Reporting and Analytics

Dayforce Implementation Guide

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R2025.2.1
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2025-11-14T19:56:07.958885
Reporting and Analytics

Enables the Reporting and Analytics feature. When the Reporting and Dashboards subfeatures are enabled, users can view, build, edit, and search for data in these areas of Dayforce.

Dashboards

Enables the Dashboards feature. With subfeatures assigned, users can view, build, edit, search, and set security for dashboards. See the Dashboards User Guide.

Dashboards Subfeatures

Dashboards: Enables dashboards and all associated charts, tables, metrics, and KPIs.

Dashboards Setup: Enables administrators to set permissions on the type of data and dashboard groups users have access to in Dashboards and Quick View.

Quick View: Enables the Quick View feature, from which allows users to quickly create a view using a SQL expression.

View Builder: Enables the View Builder feature, where users can create new views (charts, tables, metrics, and KPIs).

Reporting

Enables the Reporting feature and its subfeatures that allow users to build, edit, distribute and run ad hoc reports. Contains the following subfeatures:

Reporting Subfeatures

Historical Employee Data: Enables users to view historical data of employees they have access to.

Report Designer: Enables the report designer feature in Reporting and Analytics > Reporting > Reports, where users can create and edit reports. With this checkbox selected, the Edit and New buttons are activated in the landing page screen, and the Edit button is activated in the Preview screen. With the checkbox cleared, users with access to Reporting can preview and run reports, but they can’t edit them or create new custom reports.

  • Dataset Builder: Enables the dataset builder functionality in the report designer, which allows advanced report writers to modify the report's dataset, including adding and removing entities, editing data relationships, and configuring parameters. See Advanced Report Writing.
  • Delete any Report: Enables the Delete button in the report designer for all custom reports, regardless of who created them. With this checkbox selected, users can delete custom reports that were created by any user. With this checkbox cleared, users can only delete reports that they created themselves.
  • Report Row Level Security Configuration: Enables the Report Row Level Security Configuration drop-down list in the report properties dialog box.

Report Queue: Enables the Queue tab in Reporting and Analytics > Reporting > Reports, which allows a user to stop a report that has been running for too long. A list of all the reports that are running along with the details of each report are visible in the Queue tab.

  • View All Reports in Queue: Enables the ability to view all generated reports in the Queue tab. This includes reports that were generated by other users.

Reports: Enables access to Reporting and Analytics > Reporting > Reports.

Scheduled Reports: Enables access to the Scheduled Reports tab in Reporting and Analytics > Reporting > Reports.

  • Access to View/Edit All Schedules: Enables the ability to transfer ownership of a report schedule. This feature is for users who need to transfer ownership when responsibilities change.
  • Distribution: Enables the report distribution feature, including the Distribution tab in the Schedule Report dialog box in Reporting and Analytics > Reporting > Reports.
  • Use my Security Settings: Enables the ability for report recipients to view all of the fields in a distributed report, regardless of the report security settings. This feature is for users who need to distribute reports to individuals who don’t have Can Read access authorization for all fields in the report. The Use my Security Settings feature uses the report distributor's security settings to generate and distribute the report.