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Last Updated: 2024-02-09
Steps: Set Up Custom Names for Countries

Steps: Set Up Custom Names for Countries

Workday-delivered country names comply with ISO standards. You can also create custom names according to your local and organizational requirements. Custom country names display on:
  • Fields and prompts throughout Workday.
  • External career sites.
Custom country names display in all payslip documents that you generate after the name change, excluding payslips for USA and France. Check your Workday Payroll check printing integrations for any potential impact.
  1. Access the
    Maintain Workday Delivered Country Names
     task.
    Select a country or territory to configure custom names for users with a related primary work location. You can use the
    Native Country Name
     field to overwrite the country name in parentheses in the
    Preferred Locale
     and
    Preferred Display Language
     drop-downs in your Global Preferences.
    Security:
    Set Up: Tenant Setup - Global
     domain in the System functional area. See Reference: Edit Tenant Setup - Global.
  2. In the
    Contact Information
     area, configure the
    Country Names
     localized field to display custom country names for specific countries.
  3. Select
    Country Name (Localization)
     from the
    Translatable Business Object
     prompt to translate custom country names.
Custom country names display on:
  • Fields and prompts throughout Workday.
  • External career sites.
Workday displays custom country names based on a user's primary work location. If you translate custom country names, the name displays based on the user's preferred language.
Workday doesn't automatically order Japanese country prompts by the first phonetic character in the custom country name.