Workday Tips & Tricks: Updating your default Search settings

Do you often find yourself manually updating your search category to ‘All of Workday’ when a common search cannot locate what you’re looking for, such as individual transactions?

Cut down on your search times by updating your default search settings in your profile to automatically search all of Workday.

Here’s how:

On the Workday home page, select the Profile (cloud) icon in the top right corner, then select My Account.

A screenshot depicting the Workday profile cloud icon.

Under the My Account menu, select Change Preferences.

Screenshot depicting the Change Preferences icon.

In the Change Preferences menu, locate the Search Preferences section. In this field, update your Preferred Search Category to All of Workday.

Screenshot depicting the Search Preferences field.

Select OK. 

You have successfully updated your Search preferences!

You can also find these steps in the Workday Knowledge Base.

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