Creating Custom Objects in Workday

Let’s consider a scenario where we want to record additional data for which there’s no Workday- delivered field.  In order to extend Workday business objects  we can create custom object definitions based on the business object, and adding custom fields. Custom objects enable you to record additional data for which there’s no Workday-delivered field.

List of business objects that can be extended using custom objects

Academic Affiliate	Academic Appointment Track	Academic Appointment Track (Effective Dated)	Academic Unit	Academic Unit Hierarchy
Award	Award Line	Bank Account	Business Asset	Company
Cost Center	Customer	Customer Contract	Customer Contract Line	Customer Invoice
Customer Invoice Adjustment	Customer Invoice Line	Custom Organization	Donor	Employee Contract
Employee Contract (Effective Dated)	Extended Enterprise Learner	Financial Aid Period Record	Former Worker	Gift
Job Application	Job Profile	Job Requisition (Effective Dated)	Learning Course (Effective Dated)	Learning Course Offering (Effective Dated)
Learning Program (Effective Dated)	Ledger Account	Loan	Location	Period
Period Schedule	Position	Position Restrictions (Effective Dated)	Pre-Hire	Project
Project Portfolio	Project Resource Plan Detail	Prospect	Purchase Order	Purchase Order Line
Recruiting Agency	Region	Requisition	Requisition Line	Student
Student Application	Student Prospect Recruitment	Supervisory Organization	Supplier	Supplier Contract
Supplier Invoice	Supplier Invoice Adjustment	Supplier Invoice Line	Worker	Worker (Effective Dated)

Consider a scenario where we need to need Aadhaar card and pan card details for few Indian employees in the system. To create custom object access create custom object task.

Further the page navigates to general settings here we need to configure the object.

In the field definitions we can add the new fields for the custom object or even delete the existing fields in the custom object. Here we have created two fields one for Aadhaar card while other for Pan card.

In the permissions tab we can configure the security for the custom object, all the domains can be described here

After these configurations we need to activate the custom objects

We have tried to use the custom object and fields in the custom report. For making a list of Indian worker with their Indian ID

In order to add data to this fields manually, we need to navigate to worker profile> additional data > edit

Further we need to select our custom object and add data to the corresponding fields.

Similarly we are adding data to few more employees and when we run the report we can see that fields have got populated.

For integrating this data with third party systems we are using EIB

So, let’s create an outbound EIB. Configure EIB in a way that it must fetch data from the custom report that we have created.

Let us launch the EIB to check the output XML file.

Output XML file with custom object details