Updating Workday using .NET

The second post here will give you a good start how to update a user who's in Workday.  The community had zero examples how to do this, so you should find this helpful.

Read the earlier post regarding pre-reqs needed to connect to Workday using .NET.  This time I'll do it in VB.NET and the below code will update the email address.

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  empId = "12345"
             
                workerType = "Employee_ID"

                Dim emailValue As String = "jsmtih@company.com"
                Dim effectiveDate As Date = Now()

                Dim emailRequest As New Maintain_Contact_Information_for_Person_Event_RequestType()
                emailRequest.version = "v22.0"
                emailRequest.Add_Only = True

                emailRequest.Maintain_Contact_Information_Data = New Contact_Information_for_Person_Event_DataType()
                emailRequest.Maintain_Contact_Information_Data.Worker_Contact_Information_Data = New Contact_Information_DataType()


                emailRequest.Maintain_Contact_Information_Data.Worker_Contact_Information_Data.Email_Address_Data = New Email_Address_Information_DataType(0) {New Email_Address_Information_DataType()}

                emailRequest.Maintain_Contact_Information_Data.Worker_Reference = New WorkerObjectType()
                emailRequest.Maintain_Contact_Information_Data.Worker_Reference.ID = New WorkerObjectIDType(0) {New WorkerObjectIDType()}
                emailRequest.Maintain_Contact_Information_Data.Worker_Reference.ID(0).type = workerType
                emailRequest.Maintain_Contact_Information_Data.Worker_Reference.ID(0).Value = empId

                emailRequest.Maintain_Contact_Information_Data.Effective_Date = effectiveDate
                emailRequest.Maintain_Contact_Information_Data.Effective_DateSpecified = True

                emailRequest.Maintain_Contact_Information_Data.Worker_Contact_Information_Data.Email_Address_Data(0).Email_Address = emailValue
                emailRequest.Maintain_Contact_Information_Data.Worker_Contact_Information_Data.Email_Address_Data(0).Usage_Data = New Communication_Method_Usage_Information_DataType(0) {New Communication_Method_Usage_Information_DataType()}
                emailRequest.Maintain_Contact_Information_Data.Worker_Contact_Information_Data.Email_Address_Data(0).Usage_Data(0).[Public] = True

                emailRequest.Maintain_Contact_Information_Data.Worker_Contact_Information_Data.Email_Address_Data(0).Usage_Data(0).PublicSpecified = True

                emailRequest.Maintain_Contact_Information_Data.Worker_Contact_Information_Data.Email_Address_Data(0).Usage_Data(0).Type_Data = New Communication_Usage_Type_DataType(0) {New Communication_Usage_Type_DataType()}
                emailRequest.Maintain_Contact_Information_Data.Worker_Contact_Information_Data.Email_Address_Data(0).Usage_Data(0).Type_Data(0).Primary = True

                emailRequest.Maintain_Contact_Information_Data.Worker_Contact_Information_Data.Email_Address_Data(0).Usage_Data(0).Type_Data(0).PrimarySpecified = True

                emailRequest.Maintain_Contact_Information_Data.Worker_Contact_Information_Data.Email_Address_Data(0).Usage_Data(0).Type_Data(0).Type_Reference = New Communication_Usage_TypeObjectType()
                emailRequest.Maintain_Contact_Information_Data.Worker_Contact_Information_Data.Email_Address_Data(0).Usage_Data(0).Type_Data(0).Type_Reference.ID = New Communication_Usage_TypeObjectIDType(0) {New Communication_Usage_TypeObjectIDType()}
                emailRequest.Maintain_Contact_Information_Data.Worker_Contact_Information_Data.Email_Address_Data(0).Usage_Data(0).Type_Data(0).Type_Reference.ID(0).type = "Communication_Usage_Type_ID"
                emailRequest.Maintain_Contact_Information_Data.Worker_Contact_Information_Data.Email_Address_Data(0).Usage_Data(0).Type_Data(0).Type_Reference.ID(0).Value = "WORK"




                Dim emailProxy As Human_ResourcesPortClient = CreateHumanResourcesProxy()

