Using Search

Navigate using Search:

Workday makes it easy to search for people, tasks, reports, and business data using the Search field.

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For example, to find a worker, type their name into the Search field and press Enter. From the search results, click People to filter the results to only display workers in your organization. Search categories are used to filter your search for faster, more accurate results.

Keep in mind that searches only find exact matches. If you misspell the search text, you will not see any results. You can shorten words to find more matches. Use longer search terms to improve the accuracy and reduce the time to return results. For example, if you are searching for the “My Organization Chart” report task, the search string “my org” returns more relevant results than the search string “My Organization”.

Search prefixes restrict the search results to a particular type of Workday object. Search prefixes are lowercase letters, followed by a colon (:). For example, “bp:” returns all business process definitions. To see a list of all search prefixes available to you, enter a question mark (?) in the search field.

In addition to the search field, there are Find pages where you can use filters to narrow down the results. For example, use the Find Workers report to search for employees and other workers by city, skillset, cost center, etc.

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