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Last Updated: 2023-06-23
Maintain Organization Type Precedence

Maintain Organization Type Precedence

It is possible to have multiple separate but overlapping hierarchies defined in your enterprise. For example, you could have a functional hierarchy that defines organizations of different job types, such as sales and marketing. At the same time you might also have a separate hierarchy of locations, such as by country or continent.
For example, when you hire a sales person, the position may reside in two organizations. The default definition of the
Hire
 business process allows the business process to be associated with both types of organizations. Setting the organization type precedence enables Workday to know where to look first for the business process to use. If it does not find a custom business process defined in that organization, it looks in the organization defined next in the precedence list.
You cannot use the
Link Definition
 option to create a link to the business process in the other organization, because the link function works only for organizations of the same type. Setting organization type precedence is specifically for organizations of different types.
Not every default business process definition allows the business process to be attached to multiple organization types.
  1. Access the
    View Organization Type Precedence for Business Process Resolution
     report. This report shows only the organization types for which you are allowed to create a custom business process.
  2. From the related actions menu of the
    Business Process Type
     for which you need to specify an organization type precedence, select
    Business Process Type
    Maintain Business Process Definition Precedence
    .
  3. In the
    Order
     column to the right of the list of organization types (displayed in the
    Role Usage
     column), use letters to specify the order in which the business processes should be used. The highest priority is the letter
    a
    .
When you select a business process to run, Workday looks at organization
a
 first to see if a custom business process is defined. If not, it looks at organization
b
, and so on. If no custom business process is defined, it uses the default business process definition for organization
a
.