Workday
This page describes how to use Fivetran Activations with Workday.
Workday is a cloud-based enterprise platform for human capital management (HCM) and financial management. We let you sync organizational data from your data warehouse directly into Workday, keeping your HR records up to date with the latest information from your source of truth.
Getting started
We connect to Workday using an Integration System User (ISU) — a dedicated Workday user account specifically designed for API and integration access. Ask your Workday administrator to create an ISU before connecting.
Step 1: Create an Integration System User in Workday
- Log in to your Workday tenant as an administrator.
- In the search bar, type Create Integration System User and open the task.
- Fill in a username (for example,
ISU_activations) and a password. Note these credentials — you will enter them in Activations. - Ensure that Session Timeout Minutes is set to
0(no timeout) so that API sessions do not expire mid-sync. - Optionally, check Do Not Allow UI Sessions to restrict this account to API use only.
Step 2: Assign a security group to the ISU
The ISU must have permission to call the Workday Human Resources SOAP API operations used by Activations.
- Search for Create Security Group and create an Integration System Security Group (Unconstrained).
- Add your ISU to this group.
- Search for Maintain Permissions for Security Group and grant the following domain security permissions to the group:
- Human Resources Domain:
GetandPutaccess on the Organizations domain (or the relevant sub-domain that coversAdd_Update_OrganizationandGet_Organizations).
- Human Resources Domain:
- Search for Activate Pending Security Policy Changes and activate the changes.
Step 3: Connect Workday in Activations
Navigate to the Destinations page in Activations and click New Destination.
Select Workday from the list of available destinations.
Enter the following connection details:
Field Description Example Host Your Workday API hostname (without https://)wd2-services1.myworkday.comTenant Your Workday tenant name, found in your Workday login URL mycompanyISU Username The username of the Integration System User (without the @tenantsuffix — Activations appends it automatically)ISU_activationsISU Password The password for the Integration System User Click Connect to test and save the connection.
Supported objects and sync behaviors
Activations currently supports syncing to the following Workday objects.
| Object Name | Supported? | Sync Keys | Behaviors |
|---|---|---|---|
| Organization | ✅ | Organization Reference ID | Update or Create, Update Only |
Learn more about all of our sync behaviors in our Syncs documentation.
Contact Support if you want Activations to support more Workday objects and/or behaviors.