Workday Learning Spoke
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Summary of Workday Learning Spoke
The Workday Learning Spoke, developed by Bristlecone, Inc., integrates Workday Learning with your ServiceNow instance. It enables management of approvals, courses, and user data within Workday Learning directly from ServiceNow. This integration requires an Integration Hub subscription and is designed for Workday Learning version 36.0, with potential compatibility for later versions.
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Key Features
- Integration Requirements: Registration of an Integration System User with OAuth 2.0 authorization is necessary, including the setup of Client ID, Client Secret, and API endpoints. Assign appropriate domain and business process security policies to the integration user to enable required access.
- Dependencies: Ensure required ServiceNow plugins such as IntegrationHub Action Steps (SOAP and REST), Flow Designer components, Complex Object, System Import Data Source, and Integration Hub Runtime are installed. Some plugins may require additional licenses.
- Flows and Subflows: The spoke provides a sample flow named "Trigger Workday Learning Integration" which can be customized by copying into your application scope. Sample subflows automate key tasks such as assigning courses, pulling course and user activity data, tracking approvals, and mapping users between Workday Learning and ServiceNow.
- Actions: Automate Workday tasks through predefined actions categorized under Approval Management, Course Management, User Management, and Skills Management. These include creating assignments, retrieving course details, fetching user information, and managing approvals.
- Application Modules: The spoke includes modules for report configuration (managing RAAS reports), profile sync (setting Workday tenant timezone), data sources for syncing user activity, self-enrollment, and approval tracking. Scheduled imports also support error handling during data synchronization.
- Connection and Credential Management: Utilizes Integration Hub aliases to centrally manage connection and credential information across multiple environments, simplifying maintenance and updates.
Practical Benefits for ServiceNow Customers
By implementing the Workday Learning Spoke, customers can streamline learning management processes by automating course assignments, tracking user learning activities, and managing approvals without leaving the ServiceNow platform. This reduces manual effort, improves data accuracy between systems, and enhances user experience by centralizing learning operations.
Proper setup, including security permissions and plugin dependencies, ensures secure and efficient integration, while customizable flows and actions allow tailoring to specific organizational workflows.
The Workday HR spoke is built by Bristlecone, Inc. Manage approvals, courses, and user in the Workday Learning instance from your ServiceNow instance.
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Integration Hub subscription
This spoke requires an Integration Hub subscription. For more information, see Legal schedules - IntegrationHub overview.
Spoke version
Workday Learning spoke v1.1.4 is the latest version.
Supported versions
This spoke was built for Workday Learning v36.0, but may be compatible with later versions.
Spoke requirements
- Register Integration System User.Note:While filling account information details, ensure that you select the Do Not Allow UI Sessions check box.
- Workday REST and Report-as-a-Service (RAAS) API works with OAuth 2.0 to authorize access to resources in your Workday tenant. To use OAuth 2.0, you must register your client in the tenant, using the Register API Client task.Record and save these values while registering your client:
- Client ID
- Client Secret
- Workday REST API Endpoint
- Token Endpoint
- Authorization Endpoint
- Create a security group and assign it to the integration system user and
provide these permissions.
