Using the Invoke Workday activity

The Invoke Workday activity allows you to browse and execute operations in Workday management services related to human resources, finance, and so on. You can also fetch custom report operations and work with it.

About this task

Use this task to browse and execute operations in Workday management services related to human resources, finance and so on.

Procedure

To configure Invoke Workday activity, complete the following steps:

  1. In an active orchestration, open the Activities tab and expand the Workday folder contents.
  2. Drag the Invoke Workday activity icon onto the orchestration. The Invoke Workday Checklist is displayed.
  3. In the Checklist, click Summary.
  4. Review the contents of the Activity Name field, and make the required changes.
  5. In the Checklist, click Pick Endpoint.
  6. Click Browse and use the Project Explorer dialog box to select the relevant Workday endpoint.
  7. Optional: You can create the endpoint by clicking New and specifying the required connection details. Click OK to save and use the endpoint for this configuration.
    Note: For more information, see Creating and editing a Workday endpoint.
  8. In the Checklist, click Configure.
  9. In the Workday Service pane, complete one of the following:
    1. Click the Service option and select the required Workday services from the list.
    2. Click the Custom Report Name field and specify the name of the report.
  10. Click Fetch Workday Operations to populate the Workday operations pane with operations from the module selected in the Service option.
  11. Optional: Click Workday Help to view the Workday help pages for the operation you have selected. If you click the help button before selecting an operation, you can view the Workday help page which displays information about all the Workday services.
  12. In the Checklist, click Retry. Review the default settings and make the required changes. For more information, see Specifying the retry options for Workday activity.
  13. Select the required Workday operation and click Map Inputs from the Checklist. The XML Schemas generated from the selected operation of the Invoke Workday activity are displayed as nodes under the request input parameter in the To Activity panel. The Version field will be populated automatically with the latest version of Workday supported by the connector.

    The user name and password in the map inputs are populated based on the details provided in the endpoint screen.

  14. Create a map between the orchestration variables and the input parameter of the activity.
    Note: Values must be provided at run time for any mandatory elements of the input structure. A value can be provided by specifying a default value for element or by linking the element with an input node. During run time if no value is provided for a mandatory element, the activity throws an exception, which is reported by the Web Management Console. If a value is not provided at run time for an optional input parameter, no exception is thrown during run time.
  15. Select the Map Outputs in the Checklist. The XML Schema generated to hold the response of the activity is displayed as nodes under the response output parameter in the From Activity panel.
  16. Create a map between the output parameters and orchestration variables.

Results

You have configured the Invoke Workday activity.



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Timestamp icon Last updated: Wednesday, 15 June 2016


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