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Connecting SailPoint and Workday Students

To connect SailPoint with Workday Students, perform the following tasks:

Adding the Source in SailPoint

To connect to SailPoint, perform the following steps. Once the connection is made, you can configure it to meet your company's needs.

Important

By default, the provisioning feature is disabled, and the connector only supports read-only operations. To support provisioning operations, you must manually enable the feature in the source configuration.

To configure a new source:

  1. Sign in to SailPoint.
  2. Go to Admin > Connections > Sources.
  3. Select Create New.
  4. Search for the connector by entering the name in the search box, and then select Actions.
  5. In the Actions dropdown list, select the setup method:

    • Express Setup - Quickly create a read-only connection to your target system by providing minimal configurations and authentication. On completion, aggregation is automatically started.

      Note

      Express Setup supports Credential Providers. For information on supported credential providers and configuration, refer to Credential Providers. For more information, contact your SailPoint Customer Service Manager.

    • Standard Setup - Provide detailed basic configuration to create the source. Once the source is created, continue with source setup.

Configuring a Source Using Express Setup

Express Setup minimizes the initial configuration process so you can quickly connect the application and immediately begin aggregating user account and entitlement data.

  1. Review the directions and select Start Express Setup.
  2. Review the pre-populated Source Name, Source Owner, and Description. To update, select Edit.

    Note

    The source name must be unique. You can change these settings later in the source configuration.

  3. (Optional) If enabled for your organization, select the Use a Credential Provider checkbox to manage the source's authentication using a credential provider.

    Note

    To add a Credential Provider in SailPoint, go to Admin > Connections > Credential Providers. For more information about credential providers, refer to Credential Providers.

  4. Configure the authentication to allow SailPoint to connect to the source. For more information, refer to the Connection Settings section.

  5. Select Finish.

    After a successful test connection, the system creates your source and prompts you to run an aggregation.

    • If you want to aggregate now, select Aggregate.

      • To see the latest account aggregation history, go to Account Management > Account Aggregation.
      • To see the list of aggregated source accounts, go to Account Management > Accounts.
    • If you want to aggregate later, select Exit. This returns you to the Sources page. Your new source is listed, but contains no accounts or aggregation history yet.

Configuring a Source Using Standard Setup

Use Standard Setup to configure the connector for full feature support.

  1. In the Source Name field, enter a unique and descriptive name for your source. Source names cannot exceed 128 characters.
  2. In the Description field, provide additional details about the source to help distinguish it from similar sources. This field allows a maximum of 2,000 characters.
  3. In the Source Owner field, begin typing the name of an owner. Matches appear after you type two or more letters. For more information, refer to Assigning a Source Owner.
  4. (Optional) Select a governance group to grant its members source or role sub-admin level oversight of the source and its access. For more information, refer to Creating and Managing Governance Groups.
  5. If this source represents a primary system containing your organization's personnel records, select the Authoritative Source checkbox. For more information, refer to Creating Identity Profiles.
  6. Select Continue. The source is created, and you are navigated to the Source Setup > Base Configuration page. Continue to configure your connected source there.

Connection Settings

Provide the information required to connect and interact with the source.

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Connection Settings

To configure your connection settings, complete the following:

  1. Go to Connection Settings.
  2. Enter the Workday URL that SailPoint uses to connect to the Workday Students module.
  3. Select OAuth 2.0 as an authentication type.
  4. Select the Grant Type used for authentication.
  5. Enter the Workday API Client ID and Client Secret.
  6. Enter a Refresh Token that doesn't expire or has a long expiration period.
  7. Enter the Token URL to request an access token for a user.
  8. Enter the Workday ID of Academic Unit to aggregate the student records associated with that unit.
  9. In the Connection Timeout in Minutes field, enter the time span after which an attempted connection terminates.
  10. Select Save.

Aggregation Settings

For more information about aggregation, refer to Loading Account Data.

Use the settings available in Aggregation Settings to adjust aggregation processes as required for your organization.

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Aggregation Settings

  1. Select Manage Prospect Students checkbox to aggregate Prospects accounts.
  2. Select Manage Applicant Students checkbox to aggregate Applicants accounts.
  3. Select Manage Pre-Matriculant Students checkbox to aggregate Pre-Matriculant accounts.
  4. Select Manage Matriculant Students checkbox to aggregate Matriculated accounts.
  5. Enable Manage Inactive Matriculant Students checkbox to aggregate Matriculated accounts.
  6. In Inactive Offset field, enter the offset value in days, which indicates the number of days in the past since students graduated.
  7. In the Page Size field, enter the number of records to aggregate in a single page when iterating over large datasets. You can set from 1 to 999. The default is 500.
  8. Select Save.

Review and Test

Perform a test to confirm the connection to SailPoint.

  1. Go to Review and Test.
  2. Confirm that the entries in each field are correct.

    If you note any mistakes, return to the section and make corrections.

  3. Select Test Connection.

SailPoint Application Onboarding

SailPoint application onboarding enables you to easily onboard new applications and create sources following the successful onboarding of a discovery source. To use this feature, continue to Discovered Applications in the SailPoint user interface.

For more information, refer to Application Onboarding in the SailPoint SaaS documentation.

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