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Workday: How do I create new custom fields in Workday?

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  1. Search for “Create Custom Object” and click on the task that appears.

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  2. Search for “Worker” and click on the option that shows “Worker”.

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  3. Give a name to the custom field and click "OK".

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  4. Keep the default values of the custom object and click "Next".

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  5. In the next section, click "Add" to create a new field on the custom object.Untitled (9).png

  6. Give the field a label and a type, then click the checkbox.

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  7. Select the security domain that is required to have access to this field. If you don’t know which one to use, you can submit “Worker Data: Organizations”.

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  8. Go to the summary and click “OK”.

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  9. Click “OK” again to activate the custom field.

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Populate custom fields for a given employee

  1. Go to the employee that you want to populate the custom field for.

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  2. Go to related actions, scroll down, hover over additional data and click on "View All".

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  3. Find your custom object and click "Edit".

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  4. Enter a value for the custom field and click “OK”.

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  5. Click “Done”.

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  6. You can now find the custom field value in the Workday UI.

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