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Workday Extend Orchestration Executions API

Operations for triggering orchestration runs, monitoring execution status, and retrieving execution results.

Workday Extend Orchestration Executions API is one of 16 APIs that Workday Extend publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.

Tagged areas include Orchestration Executions. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, API documentation, authentication docs, and an API reference.

This API exposes 4 operations across 3 paths, and defines 4 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.1.0, at version v1.

Requests are made against a single base URL, https://{baseUrl}/api/customObjects/v1/{tenant}.

4 operations 3 paths 4 schemas 2 GET2 POST

Metadata

The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.

Specification
OpenAPI 3.1.0
API Version
v1
Base URL
https://api.workday.com/extend/v1
Authentication
OAuth 2.0
Terms of Service
Resource Areas
1

Authentication & Security 1

Workday Extend Orchestration Executions API declares 1 security scheme for authenticating requests. It supports OAuth 2.0 (OAuth2) using the authorizationCode flow, exposing 2 scopes. By default, every request must be authenticated.

Paths & Operations 4

Across 3 paths, the API surfaces 4 operations — 2 GET, 2 POST. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.

Orchestration Executions 4

Operations for triggering orchestration runs, monitoring execution status, and retrieving execution results.

GET
/orchestrations/{orchestrationId}/executions
Workday Extend List orchestration executions
listOrchestrationExecutions 4 params → 200401403404
POST
/orchestrations/{orchestrationId}/executions
Workday Extend Launch an orchestration execution
launchOrchestration 1 param body → 202400401403404
GET
/orchestrations/{orchestrationId}/executions/{executionId}
Workday Extend Retrieve an orchestration execution
getOrchestrationExecution 2 params → 200401403404
POST
/orchestrations/{orchestrationId}/executions/{executionId}/cancel
Workday Extend Cancel an orchestration execution
cancelOrchestrationExecution 2 params → 200400401403404

Schemas 4

The contract defines 4 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are OrchestrationExecution (13 properties), ResourceReference (3 properties), ErrorResponse (2 properties), OrchestrationLaunch (1 property). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.

ResourceReference
object
3 properties
OrchestrationLaunch
object
1 property
ErrorResponse
object
2 properties
OrchestrationExecution
object
13 properties

Specification

The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.

Source

workday-extend-orchestration-executions-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑

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