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Last Updated: 2025-05-02
Create Applicant Home Pages

Create Applicant Home Pages

  • Security: These domains in the Academic Foundation functional area:
    • Set Up: Student Sites
    • Set Up: Student Admissions Sites
You can create applicant home pages for external student sites, where applicants can:
  • Check the status of their applications.
  • View application requirements.
  • Upload documents or provide external links to satisfy requirements.
  • View their preliminary transfer credit.
  • Accept or decline offers of admission.
You can create an applicant home for each admitting level of an external student site. Example: The Alma Mater University (AMU) Student site can have different applicant home pages for graduate and undergraduate applicants.
  1. Access the
    Create Applicant Home
     task.
  2. Complete the task:
    Option Description
    Name
    Enter a label for the link on the landing page that takes applicants to the applicant home page.
    ID
    Enter text to append to the URL Workday creates for the applicant home page.
    Welcome Message
    Enter text to display on the applicant welcome page.
    Content Title
    Enter a title to display for additional content you add to the applicant welcome page.
    Content
    Workday automatically includes a
    Your Applications
     section with links for navigating to application requirements and decisions.
    Enter content about the application process to display on the applicant welcome page.
    Enable Duplicate Applications
    (Optional) Select to enable applicants to submit applications on external student sites that have the same program of study and anticipated start as existing applications.
    Display Preliminary Transfer Credit Report
    (Optional) Select to display a link to an applicant's preliminary transfer credit report under the application details on the application home page. Workday displays this report:
    • For applicants with a published decision of Admit.
    • When the applicant has assigned preliminary transfer credit.
    Report Heading Content
    (Optional) Enter text to display above the link to the preliminary transfer credit report. You can use this text to describe the limitations of the report or insert an external link to the transfer credit policies and resources at your institution.
  3. (Optional) Complete the
    Admissions Application Initiating Page Configuration
     section, to configure the fields that applicants must fill out when they begin a new admissions application on Applicant Home:
    Option Description
    Section Label
    Enter a custom name to use instead of the default name for the section.
    Section Description
    Describe what applicants need to know about the section and add information that helps them complete it.
    Label Override
    Enter a custom name to use instead of the default name for the field.
    Selectable Prompt Values
    Select values that applicants can choose from. If you leave this field empty, Workday displays all values.
    When a campus assignment policy is in effect, select the allowed
    Campus Location
     values that are valid for the selected
    Program of Study
     values.
    Required
    Select to require applicants to complete the field.
    Hidden
    Select to hide the field from the applicant.
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