Workday Connection

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Workday is a financial management, human capital management and student information system software vendor.

This topic describes how to authenticate to Workday and configure any necessary connection properties in the Workday connection connector.

Connection Configuration #

Each connection property available in the Workday connector is explained below.

Connection Name #

The name of the connection to be created should be provided. This is the name that will display on the list of available connections.

Auth Scheme #

The type of authentication to use when connecting to Workday.

Possible Values

• Basic: Authenticate using the User and Password for a normal user or integration system users (ISUs).

  Normal users log into Workday interactively with a web browser, while the connector authenticates ISUs automatically.

• OAuth: Set to this to perform the OAuth 2.0 authentication.

Basic #

If Basic is selected, additional configuration parameter will get listed.

User #

The Workday user account used to authenticate.

Password #

The Workday user password used to authenticate.

Tenant #

The tenant for the account.

OAuth #

If OAuth is selected, additional configuration parameters will get listed.

Client ID #

The client Id assigned when you register your application with an OAuth authorization server.

Client Secret #

The client secret assigned when you register your application with an OAuth authorization server.

Refresh Token #

The OAuth refresh token for the corresponding OAuth access token.

Tenant #

The tenant for the account.

Host #

The host for the API URL.

UseWQL #

Set to True to use Workday WQL REST API.

Service #

The specific SOAP service or services to retrieve data from.

Enter as a comma seperated list.

Note that services come from the following:

https://community.workday.com/sites/default/files/file-hosting/productionapi/index.html

After entering all the details, click on the TEST button.

If the connection service identification and authentication details are provided correctly, a success message stating “connection available” is generated.

Click on the CREATE button to save the changes.

If the details are incorrect or the server is down, you will get a message “Connection unavailable”.