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Workday Extend Orchestrations API

Operations for managing orchestration definitions including creation, configuration, versioning, and lifecycle management.

Workday Extend Orchestrations 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 Orchestrations. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, API documentation, authentication docs, and an API reference.

This API exposes 7 operations across 4 paths, and defines 5 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}.

7 operations 4 paths 5 schemas 1 DELETE2 GET1 PATCH3 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 Orchestrations 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 7

Across 4 paths, the API surfaces 7 operations — 1 DELETE, 2 GET, 1 PATCH, 3 POST. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.

Orchestrations 7

Operations for managing orchestration definitions including creation, configuration, versioning, and lifecycle management.

GET
/orchestrations
Workday Extend List orchestrations
listOrchestrations 4 params → 200401403
POST
/orchestrations
Workday Extend Create an orchestration
createOrchestration body → 201400401403
GET
/orchestrations/{orchestrationId}
Workday Extend Retrieve an orchestration
getOrchestration 1 param → 200401403404
PATCH
/orchestrations/{orchestrationId}
Workday Extend Update an orchestration
updateOrchestration 1 param body → 200400401403404
DELETE
/orchestrations/{orchestrationId}
Workday Extend Delete an orchestration
deleteOrchestration 1 param → 204401403404
POST
/orchestrations/{orchestrationId}/activate
Workday Extend Activate an orchestration
activateOrchestration 1 param → 200400401403404
POST
/orchestrations/{orchestrationId}/deactivate
Workday Extend Deactivate an orchestration
deactivateOrchestration 1 param → 200400401403404

Schemas 5

The contract defines 5 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are Orchestration (13 properties), ResourceReference (3 properties), OrchestrationCreate (3 properties), ErrorResponse (2 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.

OrchestrationCreate
object
3 properties 2 required
Orchestration
object
13 properties
ResourceReference
object
3 properties
OrchestrationUpdate
object
2 properties
ErrorResponse
object
2 properties

Specification

The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.

Source

workday-extend-orchestrations-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑

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