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Issue Resolved: FY2024 payroll obligations created incorrectly

Known Issue: FY2024 payroll obligations were created incorrectly. Time to Resolution: Resolved. Details: Normally, positions with a grant on the costing allocation would generate obligations in a future fiscal year. A hotfix deployed by Workday on December 30, 2022, impacted a process WSU uses to update our payroll obligations. This change resulted in the inability of the system […]

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Issue Resolved: Custom notifications triggering emails from Workday

Issue: A setting in Workday was briefly changed that resulted in emails being sent to users regarding business processes with custom notifications. Time to resolution: Resolved. Details: On January 10, a setting was briefly changed in Workday in an attempt to turn on email notifications for a specific business process. After receiving several tickets from […]

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Tips & Tricks: Check your Workday Announcements

Stay up to date by reviewing your Workday Announcements! We use Announcements to share key information and reminders with WSU employees, including messages for certain security roles about specific tasks or deadlines in Workday.   When you log into Workday, you’ll find your Announcements section at the bottom right-hand corner of the home page. Visit […]

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January reporting updates

Here are the reporting updates for the month of January. Report Modifications Human Resources CR HCM Employee Snapshot We’ve added a new column, Primary Work Email. CR ACA Named Professorships  This report lists Named Professorships, any related Gift, and details for the Gift. It is now available. Finance CR PRO Find Credit Card Transactions This […]

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Schedule grants training for your college or department

Christine Galbreath, Modernization’s Lead Business Systems Analyst for Grants, is currently accepting requests from colleges and departments to bring a unique training opportunity to their faculty. Colleges may reach out to Christine to schedule a training session designed to help Principal Investigators (PIs) and other staff involved in grants management learn about grants reporting in […]

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New Custom Object for Gifts

After receiving feedback from the Gifts workgroup, we’ve added a new Custom Object for Gifts, called Associated Pooled Gift ID, to better assist departmental users and Development Officers with their gift management practices. In Workday, the new “Associated Pooled Gift ID” custom object can be found on a Gift under Additional Data/Gift Attributes. For historical […]

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New grant reference guides for PIs

We’ve collaborated with the Voiland College of Engineering and Architecture to create a series of new grants reference guides for Principal Investigators (PIs). The following reference guides are now available to assist PIs in performing grant-related tasks: View Grant Available Balances in Workday View Grant Expenses for the Prior Month in Workday Scheduling a Report […]

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Known Issue: FY2024 payroll obligations created incorrectly

Known Issue: FY2024 payroll obligations were created incorrectly. Time to Resolution: Unknown. Details: Normally, positions with a grant on the costing allocation would generate obligations in a future fiscal year. Beginning January 03, 2023, obligations were calculated on all positions with a costing allocation in FY2024. You may encounter this issue when running reports that […]

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Issue Resolved: OKTA login unavailable

Issue: On January 5, 2023, the login for WSU OKTA and other services became briefly unavailable, preventing users from accessing Workday, and other systems requiring multi-factor authentication. This issue has been resolved. Time to Resolution: Resolved. Details: On January 5, 2023, login to OKTA and other services were briefly unavailable. This issue prevented users from accessing Workday, and […]

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