Reference: Location Usages
Setting up locations and location usages extends your ability to manage and report on business
facilities, equipment, and the people who use them. Location usages determine which
location attributes are available for you to configure.
When you create a location, you can select these location usages:
Usage | Functional Areas | Examples |
|---|---|---|
Business Asset
| Financial | The physical location where you store an asset or where it's in
use. |
Business Site
|
| The physical location of a business. For business site locations
you can:
Workday determines the currency and language based on the
business site location usage. Business sites must include:
You can't simultaneously use business sites as:
|
Campus
| Student | The physical grounds and buildings at a location for your academic
institution. You can't set up a location as a campus and an
instructional site simultaneously. |
Housing
| Student | A residential site for students. You can view and report on housing
data within Workday or build integrations with Workday and your current
housing software. Must include an Academic
Unit . |
Instructional
| Student | A location in which learning events like classes, activities, and
assessments take place. Example:
Must include:
You can't set up a location as an instructional site and
a campus simultaneously. |
Inventory
|
| A location where you stock inventory or a group of stocking
locations that you manage as a unit. Example: You set up a warehouse
as an inventory location and designate a large aisle as a stocking
location to store goods. You can't set up a location as an
inventory location and a par location simultaneously. |
Job Posting
| HCM | A job-posting location where you don't have an existing business
site. Must include an address. You can't set up a location as a
job-posting site and a business site simultaneously. |
Off-Site Recruiting
|
| External locations that are typically temporary, such as hotels or
convention centers, where you can host recruiting events. You can set a
date to inactivate the location when it's no longer needed. You can't
set up a location as an off-site recruiting site and a business site
simultaneously. |
Par
|
| A location where you can manage periodic inventory. Example:
Cabinets or storage carts. Must include an address. You can't set up a
location as a par location and an inventory location
simultaneously. |
Payroll Tax
|
| Location where you tax multistate workers according to each
location where they work. If your location is a payroll tax site, you
must enter additional information. Must include at least 1 Location
Mapping . |
Ship-To
|
| Shipping locations used to associate ship-to addresses with
deliver-to locations. Must include an address. |
Training Room
| HCM | A reusable room at a business site for instructor-led classroom
training lessons in learning courses. When adding training rooms, you
must select a business site as the Superior
Location .You can't set up a location as a training
room and a business site simultaneously. |
Work Space
| HCM | Spaces within a business site or another work space. Example: Building, floor,
cubicle, or desk. Work space locations can't be a top-level location.
Work spaces must be subordinates of a work space or business
site. You can't set up a location as a work space and a
business site simultaneously. To remove a work space as a
location usage, you should inactivate the location and create a new
one. |
~Extended Enterprise Affiliation~
| HCM | A location that you can use to:
|