# What’s New in Workday® Report

The **What’s New in Workday® report** is a valuable tool in helping you prepare for upcoming Workday Updates and "+" releases. It’s often the first place customers look when determining release schedules and impact of new Workday features.

Recently a couple of interesting questions came up:

- Why does the report show me What’s New items for functional areas we have disabled? This adds a lot of noise to the report. Is there an easy way to only show relevant items?
- Sometimes items are updated and we don’t notice. Is there a way to only see items that have been added or updated since the last time I ran it?

The answer is, absolutely!

The What’s New in Workday® report is a standard report delivered by Workday, and it’s a Report Writer report and NOT an XpressO report. This means that you can copy the report to create and customize your own version of it.

## What’s New Items for Active Functional Areas ONLY:

Once you’ve copied the report to your own version, take a quick look at the Prompts tab. You’ll see that the first prompt is one that is not shown when you run the report:

Notice that it is currently set to include all domains, even if disabled, and set to not allow you to change the value at run-time. Simply uncheck the “Do Not Prompt at Runtime” option. Now when you run the report, you’ll be able to exclude any What’s New Items that belong to disabled functional areas.

## What’s New ONLY Since the Last Time I Ran the Report:

Looking for changes is accomplished by changing the filter to filter by the item’s creation and modified dates instead of production and preview dates:

Now that you have your own copy of the What’s New in Workday **®** report, you could also add/remove columns, change filtering, or make other customizations that will make this tool even more useful to your organization.

## Best Practice BONUS:

The report could be scheduled to run weekly or at a frequency that helps your teams mitigate change. For example, schedule the report to run every Sunday night/Monday morning so that past week’s changes are picked up and delivered to the teams W-Drive for them to review first thing in the morning.