Steps: Create Schedule Validations

You can create validations to warn managers when they create schedules or shifts that violate business or regulatory requirements. When you create validations, you can select a severity level of either critical or warning for each validation type. Workday displays critical validations in red and warning validations in yellow. Managers can publish a schedule with either critical or warning validations present, neither validation prevents Workday from publishing a schedule.

You can prevent managers from publishing or changing a published schedule by adding a step condition on the initiation step of these business processes:

Publish Schedule
Change Published Schedule Event
Bulk Change Published Schedule Event
Mass Change Shifts Event

See Concept: Step Conditions.

Workday executes validations when managers generate a schedule or when they create, edit, or delete a shift. Workday doesn’t automatically execute validations on existing schedules when you make a configuration change or when a worker requests time off. Managers must manually refresh the schedule by clicking the

Refresh Schedule

option from the

Actions

drop-down for Workday to account for those changes.