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Last Updated: 2023-06-23
Access an Encrypted National ID

Access an Encrypted National ID

Some countries require that you store their National ID in an encrypted state. Workday complies with encryption requirements by storing data on disk.
When you need an encrypted National ID, Workday can retrieve it and temporarily decrypt the data in an in-memory data cache. You can access the data for a single use and then Workday removes the data from memory.
  1. Access the
    Schedule National ID Migration
    task to configure a job to migrate a National ID from a cached to an uncached data state or from an uncached to a cached data state.
    This job creates a copy of an existing National ID. It also purges and deletes the old National ID instance. As a result, the audit history associated with the National ID no longer exists and can't be restored. Following the migration, you can't search for an uncached National ID by value in Workday. This might impact your integrations. Because of this, we recommend that you run the
    Schedule National ID Migration
    task in a sandbox tenant to determine the impact before you run it in a production tenant.
  2. Use the
    Uncached National ID Instance
    report field to display data about uncached National IDs.
Your decrypted National ID data complies with regulatory requirements, but you can't search for it in Workday by value.