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Last Updated: 2025-09-19
Steps: Set Up Workday Home

Steps: Set Up Workday Home

To use videos on the Workday Home page, such as in announcements, you might need to take additional steps to set up Media Cloud based on your organization's subscription service agreement. See Getting Started with Media Cloud.
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 set up the Workday Home page to enable your employees to access engaging company information from a central place by providing a home page and search result experience. You can customize the Home page to display curated:
  • Announcements.
  • Cards, which link to different areas in Workday.
  • External links.
  • Worklets.
  1. Enable the People Experience functional area.
    See Steps: Enable Functional Areas and Security Policies.
  2. Edit Domain Security Policies.
    Grant security groups permissions to
    Set Up: People Experience Configuration
     domain in the People Experience functional area:
    • Set Up: People Experience Configuration
      . Enables you to customize the Home page.
  3. Activate Pending Security Policy Changes.
  4. Select
    Home Cards Workspace
     located in the
    System Admin
     report to:
    • Add and publish cards to the Home page in the
      Added Cards
       section.
    • Configure various sections of the Home page that includes
      Extend
      cards,
      Important Dates
      ,
      Onboarding
       and
      Sana
       card in the
      Work Tools
       section.
    Refer to Concept: Sana Workspace and Steps: Set Up Sana for Workday on enabling the Sana Workspace.
    Grant security groups permissions to
    Set Up: People Experience Configuration
     domain in the People Experience functional area:
    • Set Up: People Experience Configuration
      . Enables you to customize the Home page.
    Security:
    Set Up: People Experience Configuration
     domain in the People Experience functional area.
  5. Select
    Home Page Settings
     located in the
    System Admin
     report to customize certain sections of the home page.
    1. Select
      Enable My Tasks
       to display the
      Awaiting Your Action
       section on the Home page.
    2. Once you select
      Enable My Tasks
      , you have the option to select
      Disable Hiding
       that restricts users from hiding inbox items on the Home page.
    3. Select
      Enable Top Apps (Do Not Use)
       to display the first 4 apps or worklets from the
      View All Apps
       section that you want to display from the global navigation menu.
    4. Select either
      Hire Date
       or
      Continuous Service Date
       from the
      Anniversary Display Date
       for the Anniversary for Worker card to indicate the type of date you want to display on your workers' home page.
    Security:
    Set up: People Experience Configuration
     domain in the People Experience functional area.
  6. (Optional) Access the
    Manage Tenant Search Sources
     task to select which product categories display in the Federated Search.
    Security:
    Set Up: People Experience Configuration domain
     in the People Experience functional area.
  7. (Optional) Access the
    Maintain Time Off Plan Balance Display Priority for Search
     task.
    Enter priorities for time off plan balances that you want to display in the
    Your Time Off Summary
     card. Workday delivers these personalized results as part of the Smart Summaries feature.
  9. Access the
    Maintain Dashboards
     report.
    To add required and recommended worklets and external links to the Home dashboard, click
    Edit
     and select the
    Content
     tab.
    Security:
    Set Up: Tenant Setup - Worklets
     domain in the System functional area.
  11. (Optional) Brand your Workday tenant with custom images and color.