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Working with Employee Availability

[Overview] [Operation details] [Sample configuration]

Overview

The following operations allow you to retrieve the availability of an employee

Operation	Description
GET Availability	Availability represents the periods an employee is available to be scheduled for work. This request allows you to retrieve a single employee's daily availability between two dates. In order to use it, 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 Availability

We can use GET Availability operation with required parameters to search and find availability of required employees.

GET Availability

<ceridiandayforce.getAvailability>
    <xRefCode>{$ctx:xRefCode}</xRefCode>
    <filterAvailabilityStartDate>{$ctx:filterAvailabilityStartDate}</filterAvailabilityStartDate>
    <filterAvailabilityEndDate>{$ctx:filterAvailabilityEndDate}</filterAvailabilityEndDate>
</ceridiandayforce.getAvailability>

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.
• filterAvailabilityStartDate (Mandatory): Inclusive period start date to determine which employee availability data to retrieve . Example: 2017-01-01T00:00:00
• filterAvailabilityEndDate (Mandatory): Inclusive period end date to determine which employee availability data to retrieve . Example: 2017-01-01T00:00:00

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",
  "filterAvailabilityStartDate": "2018-02-04T00:00:00",
  "filterAvailabilityEndDate": "2018-02-18T00:00:00"
}

Sample response

Given below is a sample response for this operation.

{
    "Data": [
        {
            "DateOfRequest": "2018-02-04T00:00:00",
            "UnAvailable": true,
            "IsDefault": true
        },
        {
            "DateOfRequest": "2018-02-05T00:00:00",
            "IsDefault": true,
            "StartTime1": "00:00:00",
            "EndTime1": "1.00:00:00"
        },
        {
            "DateOfRequest": "2018-02-06T00:00:00",
            "IsDefault": true,
            "StartTime1": "07:00:00",
            "EndTime1": "09:00:00",
            "StartTime2": "14:00:00",
            "EndTime2": "20:00:00"
        },
        {
            "DateOfRequest": "2018-02-07T00:00:00",
            "IsDefault": true,
            "StartTime1": "00:00:00",
            "EndTime1": "1.00:00:00"
        },
        {
            "DateOfRequest": "2018-02-08T00:00:00",
            "IsDefault": true,
            "StartTime1": "00:00:00",
            "EndTime1": "1.00:00:00"
        },
        {
            "DateOfRequest": "2018-02-09T00:00:00",
            "IsDefault": true,
            "StartTime1": "00:00:00",
            "EndTime1": "1.00:00:00"
        },
        {
            "DateOfRequest": "2018-02-10T00:00:00",
            "IsDefault": true,
            "StartTime1": "00:00:00",
            "EndTime1": "1.00:00:00"
        },
        {
            "DateOfRequest": "2018-02-11T00:00:00",
            "UnAvailable": true,
            "IsDefault": true
        },
        {
            "DateOfRequest": "2018-02-12T00:00:00",
            "IsDefault": true,
            "StartTime1": "00:00:00",
            "EndTime1": "1.00:00:00"
        },
        {
            "DateOfRequest": "2018-02-13T00:00:00",
            "IsDefault": true,
            "StartTime1": "07:00:00",
            "EndTime1": "09:00:00",
            "StartTime2": "14:00:00",
            "EndTime2": "20:00:00"
        },
        {
            "DateOfRequest": "2018-02-14T00:00:00",
            "IsDefault": true,
            "StartTime1": "00:00:00",
            "EndTime1": "1.00:00:00"
        },
        {
            "DateOfRequest": "2018-02-15T00:00:00",
            "IsDefault": true,
            "StartTime1": "00:00:00",
            "EndTime1": "1.00:00:00"
        },
        {
            "DateOfRequest": "2018-02-16T00:00:00",
            "IsDefault": true,
            "StartTime1": "00:00:00",
            "EndTime1": "1.00:00:00"
        },
        {
            "DateOfRequest": "2018-02-17T00:00:00",
            "IsDefault": true,
            "StartTime1": "00:00:00",
            "EndTime1": "1.00:00:00"
        },
        {
            "DateOfRequest": "2018-02-18T00:00:00",
            "UnAvailable": true,
            "IsDefault": true
        }
    ]
}

