Roles can be assigned to a user when he is given a responsibility within a functional area, such as HR partner or compensation partner for a particular organization. You can have different roles in relationship to different organizations. For example, you could be a compensation partner for one organization and an HR business partner for another organization.

Designated participants in business processes, with a defined responsibility in this type of event, indicate that they deny the proposed action The business process is not authorized to proceed to the next step. In some cases, the entire business process may be terminated, and all Workday data is restored to its state before the business process started.

A data source defines a particular set of business object instances for reporting purposes. A data source is similar to a database view, except it is more flexible in two key areas. First, a database view always returns a flattened out tabular data structure, whereas a data source can return hierarchical data structures. Second, a database view requires that technical staff manually join related tables together, while a data source automatically allows reportable access to all business objects related to those in the data source.

Several dashboards are delivered with a number of worklets pre-configured that are specific to a functional area, like Talent Management or Workforce Planning. Since these worklets are built with the report writer and report-specific calculated fields, you can copy and modify them if you have unique requirements. You can add additional custom worklets to these dashboards using the report writer.

15 delivered worktags with configurable names and values. Each custom worktag associates the Worktag Usage with financial, human resource, payroll, or time tracking transactions or data. Optimal when all you need is a simple tag for financial transactions that do not require any capabilities around roll-ups, security assignment, or assigning to workers. Note: custom worktags cannot be used for payroll costing allocations and accounting adjustments.

Custom reports are designed and built by customers using the Workday Report Writer. They can be created new or as a copy of another standard or custom report.

Definable worktags that you can associate with people or financial transactions. You can: (1) Automatically populate a custom organization as a worktag into transactions that involve a worker by making the worker a member of the custom organization. (2) Use custom organizations as worktags to route transactions to specific people based on role.

Ability to extend Workday business objects by creating custom object definitions based on the business object and adding custom fields. Custom objects enable you to record additional data for which there's no Workday-delivered field. - Business objects are used to store data in Workday (such as organizations or workers). A business object has fields and instances, which are analogous to rows and columns in a spreadsheet.

Correcting a business process changes a specification or data in the workflow while in progress. It is also a securable action in a business process security policy

A contextual custom report is a custom report created by selecting Reporting > Create Custom Report from Here from the related actions menu of a Workday object . It simplifies the selection of data and fields by limiting choices to those related to the context of the object.