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Create an interview preparation discussion

Give interviewers a focused place to prepare as soon as the meeting is scheduled.

Trigger

New Interview Scheduled

Triggers when a new interview is scheduled/created in Workday. This trigger monitors interviews and fires when new interview records are detected.

Action

Create discussion entry

Tool to create a new entry in a canvas discussion topic. use when posting a message with optional attachments to a discussion topic.

Why this helps

Interview preparation starts late when scheduling and preparation live apart.

  • Start preparation sooner
  • Keep prompts in one place
  • Reduce interviewer confusion

Setup

Build it in a few focused steps.

  • 1Connect Workday and Canvas once in Notis.
  • 2Create an automation and name it.
  • 3Tell Notis to add a preparation entry with the interview context to the related Canvas discussion.
  • 4Pick the Workday New Interview Scheduled trigger.
  • 5Choose where run reports go and test with one interview.

Questions about this workflow

Can it include interviewer names and timing?

Yes, when those details are returned by Workday.

What if there is no discussion topic yet?

Notis can report the missing Canvas topic so the team can create or identify one.

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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.

TriggerScheduled

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.

ActionInstant

Webhook trigger

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

TriggerInstant

Create appointment group

Creates a new appointment group in canvas for schedulable time slots within specified course or group contexts.

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

Create an assignment

Creates a new assignment within a specified course in canvas lms.

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

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.

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

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.

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

Create communication channel

Creates a new communication channel (e.g., email, sms, push) for an existing canvas user to receive notifications.

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

Create content share

Shares a canvas content item to specified users, if the sender has necessary permissions and receiver ids are valid.

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

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.

ActionInstant

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