Review DeskTime projects after an absence balance change
See active project commitments before adjusting coverage.
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 Employee Projects
Tool to retrieve information about projects assigned to employees, including project names, durations, and statuses. use when you need to fetch per-employee project tracking data for a specific date.
Why this helps
Changing time-off balances can affect coverage, but project assignments are scattered across systems.
- Surfaces current project commitments
- Supports faster coverage decisions
- Reduces context switching for managers
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect Workday and DeskTime in Notis once.
- 2Create an automation for absence planning.
- 3Tell Notis to retrieve the affected employee's DeskTime projects and summarize active commitments when the absence balance changes.
- 4Pick the Workday Absence Balance Changed trigger.
- 5Choose a report channel and test with one balance change.
Questions about this workflow
Does this approve time off?
No. It only retrieves DeskTime project information for planning.
What if the employee has no projects?
Notis can report that no matching project data was returned.
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Supported Triggers and Actions
Notis builds workflows that link Workday to Desktime. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.
Workday triggers
Desktime actions
Recurring trigger
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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.
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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.
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Get Employee Projects
Tool to retrieve information about projects assigned to employees, including project names, durations, and statuses. use when you need to fetch per-employee project tracking data for a specific date.
Job Posting Changed
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Get Projects List
Tool to retrieve all active projects for the company, including related tasks. use when you need projects overview after authentication.
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.
Ping DeskTime API
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