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Workday User Guide
Last Updated: 2023-06-23
Enable Contextual Publishing for Datasets

Enable Contextual Publishing for Datasets

Security: These domains in the System functional area:
  • Security Activation
  • Security Configuration
When you create and edit datasets, you typically need to build reports and visualizations to test the data you’re transforming in the dataset. To test your work, you must publish your dataset, which requires access to the
Prism Datasets: Publish
domain.
You can set up your tenant to restrict users to publish datasets based on their contextual access to the dataset. Contextual publishing enables dataset users to publish a dataset based on their dataset permission, such as Dataset Owner or Dataset Editor.
You might want to enable contextual publishing to enable dataset users to test their work without giving them unconstrained access to publish all datasets.
To enable contextual publishing, you must have already enabled dataset sharing by creating assignable roles that correspond to dataset-related Workday roles.
  1. Create a role-based (constrained) security group.
    Select 1 of these roles for the
    Assignable Role
    :
    • Dataset Owner
    • Dataset Editor
    Select
    Role has access to the positions they support
    for the
    Access Rights to Multiple Job Workers
    option.
    You can create a role-based (constrained) security group to enable users to publish datasets they have Dataset Owner permission on. Example:
    Security Group Property
    Example
    Name
    Dataset Owner (role-based)
    Assignable Role
    Dataset Owner
    Access Rights to Organizations
    Applies To Current Organization And Unassigned Subordinates
    Access Rights to Multiple Job Workers
    Role has access to the positions they support
  2. Edit the domain security policy for the
    Prism Datasets: Publish
    domain in the Prism Analytics functional area.
    Add the role-based (constrained) security group you created, and assign both View and Modify task permissions.
  3. Activate pending security policy changes.