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Last Updated: 2023-12-15
Configure Custom Validation Messages

Configure Custom Validation Messages

  • Define custom validations by transaction type.
  • Security:
    Set Up: Custom Validations
     domain in the Common Financial Management functional area.
Create custom validation messages to display to workers when Workday triggers a transaction validation. If you don't create a custom message, Workday displays the description of the custom validation instead.
  1. Access the
    Maintain Custom Validations
     report.
  2. Select the type of transaction.
  3. From the related action on a validation, select
    Validation
    Configure Validation Message
    .
  4. Enter a custom validation message.
    Your message can include static
    Text
     as well as dynamic
    External Field
     values from report fields and calculated fields.
When workers create transactions that meet the conditions you configure for the validations, Workday displays the error or warning message.
For the
Expense Report
 transaction type, you configure a message for the
Airfare Exceeds $600 (USD)
 validation:
Field
Value
Text
Airfare exceeds $600 (USD) for
Extended Field
Expense Report
The resulting error message is
Airfare exceeds $600 for Expense Report: EXP-00004471
.