Concept: Report Designer Overview
When you run a report, Workday displays the results and enables you to download a PDF version.
You can associate this PDF with a specific design called a business form layout. Report
Designer is a graphical tool that enables you to create your own designs. Then you can
deploy them as business form layouts in your Workday tenant.
There are 3 main scenarios in which you might use Report Designer:
- You want to create a business form layout for a custom report you've created in Workday.
- Workday provides a standard report with a delivered business form layout, but you want to customize the business form layout.
- You want to use a customized business form layout for a standard report because it doesn't have a Workday-delivered business form layout. For this use case, make sure to first copy the standard report to a custom report.
Workday provides Report Designer as part of the Workday Studio Eclipse development environment
and uses the open-source Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools (BIRT) software.
Ensure that you have the latest version of the Workday Studio.
Report Designer gives you control over a number of useful design factors, including these
elements:
- Rich text formatting.
- Charts and graphs.
- Images and logos.
- Tables.
- Headers and footers.
- Page breaks.