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New position report on employee profile

We’ve replaced the “All Current Jobs” tab in an employee’s Workday profile with a custom tab labeled “Positions.” This provides more details than All Current Jobs did, including splitting salary and allowance/ADRs into separate totals. It also added the business title so you can tell multiple hourly positions apart, and added some costing data that […]

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Issue Resolved: Current year revenues and receivables

Known Issue: Current year revenues from myWSU are now loaded into Workday. Estimated Time to Resolution: Resolved. Details: Previously you may have noticed that some of your revenues and receivables from the student system (MyWSU) appeared to be missing in Workday. Today, General Accounting and Modernization posted a journal entry to move the accrued revenue […]

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Workday Tips and Tricks: Notifications

This week’s tips and tricks article is all about viewing the notifications you want to see in Workday. Whenever a due date approaches or a task is assigned to you, a notification pops up in the right-hand corner of Workday with a number on a bell icon. Select this bell icon to view your notifications.

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Accounting period close updates and reminders

Check out this new article for the steps in Workday to tell you when the previous accounting period closed. Want to know when upcoming accounting periods will close? Find the schedule on the General Accounting website on the “What’s New?” page. Heads-up: The next accounting period close is on April 5. In-progress accounting journals need to be […]

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Contract Crosswalk and Contract Migration Request process

A Contract Crosswalk is now available in OBIEE. The crosswalk provides the Workday supplier or customer contract number created during conversion. If no Workday numbers are provided, the crosswalk will provide information on why the contract was ineligible for conversion. Here are more details about the OBIEE Crosswalk.

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Clarifying how certain transactions route for approval

We want to clarify details about routing some transactions for approvals: When an initiator on a transaction that uses two worktags is also the only manager for approving the transaction on at least one of the worktags, the approval routes to both of the Area Finance Officers (AFOs) connected to the worktags. This information isn’t […]

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Issue Resolved: Benefit encumbrances inaccurate

Known Issue: Inaccurate benefit encumbrances have been corrected. Budget to actuals reports should now be accurate. Estimated Time to Resolution: Resolved Details: As reported last week, the benefit encumbrances associated with employees were not being correctly stated in Workday, which made budget to actuals reports inaccurate. This issue is now resolved.

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Changes to the “Back” Button in Workday

With the Feature Release on March 13, 2021, employees will see some changes to the “Back” Button in parts of Workday, particularly within reports and business processes. Previously, the Back Button was a left-pointing arrow in the title bar on a Workday screen. It was located to the left of whatever text is in the […]

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