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Workday Extend for Canada: A deep dive into Collect and Approve workflows

October 8, 2026

Discover how Workday Extend transforms manual data collection and approval processes into governed, auditable solutions within Workday.

Turn manual data collection and approvals into secure, streamlined Workday experiences

Many Canadian organizations still rely on spreadsheets, email chains, and offline forms to collect critical information that supports unique business, regulatory, and operational requirements. While effective, these processes can create challenges related to consistency, visibility, and governance.

Join Workday and Strada to explore the Collect and Approve design pattern in Workday Extend, a native platform for building custom applications that run seamlessly inside Workday. Learn how to capture structured data, manage reviews and approvals, and embed these processes directly into existing business workflows. Through Canadian-focused use cases and a live demonstration, you'll see how Workday Extend helps you modernize unique requirements while preserving Workday's security, auditability, and user experience.

Key insights in this webinar, we explored:

A live demonstration of Workday Extend Developer Copilot generating an end-to-end Collect and Approve app, from a natural language prompt to publication, along with practical examples of how Workday Extend helps capture critical information, automate approvals, and integrate with more than 850 existing Workday processes while maintaining governance, compliance, and security.

Understand the Collect and Approve design pattern and how Workday Extend uses business objects, pages, and workflows to govern and route custom data through configurable approvals.
Address Canadian use cases, including provincial tax elections, supplemental Record of Employment (ROE) information, and workers' compensation claims.
Learn how Workday Extend workflows can be embedded into popular Workday business processes such as Hire, Onboarding, Change Job, and Leave of Absence, while maintaining security and a consistent user experience.