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Administrator Guide
Last Updated: 2023-06-23
Concept: Workforce Planning Configuration

Concept: Workforce Planning Configuration

The workforce planning configuration manager enables you to quickly configure Workday Adaptive Planning for headcount planning.
The workforce planning configuration manager enables you to configure Adaptive Planning:
  • Levels.
  • Dimensions and dimension values.
  • Integration data sources, loaders, and task.
  • Personnel modeled sheet.
  • Scheduled refreshes.
  • Workday external system.

Benefits

When you use the workforce planning configuration manager, you can:
  • Avoid swapping between Workday and Adaptive Planning during setup.
  • Skip multiple administration pages in Adaptive Planning.
  • Automatically configure and populate data sources and loaders behind the scenes.
  • Automatically configure a modeled sheet.
  • Preview and explore how the metadata and data from Workday will populate in Adaptive Planning.
  • Surface missing or required security settings before you activate.
  • Set the refresh schedule of Workday metadata and data into Adaptive Planning.
  • Select which Adaptive Planning instance to configure.
  • Submit all application configuration settings at once.

Restrictions

When you use the workforce planning configuration manager, you can't:
  • Configure 1 tenant or instance environment type for a different environment type. Example: You configure an Adaptive Planning preview instance for a Workday production tenant.
  • View or pull in changes made directly within Adaptive Planning data sources and loaders back into the workforce planning configuration manager. Example: You change data sources or loaders after creating them with the workforce planning configuration manager.
  • Use Adaptive Planning to add, edit, or delete data and rows in modeled sheets created by the workforce planning configuration manager.
  • Use the Adaptive Planning modeled sheet builder to:
    • Edit general properties options on the
      Columns and Levels
      page for modeled sheets created by the workforce planning configuration manager.
    • Add data entry, dimension, and attribute columns on the
      Columns and Levels
      page for modeled sheets created by the workforce planning configuration manager.
    • Edit or delete columns for modeled sheets created by the workforce planning configuration manager.
  • Use Adaptive Planning level, dimension, attribute, and account admin pages to edit:
    • Level name, code, level attribute value name, or level attribute value code created by the workforce planning configuration manager.
    • Dimension name, short name, code, dimension attribute value name, or dimension attribute value code created by the workforce planning configuration manager.
    • Attribute name, short name, value code, or value name created by the workforce planning configuration manager.
    • Account code, account attribute value name, or account attribute value code created by the workforce planning configuration manager.
  • Use Adaptive Planning to import level, dimension, attribute, or account structures that alter the name and code mappings created by the workforce planning configuration manager.