                Dim emailResponse As Maintain_Contact_Information_for_Person_Event_ResponseType

                Try
                    emailResponse = emailProxy.Maintain_Contact_Information(emailRequest)
                    Console.WriteLine("email update done")
                Catch fe As FaultException
                    If fe.Message.Contains("Invalid ID value.") Then
                        Try
                            Console.WriteLine("Email Update ERROR as Employee will try CW")
                            emailRequest.Maintain_Contact_Information_Data.Worker_Reference.ID(0).type = "Contingent_Worker_ID"
                            emailResponse = emailProxy.Maintain_Contact_Information(emailRequest)
                            Console.WriteLine("email update done")
                        Catch ex As Exception
                            Console.WriteLine("Email Update ERROR as CW also " + fe.Message)
                        End Try


                    End If
                    'Console.WriteLine("Email Update ERROR " + fe.Message)
                End Try

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Notice that in the Try/Catch section, I catch in case the update doesn't work as an Employee then I try again as a Contingent Worker.

The CreateHumanResourcesProxy function can be found in the earlier post.

Reading from Workday using .NET

Workday is a huge HR service and many companies are moving. Trying to figure out how to interact with Workday has been difficult. Mostly because there are so few samples available.  Workday has lots of documentation on their API, but because the objects are nested/nested/nested, it make it convoluted to figure out exactly where you need to go.

So here I'm putting out how to read a user from the Human Resources WSDL.

Before you can actually get this code to work you have to create reference file using svcutil then modify it because it creates 2 and 3 dimensional arrays.  This is a problem with Visual Studio.
See here for the pre-reqs and how to fix the Human_Resources.cs file

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   empId = "12345";

                    var request = new Get_Workers_RequestType { version = "v22.0" };
                   
                    var workerId = new WorkerObjectIDType()
                    {
                        type = "Employee_ID",
                        Value = empId
                    };

                    var idTypes = new List { workerId };
                    request.Request_References = new Worker_Request_ReferencesType { Worker_Reference = new WorkerObjectType[1] { new WorkerObjectType() } };                  
                    request.Request_References.Worker_Reference[0].ID = idTypes.ToArray();
                    request.Request_Criteria = new Worker_Request_CriteriaType
                    {
                        Exclude_Inactive_Workers = true,
                        Exclude_Inactive_WorkersSpecified = true
                    };

                    var proxy =  CreateHumanResourcesProxy();

                    Get_Workers_ResponseType response = null;
                    try
                    {
                        response = proxy.Get_Workers(request);
                        Console.WriteLine(response.Response_Data.FirstOrDefault());
                        string first = response.Response_Data.FirstOrDefault().Worker_Data.Personal_Data.Name_Data.Preferred_Name_Data.Name_Detail_Data.First_Name;
                        string last = response.Response_Data.FirstOrDefault().Worker_Data.Personal_Data.Name_Data.Preferred_Name_Data.Name_Detail_Data.Last_Name;
                        Console.WriteLine(first + " " + last);
                    }
                    catch (FaultException fe)
                    {
                        // _logger.LogError("Error occurred invoking GetWorker", fe);
                        //return null;
                        Console.WriteLine("error " + fe.Message);
                    }


 public static Human_ResourcesPortClient CreateHumanResourcesProxy()
        {
            SecurityBindingElement sb = SecurityBindingElement.CreateUserNameOverTransportBindingElement();
            sb.IncludeTimestamp = false;
            const int lim = Int32.MaxValue;
            var timeout = TimeSpan.FromMinutes(2);

            var cb = new CustomBinding(
                sb,
                new TextMessageEncodingBindingElement(MessageVersion.Soap11, Encoding.UTF8)
                {
                   
                    ReaderQuotas = new System.Xml.XmlDictionaryReaderQuotas
                    {
                        MaxDepth = lim,
                        MaxStringContentLength = lim,
                        MaxArrayLength = lim,
                        MaxBytesPerRead = lim,
                        MaxNameTableCharCount = lim
                    }
                },
                new HttpsTransportBindingElement
                {
                    MaxBufferPoolSize = lim,
                    MaxReceivedMessageSize = lim,
                    MaxBufferSize = lim,
                    Realm = string.Empty
                })
            {
                SendTimeout = timeout,
                ReceiveTimeout = timeout
            };

            var proxy = new Human_ResourcesPortClient(cb, new EndpointAddress("https://wd5-impl-services1.workday.com/ccx/service//Human_Resources/v23.2"));

            proxy.ClientCredentials.UserName.UserName = "userName@tenant";
            proxy.ClientCredentials.UserName.Password = "pass";
            return proxy;
        }

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Keep in mind this will work with a worktype of Employee.  You have to change a few things for a Contingent Worker.