Workday and Viva Connections integration

Get your Workday data, where you need it, when you need it. With adenin, you can supercharge your Viva Connections dashboard by integrating Workday data into Adaptive Cards. This is made possible through our easy to use App Connection Engine (ACE), making it an absolute breeze for developers.

Features

Instantly bring your Workday data into your Viva Connections dashboard
Seamless integration with your existing work tools via Adaptive Cards
Make use of our user-friendly ACE to set up the integration
Enjoy a developer-friendly experience with technical support from the adenin team

Benefits

Get a unified view of your Workday data from one place – your Viva Connections dashboard
Reduce the need to switch between apps and minimize context switching
Make informed decisions with all your data in one place
Save time and increase your productivity with streamline workflow

Your Workday data never looked so good or was so easily accessible. With adenin, you can make your data work for you, not the other way around.

Ready to see what adenin’s integration can do for you? Start your free account today and experience the future of work.

About adenin’s Viva Connections channel

With the Viva Connections dashboard you have the ability to turn apps from the App Directory into Adaptive Card extensions. These Cards present employees their data in bite-sized snippets and can be expanded to show more details.Use ACE Adaptive Card... Read more

Alternative intranet to Viva Connections

SharePoint

Microsoft Teams

Frequently asked questions about Viva Connections Workday integration (FAQ)

What data sources are available for Workday?

Workday provides a total of 21 data sources. See the first 16 below.

Inbox

Shows you a list of your inbox tasks from your Workday account

Time off balance

This shows you a list of your time off balances from your Workday account

Retrieves a collection of activities for a specific customer.

Secured by: Reports: Customer Accounts Scope: Customer Accounts

Retrieves a collection of currencies.

Retrieves all currencies. Secured by: Core Navigation Scope: Adaptive Planning for Financial Plans, Adaptive Planning for the Workforce, Tenant Non-

Retrieves a collection of direct reports for a specific worker.

Retrieves all direct reports. Secured by: Reports: Manager, Reports: Matrix Manager, Self-Service: My Team Scope: Staffing

Retrieves a collection of history items for a specific worker.

Retrieves all history items for the worker. Secured by: Worker Data: Historical Staffing Information Scope: Staffing

Retrieves a collection of inbox tasks for a specific worker.

Secured by: Core Navigation Scope: Adaptive Planning for Financial Plans, Adaptive Planning for the Workforce, Tenant Non-Configurable

Retrieves a collection of organizations for a specific worker.

Retrieves all organizations for a specific worker. Secured by: Reports: Organization Scope: Organizations and Roles

Retrieves a collection of organizations.

Secured by: Reports: Organization Scope: Organizations and Roles

Retrieves a collection of pay slips for a specific worker.

Retrieves all pay slips for a worker with the specified ID. Secured by: Self-Service: Payroll (My Payslips), Worker Data: Payroll (Payslips) Scope:

Retrieves a collection of supervisory organizations managed by a specific worker.

Retrieves all managed supervisory organizations for a worker with the specified ID. Secured by: Reports: Organization Scope: Organizations and Roles

Retrieves a collection of supervisory organizations.

Retrieves all supervisory organizations. Secured by: Reports: Organization Scope: Organizations and Roles

Retrieves a collection of time off entries for a specific worker.

Secured by: Self-Service: Time Off Balances, Worker Data: Time Off (Time Off Balances Manager View), Worker Data: Time Off (Time Off Balances) Scope:

Retrieves a collection of time off plans for a specific worker.

Retrieves all time off plans for a worker with the specified ID. Secured by: Self-Service: Time Off Balances, Worker Data: Time Off (Time Off Balance

Retrieves a collection of workers.

Retrieves all workers. Use the search parameter to search for workers by name. The search is case-insensitive. Secured by: Self-Service: Current Staf

Retrieves a customer instance.

Secured by: View: Customer Scope: Customers

To see the other 5 data sources, go to the main Workday listing in the App Directory.

Is the Viva Connections integration free?

Yes, Viva Connections is one of the channels built-in into adenin, a platform that integrates all kinds of work apps into a personal dashboard as well as your other work applications, such as intranets or chatbots. Bear in mind that, even though channels such as Viva Connections are free, the use of adenin (including using data from Workday) incurs usage charges according to your plan. See the pricing page for details →

Who is the Viva Connections integration for?

adenin’s Viva Connections connector is a popular choice for Human Resources teams at small to large organizations. The data sources that are built into Workday (see above) are incredibly simple to integrate into Viva Connections and don't require any technical know-how. The adenin platform completely handles authenticating with Workday and then loads your data into an Adaptive Card layout that, in turn, will be embedded into Viva Connections.

Do I have to be a developer to use the Viva Connections integration with Workday?

No, the integration is designed to help busy managers stay on top of their various workplace applications, where Workday is just one of many examples (see others). As such, we designed many tools that reduce the amount of coding expected of users: Starting with the Workday integration, which you can set up yourself in just a few, completely code-free, steps (see instructions).

Then with the built-in Card designer we automatically generate a layout from your Workday data. You could tweak this further in the low-code designer, either yourself if you have some HTML-related skills, or with a little help from us – just reach out to one of the team.

Lastly, there will be the Viva Connections integration which is self-explanatory to install. Just check the installation instructions section for more details.

How does adenin ensure my Workday data is safely delivered to Viva Connections?

We use the secure OAuth standard which means you authorize adenin accessing your Workday data and in turn authorize us to share this data with Viva Connections. Both of these authorizations can be revoked by you at any point through the Linked accounts menu (requires user account). No data is ever stored on adenin servers, instead it is directly sent to the client (in this case Viva Connections) who will treat it in accordance with their privacy policy. Please also check out our Privacy Policy for more details.

Install Workday integration for Viva Connections

With adenin you can easily integrate any business app into Viva Connections

1. Add Workday to adenin
2. Integrate adenin into Viva Connections

Click the Add button below
Add Workday to adenin
Either log in or create your free adenin account. Then you will be directed to your personal dashboard where the installation of your Workday integration will start.
Follow the steps in the modal by clicking Next including selecting your data source, authorizing your Workday account and more attributes (if they are required).
At the end click Finish and our built-in smart technology generates a Card with the live data it received from the Workday API.
Workday
Your Card will now appear on your adenin dashboard.
Modify or embed your Workday Adaptive Card from the ··· button in the top right-hand corner of your card:
Click Edit in Designer to open the Card’s layout in the low-code Adaptive Card designer.
By clicking Share you can see options for embedding your Card into intranet and chatbot channels. For example, your Workday works as a SharePoint web part, or with chatbots such as Microsoft Teams.

To begin, add the adenin’s Viva Connections integration to your Viva Connections account.

Click the Install now button above to add the Card maker for Viva Connections extension to your Sharepoint page
During the installation, select to Enable this app and add it to all sites, then press Add
After the installation you will be asked to "Approve access so this app works as designed" which you should follow by clicking on Go to API Access Page
There select Microsoft Graph for the correct package and then press Approve. Our Viva app is now correctly installed and ready to go.
Now go to your Dashboard, usually located at <your-sharepoint-domain>/SitePages/Dashboard.aspx, and add a new Card maker for Viva Connections Card
Then select the icon and select Embed an existing Card
Now copy your Card Share URL and paste it in the Viva Card
Optionally, you can edit your Card's Quick or Card View by clicking Edit in Designer or Edit the Quick View