for Organization X business process definition
• Business Process Instance
becomes an instance when the initiator uses it to hire an
employee.
A type of policy secures the steps and process wide actions
• Business Process Security Policy including view, rescind, cancel and correct. It specifies
which security groups have access to each action.
Doing this a business process stops the workflow in
• Cancel (business process)
progress and reverses changes made to data. You can't
, cancel a completed business process; you must rescind it.
A securable action in a business process security policy.
These are one or more logical matches that are resolved
True or False and used to decide if some action should be
• Conditions
taken. You can add these to steps in a business process to
determine if the step should run.
These are created from the related actions menu of a
Workday object by selecting Reporting > Create Custom
• Contextual Custom Report
Report from Here. It simplifies choices of data and fields
to those related to the context of the object.
Doing this to a business process changes a specification or
• Correct (business process) data in the workflow while in progress. A securable action
in a business process security policy.
Reports not delivered by Workday and built using the
• Custom Report Workday Report Writer. Can be created new or by copying
another standard or custom report.
A specialized landing page containing a set of pre-con-
figured worklets for a functional area that you can copy
• Dashboard (landing page)
or modify. You can add additional custom worklets to
dashboard using the report writer.
This defines a set of business object instances for re-
• Data Source porting purposes. Allows reporting access to all business
objects related to those in this.
When you do this to a business process, the process is
terminated and all workday data is restored to its state
• Deny (business process) before the process started. To restart the process, you
need to submit the process gain, and redo all previously
completed steps.
, A collection of related securable items such as actions,
• Domain reports, report data, report data sources, or custom report
fields. Each of these is secured by a domain security policy.
A collection of related securable elements of different
• Domain security policy
types and user-specific security fields
A business process transaction that occurs within your
• Event
organization, such as hiring or terminating an employee
A collection of domain and business process security poli-
• Functional area cies that are related to the same set of product features,
for example Benefits or Compensation
A security group whose members are other security
• Intersection Security Group groups. Members are associated with all included security
groups are granted access through this.
• Initiation step The first step in a business process.
A security group that includes one or more job-related
attributes or objects including job profile, job family, job
• Job Based Security Group
category, management level, or exempt/non-exempt sta-
tus.
These display a collection of worklets. They have many
different display formats (grid or bubble) and support dif-
• Landing Page
ferent functions. The Home (this) is intended for common
worklets, such as self-service worklets.
A security group whose members are any workers as-
• Location membership security group
signed to that location.
One of 3 types of custom reports in Workday. Summarizes
data by one or two fields that contain repeating values.
• Matrix Report
The resulting matrix is displayed as a table or chart that
you can drill through to see the associated details.
One of 3 custom reports in Workday. Provides access to
related business objects, multiple levels of headings and
• Advanced Report (custom) subtotals, use of sub filters, run time prompts, charts,
worklets, report sharing, and the ability to expose the
report as a web service.
A security group whose members are other security
• Aggregation Security Group groups. Grants access to workers associated with any in-
cluded security group.
An action in a business process that designated partici-
• Approve
pants select to progress the event to the next step.
• Assignable Roles Positions you can assign to organization roles
Objects used to store data in Workday (such as orga-
nizations or workers). A business object has fields and
instances, which are analogous to rows and columns in
• Business Object
a spreadsheet. Workday links related business objects (a
worker is associated with a position, the position to a job
profile, and so on).
The tasks that compose a business process, the order in
• Business Process Definition
which they must be done, and who can them.
This process is that the initiator has started. The Hire
Employee for Organization X business process definition
• Business Process Instance
becomes an instance when the initiator uses it to hire an
employee.
A type of policy secures the steps and process wide actions
• Business Process Security Policy including view, rescind, cancel and correct. It specifies
which security groups have access to each action.
Doing this a business process stops the workflow in
• Cancel (business process)
progress and reverses changes made to data. You can't
, cancel a completed business process; you must rescind it.
A securable action in a business process security policy.
These are one or more logical matches that are resolved
True or False and used to decide if some action should be
• Conditions
taken. You can add these to steps in a business process to
determine if the step should run.
These are created from the related actions menu of a
Workday object by selecting Reporting > Create Custom
• Contextual Custom Report
Report from Here. It simplifies choices of data and fields
to those related to the context of the object.
Doing this to a business process changes a specification or
• Correct (business process) data in the workflow while in progress. A securable action
in a business process security policy.
Reports not delivered by Workday and built using the
• Custom Report Workday Report Writer. Can be created new or by copying
another standard or custom report.
A specialized landing page containing a set of pre-con-
figured worklets for a functional area that you can copy
• Dashboard (landing page)
or modify. You can add additional custom worklets to
dashboard using the report writer.
This defines a set of business object instances for re-
• Data Source porting purposes. Allows reporting access to all business
objects related to those in this.
When you do this to a business process, the process is
terminated and all workday data is restored to its state
• Deny (business process) before the process started. To restart the process, you
need to submit the process gain, and redo all previously
completed steps.
, A collection of related securable items such as actions,
• Domain reports, report data, report data sources, or custom report
fields. Each of these is secured by a domain security policy.
A collection of related securable elements of different
• Domain security policy
types and user-specific security fields
A business process transaction that occurs within your
• Event
organization, such as hiring or terminating an employee
A collection of domain and business process security poli-
• Functional area cies that are related to the same set of product features,
for example Benefits or Compensation
A security group whose members are other security
• Intersection Security Group groups. Members are associated with all included security
groups are granted access through this.
• Initiation step The first step in a business process.
A security group that includes one or more job-related
attributes or objects including job profile, job family, job
• Job Based Security Group
category, management level, or exempt/non-exempt sta-
tus.
These display a collection of worklets. They have many
different display formats (grid or bubble) and support dif-
• Landing Page
ferent functions. The Home (this) is intended for common
worklets, such as self-service worklets.
A security group whose members are any workers as-
• Location membership security group
signed to that location.
One of 3 types of custom reports in Workday. Summarizes
data by one or two fields that contain repeating values.
• Matrix Report
The resulting matrix is displayed as a table or chart that
you can drill through to see the associated details.
