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Integrate Workday data with standard components and data source configuration wizards in Talend Open Studio.
This article shows how you can easily integrate the CData JDBC driver for Workday into your workflow in Talend. This article uses the CData JDBC Driver for Workday to transfer Workday data in a job flow in Talend.
Connect to Workday in Talend as a JDBC Data Source
You can follow the procedure below to establish a JDBC connection to Workday:
- Add a new database connection to Workday data: To add a new connection, expand the Metadata node, right-click the Db Connections node, and then click Create Connection.
- In the resulting wizard, enter a name for the connection.
On the next page, select Generic JDBC from the DB Type menu and enter the JDBC URL.
To connect, there are three pieces of information required: Authentication, API URL, and WSDL URL.
Authentication
To authenticate, specify your User and Password. Note that you must append your Tenant to your User separated by an '@' character. For instance, if you normally log in with 'geraldg' and your Tenant is 'mycompany_mc1', then your User should be specified as 'geraldg@mycompany_mc1'.
API URL
The API URL may be specified either directly via APIURL, or it may be constructed from the Tenant, Service, and Host. The APIURL is constructed in the following format: <Host>/ccx/service/<Tenant>/<Service>.
WSDL URL
The WSDLURL may be specified in its entirety, or may be constructed from the Service and WSDLVersion connection properties. The WSDLURL is constructed in the following format: https://community.workday.com/sites/default/files/file-hosting/productionapi/<Service>/<WSDLVersion>/<Service>.wsdl
Built-in Connection String Designer
For assistance in constructing the JDBC URL, use the connection string designer built into the Workday JDBC Driver. Either double-click the JAR file or execute the jar file from the command-line.
java -jar cdata.jdbc.workday.jar
Fill in the connection properties and copy the connection string to the clipboard.
A typical JDBC URL is below:
jdbc:workday:User=myuser;Password=mypassword;Tenant=mycompany_gm1;Host=https://wd3-impl-services1.workday.com
- Enter the path to the cdata.jdbc.workday.jar file, located in the lib subfolder of the installation directory.
- Right-click the connection and then click Retrieve Schema.
- Click Next with the default options to select the tables you want to import.
- Finish the wizard with the default options.
Output the Workers Table to a Flat File
You can follow the procedure below to transfer the Workers table to a flat file output component:
- In the Table Schemas node, drag the tables to the workspace.
- In the dialog that is displayed, select the tJDBCInput component.
- Next, drag a tFileOutputDelimited component from the Business Intelligence tab of the Palette into the workspace.
- Right-click the Workers tJDBCInput component and drag a vector to the output file.
Run the project to transfer the data.