Workday attribute reference for Microsoft Entra ID

This section provides a list of attributes that you can fetch from Workday using XPATH queries. Based on the Workday Web Services API version, you plan to use, refer to the appropriate section.

XPATH values for Workday Web Services (WWS) API v21.1

The table below captures the list of Workday attributes and corresponding XPATH expressions that are shipped out of the box with the Workday inbound provisioning app connector. These XPATH values are used if no version information is specified in the connection URL or if the version is set to v21.1.

XPATH values for Workday Web Services (WWS) API v30+

If you are using WWS API v30.0 or above in the connection URL as shown below:

...then before turning on the provisioning job, please update the XPATH API expressions under Attribute Mapping -> Advanced Options -> Edit attribute list for Workday to use the values listed in the table.

To configure additional XPATHs, refer to the section Tutorial: Managing your configuration.

Custom XPATH values

The table below provides a list of other commonly used custom XPATH API expressions when provisioning workers from Workday to Active Directory or Microsoft Entra ID. Please test the XPATH API expressions provided here with your version of Workday referring to the instructions captured in the section Tutorial: Managing your configuration.

To add more attributes to the XPATH table for the benefit of customers implementing this integration, please leave a comment below or directly contribute to the article.

Supported XPATH functions

Given below is the list of XPATH functions supported by Microsoft .NET XPATH library that you can use while creating your XPATH API expression.

• name
• last
• position
• string
• substring
• concat
• substring-after
• starts-with
• string-length
• contains
• translate
• normalize-space
• substring-before
• boolean
• true
• not
• false
• number
• ceiling
• sum
• round
• floor