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Last Updated: 2023-06-23
Concept: Hierarchy Structures

Concept: Hierarchy Structures

Workday enables you to define a hierarchy structure for certain types of hierarchies to ensure the hierarchy has logical levels. It enables you to control their order and is useful in roll-up reporting. You can only define a hierarchy structure on the top-level node and you can't inactivate or assign a superior to a top-level node with a hierarchy structure defined.
Hierarchies for organizations use organization subtypes as their level identifiers. Use the
Maintain Organization Subtypes
task to create available subtypes. Only valid subtypes or level identifiers for the hierarchy type of the top-level node are displayed in the prompt.
Workday enables you to specify whether a hierarchy structure is enforced. When you enforce a hierarchy structure, you require a level identifier to have the organization subtype immediately above in a hierarchy structure as its superior.
The hierarchy structure is enforced from the effective date onward to enable you to ignore past invalid data. You won't be able to enforce it if it's invalid on or after the effective date. Use the
Hierarchy Structure Exceptions
report or select
Hierarchy Structure
View Exceptions
as a related action from the hierarchy structure to identify invalid hierarchy structures.
You're creating a global location hierarchy. Your organization subtypes for location hierarchy include:
  • Global World
  • Continent
  • Country
  • State
  • City
Global World is the top-level node of your location hierarchy and has no superior or organization subtypes. Configure the organization subtypes as levels in descending order. If you select the
Enforce
check box, Workday won't enable you to assign a location hierarchy with a subtype of City as the superior of a location hierarchy with a subtype of Continent.
If you select the
Allow Skip Levels
check box, a location hierarchy with an organization subtype of City can have a superior whose subtype is State, Country or, Continent. If you don't select the
Allow Skip Levels
check box, a location hierarchy with an organization subtype of City can only have a superior whose subtype is State.