Workday Business Processes Process Instances API
Manage running business process instances
Workday Business Processes Process Instances API is one of 4 APIs that Workday Business Processes publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.
This API exposes 14 JSON Schema definitions.
Tagged areas include Process Instances. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, API documentation, authentication docs, rate-limit docs, a changelog, a support channel, and 14 JSON Schemas.
This API exposes 5 operations across 4 paths, and defines 6 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.0.3, at version v41.1.
Requests are made against a single base URL, https://{tenant}.workday.com/api/businessProcess/v1.
Metadata
The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.
Authentication & Security 1
Workday Business Processes Process Instances API declares
1 security scheme
for authenticating requests.
It supports OAuth 2.0 (oauth2) using the clientCredentials flow, exposing 1 scope.
By default, every request must be authenticated.
Paths & Operations 5
Across 4 paths, the API surfaces 5 operations — 3 GET, 2 POST. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.
Manage running business process instances
Schemas 6
The contract defines 6 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are ProcessInstance (11 properties), ProcessStep (8 properties), InitiateProcessRequest (4 properties), ErrorResponse (3 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.
Specification
The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.
Source
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