Make questionnaire data references easier to understand
Get plain language definitions and valid values before a revised questionnaire goes live.
Trigger
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.
Action
Get Variable Details
Tool to retrieve metadata for a specific variable in a census dataset for a given year. use when you need the label, concept, data type, attribute codes, and valid-value constraints.
Why this helps
A changed questionnaire can leave teams unsure which public data variables are valid or comparable.
- Reduce interpretation errors
- Surface valid values quickly
- Create a reusable data reference
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect Workday and Census bureau once in Notis.
- 2Create an automation for questionnaire variable references.
- 3Tell Notis to retrieve metadata for each Census variable named in the prompt and explain labels, concepts, types, and constraints.
- 4Pick the Job Posting Questionnaire Changed trigger and select a report destination.
- 5Test with one changed questionnaire.
Questions about this workflow
Does Notis invent variables?
No. The prompt must name the dataset variables to inspect.
Can the report review every questionnaire question?
It can review the questions available from the Workday event context.
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Supported Triggers and Actions
Notis builds workflows that link Workday to Census bureau. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.
Workday triggers
Census bureau actions
Recurring trigger
Notis starts this workflow on a schedule, such as daily, weekly, or during business hours.
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Webhook trigger
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Absence Balance Changed
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Balance Details Changed
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Get County Business Patterns
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Job Posting Changed
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Get Decennial Census Data
Tool to retrieve decennial census data for a specified vintage and dataset. use when you need census variables for a given geography.
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.
Get Population Estimates
Tool to retrieve population estimates program (pep) data for a specified vintage and dataset. use when you need population or demographic estimates for specific geographies.
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.
Get Variable Details
Tool to retrieve metadata for a specific variable in a census dataset for a given year. use when you need the label, concept, data type, attribute codes, and valid-value constraints.
Connect any two apps with Notis in the middle.
Workday and Census bureau, or any other combination from 1,000+ integrations.
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