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Working with Document Management Security Groups

Overview

The following operations allow you to retrieve Document Management Security Groups

Operation Description
GET Document Management Security Groups Retrieve Document Management Security Groups assigned to an employee that control access to documents.

Operation details

This section provides more details on each of the operations.

Retrieving Document Management Security Groups

We can use GET Document Management Security Groups operation with required parameters to search and find the required employees.

GET Document Management Security Groups

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

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": [
        {
            "DocMgmtSecurityGroup": {
                "XRefCode": "Legal",
                "ShortName": "Legal",
                "LongName": "Legal"
            }
        }
    ]
}

Related Dayforce documentation

https://developers.dayforce.com/Build/API-Explorer/User-Security,-Authority-Management/Document-Management-Security-Groups/GET-Document-Management-Security-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>{$ctx:apiVersion}</apiVersion>
         </ceridiandayforce.init>
         <ceridiandayforce.getDocumentManagementSecurityGroups>
            <xRefCode>{$ctx:xRefCode}</xRefCode>
         </ceridiandayforce.getDocumentManagementSecurityGroups>
         <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": [
        {
            "DocMgmtSecurityGroup": {
                "XRefCode": "Legal",
                "ShortName": "Legal",
                "LongName": "Legal"
            }
        }
    ]
}