Workday Dynamic Account

In this article

Overview

Use this Dynamic account type to connect Workday Snaps with data sources that use Workday Dynamic Accounts.

Expression-enabled authentication fields, such as Username, Password, and Client Secret, support Secrets Management, a SnapLogic add-on that allows you to store endpoint credentials in a third-party secrets manager, such as AWS Secrets Manager, Azure Key Vault, or HashiCorp Vault. During validation and execution, pipelines obtain the credentials directly from the secrets manager. Learn more: Configure Accounts to use secrets.

Prerequisites

  • Write permissions for the Project for which you are creating the Account.
  • Valid Username, Password, Tenant, Host and Version received from Workday for using the Account.

You can get the Host, Version and Tenant by following any of these methods:

  • You can first contact your Workday Security Administrator or your Implementation Partner.
  • If you have access to your Workday Customer Portal, you can get information from there
  • If you have access to the Workday Community, you can access the Workday Data Centers page from where its three data centers are listed. (AshburnPortland and Dublin). You need Workday Community access for this.
  • Another easy way of finding this is through a RAAS (Report As A Service)
    1. Create an Advanced Report that is Web Service Enabled.
    2. From the Related Actions for the Report, click on Web Services > View URLs.
    3. Copy the Workday XML URL. It contains the host-prefix, tenant name, user name and follows the syntax: 
      https://<host-prefix>.workday.com/ccx/service/customreport2/<tenant_name>/<username>/CR_RAAS_SNAPLOGIC_READ_DEMO.
  • Latest Version can be found from the Public Workday Web Services (WWS).

Limitations and Known Issues

None.

Account Settings


While creating a Workday Dynamic Account

For Workday Dynamic Accounts, we recommend passing authentication credentials through Pipeline parameters. Use the Pipeline Properties to define the required Pipeline parameters.


Field FieldTypeDescription

Label*


Default Vaue: N/A
Example
:Workday_Account_01

StringEnter a unique name to identify the account instance.

Password*


Default Vaue: N/A
Example
:
p2@s091

StringProvide the Pipeline parameter key (_Parameter) as an Expression in this field. This key must correspond to the password required for accessing the Workday instance.

Host*


Default Vaue: N/A
Example
:
 wd-imp-services.workday.com

String

Provide the Pipeline parameter key (_Parameter) as an Expression in this field. This key must correspond to the host name required for accessing the Workday Implementation (Sandbox) or Production tenant.

The host supports the path in a non-HTTP format (for example, wd-imp-services.workday.com).

Tenant*


Default Vaue: N/A
Example
:Tenant_name

String Provide the Pipeline parameter key (_Parameter) as an Expression in this field. This key must correspond to the Workday tenant.

Version*


Default Vaue
: N/A
Example
29.2

String

Provide the version of the Workday instance.

 The Snap supports the versions from 21 through 29.

Pipeline Parameters

Workday Dynamic Account Settings

Accounts Encryption

Standard Encryption

If you are using Standard Encryption, the account uses High sensitivity settings under Enhanced Encryption for transmitting information.

Enhanced Encryption

If you have the Enhanced Account Encryption feature, the following describes which fields are encrypted for each sensitivity level selected per each account.

Account:

  • High:
  • Medium + High
  • Low + Medium + High

Troubleshooting

ErrorReasonResolution
Failed to validate Account: Soap faultEither the user name and/or password entered is invalid.

Recheck the user credentials and pass valid user name and/or password.

Failed to validate Account: Unable to read URL (500 Internal Server Error)Path validation failed. The value for Tenant does not resolve to a valid Workday instance.Ensure the value passed in the Tenant field forms a proper/valid URL that points to the Workday instance.
Failed to validate Account: Unable to read URLPath validation failed. The Host does not resolve to a valid destination.Ensure the values passed in the Host field forms a proper/valid URL that points to the Workday instance.
Failed to validate Account: Error parsing WSDL documentVersion does not follow the required pattern for Workday versions: XX.X.Update the Version values to follow the pattern XX.X. For example, 28.2, 34.0, 33.2.

