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Workday User Guide
Last Updated: 2023-06-23
Steps: Create Visualizations

Steps: Create Visualizations

Security: These domains in the System functional area:
  • Drive
  • Discovery Boards: Create
You can explore and analyze data in a data source interactively by using a visualization (viz) in a discovery board.
  1. Access
    Drive
    .
    You can also access your discovery board as a worklet from the Home page.
  2. Select the discovery board you want to edit.
  3. (Optional) To enable live updates, select
    Automatically Update
    from the related actions menu of the discovery board. When you disable the automatic update, you can manually update the viz by clicking
    Update Now
    .
  4. On the
    Builder panel
    , select a viz type.
  5. Drag and drop fields into the drop zones to analyze the data.
  6. (Optional) To display only the fields administrators configured in curated field lists, enable
    Show only curated fields
    from the related actions menu of the discovery board. When you disable the curated field list, Workday displays all available fields to discovery board users.
    Discovery board administrators can configure curated field lists for the primary business object of the data source.
You can:
  • Add a description to the viz by selecting
    Add Description
    from the related actions menu of the viz.
  • Change how Workday displays your vizzes by dragging the viz to a new location on the sheet to reposition it.
  • Modify your viz to change how Workday displays data.
  • Duplicate the viz by selecting
    Duplicate
    from the related actions menu.