An instance refers to one unique occurrence of a business object, for example, your Executive Management organization, or John Doe, the worker.

An initiation step is the first step of a business process.

An intersection security group is one whose members are other security groups. Workers associated with all included security groups are granted access through an intersection security group.

Get is an integration action that retrieves Workday data. It is a permission that can be granted in a domain security policy.

A functional area is a collection of domain or business process security policies that are related to the same set of product features, for example, Benefits or Compensation.

Sorts out undesired data, used when creating reports with Report Writer.

In a Report Writer report, a field contains data related to a particular primary or related business object.

A transaction that occurs within your organization, such as hiring or terminating an employee.

Matrix reports enable you to drill down to see underlying data. When you click on a drillable element (such as a drillable field in the table view or a column, line, or pie segment in the chart view), a context menu appears that enables you to select a new View By field. If the Enable Drilldown to Detail Data check box is selected on the Advanced tab of the report definition, you can also select Details associated with the selected report element.

A domain security policy is a collection of related securable elements of different types and user-specified security groups that have access to elements of each type.