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 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
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.