Workday Adaptive Planning tips for administrators and other users

Workday Adaptive Planning unifies budgeting, forecasting, modelling, and analytics into a single platform. It empowers finance and business teams to plan for what’s next with greater speed and agility.

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Two Minute Tuesdays are a video series that deliver quick, bite-sized Workday Adaptive Planning technical tips in two minutes. Created by the QMetrix team, these practical tutorials help users optimise and troubleshoot their planning and reporting workflows, and are watched by thousands worldwide. Watch these tips and tricks here to enhance your instance and level up your skills. 

Find out how to add users to the task notification list and add integration schedules in Workday Adaptive Planning.

Security in Adaptive is made up of various components including level ownership, permission sets and access rules. This video will take us through these components to ensure proper setup of your users.

Enhance collaboration within your instance by adding comments directly to dashboard widgets in Workday Adaptive Planning, tag colleagues and start discussions.

Watch this video to ensure a seamless transition for your next user offboarding.

Watch for a step-by-step process on how to manually export data from Workday Adaptive Planning.

Audit sheets are helpful to provide a summary of downstream calculations. This video will go through the steps to create an audit sheet.

In this video, we guide you through how to customise a user’s home page, also known as a landing page, within Workday Adaptive Planning. Administrators can set it for all users, or it can be set individually.

Global Users Groups is a great feature in Workday Adaptive Planning. By using user groups, you can easily share reports or dashboards with a designated group of users. It also allows you to control version access and restrict access to a certain group of users.

Incorporate keyboard shortcuts and customise your experience to increase productivity. The following quick tips and tricks will help you navigate the Workday Adaptive Planning interface more efficiently.

In Workday Adaptive Planning there are 4 core elements that structure your data – Accounts, time, levels and versions. We explain these key lingo/concepts you need to know, and demonstrate how the intersections of these elements come together in a P&L.

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