Data Cloud Catalog
The Data Cloud Catalog contains information about the Workday business object tables available for Live Data Query and Data Lake. The objects and fields included in the catalog represent a curated set of business objects and fields in Workday.
To access the catalog, you can either:
- Use theWorkday Data Cloud: Core Workday Catalogreport. Security:Workday Data Cloud: Catalog Administrationdomain in the Workday Data Cloud: Catalog Administration functional area.
- Download the catalog in .xlsx format: Workday_Data_Cloud_Catalog_10142026.xlsx.
The XLSX catalog contains information not found in the in-tenant report. Use the XLSX version to access information on:
- Joiner tables. See Query Workday Data Lake.
- Scope to Functional Area mapping for the Live Data Query User-as-Self Authentication method. See Set Up Live Data Query User-as-Self Authentication in Workday.
Requesting additions to the catalog
You can make requests to add additional columns or tables to the catalog by contacting Workday Customer Care.
Table and column security
For each table, we list the domain that governs Live Data Query access to the whole table. Some individual fields are secured by separate domains so one table can expose different fields to different users. Example: In the worker table, most fields are secured by the
Worker Data
domain while others are secured by the Public Reporting Items
domain.
Table and column access for Data Lake is governed by data lake access roles rather than the domains listed on the catalog. See Configure Data Lake Access Roles for more information.
ARRAY(BIGINT) columns
ARRAY(BIGINT)
columnsWorkday models multi-instance relationships as array columns on the parent table, rather than as separate child tables with one row per value. Each element is a foreign key to the FK Target table. You can join to that table to return readable values instead of stored IDs.
For query examples, see Query Workday Data Using Live Data Query, and Query Workday Data Lake.