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Renaming of Catalog Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) to Assistance Listing

September 8, 2023
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 System Update is Coming Soon!

September 8, 2023
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…

Foundation Gift Budgets and Spending in Workday

August 3, 2023
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…

How to View Expense Item Descriptions

July 26, 2023
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…

Reports Available for Cost Center and Grant Information

July 26, 2023
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:

Testing Opportunity for UCF Community

July 14, 2023
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…

Faculty Agreements Now Available for Fall 2023

July 12, 2023
The distribution and signing of UCF’s fall faculty agreements transitioned to Workday effective July 7. As the agreements are ready for signature, faculty will receive an email via their UCF Outlook account notifying them their agreement can be reviewed and signed. This replaces the former manual process and means that faculty can conveniently access and…

New Workday Help Features

July 10, 2023
UCF staff that manage Workday cases in the Help Workspace app (Case Solver security role) can now share cases, link cases, and retain visibility on cases that they create. The purpose of these new system features is to build transparency and collaboration efforts for effective service delivery and support on various Workday system business processes.…