Types of Workday Reports and how to create them
                     Types of Workday 
Reports and how to 
create them
About Workday Report
Workday reports are prepared by the 
workday consultants mentioning their 
workday tasks in an organized way 
describing each & every tasks. 
Workday through its continuous 
innovation has enabled and provided 
solutions to industries of 
communication, education, healthcare, 
manufacturing, retail, hospitality and 
others by transforming and managing 
the data at a single place by toting its 
ongoing value.
Types of reporting Workday 
Report offers
Workday Report offers Simple reports, Advanced reports, Matrix reports, 
Composite reports, Trending reports, Transposed reports, Search reports and 
Box reports.
 Simple Reports- This is basic reporting offered by Workday where the 
features are simple and basic with limited design options, such as sorting 
and filtering. These are used on recurring bases to create simple custom 
reports.
 Advanced Reports- This type of reporting offers justly complex design 
options including- Filtering, Sub-filtering, Prompting, and Sharing. Its special 
features include multiple levels of headings and subtotals using related 
business objects.
 Matrix Reports- The Matrix reporting are similar to Pivot tables and cross 
tables that allows grouping of tables for reoccurring values. This reporting 
allows drilling into details to perform custom analytics and interactive 
reporting across dimensions.
 Composite Reports- Composite reporting has features that enable to 
combine multiple reports and time periods into a single report. The user can 
collate data from Advanced, Matrix and Trending types of sub-reports.
 Trending Reports- Trending report enables the user to group data by 
time period for trend analysis. Grouping, summarizing, and drilling down on 
data are special features of this reporting.
 Transposed Reports- This type of reporting has feature of comparing 
and analysing data by swapping rows for columns. A transposed report 
enables the user to perform side-by-side data comparisons, display an 
image like rows within a column under collapsible headings.
 Search Reports- Search reporting enables user to display instances of a 
business object that you can narrow down with search terms or facet filters 
and also used as web services in outbound EIBs.
 nBox Reports- nBox reporting had the feature to display counts of 
business object instances in a 2-dimensional matrix, that enables the user to 
compare and visualize objects across 2 fields. Report on Talent Matrix - 
Performance by Potential is an example using the feature of Box reporting.
Features and concepts in 
Workday Reports
 Sorting- The primary business object are sorted using the Sort 
tab in a custom report that allows the user to control the order in 
which data will be presented and grouped.
 Filtering- The primary business object using the Filter tab. This 
feature consists of one or more filter conditions to filter any field 
from the primary business object or Global business object.
 Prompting- Prompts are used in filters and sub-filters which 
provides more flexibility because users can specify the criteria for 
the report each time it is run.
 Scheduling Reports- The user can schedule a report to run 
immediately, or at a specific time in the future, or on a recurring 
basis based on the reporting needs.
 Totaling, Grouping, and Outlining- For a custom report using 
the Advanced report type,
 The user uses Totaling feature to display the sub-totals and 
grand totals. 
 By using Grouping feature, the user can add groupings to 
visualize the data.
 Enabling Outlining concept, allows the user to expand and 
collapse groupings.
 Report Security- A predefined set of related securable items 
that include reports, tasks, report fields, data sources is 
known as security domain. The Report security feature 
enables security domains and security groups control access 
to reports and report data. 
Roles that an individual can take up on successful 
completion of Workday Training includes
Workday Report Writer
Workday Reporting Lead
Workday Technical Consultant
Workday Reporting Developer
Workday Reporting Analyst
Workday Technical Project 
Lead
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