How can you create a custom validation in Workday?

Creating a custom validation in Workday can be effectively done by maintaining a custom validations report and transaction type. This approach allows users to tailor validations specifically to their organizational needs, ensuring that the requirements are met during various transactions. By defining a custom validations report, you can specify the criteria and logic that should be applied, which can then be associated with the relevant transaction type to enforce those validations.

This method is advantageous because it puts the control in the hands of users, enabling the flexibility to adapt validation processes to changing business rules or requirements without the need for extensive IT intervention. It engages the functionality within Workday that supports configurable validations, which enhances the overall efficiency and accuracy of data management in the procure-to-pay process.

The other options, while potentially relevant to other aspects of system management or support, do not provide the necessary authority or tools required to create custom validations effectively. Options involving requests to IT or relying only on default settings lack the user-driven empowerment that the custom validations report provides. Additionally, user feedback collected in meetings might inform the validation process but is not a direct method for creating those validations within the system.