The following contents covers an overview of the SAP SuccessFactors Compound Employee API Select Parameters in Query.
Configuring Select Parameters
Objective
After completing this lesson, you will be able to demonstrate how to apply select parameter and interpret the results.
Introduction
Compound Employee API - Select Parameter Basis
We always use Select Parameter when we use Compound Employee because of the following:
- To be used if results for employee shall be restricted
- Returns employees that meet the select criteria in the current and historic data
- Combined always with ‘AND’ operator
For example we only want to extract the employee data which is belong to the company of "US", we can limit the company equal ‘US’, then the response/result will be the US employee.
Person_ID_external
Last_modified_on
Start_date
Company
Country
Department
Compound Employee API - Select Parameter Example
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Compound Employee API - Filter Parameters
- Filter: Effective_End_Date
- Filter parameter decides, which data is transferred for selected employees
- Filter doesn’t reduce number of relevant EE’s
We always use Effective_End_Date as the filter parameter. It can decide which data will be transferred for the selected employee data, but the filter parameter will not reduce the number of relevant employees.
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Compound Employee API - Select Parameter specifics
- Select Parameter: last_modified_on
Only receive employees that have changed since this point in time Changes include deletions.
- Deleted segments are not part of the response
Person_ID_external
Last_modified_on
Start_date
Company
Country
Department