Boomerang Blog

This is a guest blog, big thanks to Denise Hanson! When working with costing allocations, setting an end date to the allocation is a necessary manual step. With a boomerang integration, the step can happen automatically in the background. For Change Job, when there is a position change, the allocations on the previous position should

When someone Terminates, their account can be deactivated, but some companies take a firmer stance on Security. In one case, when a CFO left the company, the position remained open to backfill. The HRIS team decided they wanted to remove ALL security associated with it, both User based AND Role Based. The Solution is a

This use case allows for Implementer accounts to be disabled in Production but enabled in Sandbox after a weekly refresh. BEFORE AFTER

This use case has a couple sub-cases: Add a Work email AFTER on the workers Hire Date This allows system emails to be sent to the pre-hire’s personal email. In order to use this, the ‘prefix’ of the email (everything before the @) must be either stored or easily derived. Remove a Work Email for

This use case allows for all future dated Time Off Requests for a Terminated worker to be cancelled automagically. The use case came about for companies that had a “revolving door” where workers would be terminated and rehired. If the time off request is not cancelled, it would still be in place after the rehire.

When a Worker terminates, there are sometimes business processes that need to be rescinded, like a future dated on time payment. Using a custom report to capture these processes for terminated workers and a Studio integration, these can easily be automatically rescinded. Additionally, any business process that is rescindable can be handled this way, not

Whether it is imported from an outside system or manually entered, sometimes worker names are not in a Proper Case (First letter capital, the rest lowercase). This can be cleaned up automatically using a custom report and a Studio Integration. The custom report should filter for workers whose names are All Capital Letters or all

Some career sites require you to Geocode locations inside Workday. This process can be accomplished using several different methodologies (EIBs, manual), but when the location count grows due to an acquisition, it will be easier to automate this process. Start with a custom report listing locations with blank Latitude and Longitude. This will be used

If you are in a situation where you have a Custom Field on the Worker Object that has to be updated depending on clear parameters, like if they participate in Employee Stock Purchase Plans (ESPP), then a Studio Boomerang can help solve the problem of automating this. Using a custom report that shows the current

An employee’s service date can change for various reasons, leave, rehire, etc.  Each employer has a different formula to adjust an employee’s continuous service date based on a reason.  In Workday today, there is no simple interface to configure a matrix of rules governing service date adjustments against employer defined formulas and no automated method

Loading daily currency rate conversions from a 3rd party service can be expensive, especially as you start to expand into global markets.  By the time you realize, you might be buying 600 currency conversion rates daily.  On top of that, add monthly and quarterly average rates for financial reporting. This is a solution to cut

In the situation where pay checks from a Third Party Payroll Provider are shipped to an employee’s work location, there may be a need to, upon termination, ship the final pay checks to their home address. By adding the Shipping usage to that terminated employees primary home contact address after they are terminated, the vendor will