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Last Updated: 2026-10-16
Set Up Considerations: Suggested Translations

Set Up Considerations: Suggested Translations

The Machine Translations framework (Suggested Translations) provides automatic translations for content in the journeys editor. You can use this topic to reduce manual translation effort and quickly deploy global content across all Workday-delivered languages. It explains:
  • Why to set it up.
  • How it fits into the rest of Workday.
  • Downstream impacts and cross-product interactions.
  • Security requirements and business process configurations.
  • Questions and limitations to consider before implementation.
Refer to detailed task instructions for full configuration details.

What It Is

  1. Workday generates machine-translated suggestions for the languages you have enabled.
  2. Reviewers receive a notification in My Tasks to review, modify, or approve the suggested content.
  3. Once approved, the translations are available for workers to view in the journey.
  4. You can also preview translations directly in the Journeys Workspace report.

Business Benefits

You can use this topic to reduce manual translation effort and quickly deploy global content across all Workday-delivered languages.

Use Cases

  • Global Content Deployment: Organizations with a diverse, multilingual workforce can use automatic translations to quickly make Journeys content available in various languages, ensuring all employees receive consistent guidance and information.
  • Efficient Translation Review: Translation approvers can review and modify suggested translations from a single
    My Task
     notification, enhancing efficiency in the translation workflow.
  • Pre-Publishing Verification: Content creators can preview journeys in different languages directly in the Journeys workspace, allowing for verification of translations before distribution.

Requirements

You might need to take additional steps to enable this feature depending on your organization's subscription service agreement. For more information, see this Community article.
To utilize this feature, opt in to the
Innovation Services Opt-In
 task.
  • Select
    Available Services > Cross Application Services > Globalization Services
    .
  • Select
    Available Services > People Experience > Journeys
    .

Tenant Setup

To configure machine translations for Journeys, you must:
  • Enable Machine Translation toggle.
  • Select all the languages you want to automatically translate under Journeys. T
    • You may select a subset of the
      Machine Translation Supported Languages
       to be enabled for translation for journeys.

Reporting

You can:
  • Enable automatic translations for selected languages to review suggested translations through the
    My Tasks
     notifications.
  • Preview translations in the journeys editor.

Integrations

No impact.

Connections and Touchpoints

Workday offers a Touchpoints Kit with resources to help you understand configuration relationships in your tenant. Learn more about the Workday Touchpoints Kit on Workday Community.

Other Impacts

None.