Workday Lengthen helps you to construct customized in-Workday apps that leverage Workday’s information mannequin, UI and safety. Lengthen apps are totally built-in into the Workday interface and might faucet into Workday information by way of APIs and experiences. In apply, a dashboard app on Lengthen will name Workday information providers (native REST or “Report-as-a-Service” experiences) behind the scenes, remodel the outcomes into chart-ready information, and render interactive charts or grids within the customized UI. The high-level structure is:
- Information Supply (RaaS/REST): Workday HCM information uncovered by way of customized RaaS experiences or built-in REST endpoints.
- Integration Layer: Workday Lengthen app defines an integration that invokes these providers and retrieves JSON/XML information.
- Lengthen App & UI: The app’s UI screens (constructed with Lengthen’s UI builder or XSLT views) bind to this information, apply filters, and use chart elements to show the analytics. Since Lengthen apps inherit Workday’s UI framework, the dashboard looks like a local Workday report.
- Safety & Deployment: All information entry goes by means of Workday’s safety framework. You assign minimal permissions to the Integration System Person (ISU) or API consumer and solely expose wanted discipline.
