As part of 2024R1 Workday has added new set of features and these are some of the most awaited and curated impactful features for Integrations and Extend.

Cloud Connect for Third-Party Payroll
  1. For the PECI and WECI integration template new field attributes are added in Compensation Data Section.
    And New Mapping fields are added in the configure mapping section.

    Fields:
    . Compensation Grade Profile
    . Compensation Step
    . Compensation Step

    Mapping:
    . Compensation Package
    . Compensation Grade Profile
    . Compensation Step

  2. If your Third-Party payroll system is using a statically stored schema file? then workday provide new future that new Override Pay Group WID.Field integration attribute section. When you enable the integration attribute, the integration includes the pay group WID in the Summary Section of the XML output and schema files.

  3. In “Edit Tenant Setup – HCM task” workday has enabled new Restrict Constrained Security Groups Access to External Payroll Documents. This will help contextually secure external payroll documents, limiting access based on constrained role-based security groups.

    When you select the check box:
    • External payslips are secured by the pay group associated with the payslip.
    • External tax documents are secured by the organization associated with the tax document. If you don’t provide an organization, roles that have access to any of the worker’s organizations can access the tax document.
    • Other external payroll documents are secured by the organization associated with the payroll document.

  4. Alight Solutions vendor environment name changes.

    Workday has updated to these Target Environment names on the Create External Payroll Vendor Mapping, Edit External Payroll Vendor Mapping, and View External Payroll Vendor Mapping tasks.

    • nga-qa2 to alg-qa2.
    • nga-qas to alg-qas.
    • nga-prod to alg-prod.

  5. Automatically update your purge plans that have the External Payroll Data – Payslips and Payroll Inputs (DO NOT USE) purgeable data type to use.

    These purgeable data types:
    • External Payroll Data – Inputs
    • External Payroll Data – Payslips

    These purgeable data types:
    • Purge external payroll data details related to payroll input or payslips.
    • Help provide you with more control over what kind of external payroll data you remove.
Core Connectors
  1. We update the Core Connector: Payments Outbound V2 (Enhanced Performance) integration template with a new Payroll Third Party Payable Item Remittance Data integration field attributes section and these new fields, enabling you to create an integration to remit payroll third-party payments to deduction recipients:
    • Begin Date
    • Case Number
    • Company Reference
    • Date Received
    • Deduction Recipient Name
    • Deduction Recipient Reference
    • End Date
    • External Entity ID
    • Issued In Reference
    • Memo
    • Order Date
    • Order Number
    • Payroll Period End Date
    • Payroll Period Payment Date
    • Payroll Period Start Date
    • Payroll Tax Authority Used Reference
    • Termination Date

  2. WPN – Generic Remittance integration template to now support payroll third-party payments to deduction recipients.
    When you select Version 31.0 and later from the Web Service Version attribute prompt, you can now use the latest Get Payments web service for payroll third party payable items.

  3. Now enable you to map your configured bank account types to the corresponding ACH bank account types using a new Bank Account Type map on these existing ACH payment integration templates:
    • WPN – ACH CCD Payment (Enhanced Performance)
    • WPN – ACH CTX Payment (Enhanced Performance)
    • WPN – ACH IAT Payment (Enhanced Performance)
    • WPN – ACH PPD Payment (Enhanced Performance)

    Also, we automatically set the bank account type to Checking when you don’t configure a default type on the map for settlement bank accounts.

  4. Enable you to map your configured bank account types to the corresponding Zengin bank account types using a new Beneficiary Account Type map on the existing WPN – Zengin Payment (Enhanced Performance) template.

  5. Workday improves your DSN archiving by adding a new attribute to an existing integration template.

    Add a Generate Excel File check box to the DSN Deposit (Machine to Machine) integration template. This allows you to select an automatic generation of an Excel XML file. By default, the Generate Excel File check box is not selected which generates a text file with a .dsn extension only. When you select the check box, the integration generates an Excel file and a text file for each DSN in a submission.

    Note: Files in Workday can only be retained for a maximum of 180 days. You can configure your retention policy on the Document Retention Policy attribute.

