Workday to Salesforce Employee Update Broadcast
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As an Employee is modified in Workday, you may find the need to update an user in Salesforce. Every time there is a change of Employee, the integration will poll for them in the Workday source instance and it will be responsible for updating the User in Salesforce in real time. The detection criteria, and fields that should be moved are configurable. Additional systems can easily added to be notified of changes. Real time synchronization is achieved via rapid polling of Workday or you can slow down the interval to something near real time. This template uses both our batching and our watermarking capabilities to ensure that only recent changes are captured and so that it efficiently processes large amounts of records if you choose to slow down the polling interval.
License Agreement
This template is subject to the conditions of the MuleSoft License Agreement. Review the terms of the license before downloading and using this template. You can use this template for free with the Mule Enterprise Edition, CloudHub, or as a trial in Anypoint Studio.
Use Case
As a Salesforce admin I want to synchronize updated employee between Workday and Salesfoce. This template serves as a foundation for setting an online sync of employee from Workday instance to Salesforce. Every time there are updates in employee data, the integration will poll for changes in Workday source instance and it will be responsible for updating the User(if exists) on the target Salesforce instance.
As implemented, this template leverages the Mule batch module.
The batch job is divided in Process and On Complete stages.
- The integration is triggered by scheduler to Workday instance. Updated employees are passed to the batch as input.
- In the batch, the user is fetched from Salesforce by the email
- Afterwards every user is updated and sent to destination instance - to Salesforce where it is asynchronously updated.
Considerations
There are certain pre-requisites that must be considered to run this template. All of them deal with the preparations in both source and destination systems, that must be made for the template to run smoothly. Failing to do so can lead to unexpected behavior of the template.
There are a couple of things you should take into account before running this template:
- Users cannot be deleted in Salesforce: For now, the only thing to do regarding users removal is disabling or deactivating them, but this won't make the username available for a new user.
- Workday email uniqueness: The email can be repeated for two or more accounts (or missing).
Salesforce Considerations
Here's what you need to know about Salesforce to get this template to work:
- Where can I check that the field configuration for my Salesforce instance is the right one? See: Salesforce: Checking Field Accessibility for a Particular Field.
- How can I modify the Field Access Settings? See: Salesforce: Modifying Field Access Settings.
As a Data Destination
There are no considerations with using Salesforce as a data destination.
Workday Considerations
As a Data Source
There are no considerations with using Workday as a data origin.
Run it!
Simple steps to get this template running.
Running On Premises
In this section we help you run this template on your computer.
Where to Download Anypoint Studio and the Mule Runtime
If you are new to Mule, download this software:
Note: Anypoint Studio requires JDK 8.
Importing a Template into Studio
In Studio, click the Exchange X icon in the upper left of the taskbar, log in with your Anypoint Platform credentials, search for the template, and click Open.
Running on Studio
After you import your template into Anypoint Studio, follow these steps to run it:
- Locate the properties file
mule.dev.properties, in src/main/resources. - Complete all the properties required per the examples in the "Properties to Configure" section.
- Right click the template project folder.
- Hover your mouse over
Run as. - Click
Mule Application (configure). - Inside the dialog, select Environment and set the variable
mule.envto the valuedev. - Click
Run.
For this template to run in Anypoint Studio, you need to install SAP Libraries.
Running on Mule Standalone
Update the properties in one of the property files, for example in mule.prod.properties, and run your app with a corresponding environment variable. In this example, use mule.env=prod.
Running on CloudHub
When creating your application in CloudHub, go to Runtime Manager > Manage Application > Properties to set the environment variables listed in "Properties to Configure" as well as the mule.env value.
Deploying a Template in CloudHub
In Studio, right click your project name in Package Explorer and select Anypoint Platform > Deploy on CloudHub.
Properties to Configure
To use this template, configure properties such as credentials, configurations, etc.) in the properties file or in CloudHub from Runtime Manager > Manage Application > Properties. The sections that follow list example values.
Application Configuration
- page.size
200
Scheduler Configuration
- scheduler.frequency
40000 - scheduler.start.delay
1000
Watermarking default last query timestamp for example 2018-12-13T03:00:59Z
- watermark.default.expression
2018-12-13T03:00:59Z
Workday Connector Configuration
- wday.username
bob.dylan@orga - wday.tenant
org457 - wday.password
DylanPassword123 - wday.host
servise425546.workday.com
Salesforce Connector Configuration
- sfdc.username
user@company.com - sfdc.password
secret - sfdc.securityToken
1234fdkfdkso20kw2sd - sfdc.user.profile.id
123456789786kAC - user.localeSidKey
en_US - user.languageLocaleKey
en_US - user.timeZoneSidKey
America/New_York - user.emailEncodingKey
ISO-8859-1
API Calls
Salesforce imposes limits on the number of API Calls that can be made. Therefore calculating this amount may be an important factor to consider. User Broadcast Template calls to the API can be calculated using the formula:
1 + X + X / ${page.size}
X is the number of Users to be synchronized on each run.
Divide by ${page.size} because by default, for each upsert API call, users are gathered in groups of a number defined by the ${page.size} property. Also consider that calls are executed repeatedly every polling cycle.
For instance if 10 records are fetched from origin instance, then 12 API calls are made (1 + 10 + 1).
Customize It!
This brief guide provides a high level understanding of how this template is built and how you can change it according to your needs. As Mule applications are based on XML files, this page describes the XML files used with this template. More files are available such as test classes and Mule application files, but to keep it simple, we focus on these XML files:
- config.xml
- businessLogic.xml
- endpoints.xml
- errorHandling.xml
config.xml
This file provides the configuration for connectors and configuration properties. Only change this file to make core changes to the connector processing logic. Otherwise, all parameters that can be modified should instead be in a properties file, which is the recommended place to make changes.
businessLogic.xml
This file holds the functional aspect of the template (points 2. to 3. described in the template overview). Its main component is a Batch job, and it includes steps for executing the broadcast operation from Workday to Salesforce.
endpoints.xml
This file should contain every inbound endpoint of your integration app. It is intended to contain the application API.
In this template, this file contains a scheduler endpoint that queries Workday for updates using a watermark.
errorHandling.xml
This file handles how your integration reacts depending on the different exceptions. This file provides error handling that is referenced by the main flow in the business logic.