What does a sequence generator do in Workday?

• A. Identify each person, position, or incident with a number that is unique within a specified time period.
• B. Assigns a payment schedule to employees.
• C. Calculates tax withholdings.
• D. Creates new user accounts.

Answer: (A)

A sequence generator is used to create unique identifiers for records, ensuring that every new item gets a distinct number within a defined time window. In Workday, this means things like a new employee, a new position, or a new incident can be tagged with a unique sequence number that won’t clash with others created in the same period (for example, within the same year). This helps keep data clean and relationships between records unambiguous, which is essential for reporting, auditing, and linking related objects.

The other options describe different functions: assigning a payment schedule relates to when payments occur, not how records are uniquely identified; calculating tax withholdings is a payroll calculation task; creating new user accounts is about provisioning access. None of those involve generating unique numbers for records, which is the core purpose of a sequence generator.