Concept: Completion Steps
When the
Completion
step or steps finish, the business process is listed as complete
, even when there are more steps to do. Example: A person can be listed as hired
even if the steps for having the new employee enter personal information and the W-4 form aren’t yet done.Completion makes the data for this business process available to other Workday products, like Payroll or Financial Accounting.
On the
View Business Process Definition
page, you can set a step as a Completion
step by selecting from the related actions menu of the business process step. To remove the completion step setting, you can select from the related actions menu.If you want to set a new step as a
Completion
step, you can edit the business process definition to add the new step. Then on the View Business Process Definition
page, set the step as a Completion
step.For the step that's set as the
Completion
step, we display Yes
in the Complete
column on the business process definition. This helps you easily identify when a step is a Completion
step.When there aren't any
Completion
steps, the business process is considered complete when the last step finishes. You can set an Approval
step as a Completion
step on the business process. When you don't set an Approval
step as a Completion
step, then the Approval
step must come before Completion
steps on the business process.You can make
Completion
steps parallel by assigning the same Order
to multiple steps, which enables Workday to trigger them at the same time. When a business process progresses past its Completion
steps, the business process completes, even when some Completion
steps aren't triggered by entry conditions.When a business process runs as a subprocess of another business process, the parent business process can continue after the subprocess finishes its
Completion
steps.