Workday Report Writer Practice Test

Prompts bring user input into the report at run time, while static filters are fixed in the report design and apply every time the report runs without asking for new values. A prompt asks you to enter values when you run the report, and those values determine which data is shown for that execution. A static filter, on the other hand, is baked into the report’s design—it's always applied the same way unless someone edits the design.

This distinction matters for flexibility versus consistency. Prompts make the same report usable for many scenarios because you can tailor the data each time you run it. Static filters lock in a specific constraint, ensuring a consistent view every time the report runs and often helping maintain performance by narrowing the dataset upfront.

In practice, a prompt can feed into a filter (for example, you enter a date range at run time, which then constrains the data), but the essential difference is where the control comes from: user input at execution versus a fixed design-time setting.