Concept: Out of Order Insertion

You can insert a staffing event without rescinding later events in a worker's history, as long as the new event doesn't change the worker's position. The business processes that you can insert out of order include:

Assign Matrix Organization
Assign Pay Group
Change Organization Assignments for Worker
Change Work Space
Edit Position
Edit Position Restrictions
Employee Contract
Freeze Position
Remove from Matrix Organization
Request Compensation Change
(unless there’s a pending merit event with a promotion)
Service Dates Change
Title Change
Update Academic Appointment

If an out of order insertion could affect later staffing events, Workday displays those events in an exception. You’re responsible for determining the impact of your change and updating the later events as needed. Optionally, you can add a

Review

step to your business process definitions that identifies an out of order event. The step then routes the change to an HR Administrator for review. Workday provides an

Out of Order Business Process

boolean report field for this purpose.

The key things to remember about out of order insertions:

When you insert an event out of order, your change is effective only until a later event changes it.
Workday doesn't apply details from an out of order event to later events in a worker's history.
There’s an exception for the
Change Organization Assignments for Worker
business process. When you insert an organization assignment event out of order, Workday automatically updates future events. Organization assignment events in the future will have the same value until there’s an event with a different value for the organization type.
Workday doesn't provide additional security for out of order insertion. Anyone who has permission to initiate one of these staffing events can insert it out of order.
There’s an exception for the
Change Organization Assignments for Worker
business process. Workday provides additional security for inserting organization assignment events out of order through the
Maintain Functionality for Staffing Transactions
task.