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Last Updated: 2026-06-12
Steps: Enable Enhanced Tasks and Reports Discovery

Steps: Enable Enhanced Tasks and Reports Discovery

You might need to take additional steps to enable this feature based on your organization's subscription service agreement. Your organization is either on the Main Service Agreement (MSA) or the Universal Main Service Agreement (UMSA). To determine your organization's subscription service agreement:
  1. Select your profile avatar on Workday Community.
  2. Select
    Profile
    .
  3. On your profile page, select your organization's name, which is beneath your name and next to your job title.
  4. View your
    Subscription Service Agreement
     value.
If the value is:
  • UMSA
    , the feature is automatically available. You can skip the
    Enable Innovation Services Feature and AI Data Contributions for MSA Customers
     step. For more information on Machine Learning data contributions, see Concept: Workday AI for Universal Main Subscription Agreement Customers.
  • MSA
    , you must enable this feature through Innovation Services using the
    Enable Innovation Services Feature and AI Data Contributions for MSA Customers
    step.
Note: UMSA customers don't have Innovation Services tasks and reports in their tenants as these are for MSA customers only. UMSA customers can ignore all information regarding Innovation Services.
You can enable enhanced tasks and reports in the search user experience to increase the amount of search queries that return tasks and reports for users in the search results. Enhanced tasks and reports utilizes advanced search capabilities, including semantic search and large language models, to improve the search experience.
In the
Top Results
 and
Tasks and Reports
 search result categories, enhanced tasks and reports:
  • Recognizes more search queries that return relevant tasks and reports.
  • Ranks and displays up to 5 of the top tasks and reports specific to a user's search query.
Workday does not require you to enable Workday Assistant for users to access this feature.
  1. On the
    Innovation Services Opt-In
     task, select the
    Workday Assistant
     service on the
    Available Services
     tab in the
    People Experience
     category.
    On the
    Maintain Innovation Services Data Selection Opt-In
     task, access the
    People Experience: Workday Assistant category
     and select the check box next to
    Task and Report Data
    .
  2. To display enhanced tasks and reports in the
    Top Results
     category in the Workday Assistant card and in the
    Tasks and Reports
     category, set up Workday Assistant. See: Steps: Set Up Workday Assistant.
After enabling enhanced tasks and reports in the search user experience, Workday displays additional relevant tasks and reports in the search results based on the user's query.
It can take up to 7 days for enhanced tasks and reports to display in the search results. The data model requires additional time to ingest task and report data after initially opting in.