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