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Last Updated: 2023-06-23
Reference: Supported Fields in Discovery Boards

Reference: Supported Fields in Discovery Boards

When you create or edit a discovery board, Workday lists the supported fields in the field list.
For Prism data sources, Workday supports:
  • Every field in the Prism data source.
  • Tenant-wide summarization calculations.
  • The global calculated field functions supported in Prism data sources.
For Workday-delivered data sources, Workday supports:
  • Workday-delivered fields.
  • Tenant-wide summarization calculations.
  • Tenant-wide calculated fields that use these functions:
    • Aggregate Related Instances
    • Arithmetic Calculation
    • Build Date
    • Concatenate Text
    • Convert Currency
    • Convert Text to Number
    • Count Related Instances
    • Date Constant
    • Date Difference
    • Evaluate Expression
    • Evaluate Expression Band
    • Extract Multi-Instance
    • Extract Single Instance
    • Format Date
    • Format Number
    • Format Text
    • Increment or Decrement Date
    • Lookup Date Rollup
    • Lookup Field with Prompts
    • Lookup Hierarchy
    • Lookup Hierarchy Rollup
    • Lookup Organization
    • Lookup Organizational Roles
    • Lookup Range Band
    • Lookup Related Value
    • Lookup Translated Value
    • Lookup Value As Of Date
    • Numeric Constant
    • Substring Text
    • Sum Related Instances
    • Text Constant
    • Text Length
    • True/False Condition
Workday doesn't support:
  • Fields on the Global business object.
  • Fields that use these field types:
    • DateTime
    • DateTimeZone
    • Rich Text
    • Time
If you use a Self-referencing Instance field in a viz, it displays as a Single Instance field.
Use optimized fields whenever possible to improve performance. When creating or editing a viz, Workday displays a blue dot and tip text messages on fields optimized for performance. Data source fields might be optimized for different purposes. You can achieve better performance when you use fields optimized for grouping, aggregation, or filtering. Workday optimizes all fields in Prism data sources, and some fields in indexed Workday-delivered data sources.