Workday Prism Analytics Create Activity¶

Introduction¶

A Workday Prism Analytics Create activity, using its Workday Prism Analytics connection, creates a wBucket or table in Workday Prism Analytics, and is intended to be used as a target to consume data in an operation.

Create a Workday Prism Analytics Create Activity¶

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

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

An existing Workday Prism Analytics Create 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 Create Activity¶

Follow these steps to configure a Workday Prism Analytics Create 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 Create activity. The name must be unique for each Workday Prism Analytics Create activity and must not contain forward slashes (/) or colons (:).

• Create: Specify the approach to be used, one of wBucket or Table.

  • wBucket: If using the wBucket approach:

    • Bucket Name: Enter the name that is to be used for the wBucket that is being created.
    • Associate Table Name: Associates a table with the wBucket being created. Enter the name of an existing Workday Prism Analytics table that is to be associated with the wBucket.
    • Operation Type: Select the operation type to be used, one of Insert or Truncate and Insert.
    • Fields Delimited By: Enter the character used for delimiting fields.
    • Fields Enclosed By: Enter the character used for enclosing fields.
    • Fields Enclosing Character Escaped By: The character used to escape the enclosing characters inside a field value. The default is a double quote character.
    • Ignore Leading White Spaces: If selected, Workday removes whitespace characters outside the quotes of text fields before the quote character. The default value is unselected, meaning Workday will not trim leading whitespace.
    • Ignore Trailing White Spaces: If selected, Workday removes whitespace characters outside the quotes of text fields after the quote character. The default value is unselected, meaning Workday will not trim trailing whitespace.
    • Header Lines to Ignore: Default value: 1.

  • Table: If using the table approach:

    • Table Name: Enter the name of the table.

• 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 response data schema for Workday Prism Analytics is displayed. If the operation uses a transformation, the data schema is 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.

  • Response:

    Response Schema Field/Node	Notes
    json	The format of the request schema
    create_response	Node of the create_response
    id	Workday wBucket ID
    name	Name of wBucket
    createdMoment	wBucket creation date
    targetDataset	Node of the targetDataset
    descriptor	Display name of table
    id	Workday table ID
    State	Node of the custom data object
    descriptor	wBucket display name
    id	Workday wBucket ID

• 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 Create 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 Create 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 Create 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.