Retrieves a collection of configuration information about name components.

Workday Resource Information

Retrieves a collection of configuration information about name components. The Maintain Name Components by Country task enables administrators to configure the allowed and required name components for a country.

You must specify the required nameConfigurationFormat query parameter.

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Columns

Name	Type	Description
Countries_Id [KEY]	String	The Workday ID of the Countries that owns this.
ComponentType_Descriptor	String	Supported for: SELECT. A description of the instance
ComponentType_Href	String	Supported for: SELECT. A link to the instance
ComponentType_Id	String	Supported for: SELECT. wid / id / reference id
Label	String	Supported for: SELECT. The country-specific label override for a name component. If no country-specific override exists, the generic name component name is used. For example, for Russia, the label Patronymic Name overrides the underlying generic component name Secondary.
Order	String	Supported for: SELECT. The order assigned to the name component on the Maintain Name Components by Country task. The order of a name component is specific to a country.
Required	Bool	Supported for: SELECT. True if the name component is required for the country.
ShowDisplayOnlyOnPreferred	Bool	Supported for: SELECT. True if the name component is display only on preferred. This field is for China only.
Type	String	Supported for: SELECT. No description available.
WebServiceAlias	String	Supported for: SELECT. The custom Web Service Alias defined on a name component. For use with the Recruiting API.
CurrentName_Prompt	String	The Workday ID of the person's current name being updated.
NameConfigurationFormat_Prompt	String	The Name Configuration Format for which to return values.
UseWesternScript_Prompt	Bool	If true, this method returns the set of allowed and required name components that uses Western Script.