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  Concept: Workday Extend
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Workday Extend enables developers to build, deploy, and share apps that run on Workday and are tailored to specific business needs. The Workday Extend platform supports a range of users with different access levels.

## <a id="section_mq1_v1h_mqb"></a>App Lifecycle

When you have an idea to solve a business problem, Workday Extend enables Personal and Enterprise Accounts to iteratively build apps in a development tenant. Enterprise customers iterate through the phases of the app lifecycle to test apps across multiple environments, ensuring that they’re working properly before installing them in a production environment.

-   Build: Create an app that brings your idea to life.
-   Test: Test your app and its configurations.
-   Verify: Verify that your app works in a production-like environment.
-   Release: Release your app to production.


Use the <b>Workday Extend App Manager</b> worklet on your Workday tenant to install and configure your apps on the tenant at each phase of the app lifecycle.

## <a id="section_zjx_z1h_mqb"></a>App Components

These Extend app components enable you to build fully featured apps that meet your custom business needs:

-   Presentation Components create the user interface and page interactions of an app, which provides familiar Workday user experiences.
-   Model Components create data, logic, and security components that are consistent with the object model, business process framework, and configurable security model in Workday.
-   Orchestration Components create event-driven processes across Workday and external systems. Orchestrations facilitate logic across several components to update Workday data, trigger business processes, send notifications, and connect to third-party APIs.


## <a id="section_gqc_ndw_rlb"></a>Developer Tools

We provide these authoring tools for you to build and test your apps:

-   Workday Developer Copilot.
-   App Builder.
-   Orchestration Builder.
-   Development tenant.
-   REST API Explorer.
-   Graph API Explorer.
-   SOAP API Explorer.
-   Command Line Interface.
-   Workday Extend Plugin for IntelliJ.


## <a id="section_tbm_rzb_qfb"></a>Workday Extend Services

Workday Extend services include:

-   Authentication for building, securing, and testing all components of your app, including integration with third-party services.

    <b>Note:</b> All Workday Extend access tokens expire after 60 minutes.

-   Data services for accessing, updating, and reporting on Workday and custom data.
-   Workday Graph API that enables you to submit queries and mutations using a single endpoint.
-   Workday REST APIs that enable you to access Workday functionality including Human Capital Management, Financials, Planning, and Student.
-   Connect Service for managing collaboration and communications across your apps, Workday, and external components.


## <a id="section_rdp_sbc_3nb"></a>Workday Developer Site

You can use the console on the Workday Developer Site to:

-   Deploy apps to WCP Development tenants.
-   For Enterprise Accounts, promote apps through the app lifecycle and install them on non-Development tenants.
-   Manage users and tenants for an Enterprise Account.
-   Monitor and log the usage of Workday Extend resources.
-   Register API clients.


You can use the <b>Analytics</b> and <b>Entitlements</b> dashboards for monitoring app behavior and resource usage, and troubleshooting errors.

## <a id="section_zjw_zgj_hfb"></a>Developer Support

The Workday Developer Forum serves as the central community hub all Workday developer types, including Personal Account and enterprise customers, can engage and collaborate.

Workday provides Workday Extend Enterprise customers with a finite number of Developer Support Contacts (DSCs) per customer or partner organization. DSCs open cases to Workday Support to report potential issues or respond to Workday Extend inquiries. The <b>Support</b> section of the Workday Developer Site enables DSCs to take all actions in working with Workday Support. We also provide these developer resources to help you with your app development through its lifecycle:

-   Get Started tutorials.
-   Reference Apps.
-   App Gallery.


### Related Information

[Concept: App Components](/wcp_docs/kwv1612374098305.html)

[Introduction to Workday Extend](/intro)

[Tutorial: Getting Started with the Workday Developer Site](https://wd5.myworkday.com/workday/learning/course/fa14a17ca0091012474934078d430000?type=9882927d138b100019b928e75843018d)

[Tutorial: Introduction to Workday Extend Learning Program](https://wd5.myworkday.com/workday/learning/program/2af63f82610f100094089336a4e80000?type=2d29754fdb8e100008b50ff6bc94003b)