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Administrator Guide
Last Updated: 2025-09-19
Concept: Requisition Templates

Concept: Requisition Templates

Requisition templates enable you to maintain a collection of goods and services, making the requisition process simpler, faster, and more manageable. The
Create Requisition Template
task enables you to:
  • Create a requisition from a template.
  • Acquire goods and services for new workers.
  • Control access to private, shared, and public templates.
You can use the
Mass Maintain Requisition Templates
task to add, remove, or update goods lines across multiple requisition templates.
You can't include punchout items in templates or requisition copies. Workers must add punchout items to their final requisitions manually to get the most up-to-date items and prices.

Create a Requisition from a Template

Requisition templates make the requisition process fast and simple. When a worker creates a requisition and selects a template, the template automatically populates the requisition. The worker then has a requisition that's equivalent to one created from scratch. You can edit the requisition if necessary, such as updating obsolete prices. Templates can be filtered based on the following fields:
  • Companies
  • Requisition types
  • Worktag types
  • Deliver-To locations
This automatically refines the selection to display only relevant templates during consumption. This feature enhances the ease of use by narrowing choices to the most applicable templates, targeting the audience.
To see a list, use the
Requisitions Templates
report.

Acquire Goods and Services for New Workers

When you hire new workers, you provide them with a standard set of items. Example: A new laptop and monitor. You can gather all those required goods in a requisition template and associate the template with a job profile. When you hire a worker into that job profile, Workday automatically notifies the HR Partner to create a requisition for the worker. Workday already specifies all the information in the template. The HR Partner can simply submit the already populated requisition. You can also edit the requisition if necessary.

Control Access to Private, Shared, and Public Templates

You can create requisition templates with these
Template Access
permissions:
  • Public.
    All users can access the template.
  • Security Group.
    You can select 1 or more security groups that can access the template.
  • User.
    You can select 1 or more users that can access the template.
  • Not Shared.
    Only you can access the template.
Depending on how you configure security, only Buyers and Service Coordinators can share templates or make them Public. They can share templates with a specific group of Workday users, Workday roles (such as other Buyers), or members of a specific organization. Those users can use the template just as if they created it. However, the creator of the template is the only one who can edit it. Everyone in the company can use public templates.
Alternatively, you can manage security for shared templates by opting in for the
Enable Requisition Template Security Updates
feature. You can configure the security policy for the
Process: Shared Requisition Template - View
domain to control who can view shared templates. You can add users to this domain, and create a custom report that enables them to view all shared and unshared templates. You can enable users to modify requisition templates by adding them to the
Process: Shared Requisition Template
domain.