Approvals hub integration with Workday

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  • Updated July 31, 2025
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    Summary of Approvals hub integration with Workday

    The Approvals hub integration with Workday enables ServiceNow customers to seamlessly access and manage active approvals from Workday and other external business applications directly within Employee Center Pro. This integration, powered by the Workday spoke developed by Bristlecone, Inc., allows users to pull essential employee data related to time off, job changes, spend authorizations, and more into ServiceNow, enhancing visibility and approval efficiency.

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    Key Features

    • Employee Data Integration: Retrieve comprehensive employee information from Workday for various HR processes including time off requests, leave of absence, timesheets, job changes, job requisitions, terminations, spend authorizations, and compensation details.
    • Approval Management: Approvers can view, approve, or reject Workday tasks directly from Employee Center Pro, streamlining third-party approval workflows.
    • Supported Workday To-dos: Integration supports multiple Workday approval tables such as job change requests, leave of absence requests, spend authorizations, terminations, time off requests, timesheets, and compensation changes, with configurations available for both open and completed tasks.
    • Report Fetching: Administrators can fetch and view Workday reports and metadata, including leaves and compensation information, within the ServiceNow platform.
    • Task Configuration: One-time setup of parameters to pull Workday tasks into ServiceNow, enhancing approval workflows with context-rich information for approvers.

    Application Setup and Prerequisites

    • Ensure the latest versions of key plugins are installed: Employee Center Pro, HR Service Delivery Integration with Workday (version 3.0.0), Workday HR Spoke, Human Resources Scoped App: Core, and Enterprise Service Management Integrations Framework.
    • Workday integration requires an HRSD Pro or Enterprise license that includes Employee Center Pro; it is not available for Employee Center Pro standalone.
    • Familiarize yourself with the Enterprise Service Management Integrations Framework and the processes for integrating Workday, including managing connections and credentials.
    • Activate and schedule flows to pull Workday record details regularly.
    • Manually approve Requested RCAs generated post-installation or automate approvals using the EC bulk RCAs approval script for Employee Experience applications.

    Benefits for ServiceNow Customers

    This integration improves productivity by consolidating Workday approvals within ServiceNow, reducing the need to switch between platforms. It provides a unified view of employee-related approvals and data, enabling faster decision-making and enhanced HR process management. Administrators gain better control over workflows and reporting, while approvers benefit from contextual information that aids in efficient task completion.

    Enable easier access to all active approvals of external business applications such as Workday from Employee Center Pro. The Workday spoke is built by Bristlecone, Inc.

    Using Approvals hub integration with Workday, you can perform the following actions from Employee Center Pro:
    • Pull employee information from Workday for time off requests, correct time off request, leave of absence, timesheet, job change, job requisition, termination, spend authorization, and compensation details to a ServiceNow application.
    • View the Workday information from your ServiceNow instance.
    • Enable approvers to view, reject, and approve the tasks right from Employee Center Pro.

    Application setup

    Ensure you have the latest versions of the following plugins:
    • Employee Center Pro
    • HR Service Delivery Integration with Workday 3.0.0
      Note:
      Upgrade v2.0.6 to v 3.0.0
    • Workday HR Spoke
    • Human Resources Scoped App: Core (com.sn_hr_core)
    • Enterprise Service Management Integrations Framework. This framework is installed with Employee Center Pro.

    Prerequisites

    Before you start working on the Workday integration, get familiar with the following steps.
    Note:
    The RCAs that are generated after the installation are in the Requested state and you must manually mark the RCAs as Allowed, which can be time-consuming. To automate the RCA approvals for any record, you can run the EC bulk RCAs approval script where the source scope is one of the Employee Experience applications.

    Workday approvals workflow

    Improve productivity by managing third-party approval flows from Employee Center Pro. Here is a list of the supported Workday todos configurations.
    Table 1. Workday supported tables
    Todos configuration Table name
    Job Change Request Todos sn_hr_workday_job_change_request_todos
    Job Requisition Request Todos sn_hr_workday_job_requisition_request_todos
    Leave Of Absence Request Todos sn_hr_workday_leave_of_absence_request_todos
    Spend Authorization Request Todos sn_hr_workday_spend_authorization_request_todos
    Termination Request Todos sn_hr_workday_termination_request_todos
    Time Off Request Todos sn_hr_workday_time_off_request_todos
    Correct Time Off Request Todos sn_hr_workday_correct_time_off_request_todos
    Timesheet Request Todos sn_hr_workday_todo
    Compensation Change Request Todos sn_hr_workday_compensation_change_request_todos
    By default, todos configurations are available for Open and Completed.
    Note:
    For more information the field-level info about leaves, timesheets, timeoffs, compensation change, job change, job requisition, or leave of absence, see Workday HR Spoke.

    For additional reference information, see Approvals experience reference.