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Keep absence balance reports lightweight

Make frequently updated balance reports easier to upload and share.

Trigger

Absence Balance Changed

Triggers when a worker's absence balance changes. This trigger monitors a specific worker's absence plan balance and detects any changes to the balance details including quantity available, effective date, position, or other related fields. Uses snapshot-based diffing to detect meaningful changes.

Action

Optimize PDF

Tool to optimize a pdf document to reduce file size while maintaining quality. use when you need to minimize storage or bandwidth for an existing pdf.

Why this helps

Repeated balance reports can become bulky and slow to distribute.

  • Speed report sharing
  • Lower storage use
  • Keep recurring reports manageable

Setup

Build it in a few focused steps.

  • 1Connect Workday and Api2pdf in Notis once.
  • 2Create an automation for absence balance report optimization.
  • 3Tell Notis to optimize the supplied balance report PDF whenever a worker balance changes and report the result.
  • 4Pick the absence balance changed trigger, choose a report channel, and test with one balance update.

Questions about this workflow

What balance changes are covered?

The event detects changes to balance details such as available quantity, dates, or position.

Can I track the size reduction?

Ask Notis to include the original and optimized file sizes in the run report.

When this happens · Trigger

Do this · Action

Supported Triggers and Actions

Notis builds workflows that link Workday to Api2pdf. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.

Workday triggers

Api2pdf actions

Recurring trigger

Notis starts this workflow on a schedule, such as daily, weekly, or during business hours.

TriggerScheduled

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ActionInstant

Webhook trigger

Notis starts this workflow when an external tool or custom backend sends an HTTP request.

TriggerInstant

Delete PDF

Tool to delete a previously generated pdf. use when you need to immediately remove a pdf by its response id.

ActionInstant

Absence Balance Changed

Triggers when a worker's absence balance changes. This trigger monitors a specific worker's absence plan balance and detects any changes to the balance details including quantity available, effective date, position, or other related fields. Uses snapshot-based diffing to detect meaningful changes.

TriggerPolling

Extract PDF Pages

Tool to extract specific pages from a pdf document. use when you need only certain pages from a larger pdf file.

ActionInstant

Balance Details Changed

Triggers when details of a specific balance change (quantity, accruals, adjustments, etc.). This trigger monitors a specific worker's absence plan balance and detects any changes to the balance details including quantity available, effective date, position, or other related fields. Uses snapshot-based diffing to detect meaningful field changes.

TriggerPolling

LibreOffice PDF to HTML

Tool to convert a pdf document to html using libreoffice. use when you need html output of a pdf file (experimental; images may be excluded).

ActionInstant

Interview Feedback Submitted or Updated

Triggers when interview feedback is submitted or updated for a specific interview. This trigger monitors a specific interview and fires when new feedback entries are detected or existing feedback is modified.

TriggerPolling

LibreOffice Thumbnail

Tool to generate a thumbnail image of a document using libreoffice. use when you need a quick visual preview of a pdf or office file's first page.

ActionInstant

Job Posting Changed

Triggers when a specific job posting's details change (title, status, posting dates, location, etc.). This trigger monitors a single job posting and fires when any of its fields are modified.

TriggerPolling

Merge PDFs

Tool to merge multiple pdf documents into a single pdf. use when you need to concatenate several pdfs on the server-side.

ActionInstant

Job Posting Questionnaire Changed

Triggers when a job posting's candidate questionnaire is added or changed. This trigger monitors a specific job posting's questionnaires and detects any changes including additions, removals, or modifications to questionnaires and questions. Uses snapshot-based diffing to detect meaningful changes.

TriggerPolling

Optimize PDF

Tool to optimize a pdf document to reduce file size while maintaining quality. use when you need to minimize storage or bandwidth for an existing pdf.

ActionInstant

New Absence Balance

Triggers when a new absence balance record becomes available for a worker. This trigger monitors a specific worker's absence balances and detects when new balance records appear (e.g., a new plan/bucket becomes available). Uses snapshot-based diffing to compare balance record IDs between polls.

TriggerPolling

Reorder PDF Pages

Tool to reorder pages of a pdf document. use when you need to rearrange pages into a new order by specifying page indices.

ActionInstant

Connect any two apps with Notis in the middle.

Workday and Api2pdf, or any other combination from 1,000+ integrations.

When this happens · Trigger

Do this · Action

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