Key Elements

 Key elements in reports:

Business object: It acts as a table. All data is storing into business objects.

Related business object: It is used to maintain the parent/child relationship in workday, like primary key and foreign key relationship in SAP.

Workday will taken care of Relational business object level. We don't have to maintain own reltionship.

Data source: It is a view created against business objects, Also it is used to create custom reports in workday.

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Workday stores the data in business objects (BO). A business object is like a spread sheet, where each row is an instance of the object. Each column represents an attribute, or field, of the object.

Workday links related business objects together through single instance or multi-instance fields. Related Business Objects (RBO) enables you to access fields in a report that don’t belong to the Primary Business Object. (PBO)

Example: The Worker business object has a multi-instance field called Dependents. Dependents have a related business object of Dependent. In a report with a primary business object of Worker, you can use the Dependents field to access the fields belonging to the Dependent business object.

A report by name Business Object Details can be used to view:

Custom and standard reports that use the business object.

Data sources using the business object as the primary business object.

Fields associated with the business object.

Related business objects.

For reporting, Data Source is a must. You need to select your data source at the time of creating your report.

Multiple data sources can have the same primary business object. Example: Both the All Workers and All Active and Terminated Workers data sources have Worker as the primary business object.

Some data sources return all instances of the primary business object, such as All Workers. Some data sources also include:

·         Built-in filters that limit the number of business object instances. Example: All Active Employees.

·         Prompts that you can use when running the report. Example: Employees by Organization.

Workday secures data sources and data source filters by security domains. Different domains might secure a data source and its data source filters. Example: Many domains secure the Workers for HCM Reporting data source, but only the Worker Data: Headcount Reports and Worker Data: Turnover Summary domains secure the Workers by Role filter on the data source.

From the related actions menu of a data source, you can select Custom Report > Create to create a custom report using the data source.

Access the Report Data Sources, in this report you can see the Primary Business Object, permitted Security Groups, Data Source type, Prompts and most importantly Description of the data source. This provides you with the detailed information of what that particular data source is all about.