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Last Updated: 2024-11-01
Create Calculations

Create Calculations

Understand the available types of numeric, date, and boolean calculations that you can create.
Security:
  • Set Up: Calculations - Generic
     domain in the Core Payroll functional area.
  • Set Up: Time Off (Calculations - Generic)
     domain in the Time Off and Leave functional area.
  • To configure access to calculations using segment-based security groups:
    Access Calculation (Segmented)
     domain in the Core Payroll, Implementation, Payroll Interface, and Time Off and Leave functional areas.
You can create calculations to define complex business rules for particular processes in:
  • Absence Management
  • Compensation
  • Student
  • Workday Payroll
Workday also delivers many standard calculations.
  1. Search for
    View [calculation type]
     to verify that a duplicate calculation doesn't already exist.
    To create a new calculation by copying and editing similar one, select
    Calculation
    Copy
     from the related actions menu of the calculation.
  2. Search for
    Create [calculation type]
    .
  3. Select the
    Category
    .
    Workday recommends not modifying calculations in other categories because doing so might negatively affect other Workday products.
  4. As you complete the task, consider:
    Type of Calculation
    Performance Guidelines
    Conditional Calculation
    To optimize performance when setting multiple conditions, define the
    Order
     from the most restrictive condition to the least restrictive.
    Logic Calculation
    Depending on the
    Operator
    , order your operands differently:
    • AND
       operator: Put the least common operand first.
    • OR
       operator: Put the most common operand first.
You can view calculations in the
All Calculations
 report.
Access the
Calculation Exception Audit
 report to find calculations that:
  • Aren't used.
  • Have related errors or warnings.
Access the
Delete Calculation
 task to delete a calculation that isn’t in use. See the
Usage
 tab on the calculation to determine if and where it is in use. The tab doesn't display if it's not in use.