Concept: Defining Audiences

When a worker's core attributes change, Workday processes this event by removing the worker from the audience and then immediately re-adding them to the audience, if they still meet audience eligibility criteria.

When you use calculated fields in Audience Builder conditions, Workday displays them in the

Where Used

tab of the

Maintain Calculated Fields

report. Additionally, when you rename calculated fields or update value descriptors, Workday automatically displays their new names in the

Audience Builder

dashboard without requiring manual edits.

Data source filters enable you to apply specific criteria to your primary data source when defining an audience, which provides granular control and improved performance when creating your audience.

When a data source filter contains a prompt, Workday displays a

Filter Configuration

page where you can input the necessary prompt values. When editing the

Audience Criteria

prompt, you can further configure these prompt values.

Workday treats data source filter prompts as conditions. Engagement Builder can process audiences that rely exclusively on data source filter prompt values to determine membership.

Related business objects allow access to fields from a different business object that are linked to the primary business object. See Concept: Business Objects, Data Sources, and Fields.

In Audience Builder, you can use related business objects to query and filter audience data across multiple, interconnected business objects. For example, if you’re using Worker as your primary business object and it has the multi-instance

Dependents

field, you can access fields from the Dependent business object in Audience Builder.

To display the

Subfilter

button to use a related business object when building an audience, you must select a related business object and 1 of these operators on the

Audience Criteria

prompt:

To use a talent pool as an audience, you can create a condition using a Talent Pool field. For example, to create an audience of emerging leaders, select these values in the

Conditions

grid on the

Audience Criteria

prompt:

Field	Operator	Value
Talent Pools	In	Emerging Leaders

Ensure you and your Integration System User (ISU) have View access to your talent pool. See Create an Integration System User (ISU) for Engagements.

Audience Builder queries have a limit of 16,000 characters. When you configure a

Field

with specific values, every character counts toward this limit.

Depending on the length of your data, Workday can process roughly 370 values per query. To avoid errors, group workers using broader field conditions or use a custom report instead of itemizing individual values or exceptions.