How does it work?

The Workday integration sends student application data from Element451 to Workday.

The standard Workday integration flow is primarily Element451 → Workday. When a sync is triggered, Element451 reads the configured student/application data, prepares it for Workday, and creates the appropriate Workday application using Workday’s Admissions SOAP Web Service.

After the data is synced to workday, there is a small delay and then a few key identifiers are fetched and saved back into Element from Workday:

• Workday ID (Student Reference ID)
• School Email

Sync Configuration

The standard setup is unidirectional syncing:

• Element451 → Workday

In this model, Element451 is the system where the application record is collected and prepared, and Workday is the receiving SIS system.  The only data written back into Element from Workday is the Workday ID (Student Reference ID) and School email address of the student once generated.

Element451 → Workday

This sync process sends data from Element451 to Workday.

The standard Workday integration sync performs three high-level steps:

1. reads the Workday configuration
2. exports the student/application data from Element451
3. creates the Workday application and returns any newly created Workday identifiers

How the Sync Is Triggered

By default, the integration is initiated through the following sequence:

1. A label—Element451 to Workday - Trigger Sync—is applied to a contact record.
2. This label triggers the rule Element451 -> Workday Sync.