Workday SOAP API documentation

Workday’s community, which has docs on their coding env, is only available to Workday customers & official partners. We currenlty don’t have an account.

The only public documentation of their SOAP API is here: https://community.workday.com/sites/default/files/file-hosting/productionapi/index.html

Note the version is a bit behind what we see from our test tenant (v43.0)

According to our Workday contractor this is fine the and the versions are generally backwards compatible.

WSDL Namespaces

It seems that workday uses different namespaces in different WSDL files:

  • The public community WSDL above use bsvc: namespace

  • The private WSDL I downloaded from our test tenant use wd: namespace

Both namespaces link to the same XML specs, but if you mix namespaces in the requests you get errors