Snap Pack History

Workday Snap Pack

Release 

Snap Pack Version

Date

Type

  Updates

February 2024

436patches25953

Latest

Upgraded Apache CXF from version 3.4.2 to 3.6.3 to prevent vulnerability issues.

February 2024

main25112

Stable

Updated and certified against the current SnapLogic Platform release.

November 2023

435patches24944

Latest

Fixed an issue with Workday REST Snap where the input schema of the Snap did not populate in the upstream Mapper Snap.

November 2023

435patches24309

Latest

Added the WorkdayQL Snap in the Workday Snap Pack, which connects with the Workday Query Language (WQL) endpoints.

November 2023

main23721

08 Nov 2023 

Stable

Updated and certified against the current SnapLogic Platform release.

August 2023

main22460

Stable

Updated and certified against the current SnapLogic Platform release.

May 2023

main21015

Stable

Upgraded with the latest SnapLogic platform release.

February 2023

432patches20313

Latest

Fixed an issue with the Workday REST Snap where it failed with a null pointer exception when the input document was null.

February 2023

main19844

Stable

  • The Workday REST Snap supports Pass through and Pagination fields.

    • Pass through: Enables the Snap to pass the input data to the output document.

    • Enable Pagination: Enables the Snap to return the response in multiple pages based on the limit and offset query parameters. The maximum limit value is 100. Deselect this checkbox to download only one page of records.

January 2023

431patches19450

Latest

Introduced the Workday REST Snap to connect to Workday REST APIs. This Snap supports the following new accounts:

November 2022

main18944

Stable

Upgraded with the latest SnapLogic platform release.

October 2022

430patches18358

Latest

The Workday Read, Workday Write, and Workday Cancel Snaps are now showing the Services in the suggestions list using the Public Web Service API, which the Snaps failed to use previously.

August 2022

430patches17587

Latest

The performance of the Workday Read Snap is improved to reduce the execution time.

August 2022

main17386

 

Stable

Upgraded with the latest SnapLogic platform release.

4.29

main15993

Stable

Added support for the latest version of Workday APIs (certified to be compatible with version 37.0).

4.28 Patch

428patches14290

Latest

Enhanced the Workday Cancel Snap with the retry mechanism fields.

  • Number of Retries: Specifies the number of attempts the Snap should make to perform the selected operation in case of connection failure or timeout.

  • Retry Interval (seconds): The time interval in seconds between retry attempts.

4.28

main14627

Stable

  • Enhanced the Workday Read Snap with the following:

    • Added the Pass-through on no lookup match checkbox that allows the input document to pass through to the output view when there are when no records match an input document.

    • Parameterization of the Page Number and Page Size fields using Pipeline parameters. You can define and use the parameters in these fields using the
      Expression Enabler (blue star)  icon to pass values during runtime.

4.27

main12833

Stable

Enhanced the Workday Read Snap with the new field Pool Size that controls the maximum number of threads in the pool. This field is available only when you select the Multi-threaded checkbox.

4.26 Patch

426patches11525

 

Latest

Enhanced the Workday Read Snap with the new field Pool Size that controls the maximum number of threads in the pool. This field is available only when you select the Multi-threaded checkbox.

4.26

main11181

 

Stable

Upgraded with the latest SnapLogic platform release.

4.25

main9554

 

Stable

Upgraded with the latest SnapLogic platform release.

4.24

main8556

Stable

Upgraded with the latest SnapLogic platform release.

4.23

main7430

 

Stable

Upgraded with the latest SnapLogic platform release.

4.22

main6403

 

Stable

Removes support for Workday WSDL Account. Pipelines. You must switch these Snaps using either the Workday Account or Workday Dynamic Account type.

4.21

snapsmrc542

 

Stable

Upgraded with the latest SnapLogic platform release.