Related Dayforce documentation

https://developers.dayforce.com/Build/API-Explorer/Time-Management/Employee-Availability.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($.xRefCode)" name="xRefCode"/>
         <property expression="json-eval($.filterAvailabilityStartDate)" name="filterAvailabilityStartDate"/>
         <property expression="json-eval($.filterAvailabilityEndDate)" name="filterAvailabilityEndDate"/>
         <ceridiandayforce.init>
            <username>{$ctx:username}</username>
            <password>{$ctx:password}</password>
            <clientNamespace>{$ctx:clientNamespace}</clientNamespace>
            <apiVersion>{$ctx:apiVersion}</apiVersion>
         </ceridiandayforce.init>
         <ceridiandayforce.getAvailability>
            <xRefCode>{$ctx:xRefCode}</xRefCode>
            <filterAvailabilityStartDate>{$ctx:filterAvailabilityStartDate}</filterAvailabilityStartDate>
            <filterAvailabilityEndDate>{$ctx:filterAvailabilityEndDate}</filterAvailabilityEndDate>
         </ceridiandayforce.getAvailability>
         <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",
  "filterAvailabilityStartDate": "2018-02-04T00:00:00",
  "filterAvailabilityEndDate": "2018-02-18T00:00:00"
}

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 body

{
    "Data": [
        {
            "DateOfRequest": "2018-02-04T00:00:00",
            "UnAvailable": true,
            "IsDefault": true
        },
        {
            "DateOfRequest": "2018-02-05T00:00:00",
            "IsDefault": true,
            "StartTime1": "00:00:00",
            "EndTime1": "1.00:00:00"
        },
        {
            "DateOfRequest": "2018-02-06T00:00:00",
            "IsDefault": true,
            "StartTime1": "07:00:00",
            "EndTime1": "09:00:00",
            "StartTime2": "14:00:00",
            "EndTime2": "20:00:00"
        },
        {
            "DateOfRequest": "2018-02-07T00:00:00",
            "IsDefault": true,
            "StartTime1": "00:00:00",
            "EndTime1": "1.00:00:00"
        },
        {
            "DateOfRequest": "2018-02-08T00:00:00",
            "IsDefault": true,
            "StartTime1": "00:00:00",
            "EndTime1": "1.00:00:00"
        },
        {
            "DateOfRequest": "2018-02-09T00:00:00",
            "IsDefault": true,
            "StartTime1": "00:00:00",
            "EndTime1": "1.00:00:00"
        },
        {
            "DateOfRequest": "2018-02-10T00:00:00",
            "IsDefault": true,
            "StartTime1": "00:00:00",
            "EndTime1": "1.00:00:00"
        },
        {
            "DateOfRequest": "2018-02-11T00:00:00",
            "UnAvailable": true,
            "IsDefault": true
        },
        {
            "DateOfRequest": "2018-02-12T00:00:00",
            "IsDefault": true,
            "StartTime1": "00:00:00",
            "EndTime1": "1.00:00:00"
        },
        {
            "DateOfRequest": "2018-02-13T00:00:00",
            "IsDefault": true,
            "StartTime1": "07:00:00",
            "EndTime1": "09:00:00",
            "StartTime2": "14:00:00",
            "EndTime2": "20:00:00"
        },
        {
            "DateOfRequest": "2018-02-14T00:00:00",
            "IsDefault": true,
            "StartTime1": "00:00:00",
            "EndTime1": "1.00:00:00"
        },
        {
            "DateOfRequest": "2018-02-15T00:00:00",
            "IsDefault": true,
            "StartTime1": "00:00:00",
            "EndTime1": "1.00:00:00"
        },
        {
            "DateOfRequest": "2018-02-16T00:00:00",
            "IsDefault": true,
            "StartTime1": "00:00:00",
            "EndTime1": "1.00:00:00"
        },
        {
            "DateOfRequest": "2018-02-17T00:00:00",
            "IsDefault": true,
            "StartTime1": "00:00:00",
            "EndTime1": "1.00:00:00"
        },
        {
            "DateOfRequest": "2018-02-18T00:00:00",
            "UnAvailable": true,
            "IsDefault": true
        }
    ]
}

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