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  Concept: WCP Development Tenants
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Workday provides Workday Extend customers and Personal Account users with Workday Cloud Platform Development tenants. Workday optimizes WCP Development tenants for app development, so you can build Extend apps quickly and easily. For Personal Account users, tenants expire if not logged in for 7 days.

In addition, you can avoid these challenges inherent to developing apps on Implementation tenants:

-   Access: Developers require assistance from Workday to gain access to the IMPL environment.
-   Customer data: Customers might not want developers to access their data to develop apps.
-   No code: Workday doesn't enable users to update metadata in the IMPL environment.
-   No visibility: Developers can't access logs for debugging.


A Development tenant uses staged data of a sample enterprise named Global Modern Service, or "GMS".

Workday enables Company Administrators to create a number of new WCP Development tenants as specified in the contract signed with Workday Extend. You can create 1 of these staged tenant types:

-   AMU: Alma Mater University, a typical higher education customer.
-   GMS: Global Modern Service, a typical global corporate customer.
-   GOV: Green Oak Valley, a typical government customer.


Workday sends an email message containing sign-in information to the Company Administrator who creates the new tenant. Workday assigns a tenant alias according to the naming convention `tenantPrefix_wcpdev#`, where Workday assigns `tenantPrefix` to your account.

Example: `acme_wcpdev1`

The status of a WCP Development tenant can include:

-   <i>Deleted</i>
-   <i>Deleting</i>
-   <i>Error</i>
-   <i>Initiated</i>
-   <i>In progress</i>
-   <i>Running</i>


Workday's Weekly Service Update takes effect on WCP Development tenants according to the standard [Workday Scheduled Maintenance](https://community.workday.com/node/521701).

If your WCP Development tenant is in the WD104 Data Center, refer to [WD104 WCP Development Tenants Weekly Service Update and Maintenance Schedule](https://community.workday.com/node/1181652).

You can't access or create new WCP Development tenants until the maintenance is complete. Workday patches WCP Development tenants with the Service Update from the preceding Friday, which includes the latest Workday metadata at Production confidence level. GMS tenants receive data at the Preview confidence level.

<b>Note:</b> WCP Development tenants are optimized for app development and testing, and should only be used for this purpose. Workday recommends that you use only sample data (and never use PII data) in WCP Development tenants.

When you create a new WCP Development tenant, Workday reuses the alias for the new tenant only after you fully delete the original tenant.

-   When you create a new tenant before fully deleting the original tenant, Workday assigns the lowest available number for the new tenant alias.
-   When you use more than 1 WCP Development tenant, Workday assigns the lowest available number for the new tenant alias.


Example: Your account uses 1 WCP Development tenant with the alias `acme_wcpdev1`.

-   When you create a new tenant while Workday is deleting the original tenant, Workday assigns `acme_wcpdev2` as the new tenant alias.
-   When you fully delete the original tenant and create a new tenant, Workday assigns `acme_wcpdev1` as the new tenant alias.


Example: Your account has 5 WCP Development tenants with the aliases `acme_wcpdev1` through `acme_wcpdev5`, and the alias `acme_wcpdev4` isn't in use.

-   When you delete `acme_wcpdev5` and create a new tenant, Workday assigns `acme_wcpdev4` as the new tenant alias.
-   When you create a new tenant while Workday is deleting `acme_wcpdev2`, Workday assigns `acme_wcpdev4` as the new tenant alias.
-   When you fully delete `acme_wcpdev2` and create a new tenant, Workday assigns `acme_wcpdev2` as the new tenant alias.


### Related Information

[Create and Manage Development Tenants for Workday Customers](/wcp_docs/sij1574178538082.html)

[Enable Proxy Access on WCP Development Tenants](/wcp_docs/aew1596840023767.html)