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Administrator Guide
Last Updated: 2023-06-23
Reference: Core Reporting Capabilities

Reference: Core Reporting Capabilities

You can view high-level feature descriptions for the capabilities in this product area.
Customers that have subscribed to Services in these Product Lines may have access to some features in this product area: Analytics and Reporting, Financial Management, Human Capital Management, Payroll, Spend Management, Student, Talent Management, and Workforce Management.

Foundational Reporting

Supports foundational reporting of data. The functionality provides the ability to:
  • Access standard reports with ability to copy and edit.
  • Create reports to perform various actions on the data from primary and related business objects.
  • Create custom dashboards that group related worklets.
  • Create calculated fields to be used in reports.

Analytics and Insights

Supports analytics, insights, and charting on data in the tenant through reports, dashboards, and discovery boards.

Interactivity and Self Service

Supports user interactivity and self-service data based on configuration options, sharing, and security access.

Report Distribution

Supports the distribution of reports. The functionality provides the ability to:
  • Support authorized users to share and distribute reports.
  • Schedule reports or report groups in the background.
  • Support Workday Query Language (WQL), a SQL-like syntax, to access Workday data using data sources and fields instead of reports.

Report Management

Supports tracking of report usage and managing reports. The functionality:
  • Includes reports to view custom and standard reports in the tenant.
  • Provides the ability to mass delete custom reports.
  • Provides a dashboard to display reports and tasks that help administrators manage reports in the tenant.
  • Includes reports to view how many times a report ran and includes details such as who ran the report and at what time.
  • Supports report tags to categorize reports and report output files for easier searching.
  • Provides the ability to create temporary reports.