Workday Prism Analytics Load Data activity

Introduction

A Workday Prism Analytics Load Data activity, using its Workday Prism Analytics connection, compresses and uploads data into a Workday Prism Analytics table, and is intended to be used as a target to consume data in an operation.

Create a Workday Prism Analytics Load Data activity

An instance of a Workday Prism Analytics Load Data activity is created from a Workday Prism Analytics connection using its Load Data activity type.

To create an instance of a Workday Prism Analytics Load Data activity, drag the Load Data activity type to the design canvas or copy the Load Data activity type and paste it on the design canvas. For details, see Creating an activity instance in Component reuse.

An existing Workday Prism Analytics Load Data activity can be edited from these locations:

• The design canvas (see Component actions menu in Design canvas).
• The project pane's Components tab (see Component actions menu in Project pane Components tab).

Configure a Workday Prism Analytics Load Data activity

Follow these steps to configure a Workday Prism Analytics Load Data activity:

• Step 1: Enter a name and specify settings
• Step 2: Review the data schema

Step 1: Enter a name and specify settings

• Name: Enter a name to identify the Workday Prism Analytics Load Data activity. The name must be unique for each Workday Prism Analytics Load Data activity and must not contain forward slashes (/) or colons (:).

• wBucket ID: ID of the wBucket to be used for loading data.

• Complete wBucket Status: When selected, if the Load Data activity is successful, an attempt will be made to upload data from the wBucket into a Workday Prism Analytics table. Default value: selected.

• Save & Exit: If enabled, click to save the configuration for this step and close the activity configuration.

• Next: Click to temporarily store the configuration for this step and continue to the next step. The configuration will not be saved until you click the Finished button on the last step.

• Discard Changes: After making changes, click to close the configuration without saving changes made to any step. A message asks you to confirm that you want to discard changes.

Step 2: Review the data schema

• Data Schema: The request and response data schemas for Workday Prism Analytics are displayed. If the operation uses a transformation, the data schemas are displayed again later during the transformation mapping process, where you can map to target fields using source objects, scripts, variables, custom values, and more.

  The Workday Prism Analytics connector uses the Workday Prism Analytics REST API v2.0 (login to the Workday Resource Center required). Refer to the API documentation for information on the schema fields.

  • Request:

    Request Schema Field/Node	Notes
    json	The format of the request schema
    loadDataRequest	Node of the loadDataRequest
    data	Type of data being loaded
    fileName	File name to be loaded

  • Response:

    Response Schema Field/Node	Notes
    json	The format of the request schema
    loadDataResponse	Node of the loadDataResponse
    fileLength	Character length of the file
    fileName	Name of the file
    md5Checksum	32-character hexadecimal MD5 checksum of the file
    completeStatus	Status of the wBucket
    errors	Node of the errors
    item	Node of the item
    error	Item in which the error occured

• Refresh: Click the refresh icon or the word Refresh to regenerate schemas from the Workday Prism Analytics endpoint. This action also regenerates the schema in other locations throughout the project where the same schema is referenced, such as in an adjacent transformation.

• Back: Click to temporarily store the configuration for this step and return to the previous step.

• Finished: Click to save the configuration for all steps and close the activity configuration.

• Discard Changes: After making changes, click to close the configuration without saving changes made to any step. A message asks you to confirm that you want to discard changes.

Next steps

After configuring a Workday Prism Analytics Load Data activity, complete the configuration of the operation by adding and configuring other activities, transformations, or scripts as operation steps. You can also configure the operation settings, which include the ability to chain operations together that are in the same or different workflows.

Menu actions for an activity are accessible from the project pane and the design canvas. For details, see Activity actions menu in Connector basics.

Workday Prism Analytics Load Data activities can be used as a target with these operation patterns:

• Transformation pattern
• Two-transformation pattern (as the first or second target)

Other patterns are not valid using Workday Prism Analytics Load Data activities. See the validation patterns on the Operation validity page.

To use the activity with scripting functions, write the data to a temporary location and then use that temporary location in the scripting function.

When ready, deploy and run the operation and validate behavior by checking the operation logs.