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Working with Employee Pay Adjustment Code Groups

Overview

The following operations allow you to retrieve, create or update addresses of an employee

Operation Description
GET Employee Pay Adjustment Code Groups retrieve employee pay adjustment groups that control which pay codes can be used in an employee's timesheet.

Operation details

This section provides more details on each of the operations.

Retrieving Employee Pay Adjustment Code Groups

We can use GET Employee Pay Adjustment Code Groups operation with required parameters to get the pay adjustment group of an employee.

GET Employee Pay Adjustment Code Groups

<ceridiandayforce.getEmployeePayAdjustmentGroups>
    <xRefCode>{$ctx:xRefCode}</xRefCode>
</ceridiandayforce.getEmployeePayAdjustmentGroups>

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.

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"
}

Sample response

Given below is a sample response for this operation.

{
    "Data": [
        {
            "PayAdjCodeGroup": {
                "XRefCode": "Timesheet",
                "ShortName": "Timesheet",
                "LongName": "Timesheet"
            }
        }
    ]
}

Related Dayforce documentation

https://developers.dayforce.com/Build/API-Explorer/Employee-Employment-Information/Pay-Adjustment-Groups/GET-Employee-Pay-Adjustment-Code-Groups.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($.xRefCode)" name="xRefCode"/>
         <ceridiandayforce.init>
            <username>{$ctx:username}</username>
            <password>{$ctx:password}</password>
            <clientNamespace>{$ctx:clientNamespace}</clientNamespace>
            <apiVersion>{$ctx:apiVersion}</apiVersion>
         </ceridiandayforce.init>
         <ceridiandayforce.getEmployeePayAdjustmentGroups>
            <xRefCode>{$ctx:xRefCode}</xRefCode>
         </ceridiandayforce.getEmployeePayAdjustmentGroups>
         <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"
}
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": [
        {
            "PayAdjCodeGroup": {
                "XRefCode": "Timesheet",
                "ShortName": "Timesheet",
                "LongName": "Timesheet"
            }
        }
    ]
}