Workday Reports

Workday Reports

 What is a Report?

--> It is a collection of data for a specific requirement.

Workday provides 2 types of reports:

1. Workday Standard Reports

2. Workday Custom Reports

  

 1. Workday Standard Reports

-Workday standard reports are delivered / created by workday. 

-We can use them as a reference and build custom reports 

-Standard reports can be copied and convert into custom reports and modify the codes.

-Workday standard reports are again divided into two types:

1. Report writer reports --> We can copy, convert into custom reports and edit the code

2. XpressO reports-- We cannot copy/edit/converted into custom reports

  

2. Workday Custom Reports 

 -Workday Custom Reports are users created reports 

-Workday Custom Reports are created based on the requirement 

-Workday Custom Reports are again divided into 8 types.

 

1.Simple reports     ----- Standard or Indexed

2.Advanced reports   ----- Standard or Indexed

3.Matrix reports     ----- Standard or Indexed

4.Trending reports   ----- Standard or Indexed

5.Search reports     ----- Indexed

6.nBox reports       ----- Indexed

7.Composite reports  ----- Standard or Indexed

8.Transposed reports ----- Standard or Indexed

<<S A M T S n C T>> 

 How to access workday standard reports ?

The task code is "workday standard report"

How to access workday custom reports ?

The task code is "create custom report" 

All the workday reports are gets the data from the "DATASOURCE"

What is workday Datasource ?

-It is a source of data for the reports.

-The datasource can be standard or indexed. 

-One datasource = 1 PBO + n number of RBOs

PBO  ---> Primary business object (It contains primary business object information)

RBOs ---> Related business object (It contains related attribute information)

-There are 2 types of datasources are available.

1.Standard Datasource (It handles less amount of data)

2.Indexed Datasource (It handles huge amount of data)

How to access datasource ?

The task code to access datasource is " Data Sources"

Note:

In workday we need to filter out datasources based on module.

In workday total 2400+ datasources are available.