Working with Employee Labor Defaults¶
[Overview] [Operation details] [Sample configuration]
Overview¶
The following operations allow you to retrieve the default labour of an employee
Operation | Description |
---|---|
GET Employee Labor Defaults | Retrieve employee labor defaults. Labor defaults specify an employee default postion, project, docket or other timesheet information. |
Operation details¶
This section provides more details on each of the operations.
Retrieving Employee Labor Defaults¶
We can use GET Employee Labor Defaults operation with required parameters to search and find the default labour of an employee.
GET Employee Addresses
<ceridiandayforce.getEmployeeLabourDefaults>
<xRefCode>{$ctx:xRefCode}</xRefCode>
<contextDate>{$ctx:contextDate}</contextDate>
<contextDateRangeFrom>{$ctx:contextDateRangeFrom}</contextDateRangeFrom>
<contextDateRangeTo>{$ctx:contextDateRangeTo}</contextDateRangeTo>
</ceridiandayforce.getEmployeeLabourDefaults>
Properties
- xRefCode (Mandatory): The unique identifier (external reference code) of the employee whose data will be retrieved. The value provided must be the exact match for an employee; otherwise, a bad request (400) error will be returned.
- contextDate (Optional): The Context Date value is an “as-of” date used to determine which employee data to search when records have specific start and end dates. The service defaults to the current datetime if the requester does not specify a value. Example: 2017-01-01T13:24:56
- contextDateRangeFrom (Optional): The Context Date Range From value is the start of the range of dates used to determine which employee data to search when records have specific start and end dates. The service defaults to null if the requester does not specify a value. Example: 2017-01-01T13:24:56
- contextDateRangeTo (Optional): The Context Date Range To value is the end of the range of dates to determine which employee data to search when records have specific start and end dates. The service defaults to null if the requester does not specify a value. Example: 2017-01-01T13:24:56
Sample request
Following is a sample request that can be handled by this operation.
{
"username": "DFWSTest",
"password": "DFWSTest",
"clientNamespace": "usconfigr57.dayforcehcm.com/Api/ddn",
"apiVersion": "V1",
"xRefCode": "42199",
"contextDateRangeFrom": "2017-01-01T13:24:56"
}
Sample response
Given below is a sample response for this operation.
{
"Data": [
{
"Position": {
"XRefCode": "Assembly 2 Process Technician",
"ShortName": "Assembly 2 Process Technician"
},
"EffectiveStart": "2019-10-01T00:00:00",
"Location": {
"XRefCode": "500Assembly 2",
"ShortName": "Plant 1 - Assembly 2",
"LongName": "Plant 1 - Assembly 2"
}
}
]
}
Related Dayforce documentation
Sample configuration¶
Following example illustrates how to connect to Dayforce with the init operation and query operation.
1.Create a sample proxy as below :
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<proxy xmlns="http://ws.apache.org/ns/synapse"
name="query"
startOnLoad="true"
statistics="disable"
trace="disable"
transports="http,https">
<target>
<inSequence>
<log level="full" separator=","/>
<property expression="json-eval($.username)" name="username"/>
<property expression="json-eval($.password)" name="password"/>
<property expression="json-eval($.clientNamespace)" name="clientNamespace"/>
<property expression="json-eval($.apiVersion)" name="apiVersion"/>
<property expression="json-eval($.xRefCode)" name="xRefCode"/>
<property expression="json-eval($.contextDateRangeFrom)" name="contextDateRangeFrom"/>
<ceridiandayforce.init>
<username>{$ctx:username}</username>
<password>{$ctx:password}</password>
<clientNamespace>{$ctx:clientNamespace}</clientNamespace>
<apiVersion>{$ctx:apiVersion}</apiVersion>
</ceridiandayforce.init>
<ceridiandayforce.getEmployeeLabourDefaults>
<xRefCode>{$ctx:xRefCode}</xRefCode>
<contextDateRangeFrom>{$ctx:contextDateRangeFrom}</contextDateRangeFrom>
</ceridiandayforce.getEmployeeLabourDefaults>
<send/>
</inSequence>
</target>
<description/>
</proxy>
2.Create a json file named query.json and copy the configurations given below to it:
{
"username": "DFWSTest",
"password": "DFWSTest",
"clientNamespace": "usconfigr57.dayforcehcm.com/Api/ddn",
"apiVersion": "V1",
"xRefCode": "42199",
"contextDateRangeFrom": "2017-01-01T13:24:56"
}
3.Replace the credentials with your values.
4.Execute the following curl command:
curl http://localhost:8280/services/query -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d @query.json
5.Dayforce returns HTTP Code 200 with the following response body
{
"Data": [
{
"Position": {
"XRefCode": "Assembly 2 Process Technician",
"ShortName": "Assembly 2 Process Technician"
},
"EffectiveStart": "2019-10-01T00:00:00",
"Location": {
"XRefCode": "500Assembly 2",
"ShortName": "Plant 1 - Assembly 2",
"LongName": "Plant 1 - Assembly 2"
}
}
]
}
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