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Last Updated: 2026-10-02
Concept: Time Tracking in Workday Assistant

Concept: Time Tracking in Workday Assistant

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.

Using Workday Assistant for Time Tracking Tasks

Workers can use Workday Assistant to quickly access time entry tasks. Example: When workers enter a phrase such as "enter my time" in Workday search, Assistant provides a link to the time entry calendar where the worker can enter time blocks.
Workday Assistant doesn't support:
  • Entering time for days in the past or future.
  • High-volume time entry.
  • Time approval.
To configure Workday Assistant for Time Tracking, you must be a member of a security group on these domains:
  • Manage Bot and User Conversations
     in the System functional area.
  • Set Up: Edit Tenant Setup - Assistant
     in the System functional area.
  • Set Up: Time Tracking
     in the Time Tracking functional area.
You can enable workers to enter time using Workday Assistant by adding relevant workers to these security domains and business process security policies:
Functional Area or Business Process
Security Domain or Action
Notes
System Functional Area
  • Assistant
  • Bots
Add workers to these domains so they can access Workday Assistant.
Time Tracking Functional Area
For check-in and check-out workers:
  • Process: Time Block REST APIs
  • Process: Time Clock Event REST APIs
  • Self Service: Time Clock
For workers who enter time on the calendar:
  • Process: Time Block REST APIs
  • Process: Time Clock Event REST APIs
  • Self Service: Time Calendar
Add workers to these domains so they can enter time. Workday Assistant navigates workers to the time entry calendar when they need to enter time blocks.
Enter Time
 Business Process
Ensure workers can access these initiating actions:
  • Submit Time
  • Submit Time (REST Service)
  • Time Block Micro Edit
Configure the business process security policy so workers can enter and submit time using Workday Assistant.
Disabling Time Tracking features in Workday Assistant applies across all tenant devices, including desktop, mobile, Workday for Microsoft Teams, and Workday for Slack.