Legal name change configuration

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title: Legal name change configuration
description: Complete the legal name change configuration to allow employees to change their legal name through virtual agent conversation in Employee Center.
locale: en-US
canonical_url: https://www.servicenow.com/docs/r/australia/employee-service-management/hr-service-delivery/leg-name-awd.html
release: australia
product: HR Service Delivery
classification: hr-service-delivery
topic_type: task
last_updated: "2026-09-10"
reading_time_minutes: 1
breadcrumb: [Configuring, HR Service Delivery Advanced Integration with Workday, Integration of HR Service Delivery with third-party systems, HR Service Delivery, Employee Service Management]
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# Legal name change configuration

Complete the legal name change configuration to allow employees to change their legal name through virtual agent conversation in Employee Center.

## Before you begin

Role required: sn\_hr\_workday.admin

## Procedure

1.  Navigate to **All** > **Workday Advanced Use Cases** > **Legal Name Change** > **Document Categories**.

2.  To pull the legal name change document categories from Workday into a ServiceNow application, click **Get Reference IDs**.

    A data source with a predefined script imports document categories into the Workday Reference ID List Staging \[sn\_hr\_workday\_adv\_reference\_id\_list\_staging\] table. From there, the script imports them into the Workday Reference ID List \[sn\_hr\_workday\_adv\_reference\_id\_list\] table.


## What to do next

1.  Navigate to **Workday Advanced Use Cases** > **Legal Name Change** > **Configuration**.
2.  On the Legal Name Change Configurations form, click **New**.
3.  To allow an employee to upload the name change document in Virtual Agent conversation in Employee Center, click the **Enable document upload** option and select a relevant document category.
4.  Click **Submit**.