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Last Updated: 2025-03-14
Steps: Set Up Security for Slides

Steps: Set Up Security for Slides

We will retire Slides on October 16, 2026 and will not be providing a replacement. To preserve existing Slides presentations, you can use the Download options in the Slides UI (File > Download) to download the slides as static PDFs or PPTs.
  • Set up Drive for users who need to create, edit, or view Slides presentations. See Steps: Set Up Security for Drive.
  • Security:
    Security Configuration
     domain in the System functional area.
Slides is a presentation application that enables you to share data insights, create narrative, and provide relevant context around Workday data. With Slides you can create, collaborate on, and share presentations that integrate live transactional data from Worksheets workbooks or exported data from People Analytics.
  1. (Optional) Set up Worksheets.
    Enable the
    Worksheets
     domain to provide access for linking to workbook data from a Slides presentation.
  2. (Optional) Set up People Analytics.
    Enable the
    People Analytics
     domain to provide access for exporting People Analytics data to a Slides presentation.
  3. Create these types of security groups for Slides administrators and users:
    • Public groups
    • Role-based (constrained) groups
    • Unconstrained groups
  4. Create or edit a security policy for the
    Slides
     domain in the System functional area.
    Ensure that every user who has access to the
    Slides
     domain also has access to the
    Drive
     and
    Worksheets
     domains.
    1. Access the
      View Domain
       report.
    2. Select the domain from the
      Domain
       prompt.
    3. From the related actions menu, select
      Domain
      Create Security Policy
      , or select
      Edit Security Policy Permissions
       if there's an existing policy.
    4. In
      Report/Task Permissions
      , add or edit security groups.
    5. Select the
      View
       and
      Modify
       check boxes.
      In the domain setup, you must select both
      View
       and
      Modify
      . You can't use these settings to manage access to presentations. You select view and edit permissions for individual presentations when you share them.
    6. From the related action menu on the domain security policy, select
      Domain Security Policy
      Enable
      .
  5. Activate Pending Security Policy Changes.