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Workday

Abstract

Connect your Varicent ELT and Workday accounts to export your data to your Workday account.

Connect your Varicent ELT and Workday accounts to export your data to your Workday account. This connection allows Varicent ELT to write data to Workday.

Set up the connector to be available for use with the Export tool. You only need to set up the connection once. After the connection is set up, Varicent ELT, can export data to your Workday account.

Create the connection

Create the connection between Varicent ELT and Workday. Generate a new Workday connection or use an existing one.

Creating a new connection

  1. In Varicent ELT, go to your pipe.

  2. Add the Export tool.

  3. In the Export tool configuration section, click the Connection drop-down.

  4. From the connection drop-down, click + New connection.

  5. Create the new Workday connection for the Export tool.

    1. On the Create a connection page, click Workday.

    2. On the Connect to your database page, enter the following information:

      Table 33. Workday export configuration

      Field

      Description

      Connector name

      The name of the connection.

      Domain

      The Workday domain name.

      Tenant

      The Workday tenant.

      User name

      The user name to access the connection.

      Password

      The password to access the connection.



    3. Click Next.

    4. On the Export tool configuration panel, enter the Batch Id.

    5. Click Export now.

      The data is now available to use in the Export tool. For more information about the tool, see Export.

Using your existing Workday connection

  1. In Varicent ELT, go to your pipe.

  2. Add the Export tool.

  3. In the Export tool configuration section, click the Connection drop-down.

  4. Search for and select your existing Workday export connection.

  5. In the Batch Id field, enter a name for the batch Id.

  6. Click Export now.

    The data is now available to use in the Export tool. For more information about the tool, see Export.

Error handling

The following errors may appear during the export process:

Error

Description

Export failed with the following error: message.

Export failed with an error.

WorkdayTotalFailureError

The error could be related to the not properly set column names. Workday requires either employee_id or contingent_worker_id as key column.

To export to the Workday Payroll report, the column names should also contain start_date, end_date, run_category, earning_code and amount.

Important

If you don't have all of the required columns, the export will fail with all the rows.