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Working with Employee Time Away from Work

[Overview] [Operation details] [Sample configuration]

Overview

The following operations allow you to retrieve time away from work of an employee

Operation	Description
GET Employee Time Away from Work	Retrieve the scheduled time away from work (TAFW) periods of a single employee. In order to use this request, an employee XRefCodes is needed. Employee XRefCodes can be retrieved with GET Employees.

Operation details

This section provides more details on each of the operations.

Retrieving Employee Time Away from Work

We can use GET Employee Time Away from Work operation with required parameters to get the time spent by employees away from work.

GET Employee Time Away from Work

<ceridiandayforce.getTimeAwayFromWork>
    <xRefCode>{$ctx:xRefCode}</xRefCode>
    <filterTAFWStartDate>{$ctx:filterTAFWStartDate}</filterTAFWStartDate>
    <filterTAFWEndDate>{$ctx:filterTAFWEndDate}</filterTAFWEndDate>
    <status>{$ctx:status}</status>
</ceridiandayforce.getTimeAwayFromWork>

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.
• filterTAFWStartDate (Mandatory - string): Inclusive period start date to determine which employee time away from work data to retrieve . Example: 2017-01-01T13:24:56
• filterTAFWEndDate (Mandatory - string): Exclusive period end date to determine which employee time away from work data to retrieve . Example: 2017-01-01T13:24:56
• status (Mandatory - string): A case-sensitive field containing status for time away from work values. Examples: [APPROVED,PENDING,CANCELED,DENIED,CANCELPENDING]

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",
  "filterTAFWStartDate": "2018-02-04T00:00:00",
  "filterTAFWEndDate": "2018-02-18T00:00:00",
  "status": "APPROVED"
}

Sample response

Given below is a sample response for this operation.

{
    "Data": [
        {
            "DateOfRequest": "2018-02-07T09:50:00",
            "TimeStart": "2018-02-07T00:00:00",
            "TimeEnd": "2018-02-09T00:00:00",
            "NetHours": 16.000,
            "ReasonName": "Sick",
            "AllDay": true
        },
        {
            "DateOfRequest": "2018-02-07T09:52:00",
            "TimeStart": "2018-02-14T00:00:00",
            "TimeEnd": "2018-02-15T00:00:00",
            "NetHours": 8.000,
            "ReasonName": "Training",
            "AllDay": true
        }
    ]
}

Related Dayforce documentation

https://developers.dayforce.com/Build/API-Explorer/Time-Management/GET-Employee-TAFW.aspx

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($.xRefCode)" name="xRefCode"/>
         <property expression="json-eval($.status)" name="status"/>
         <property expression="json-eval($.filterTAFWStartDate)"
                   name="filterTAFWStartDate"/>
         <property expression="json-eval($.filterTAFWEndDate)" name="filterTAFWEndDate"/>
         <ceridiandayforce.init>
            <username>{$ctx:username}</username>
            <password>{$ctx:password}</password>
            <clientNamespace>{$ctx:clientNamespace}</clientNamespace>
            <apiVersion>{$ctx:apiVersion}</apiVersion>
         </ceridiandayforce.init>
         <ceridiandayforce.getTimeAwayFromWork>
            <xRefCode>{$ctx:xRefCode}</xRefCode>
            <filterTAFWStartDate>{$ctx:filterTAFWStartDate}</filterTAFWStartDate>
            <filterTAFWEndDate>{$ctx:filterTAFWEndDate}</filterTAFWEndDate>
            <status>{$ctx:status}</status>
         </ceridiandayforce.getTimeAwayFromWork>
         <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",
  "filterTAFWStartDate": "2018-02-04T00:00:00",
  "filterTAFWEndDate": "2018-02-18T00:00:00",
  "status": "APPROVED"
}

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": [
        {
            "DateOfRequest": "2018-02-07T09:50:00",
            "TimeStart": "2018-02-07T00:00:00",
            "TimeEnd": "2018-02-09T00:00:00",
            "NetHours": 16.000,
            "ReasonName": "Sick",
            "AllDay": true
        },
        {
            "DateOfRequest": "2018-02-07T09:52:00",
            "TimeStart": "2018-02-14T00:00:00",
            "TimeEnd": "2018-02-15T00:00:00",
            "NetHours": 8.000,
            "ReasonName": "Training",
            "AllDay": true
        }
    ]
}

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