Archives: Service News

  • What’s Changing in DocuSign

    November 13, 2023

    eSignatures Updates Update: Removal of aging envelopes in DocuSign to begin November 2023 What’s happening? The eSignatures service team has begun implementing procedures to guarantee the removal of aging envelopes in DocuSign. This work is expected to begin the week of November 27th. We will be reaching out to the account Delegated Administrators with more details when we are ready to begin working on each department’s account. For more information about why this change is occurring, see below.  What do…

  • HR Hierarchy data now in UWODS

    October 26, 2023

    Introducing HR Hierarchy Historically, UW relied on financial org code (fin org) for HR reporting. With the introduction of Workday Finance, fin org was retired and a replacement was needed to support HR reporting going forward. A new HR Hierarchy structure that more accurately represents HR relationships was introduced to Workday. To learn more about the new HR Hierarchy, refer to https://hr.uw.edu/hrbais/hrhierarchy/. Introducing a new HROrganization table in UWODS The Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) introduced the UWODS database in July…

  • Fall 2023 Content Manager Update

    Hello IT Connect Content Managers, Welcome to the Fall 2023 edition of the quarterly IT Connect Content Manager Update. IT Community guide for technical staff Google Analytics 4 project update IT Connect service wiki Web content best practices WHAT’S NEW Guide for UW’s IT community UW-IT works with partners across the UW to support the technology that drives teaching, learning, research and work. These partners — from distributed IT Support to departmental IT directors and leadership — are a key…

  • Bridging the Divide: Three New Finance Reports in the BI Portal

    October 23, 2023

    It’s been three months since the UW went live with Workday Finance and as the dust settles across the financial ecosystem, bumps and crevices, once hazy and undefined, are coming into focus. As users adapt to the tools and processes of the Workday era, some areas are proving to be more difficult to navigate than others—reporting is one of these areas. The BI Portal is hoping to bridge this gap through an iterative expansion of its catalog.  Collaborating to Meet…

  • Workday HCM Reports: Continuing the BI Portal Catalog Expansion

    October 17, 2023

    The BI Portal report catalog now includes Workday Human Capital Management (HCM) reports! These updates were deployed to the BI Portal on 11/1/23. Finding Workday HCM Reports Today Historically, the Workday HCM Report Catalog was stored in Knowledge Navigator and supported by the Integrated Service Center (ISC) to reflect all custom reports available in Workday’s HCM module. While these reports are now available in the BI Portal, they will remain in Knowledge Navigator until 11/30/23, along with a page announcement,…

  • UWSDBDataStore Reorg on October 21, 2023

    October 11, 2023

    UWSDBDataStore Reorg on October 21, 2023 The student database (SDB) will go through a reorganization on October 21, 2023 which will cause changes in the Enterprise Data Warehouse database, UWSDBDataStore. These changes to the objects will be available in the UWSDBDataStore on October 23, 2023 However, data on the new objects will be available as soon as the Data Custodians submit the security role definitions and the SIS team loads the data. Last Updated – 10.19.23 Columns to be Added…

  • Summer 2023 Content Manager Update

    August 29, 2023

    Hello IT Connect Content Managers, Welcome to the Spring 2023 edition of the quarterly IT Connect Content Manager Update. New style and formatting guide for IT Connect Google Analytics 4 Update Web content best practices: Use links effectively WHAT’S NEW? New style and formatting guide for IT Connect A new style and formatting guide for IT Connect content is published on IT Connect. The new style guide provides updated guidance for writing IT Connect content. The guide is more robust…

  • New Version of FWS Deployed for Finance Transformation

    August 15, 2023

    We recently deployed Financial Web Service (FWS) v2 to Production (PROD) to support UW Finance Transformation (UWFT) and the implementation of Workday Finance! Check out our new customer portal! We’ve updated the Financial Web Service | FWS customer portal to reflect the current status of the service: Removed v1 content to streamline the customer experience. Updated the Memorandum of Understanding to communicate key resources, environment considerations, and release policies. Migrated FWS Inbound to a new (and separate) customer portal: Secure…

  • Secure Workday Integration for Transactions (SWIFT) Launches to Support Finance Transformation

    Secure Workday Integration for Transactions (SWIFT) is a secure Application Programming Interface (API) that enables business units from across the University to post Accounting Journals and Internal Service Deliveries (ISD) to Workday via either REST API or Secure File Transfer Protocol (sFTP). This service was developed to support UW Finance Transformation (UWFT) and the implementation of Workday Finance.  Check out our new customer portal! SWIFT documentation was previously embedded within the Financial Web Service customer portal. We’ve since created a new (and…

  • Workday Update 2023 R2 Test Environments Now Available

    Workday releases a major update twice a year. The next update (R2023 R2) will be in production 09 Sep 2023. A special Workday Sandbox Preview tenant is now available that contains the upcoming changes and is available for testing. We have an FWS and HRPWS environment pointing to this tenant to support testing. We will run our own internal regression testing and do not anticipate any need for our web service users to test or adapt to these changes. If you have been…