Reference: Field Types
The
Report Fields
report enables you to gain insight into the
calculated and Workday-delivered report fields and their types. You can also gain additional
information on report fields by accessing the related actions menu.Field Type | Considerations and Examples |
|---|---|
Boolean | Also known as a true/false field type where a field must meet a
condition. Example: Is Active Employee or
Is Manager . |
Currency | Example: Base Pay – Amount or Benefits
Annual Rate . |
Date | Workday recommends that you view the description of the field to determine
what information the field returns. If you select a date field associated with a
worker, you might yield results outside the date range of the report. Example: A
company hires an employee on January 1, terminates the employee on June 1, and
then rehires on September 1. If you create a custom report to list employees with
a hire date before July 1, the report includes the employee hired on January 1.
However, the report displays September 1 as the hire date because the
Hire Date field returns the most current hire
date.Example: Date of Birth or Hire
Date . |
DateTimeZone | Example: End Date/Time or Start Date and
Time . |
Multi-Instance | Multi-instance field types represent the one-to-many relationship the
primary business object has with the related business object. A multi-instance
field can contain multiple values with each value representing an instance in the
related business object that links to the primary business object. Example:
Assigned Organization or
Dependents . |
Numeric | Example: Age or Location - Scheduled
Hours . |
Rich Text | A field with text formatting that changes the overall look of the
field. Workday doesn't support analytic indicators for rich text field
types. Example: Job Description or
Overall Comment - Manager . |
Self-Referencing | A self-referencing field type returns an instance of the business
object. Example: If the data source returns Workers
and you configure a field for the primary business object, the self-referencing
field returns a Worker . |
Single Instance | Single instance field types represent the one-to-one relationship that the
primary business object has with the related business object. A single instance
field contains 1 value representing the instance in the related business object
that links to the primary business object. Example: Compensation
Grade or Position . |
Text | Example: Candidate ID or Last
Name . |
Time | Example: End Time or Start
Time . |