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Last Updated: 2025-10-10
Steps: Set Up Security for HCM Headcount Plans

Steps: Set Up Security for HCM Headcount Plans

This headcount plan functionality is for HCM customers without a subscription to Planning. See Workday Community: Adaptive Planning Hub.
Set up security to determine who can create and edit basic headcount plans and who can view and analyze plan data.
  1. Access the
    Maintain Functional Areas
    task.
    Select the
    Enabled
    check box for the Headcount Plans (HCM) functional area. You can only enable 1 headcount plan functional area at a time. If you enabled the Headcount Plans functional area, clear the
    Enabled
    check box for that functional area.
    Security:
    Security Configuration
    domain in the System functional area.
  2. Create a segment-based security group for users who need access to HCM headcount plans using these values:
    Option Description
    Security Groups
    Add the security groups who need access to HCM headcount plans.
    Access to Segments
    Select
    Headcount Plan Type Segment
    .
  3. Edit Domain Security Policies
    Configure the domain security policies for these domains in the Headcount Plans (HCM) functional area:
    • Access Plan Type (Segmented)
    • Process: Headcount Plan (HCM)
    • Reports: Headcount Plan (HCM)
    • Set Up: Headcount Plan (HCM)
    For the
    Access Plan Type (Segmented)
    domain, add a new row on the
    Report/Task Permissions
    grid for the segment-based security group you just created. Give this security group View and Modify access.
  4. Set up the
    Headcount Plan Event
    business process and security policy based on your organization needs, such as to add approvers for your HCM headcount plans.
  5. Activate Pending Security Policy Changes.
  6. To use HCM headcount plan reports, access the
    Map Standard Aliases
    task.
    Map the standard alias for the Supervisory Organization business object. We recommend that you map the top level of your supervisory organization hierarchy.
    Security:
    Aliases
    domain in the System functional area.