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Last Updated: 2025-10-17
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Steps: Configure the Personnel Action Request Business Process

Steps: Configure the Personnel Action Request Business Process

  • Configure the
    Personnel Action Request
      business process and security policy in the Staffing functional area.
  • These domains in the System functional area:
    • Business Process Administration
    • Manage: Business Process Definitions
You can configure the
Personnel Action Request
 business process to help you prepare for the SF-50 Notification of Personnel Action form.
  1. Select the Staffing functional area and add the appropriate security groups.
  2. Edit Business Processes.
    Configure the default definition for the
    Personnel Action Request
     business process. You can select the allowed security groups for the steps, including the
    Certify Personnel Action Requests
     step.
    Configure the
    Personnel Action Request
     business process as a subprocess for the following business processes in the Staffing functional area:
    • Hire
    • Change Job
    • Termination
    • Service Dates Change
    • Add Job
    • End Job
    See Concept: Personnel Action Requests on the Hire Business Process.
    For the following business processes in the Absence functional area:
    • Request Leave of Absence
    • Request Return from Leave of Absence
    • Request Time Off
    For the following business processes in the Compensation functional area:
    • Request Compensation Change
    • Request One-Time Payment
    • Request Quality Step Increase
    • Within Grade Increase Notification
    For these business processes:
    • Change Benefits for Life Event
       business process in the Benefits functional area.
    • Change Personal Information
       business process in the Personal Data functional area.
    • Legal Name Change
       business process in the Contact Information functional area.
  3. Configure fields for Personnel Action Request (PAR) processing.
Based on your configuration, Workday initiates the
Personnel Action Request
 business process whenever users initiate any of the applicable business processes. You can complete, revise, and certify personnel changes for federal employees .
You can use these initiating actions on completed PAR business process events:
  • Correct
  • Cancel
You can only correct or cancel a PAR business process event that you initiated in Workday. Workday routes PAR corrections and cancellations for certification. When cancel PAR or correct PAR are in progress, you have the ability to cancel the business process event.
The
Print Notification of Personnel Action (SF-50)
 task (secured to the
Reports: Personnel Action Request
 domain) enables you to generate a printable version of the SF-50 form.
In the
Print Notification of Personnel Action (SF-50)
 task, search for the PAR Business Process Event by Worker Name or PAR Event Name, select the
Confirm
 button, then select
OK
.
If you are a Federal US customer and want to create a printable PDF:
  • Select the
    Print Option
    from the related actions for a PAR Business Process Event.
  • In the
    Print Notification of Personnel Action (SF-50)
     task, search for the PAR Business Process Event by Worker Name or PAR Event Name, select the
    Confirm
     button, then select
    OK
    .
To generate a printable SF-52 PDF, a PAR event must be initiated, canceled, and completed.
Including a PAR generated request number, you will need to configure
Sequence Generator for SF52 Part A - Box 2 - Request Number
. Complete SF-52 configuration of
Maintain Federal Fields Values
 task.