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Last Updated: 2025-09-19
Steps: Set Up Document Generation for Absence Business Processes

Steps: Set Up Document Generation for Absence Business Processes

You can configure Absence business processes to dynamically generate documents when users access tasks that initiate the configured business processes.
  1. Create a document template. You can use either the traditional text block method or Workday Docs:
  2. Configure document generation for the Absence business process. See Configure Generated Documents.
    We recommend that you add:
    • The
      Generate Document
      action step after the
      Completion
      step in the business process.
    • A
      Review Documents
      step. When you configure the review document step, select the
      Generate Document
      action step that you added.
Setup
You create a parental leave document using Workday Docs. You add the
Generate Document
action step on the
Request Leave of Absence
business process, and select the parental leave document, configuring it specifically when workers request parental leave.
Result
When a worker requests parental leave, the parental leave document is dynamically generated. Their manager can edit the document before it's routed to the worker for review and submission with the absence request.