FWS v2 is now available in EVAL to support UW Finance Transformation efforts

February 4, 2021

Updated April 25, 2023

Preparation for UW Finance Transformation

The Enterprise Data Platform is working closely with our partners to ensure that our services are in place to support you in your efforts to prepare for UW Finance Transformation (UWFT). If you would like to better understand the current state of the UWFT program, please visit the Finance Transformation home page. If you have not engaged with the Finance Program yet and would like to learn more about how your specific processes may be impacted by UWFT, we encourage you to review the resources on the UWFT Change Network.

Financial Web Services v2 (FWS v2)

When FT goes live, we will be retiring the current version of FWS and replacing it with a new service, FWS v2, that will reflect the Workday Foundation Data Model (FDM), which is the technical framework that organizes financial data to support both financial and managerial reporting in Workday. 

We are currently developing the new Financial Web Service (FWS v2) and provisioning data from Workday Test tenants. This data is available to you today in DEV and EVAL environments in order to help inform future state design of your own services and processes.

DEV vs EVAL

  • Use the DEV environment if you are OK with changes made on a daily frequency without notice. 
  • Use EVAL If you would like to connect to a more stable environment where you will receive communications before any changes are made via the fws-client-app-dev mailman list.  

Getting Started on FWS v2 EVAL

  • Follow the instructions in Getting Started Guide | FWS to gain access and get started.
  • Refer to the Swagger documentation for the most up to date data structure – FWS v2 Swagger documentation.
  • Even though FWS v2 is in EVAL, we are still actively developing and will be making changes along the way that could break your application or processes. By subscribing to the fws-client-app-dev mailman list, you will be kept informed of these changes so that you have the information you will need to adapt.

Support

  • Please submit support requests to fws-support@uw.edu with ‘FWS v2 EVAL’ in the subject line.
  • Subscribe to fws-client-app-dev mailman list to stay current on upcoming deployments and changes.
  • Subscribe to the Finance Transformation FWS v2 Customer Portal; we will be adding new resources to this page periodically.
  • We will support questions related to e.g. missing data, data structure, access/connection issues, and adding access for additional NetIds or Applications.
  • For questions regarding data quality please contact UWFT at uwftask@uw.edu.