Workday News

UCF’s second Workday system update of the year was completed on Saturday, September 9. All UCF employees (including faculty and staff) will notice feature updates to their Workday homepage, Workday search and My Tasks. Learn more information about campus community impacts at What’s New with Workday: System Release September 2023. UCF managers and supervisors will…

All staff who manage Workday Help cases (also known as “case solvers”) will now have access to Help case message templates when responding to any Help case due to the 2023R2 system release. A Help case message template is a pre-populated (default) message to use for consistent messaging and efficient customer service support. Refer to…

The Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) is being replaced with Assistance Listing in Workday to correlate with the official update. All IDs and descriptions will remain the same. Awards will reflect the change immediately while reports that include this field will be updated shortly after. Learn more about this update at the General Services…

Workday is scheduled to complete its biannual system update on Saturday, September 9.  Workday releases two system updates biannually in March and September. Updates may impact specific groups in UCF or the entire UCF campus community. What is a Workday System Release?System updates, also called system releases, install modifications within Workday to provide enhanced system…

This is a complete listing of all knowledge base articles that have been updated or added to our Workday Help Knowledge Base. A “knowledge article” is a job aid, video demo or business process workflow that describes or outlines step-by-step procedures of a business process. All knowledge articles are currently housed in Workday Help. To learn more…

The offices of Financial Affairs and the UCF Foundation are pleased to announce that 2024 foundation gift budgets, including July 2024 endowment payout were loaded into Workday effective last week. This means that colleges and units (including direct support organizations like Athletics) may once again directly charge gifts within the Workday system replacing the former…

This is a complete listing of all knowledge base articles that have been updated or added to our Workday Help Knowledge Base. A “knowledge article” is a job aid, video demo, or business process workflow that describes or outlines step-by-step procedures of a business process. All knowledge articles are currently housed in Workday Help. To learn more…

Did you know that many expense items and spend categories have descriptions?  To view the spend category or expense item description while completing an expense report in Workday, click the Related Actions button (the three dots in the orange rectangle) next to the spend category/expense item name.  A pop-up will appear that includes the spend…

There are several “UCF Extract” reports in Workday for the UCF community that provides information on all active grants and cost centers. Users can access the quick and easy reports by using the Workday search bar to access these two reports, which also help identify Foundation Data Model (FDM) values. Report details include:

UCF is pleased to provide all interested employees with the opportunity to test and provide user satisfaction feedback prior to launching a new Workday application called Workday Assistant! Workday Assistant is a conversational chatbot that helps workers to quickly complete actions and retrieve information in Workday that is available on desktop and the Workday mobile…