4.20 Patch 

workday8817

 

Latest

Fixes the Workday Write Snap that ignores the Import Synchronized checkbox selection when importing object data. The Snap now:

  • Waits for the current import request to complete, whether successfully or with error, before initiating the next import request.

  • Provides accurate real-time status of the request to downstream Snaps.   

Existing Pipelines using this Snap to might experience longer exercution times because of
the synchronous behavior. However, you no longer need to use an additional Snap to capture and pass the request status to downstream Snaps.

4.20 Patch 

workday8761

 

Latest

Fixes the Workday Read Snap that fails to validate when configured in the New Form UI.  

4.20

snapsmrc535

 

Stable

Upgraded with the latest SnapLogic platform release.

4.19

snaprsmrc528

 

Stable

The Workday Write Snap includes a Validate Only Load checkbox, which enables users to upload–and then manually validate–data before importing it into Workday.

4.18 Patch 

workday7837

 

Latest

Fixed an issue with the Workday Read Snap wherein the Snap is unable to log SOAP calls.

4.18

snapsmrc523

 

Stable

Upgraded with the latest SnapLogic platform release.

4.17

ALL7402

 

Latest

Pushed automatic rebuild of the latest version of each Snap Pack to SnapLogic UAT and Elastic servers.

4.17

snapsmrc515

 

Latest

Added the Snap Execution field to all Standard-mode Snaps. In some Snaps, this field replaces the existing Execute during preview checkbox.

4.16 Patch

 workday6973

 

Latest

Fixed an issue with paging variable toggle in Workday Read Snap to produce correct preview data.

4.16 Patch 

workday6862

 

Latest

Fixed an issue with the Workday Read Snap not logging SOAP calls.

4.16

snapsmrc508

 

Stable

Upgraded with the latest SnapLogic platform release.

4.15 Patch

workday6727

 

Latest

Fixed an issue with the Soap Execute Snap failing for Workday when the Trust All certificate is enabled while using SSL authentication.

4.15 Patch

workday6292

 

Latest

Fixed an issue with the Workday Read Snap giving inconsistent results. Reverting the multithreading update resolved the issue. 

4.15

snapsmrc500

 

Stable

Upgraded with the latest SnapLogic platform release.

4.14

snapsmrc490

 

Stable

Upgraded with the latest SnapLogic platform release.

4.13 Patch 

workday5247

 

Latest

Fixed the Workday Read Snap that took an extended time to read from the Workday application. 

4.13

snapsmrc486

 

Stable

Upgraded with the latest SnapLogic platform release.

4.12

snapsmrc480

 

Stable

Upgraded with the latest SnapLogic platform release.

4.11

snapsmrc465

 

Stable

Upgraded with the latest SnapLogic platform release.

4.10

snapsmrc414

 

Stable

Upgraded with the latest SnapLogic platform release.

4.9

snapsmrc405

 

Stable

  • Updated the Snap with Import Synchronized, Import Batch Size and Import Batch Node to enhance the performance for Import objects supporting bulk operations. 

  • Updated the Workday Read Snap with the Page Number and the Page Size properties.

4.8

snapsmrc398

 

Stable

  • Updated the Read Snap with the Simplified output property.

  • Info tab added to accounts.

4.7

snapsmrc382

 

Stable

Upgraded with the latest SnapLogic platform release.

4.6

snapsmrc362

 

Stable

  • Resolved an issue in Workday Read Snap that caused errors when the timeout field was set.

  • Resolved an issue in Snaps with Workday Dynamic account that caused an error when a pipeline parameter provided an empty value to the password field.

4.5.1

snapsmrc344

 

Stable

Resolved issues in Workday Snaps to ensure appropriate errors are routed to the error views.

4.4.1

 

Stable

Upgraded with the latest SnapLogic Platform release.

4.4

 

Stable

Resolved an exception in Workday Read.

4.3.2

 

Stable

  • Addressed the following issues:

    • Defect: Workday Read Input Using As Of Date/Time in Response_Filter

    • Defect: Workday Snap Does Not Show All Services