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Last Updated: 2026-02-20
Steps: Set Up Talent Highlights

Steps: Set Up Talent Highlights

You might need to take additional steps to enable this feature based on your organization's subscription service agreement. Your organization is either on the Main Service Agreement (MSA) or the Universal Main Service Agreement (UMSA). To determine your organization's subscription service agreement:
  1. Select your profile avatar on Workday Community.
  2. Select
    Profile
    .
  3. On your profile page, select your organization's name, which is beneath your name and next to your job title.
  4. View your
    Subscription Service Agreement
     value.
If the value is:
  • UMSA
    , the feature is automatically available. You can skip the
    Enable Innovation Services Feature and AI Data Contributions for MSA Customers
     step. For more information on Machine Learning data contributions, see Concept: Workday AI for Universal Main Subscription Agreement Customers.
  • MSA
    , you must enable this feature through Innovation Services using the
    Enable Innovation Services Feature and AI Data Contributions for MSA Customers
    step.
Note: UMSA customers don't have Innovation Services tasks and reports in their tenants as these are for MSA customers only. UMSA customers can ignore all information regarding Innovation Services.
  1. You might need to take additional steps to enable this feature depending on your organization's subscription service agreement. For more information, see this Community article.
    On the
    Innovation Services Opt-In
     task, select the
    HCM ML Features and Third Party Connectors GA
     on the
    Available Services
     tab in the
    HCM
     category.
    Opting in to the
    HCM ML Features and Third Party Connectors GA
     service is required for MSA customers to enable Talent Highlights, but no additional data category contributions are required.
  2. Edit Domain Security Policies.
    Configure these domains in the Manager Insights Hub functional area:
    • Worker Data: Talent Highlights
      : Managers need View and Modify permissions to view, generate, edit, and delete Talent Highlights for their eligible employees, and to see their team’s eligibility.
    • Set Up: Talent Highlights
      : Administrators need View and Modify permissions to set up Talent Highlights and to see Talent Highlights content by supervisory organization.
  3. Activate Pending Security Policy Changes.
  4. (Optional) Complete the
    Edit Tenant Setup - HCM
     task.
    Option
    Description
    Talent Highlights Help Text
    Add help text to the
    Generate Talent Highlights for Employee
     and
    View Talent Highlight
     tasks.
    Talent Highlights Location Exclusion
    Select locations to exclude from Talent Highlights. Employees with an active primary or additional position in an excluded location are ineligible for Talent Highlights.
    Talent Highlights Location Hierarchy Exclusion
    Select location hierarchies to exclude from Talent Highlights. Employees with an active primary or additional position within an excluded location hierarchy are ineligible for Talent Highlights.
    Security:
    Set Up: Tenant Setup - HCM
     in the System functional area.
  5. (Optional) Add Talent Highlights tasks and reports elsewhere in Workday.
    For example:
    • Add the
      Generate Talent Highlights
       task as a To Do item in business processes related to employee reviews. To exclude ineligible workers, you can configure a business process rule based on the
      Eligible for Talent Highlights
       report field.
    • Add the
      Generate Talent Highlights
       task as a step in a journey for managers.
    • Add the
      Most Recent Talent Highlights for Worker
       report as an embedded analytic in a business process based on the Worker business object. See Add Worklets to Business Processes.
  • Configure data purge for Talent Highlights content. Depending on location, purging Talent Highlights data helps you comply with local and national policies and regulations.
    Talent Highlights data is included in these purgeable data types when running a purge task or creating a purge plan on the Worker business object:
    • For active workers:
      Talent Highlights
      . Purging this data type does not purge the source data used to generate the Talent Highlights content.
    • For terminated workers:
      Talent - All Worker’s Performance, Goal and Skill Data
      .
    See Steps: Purge Person Privacy Data.
  • For MSA customers, consider opting in to the updated
    Worker Profile Data
     category to contribute the Talent Highlights for Active and Terminated Workers collection. Workday uses this data for ongoing feature evaluation, improvements, and for additional product support troubleshooting.