Table 1. Domain Security Policy Permissions Operation Domain Security Policy Domain Security Policies Inheriting Permission Functional Areas View Only Worker Data: Public Worker Reports Staffing Get Only Worker Data: Public Worker Reports Staffing Get Only Manage: Learning Content Learning Core View Only Reports: Learning Record Learning Core Get Only Reports: Learning Record Learning Core View Only Person Data: Learning Learning Core Get Only Person Data: Learning Learning Core View Only Business Process Reporting System View Only Reports: Learning Record Learning Core Get Only Reports: Learning Record Learning Core Get and Put Manage: Learning Course Enrollments Learning Core View and Modify Business Process Administration Business Process Delegation System Get only Set up: Skills and Experience Worker Profile and Skills Table 2. Business Process Security Policy Permissions Operation Business Process Type Functional Area Initiate (Enroll In Learning Content (Web Service)) Enroll in Content Learning Core
Spoke dependencies
- ServiceNow IntegrationHub Action Step - SOAP (com.glide.hub.action_step.soap)
- ServiceNow IntegrationHub Action Step - REST (com.glide.hub.action_step.rest)
- ServiceNow Flow Designer - Dynamic Inputs (com.glide.hub.dynamic_inputs)
- ServiceNow Flow Designer - Dynamic Outputs (com.glide.hub.dynamic_outputs)
- Complex Object (com.glide.cobject)
- System Import Data Source (glide.system_import_data_source)
- ServiceNow Integration Hub Runtime (com.glide.hub.integration.runtime)
- ServiceNow IntegrationHub Action Template - Data Stream (com.glide.hub.action_type.datastream)
Spoke flows
The Workday Learning spoke provides a sample flow, Trigger Workday Learning Integration. This flow in turn triggers the subflows to automate tasks. To customize the sample flow, copy it to the required application scope.
Spoke subflows
| Subflow | Description |
|---|---|
| Assign Course to Workday Learning | Assigns learning courses to the ServiceNow users. |
| Pull Courses from Workday Learning | Retrieves details of the learning courses and maps courses from Workday Learning to ServiceNow. |
| Pull User Activity from Workday Learning | Retrieves user course activity data from Workday Learning and saves it in the ServiceNow instance. |
| Track Approval for Workday Learning | Retrieves details of learning todos from Workday Learning and saves it in the ServiceNow instance. |
| Workday Learning User Mapping | Maps users between Workday Learning and ServiceNow instance. |
Spoke actions
| Category | Action | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Approval Management | Look up Approvals | Retrieves approval items from the inbox. |
| Course Management | Create Assignment | Creates an enrollment in the Learning Content. |
| Look up Assignment | Retrieves details of the learning assignments. | |
| Look up Blended Courses Stream | Retrieves details of the blended courses. | |
| Look up Course Offerings Stream | Retrieves details of the blended course offerings. | |
| Look up Digital Courses Stream | Retrieves details of the digital courses. | |
| Look up Enrollment | Retrieves details of the self learning enrollments. | |
| Look up Lessons Stream | Retrieves details of the standalone lessons. | |
| Look up Programs Stream | Retrieves details of the learning programs. | |
| User Management | Look up Users Stream | Retrieves worker details such as, personal data, employment data, email data, worker reference data, and so on. |
| Skills management | Look up Skills Stream | Retrieves details of the skills required for the learning program. |
Spoke module
| Module | Description |
|---|---|
| Report Configuration | Enables you to create a record to specify the RAAS report configurations. Only one record can be created in this module. |
| Profile Sync Configuration | Enables you to specify the Workday tenant timezone. |
| Data Sources | |
| Sync User Activity | Saves the details of the user course activity as an attachment. These details are retrieved by the Look up Assignment action. |
| Self Enrollment Activity | Saves the details of the user course self enrollment as an attachment. These details are retrieved by the Look up Enrollment action. |
| Track Approval | Saves the details of the todo approvals as an attachment. These details are retrieved by the Look up Approvals actions. |
| Scheduled Imports | |
| Sync User Activity | Enables handling of the transformation errors while synchronizing the user activity. |
| Self Enrollment Activity | Enables handling of the transformation errors while synchronizing the self enrollment activity. |
| Track Approval | Enables handling of the transformation errors while synchronizing the approvals. |
Connection and credential alias requirements
Integration Hub uses aliases to manage connection and credential information. Using an alias eliminates the need to configure multiple credentials and connection information profiles when using multiple environments. If the connection or credential information changes, you don't need to update any actions that use the connection. For more information, see Connections and Credentials.
For information about setting up the spoke, see Set up the Workday Learning spoke.