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Last Updated: 2025-09-19
Steps: Create Custom Invoice Print Layouts

Steps: Create Custom Invoice Print Layouts

  • Download and install Workday Studio, including Report Designer.
  • Familiarize yourself with the Workday Studio documentation and tutorials for Report Designer.
  • Include the
    .rptdesign
    file type in the
    File Type Setup Instructions
    section on the
    Edit Tenant Setup - System
    task.
Workday delivers a customer invoice BIRT layout and a standard printing report with the fields needed to print a customer invoice. You can customize the layout to meet your business needs.
When customizing the customer invoice layout, you can add:
  • Fields that you want to include in the printed customer invoice.
  • Your company logo, by using tokens. You can find tokens in your XSL stylesheet or Report Designer business form layout.
  • Supplementary content, including financial messages.
  1. Download the report design attachments from your
    Customer Central
    tenant and upload them in Workday Studio to make a custom copy.
  2. (Optional) To create a copy of the standard delivered print report for adding fields, access the
    Copy Standard Report to Custom Report
    task.
    1. Select the
      Customer Invoice Printing Report - Report Design
      report from the
      Standard Report Name
      prompt and rename the report.
      Workday automatically sets
      Data Source
      to
      Customer Invoices for Print Run
      . Select the
      Customer Invoices for Print Run as of Approval Date
      option to print customer invoice documents with data as of the most recent invoice approval date.
    2. Create Custom Reports.
      Customize the report fields.
      Workday automatically adds the
      Print Run
      prompt. If you add other prompts or filters, the report might not provide the desired results.
    Security:
    Custom/Standard Report Copy
    domain in the Tenant Non-Configurable functional area.
  3. From the related actions menu of your
    Customer Invoice Printing Report - Report Design
    report, select
    Web Service
    View URLs
    .
    Import the data from the custom print report into Workday Studio.
    1. In the
      Workday XML
      section, for the REST field, click
      Workday XML
      .
    2. Save the file with an XML extension to your local drive.
    3. In the
      Workday XML
      section, for the XSD field, click
      XSD
      .
    4. Save the file with an XSD extension to your local drive.
  4. Access the
    Create Business Form Layout
    task.
    Associate your custom report with all the desired fields in the copy of the report layout that you downloaded from Workday Studio.
    1. Select the
      Active
      check box.
    2. In the
      Resulting Document Expiration Offset (in days)
      field, specify the number of days to retain the reports before they expire.
      Ensure that the expiration offset complies with your organization's document retention policy. Workday automatically deletes documents after the offset number of days. You can't recover these documents.
    3. From the
      Report Design
      prompt, select
      Create Custom Business Form Report Design Attachment
      .
      Select the report design layout that you downloaded from Workday Community.
    4. From the
      Custom Report
      prompt, select the delivered
      Customer Invoice Printing Report - Report Design
      or your custom report.
    5. Add
      company_logo
      for the
      Token Name
      .
      When you have multiple companies and want to use different logos, create a separate layout for each company.
      Use the
      View Business Form Layout
      report to view the tokens used in a specific customized business form layout.
    Security:
    Custom Report Creation
    domain in the System functional area.
On the
Edit Customer Invoice Layout Rule
task, create rules to map your customized invoice print layouts to invoice types for the desired company.