  6. Global Payroll Reconciliation template: By enabling this new future we can exclude the terminated Employee who are having Pay through Date in the Future attribute.
    When we enable this attribute terminated employee will be exclude in future date transaction as well.

Adobe Sign Email Notifications
  1. In the New Future Workday is disabled Adobe Sign Completion Email Notification for Non-PROD Tenants.
    we can make these changes by “Edit Tenant Setup – Business Processes task”.

    Note: This future will only available for non-prod and this will not effect for existing integrations.

Web-services – Updates
  1. Workday now enables you to generate EIB spreadsheets with data using Bulk Import web services. Bulk Import web services enables you to run many Put and Submit requests asynchronously and improves performance.

  2. Workday updates the Reassign Business Process Step (Web Service) web service to support the ability to reassign business process tasks from a non-worker to another person. You can reassign a task from a person with a non-worker role. Examples of a non-worker role include: academic affiliate, extended enterprise learner, student, and worker.

  3. We update the Get Payments web service with a new Payroll Third Party Payable Item Remittance Data section and these new fields to support payroll third-party payments:

    • Begin Date
    • Case Number
    • Company Reference
    • Date Received
    • Deduction Recipient Name
    • Deduction Recipient Reference
    • End Date
    • External Entity ID
    • Issued In Reference
    • Memo
    • Order Date
    • Order Number
    • Payroll Period End Date
    • Payroll Period Payment Date
    • Payroll Period Start Date
    • Payroll Tax Authority Used Reference
    • Termination Date

  4. Rename these web services:
    • Get Pensions Auto Enrolment External Assessment History
    • Put Pensions Auto Enrolment External Assessment History
    to:
    • Get Pensions Auto Enrolment Legacy Assessment History Only
    • Put Pensions Auto Enrolment Legacy Assessment History Only

    Use these web services when loading or retrieving historical data from your legacy system when you first start using Workday Pensions Auto Enrolment.

  5. Add support for application-level error codes on SOAP web service validations in Workday – making it easier for you to identify and troubleshoot errors on your Workday integrations.

Workday Extend
  1. Add filtering capabilities to the where clause of Graph API queries, enabling Extend developers to refine query results that match a specific criteria. If your query uses a data source filter, you can use where clause to further refine query results from data source filters.In the where clause, you can now specify additional filter criteria that’s available with the query, including:

    • Filters for fields such as identifiers, Booleans, strings, dates, decimals, instances, and any other available types in the schema.
    • AND, OR, and NOT operators.

  2. We deliver the new goal query, enabling Extend apps to read Goal data using Workday Graph API. We also add the Goals business object to the Worker business object.

  3. We add a new event Record query, enabling Extend apps to read additional Event Record data using Workday Graph API.

    The event Record query returns these new fields:
    • business Process Name
    • comments
    • completed On
    • created On
    • delayed
    • parallelStepInboxOrder
    • status

  4. We add these mutations, enabling Extend apps to submit financial accounting operations using Workday Graph API:

    • createOrUpdateAccountingPostingRuleSet (secured to the Set Up: Accounting Rules and Set Up: Payroll – Company Specific (Accounting) domains).
    • createOrUpdateBusinessEntityContact (secured to the Set Up: Bank Entity, Set Up: Customer Contacts, Set Up: Supplier Contacts, and Set Up: Tax domains).
    • createOrUpdateCostCenter (secured to the Set Up: Accounting Rules and Set Up: Payroll – Company Specific (Accounting) domains).
    • createOrUpdateCurrencyConversionRate (secured to the Set Up: Currency (Compensation functional area) and Set Up: Currency Rates domains).

  5. We update the Event business object with the new dueDate field, enabling Extend apps to read the due date for various event business objects using Workday Graph API.

    These queries and business objects now include dueDate:
    • requestEvent in the request query
    • leaveRequestEvent query
    • ActionEvent business object
    • LeaveReturnEvent business object
    • SafetyIncidentEvent business object
    • StudentResidencyEvent business object
    • TimeOffEvent business object
    • WorkerBusinessProcess business object

  6. We deliver the new requisitionLines query, enabling Extend apps to read Requisition Line data using Workday Graph API.

    To configure the security domains for the all above, access the View Security for Securable Item report in Workday.

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