Review policy guidance after balance changes
Check the policy context whenever absence balances move.
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
Get Page for a Course
Retrieves a specific content page (wiki or content page) by its url or numeric id from a specified canvas course.
Why this helps
HR guidance and live balance records can drift apart over time.
- Support consistent HR guidance
- Reduce policy lookup time
- Surface possible documentation gaps
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect Workday and Canvas once in Notis.
- 2Create an automation and name it.
- 3Tell Notis to retrieve the relevant Canvas policy page and summarize any guidance that needs review.
- 4Pick the Workday Absence Balance Changed trigger.
- 5Choose a report channel and test with one balance change.
Questions about this workflow
Does this edit the policy page?
This workflow retrieves the page for review using the available Canvas action.
Can Notis identify missing policy guidance?
Yes, it can flag gaps when the returned balance details do not match the page content.
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Supported Triggers and Actions
Notis builds workflows that link Workday to Canvas. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.
Workday triggers
Canvas actions
Recurring trigger
Notis starts this workflow on a schedule, such as daily, weekly, or during business hours.
Create account notification
Creates a global notification within a canvas account, ensuring `end at` is after `start at` and any specified `notification roles` are valid.
Webhook trigger
Notis starts this workflow when an external tool or custom backend sends an HTTP request.
Create appointment group
Creates a new appointment group in canvas for schedulable time slots within specified course or group contexts.
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.
Create an assignment
Creates a new assignment within a specified course in canvas lms.
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.
Create assignment override
Creates an assignment override to adjust due/unlock/lock dates for an assignment in a course, targeting specific students (requires `title`), a group, or a course section; at least one target (`student ids`, `group id`, or `course section id`) is required.
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.
Create Calendar Event
Creates a calendar event with options for recurrence (finite `rrule` series only), section-specific timings, and blackout dates within a specified context.
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.
Create communication channel
Creates a new communication channel (e.g., email, sms, push) for an existing canvas user to receive notifications.
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.
Create content share
Shares a canvas content item to specified users, if the sender has necessary permissions and receiver ids are valid.
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.
Create conversation
Use to send messages in canvas by creating a new conversation or adding to an existing one; an existing conversation with the same recipients (and matching scope/filter, if specified) may be reused unless `force new` is true.
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