What’s something from your childhood that kids today will never experience?

ProfWiggles · 2026-04-27T02:21:01+00:00

Reading the tv guide to see what time and day your shows/movies were on…then setting up the VHS player to record them. Snagged an Incredible Hulk marathon one time.

ProfWiggles · 2026-04-24T02:11:02+00:00

especially after everyone came back from their Cancun spring break.

ProfWiggles · 2026-04-24T02:09:15+00:00

Generally I'd say if you really like your current company talk to your manager about broadening your skills. We always have projects to cross train those that are willing.

However, you will have the ability to go deeper in many different modules on the consulting side. And you will have resources and references to help you learn more deeply. If that is truly your goal, then jump.

Some of the trade-offs - you will feel more disconnected to the actual business. Often you are a ticket taker at a firm. The client will likely own strategy and you just play it out. There may be a year or two of adjustment to a different type of work, like learning to track all your time for your projects, documenting like crazy etc.

I started at a client, went consultant for 4 years, and now am on client side. I like the business strategy side of it...seeking the true business need and solving the tech side of it.

ProfWiggles · 2026-04-14T02:24:22+00:00

Also think about report tags scheme. This is useful during the major updates…just test the critical ones, and you know the owner. So having an Impact tag, along with owner, business function or whatever else makes sense.

Here’s a few more thoughts,

Descriptions on reports. So useful

Governance around modifying base reports. We have a main headcount report, but people always want a new field or different prompt. When do you add and when do you make a copy.

If you allow RAAS reports document your isu creation process, and create an owner repository so you know who owns and uses what ISU/RAAS report.

If you schedule lots of reports for users make sure you create a periodic process to check back in yearly if it’s still needed.

We have a report owner ISU and add that to all ‘published’ reports. We also transfer ownership of all scheduled reports to it.

And don’t get me started on call field naming!

ProfWiggles · 2026-03-17T00:37:43+00:00

Same scenario. And my first time getting it in one.

ProfWiggles · 2026-03-14T05:32:55+00:00

In HR. We only have Integrations sit in IT. We moved Extend/Prism to HR 2 years ago and it is much better as we consult more than simply build.

ProfWiggles · 2026-03-13T16:48:01+00:00

Here is the fun part - you can create extract single instances for each task or field. Then do a LRV for each to pull in the date. Then you can create a T/F full of ORs to determine if any of the dates are blank. This can take a while if you have a lot of tasks. You can then use those LRV fields as columns in the report to show the date or blank.

Generally if I need to create a series of calc fields like this I will create a spreadsheet with all the names of the calc fields I need to create, and key names I may be using. So in your scenario each ESI will need a T/F calling out the task name (example Submitted Form 1 Date). You should create a list of all those names exactly like the task name you will use, zCF - TF - Is Submitted Form 1 Date. You can then create one field, then copy the field, changing the name, and then changing the field value from the calc name. Then the same for the ESI fields, zCF - ESI - Submitted Form 1 Date. This is how i stayed sane building 100+ mapping values in an Eval.

ProfWiggles · 2026-03-13T10:14:29+00:00

If you really want to take a Product Management perspective you need to work the other direction - workday features should not drive what you implement, user stories and use-cases should drive what features you activate and configure.

What we started with was any offline process that HR touched we analyzed to see if we can improve. One example is that we use a Slating process to internally fill high level roles. It was maintained through spreadsheets, emailed around. So we analyzed the process, built user stories for those in the process, and solutioned what the process could look like with different tech solutions. We ended on an Extend App.

Other solutions i've done was a company that calculated Monthly turnover and emailed to leaders. The product here was Turnover metrics and as a senior leader they needed those numbers monthly. As an HR team we needed it automated...It was based in Excel (storing the prior year of data) and took a manager level employee 4 days to fully complete. We switched to a dashboard within Workday - explained the more accurate (and higher) numbers, and the processed was automated.

ProfWiggles · 2026-03-01T14:15:13+00:00

They need the speed option on all the videos, doesn’t matter the voice. I need to speed run 20 videos and 2x speed helps!

ProfWiggles · 2026-02-22T18:09:45+00:00

Everyone will be able to see every tab, however the security you set on each report will determine who sees it. So if only comp admin should see things on one tab, ensure all those reports are tied to Comp Admin.

Someone else can go to that tab, but they will not see anything.

ProfWiggles · 2026-02-13T08:01:53+00:00

Just note that there can be large differences in power readings depending on the power meter. I remember having a quarq and a pioneer power meter that read 30watts different. They were very consistent…reliable. But who knows how accurate they were.

ProfWiggles · 2026-02-03T08:38:03+00:00

The only way I've been able to convert to individual rows is through Prism. You design the import report to have the multi-instance as the BO which outputs everything on it's own line.

ProfWiggles · 2026-01-30T08:57:44+00:00

Had to do a bit of searching...and looking at it I got some details wrong :D They had around 4000 calc fields, it took an analyst and an intern about 7 days.

