Workday Scripts

get-org

Models the entire organization a tree and saves to JSON file. Includes name, title, location and email of each person.

Setup

Copy .env.example to .env

1. Open developer tools to the Network tab.
2. Sign in to Workday and navigate to the graphical Org Chart view.
3. The URL should look like this: https://www.myworkday.com/ORG_NAME/d/inst/ID_1/rel-task/ID_2.htmld. Copy ORG_NAME from the URL into your .env file
4. Scroll to the top node of the org tree. This should be the CEO/President/Founder of the company.
5. Filter Network requests for navigable. You should see a POST request to a URL that looks like this: https://www.myworkday.com/ORG_NAME/navigable/ID.htmld
6. Inspect the request and find the Form Data that was sent. Copy the values to your .env file, mapping as follows:

• navigable-instance-iid => ROOT_NODE_ID
• navigable-instance-did => ROOT_NODE_NAME
• initial-step => INITIAL_STEP_ID
• sessionSecureToken => SECURE_SESSION_TOKEN
• navigable-instance-set-id => INITIAL_STEP_ID

7. Copy the Cookie request header to your .env file and name it COOKIE

Start Redis on localhost port 6379

redis-server

Run

This will write a JSON tree representation to disk at get-org/data/tree.json. The first run could take several minutes, depending on the size of your organization. You can exit the process and restart anytime.

node get-org

Traverse

After generating the tree.json file, you can perform a breadth-first search of the tree to filter the data or otherwise make use of it.

node get-org/traverse.js

Process each node using the handleNode function.

Example JSON output

{
  "id": "123$4567",
  "name": "Jennifer Doe",
  "location": "123 Sesame St",
  "title": "VP, Marketing",
  "personId": "123$4567",
  "email": "jenniferdoe@acme.org",
  "children": [
    {
      "id": "123$4567",
      "name": "Michael Doe",
      "location": "123 Sesame St",
      "title": "Director, Marketing",
      "personId": "123$4567",
      "email": "michaeldoe@acme.org",
      "children": [
        {
          "id": "123$4567",
          "name": "Jim Doe",
          "location": "123 Sesame St",
          "title": "Senior Manager, Marketing",
          "personId": "123$4567",
          "email": "jimdoe@acme.org",
          "children": [
            {
              "id": "123$4567",
              "name": "Matt Doe",
              "location": "123 Sesame St",
              "title": "Manager, Marketing",
              "personId": "123$4567",
              "email": "mattdoe@acme.org",
              "children": []
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}