Workday Adaptive Planning Tips & Tricks

Workday Adaptive Planning Tips & Tricks
Workday Adaptive Planning Tips & Tricks: Interactive Dashboards – Dynamic Planning with Embedded Sheets
More often than not, clients of Revelwood will make use of multiple sheets in Workday Adaptive Planning to support different aspects of their planning process(es). When using several sheets to make changes to key drivers, assumptions and scenario drivers, clients often ask…
February 24, 2021

Workday Adaptive Planning Tips & Tricks
Workday Adaptive Planning Tips & Tricks: Excel Reporting Using a Report Template
Many users of Workday Adaptive Planning utilize OfficeConnect for their Excel reporting. But not all users will have access to OfficeConnect, depending on your organization. But there is another great option for Excel reporting called a Report Template. What is the difference…
February 17, 2021

Workday Adaptive Planning Tips & Tricks
Workday Adaptive Planning Tips & Tricks: Expand/Collapse Feature in OfficeConnect
This week’s Workday Adaptive Planning and Reporting Tip & Trick pertains a new feature in OfficeConnect introduced into the application in Workday Adaptive Release 2020R2 (September 2020.) Previous to this release, clients disliked the fact that to “drilldown” to detail accounts, or…
February 3, 2021

Workday Adaptive Planning Tips & Tricks
Workday Adaptive Planning Tips & Tricks: CAPEX Planning – Your Tool for Growth
CAPEX (capital expenditures) planning is a key feature in Workday Adaptive Planning and gives the Office of Finance and senior executives greater visibility into the company’s financial risk, while also providing a tool for measuring corporate growth. Before we go into the…
November 11, 2020

Workday Adaptive Planning Tips & Tricks
Workday Adaptive Planning Tips & Tricks: Override Formulas in Sheets
If you want to write a formula in an account in Workday Adaptive Planning, but still want to give your team the ability to override the formula and enter different data, you can use Shared Formulas to achieve that. The Shared Formulas…
November 4, 2020

Workday Adaptive Planning Tips & Tricks
Workday Adaptive Planning Tips & Tricks: Templates
This week’s Workday Adaptive Planning and Reporting Tip & Trick pertains to the useful and elusive template. Templates exist throughout the Adaptive Planning application to enable the upload of the important data utilized within. Whether you have a set of Actual GL…
August 12, 2020

Workday Adaptive Planning Tips & Tricks
Workday Adaptive Planning Tips & Tricks: The Formula Assistant – How To, Where & Why
This week’s Adaptive Insights Tips & Tricks post pertains to the ever-mysterious Formula Assistant, which is a "wizard" that exists throughout the application. It helps you create the even-more-mysterious and somewhat intriguing formulas themselves. Any clients attempting to create basic formulas such…
July 15, 2020

Workday Adaptive Planning Tips & Tricks
Workday Adaptive Planning Tips & Tricks: Virtual Versions and Neutral Exchange Rate
Many companies with multiple currencies and exchange rates within the Adaptive Insights Planning instance require a methodology to compare the current year budget to the current year actuals while maintaining the exchange rate utilized to create the budget. This is sometimes referred…
June 3, 2020

Workday Adaptive Planning Tips & Tricks
Workday Adaptive Planning Tips & Tricks: More on Accounts, Attributes & Levels
In this week’s Workday Adaptive Planning Tips & Tricks blog post, I am revisiting the article I authored that was published on April 1, 2020 (no fooling!). In that article I reviewed a question I have been asked multiple times over the…