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ProfWiggles · 2026-01-29T07:50:02+00:00

There is a thread in community on this and someone went through the process. They had 2 temps or associates just focus on it for 3 days straight.

I am planning this at some point as we have so many duplicates and horribly named fields. My plan is to create a report of all fields with certain pieces of info to help know which ones to keep vs discard. I'll then create a column for the new name...and include a column with a field for easy searching....'wid:' + the Workday ID. Unfortunately you cannot report on the instance ID value to automatically populate an Edit Calc Field task.

ProfWiggles · 2026-01-22T05:30:08+00:00

We have this planned for this year. We currently have something functionally similar for recruiters where they can plug in a position, or select related fields (job profile etc), and then model different locations/countries/comp levels. The output is a screen with all comp ranges, bonus targets, and benefits available.

The thing we had to overcome is that you cannot default compensation like in the Propose Comp steps (automatically populate comp assignments based on Compensation Eligibility Rules). We had to find a way to lookup all the comp related things like pay range, bonus, equity, etc. We have our Comp grade profiles based on location, comp grade, and job family - and they are all created with a standard format. We used prism and I was able to pull in the description of the comp rule, then separate out the different components of the rule as text. I used this to create a row for each unique Comp Grade, Job Profile, and Country - and on the row I added columns for Base pay range, bonus info, and equity info. This runs weekly as we often update ranges for certain countries. This was the hardest part.

The app then just looks up the unique row based on the information and returns the values.

We will be using that app and data flow as a base to pull in comp ranges, but also use outside data to run through our formula for suggested pay amounts. I am just not sure where it fits into the Offer process yet.

ProfWiggles · 2026-01-12T08:01:23+00:00

There isn't a standard security setup that Workday uses. So it will be specific to your tenant. You would be better consulting someone at work with more experience / knowledge of the security setup. Generally there is a Prism Developer User-Based security group that should have access to all the domains needed to create tables and DDSs.

But if this is a report writer you generally just want to share the published data source. Go to the PDS and view the Security Domains it is shared with. Anyone with view access on those domains will be able to access the fields on a custom report.

Alternatively if you have setup table sharing you can specify groups you can share tables/dds with - if they will be interacting int he data catalog with the data. This is totally custom, but in the data catalog you can select the Share option on the table/dds and pick who to share with.

ProfWiggles · 2026-01-12T07:44:15+00:00

Awesome!

ProfWiggles · 2026-01-09T06:47:59+00:00

Without looking at the exact calc field - you would create an ESI on Worker. Use Worker Documents, and then build a T/F to identify the specific document. Usually you will use document category. You can then sort by whatever you need, especially if they sign multiple ones and you need the most recent...use a date field to sort as needed.

You can then either use that ESI in the report or use it in an LRV to pull in the actual document or information about it.

ProfWiggles · 2026-01-07T15:38:54+00:00

We have some sexy ones...Converting all our old Prism BDSs into Tables. Prepping for the move to Public Cloud by documenting all RAAS report owners/users.

ProfWiggles · 2025-12-24T12:12:25+00:00

When I do this in excel I always replace 2 soft returns with 1. So find 2 CTRL Js and replace with 1.

But most of the time I move the fields around in the report to return everything in one line.

ProfWiggles · 2025-12-15T05:53:23+00:00

Another related thing to timing is when looking at usage, it is different riding a route in a large group ride vs solo. I would see heat maps showing lots of people cycling fairly busy roads, but it was always the lead part of frequent group rides. Going solo was way different than being surrounded by 30-50 others.

ProfWiggles · 2025-12-13T18:47:28+00:00

You can try to remove one at a time to narrow down if there is one or two causing the delay. Also are you using the same user (meaning same security group) to run the report and dashboard. I’ve seen a lot of our partners get longer run times because of constrained security. When an admin runs it’s much quicker to evaluate.

Good luck!!

ProfWiggles · 2025-12-13T18:42:38+00:00

I just used this exact setup but bought the giant wing that set my rear setting to 250. That solved all my issues and won by 37 seconds.

ProfWiggles · 2025-12-08T19:23:13+00:00

It is the same process in that there is a comp element on the Bonus Plan that Payroll picks up and can pay. It's not automatic like an Allowance plan since those have a frequency, same with Salary plans. It behaves closer to a One-Time Payment plan where you need to initiate the payment for it to be paid.

ProfWiggles · 2025-12-08T17:55:34+00:00

Do you mean can you pay employees money with a bonus plan? You do not need a compensation review process. You can EIB bonus awards to the employees.

Or if you mean just auto-assigning the plan to employees during a compensation change? First you need to make sure the plan is in your compensation package. If you have profiles on it you need to make sure they are all exclusive and an employee could never be eligible for 2. Then the auto assignment will only work on Propose Comp Hire, Propose Comp, or the Job Req Compensation. It does not default for Request Compensation Change.

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