Concept: Tenant-Wide Calculated Fields
Tenant-wide calculated fields are fields you can use throughout your Workday tenant,
including:
- Business processes.
- Condition rules.
- Custom reports.
- Integrations.
Because you can use tenant-wide calculated field simultaneously in multiple areas
throughout Workday, changing a calculated field can cause unintended downstream impacts
to other critical processes, including:
- Financial reports.
- Hiring business processes.
- Reports that auditors rely on.
It's critical that users have the appropriate level of calculated field access. To ensure
control and consistency, consider limiting access to specific individuals or creating
additional security groups to grant specific actions for the
Custom Field
Management
domain. The domain enables users to create, change, or delete any
tenant-wide calculated field.For more visibility into the definitions of calculated fields, click from the related actions menu of a report that uses calculated
fields.
To assess the impacts of making changes to calculated fields used in reports, access the
Calculated Field Usage Hierarchy
report.To change a calculated field from tenant-wide to report-specific, access the
Convert Calculated Field
task. To enable conversion, you
can't use the calculated field in anything other than the report you want to associate
it with.