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Administrator Guide
Last Updated: 2025-09-19
Reference: Workday-Delivered Student Hold Types

Reference: Workday-Delivered Student Hold Types

Student hold types describe the processes that Workday prevents moving forward for specific hold reasons, such as not processing a refund because of a past due balance. This table lists:
  • How far the student hold applies to students at more than 1 institution or have more than 1 academic record.
  • Whether the student hold is visible to a student, such as on their profile under the Action Items and Holds profile group.
  • Which student holds types administrators can override so students can continue actions on processes, if needed.
Hold Type
Description
Hold Contexts
Visible to Students?
Overrides Allowed?
Academic Progress
Prevents the Academic Progress job from evaluating the student's academic record. This hold also applies to downstream Financial Aid processes.
Applies to All
Academic Record
No
No
Attendance Plan (Load Status)
Prevents processing the student's attendance plan during the nightly orchestration or manual job run.
Applies to All
No
Yes
Attendance Plan (Structure)
Prevents processing the student's attendance plan during the nightly orchestration or manual job run.
Applies to All
Institution
No
Yes
Charge Assessment
Prevents the Assign Charges job from processing additional charge assessments for the student.
Applies to All
Institution
No
Yes
Cost of Attendance
Prevents cost of attendance (COA) processing during the nightly orchestration or manual job run.
Applies to All
Institution
No
Yes
Decision
Prevents the publishing of an admission decision until the application action item is complete.
Applies to All
No
Yes
Diploma
Workday typically requests a diploma through a web service. Workday doesn't currently process this hold type, but you can report on holds on diplomas, and use the hold in your process for requesting diplomas from a third-party vendor.
Applies to All
Institution
Academic Record
Yes
Yes
Disbursement
Prevents the disbursement of Financial Aid packages.
Institution
Federal School Code
Financial Aid Award Year
No
Yes
Evaluation
Prevents a student application from advancing for evaluation until the application action item is complete.
Applies to All
Yes
Yes
Full Registration
Prevents the student from adding, dropping, and swapping courses. When a registration hold is in effect, the student can't view the Registration button.
Applies to All
Institution
Academic Period
Academic Record
Yes
Yes
Matriculation
Prevents the matriculation of a student prospect until the application action item is complete.
Applies to All
Yes
Yes
Merit Packaging
Prevents:
  • Merit-based and need-based packaging for awarding financial aid.
  • All financial aid award disbursements.
Institution
Federal School Code
Financial Aid Award Year
No
Yes
Need Packaging
Prevents:
  • Need-based packaging for awarding financial aid.
  • All financial aid award disbursements
Institution
Federal School Code
Financial Aid Award Year
No
Yes
Nightly Orchestration
Excludes students with bad data from nightly orchestration when they're preventing it from running properly.
Don't use this hold type unless instructed to do so by Workday Support.
Applies to All
Institution
Yes
No
Onboarding
Prevents the onboarding of a student until the application action item is complete.
Applies to All
Yes
Yes
Pre-Matriculation
Prevents the Student Application Pre-Matriculation Event business process from initiating until the application action item is complete.
Applies to All
Yes
Yes
Refund
Prevents the issuing of new refunds and cancels any posted, but not settled, refunds. After you remove the hold, Workday calculates new refunds the next time the refund job runs.
Applies to All
Institution
Yes
No
Registration Add
Prevents registration for new classes. Students can still drop their currently registered classes.
Applies to All
Institution
Academic Period
Academic Record
Yes
Yes
Self-Service Payment
Prevents a student from making self-service payments.
Applies to All
Institution
Yes
Yes
Silent Full Registration
Same as Full Registration, but students can't view this hold. Use the Silent Full Registration hold for Onboarding business processes. Students can view all other Registration Hold Types.
Applies to All
Institution
Academic Period
Academic Record
No
Yes
Transcript
Prevents the issuing or requesting of a transcript for the student.
Applies to All
Yes
Yes