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Enboarder API Docs: Update a Workflow

This API modifies the different Enboarder workflow attributes

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Written by Adam Faludi
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Update Workflow

Base URL:

API Endpoint

Request Method: PUT

This API modifies the different Enboarder workflow attributes e.g. employee details, manager details, hire start date, custom fields etc. If Workflow is not available or is already Complete or Cancelled API return error response.

NOTE: Partial updates can also happen using this API by just providing the information that needs to be updated. For example, if new hire start date needs to be updated then invoke this API with externalid and nhstdt (and custom fields if multiple workflows exists with same external id) only.

Sample Request:

{
"customfields": [
{
"name": "brand",
"value": "enboarder"
},
{
"name": "location",
"value": "Sydney"
},
{
"name": "Employee Number",
"value": "98786"
}
],
"externalid": “687368798490”,
"nhstdt": "2020-06-12"
}

Response

On Success, the below response will be returned:

Resposne Body:

{ "message": "Workflow updated successfully for externalid [ENT-68736879-0001]", }

Where the referenceid is the externalid passed in the request body or uniqueid generated by system launched from.

On Error, the below response will be returned:

Resposne Body:

{ "message": "Atleast one of the fields is required [\"nheml\",\"nhmob\",\"nhmobeml\"]" }

Message will contain error message.

Attribute Names & Descriptions:

externalid

Reference of external System to match with Enboarder Workflow. This should be unique for all workflows started in Enboarder. If external is not specified then Enboarder generates a unique ID for workflow, which can be used to perform update operations on Enboarder workflow programatically.

Required

nhnm

Updated full name of Employee

Optional

nhfnm

First name of Employee

Optional

nhlnm

Last name of Employee

Optional

nhmob

Updated Employee Mobile

Optional

nheml

Updated Employee Email

Optional

chnl

Updated preferred channel for employee

Optional

managers

Updated manager details

Optional

manager.nm

Updated name of the manager

Optional

manager.fnm

First name of the manager

Optional

manager.lnm

Last name of the manager

Optional

manager.mob

Updated mobile of the manager

Optional

manager.eml

Updated email of manager

Optional

manager.chnl

Updated preferred channel for manager

Optional

manager.mgrlbl

Label of manager, whose details need to be uodate. This is required in case of workflow has multiple variable managers

Optional

nhstdt

Updated Start Date of Employee

Optional

customfields

List of all custom fields for the workflow. They are name , value pairs. name should match the name of custom field defined in Enboarder. Brand, location and optional categories can also be provided in custom fields with name as ‘brand’, ‘location’ and category name in Enboarder respectively.

Optional


Parent Child Mapping

We've made it easy for you to integrate with one account in Enboarder (the parent account), and then be able to pass data into other child accounts. In order to enable data to flow from a parent account to a child account, you will need to configure child account IDs.

What you will need to change in the payload

  • The source system should send this child account ID in the payload in attribute childAccountID.

  • The possible values of this field should be provided to Enboarder support so that they can configure these IDs to each child account

  • When the payload is received, Enboarder will check the value of the childAccountID field. If an ID matches with any of the child account IDs, the workflow will be updated in that child account. If an ID does not match a child account, then the workflow will look to be updated in the parent account.

Example: If you have 3 child accounts in Enboarder and you are using the office location city as child ID, you will need to send us the below data in a CSV file:

Child Account Name

External id

Account 1

Sydney

Account 2

Brisbane

Account 3

London

Here is a sample payload for updating a workflow. Enboarder will update the workflow in Account 2 in this case.

{ 
"nhnm": "Jane Doe",
"nheml": "john@enboarder.com",
"childAccountID":"Brisbane",
"nhstdt": "2021-08-12",
"managers": [
{ "nm": "Jane Van",
"eml": "johndoe@enboarder.com",
"mgrlbl": "Direct Manager"
}
],
"customfields": [
{ "name": "brand",
"value": "enboarder"
}
],
"externalid": "687368798490",
"mode": 0
}

Set up in Enboarder

We need a mapping of your child account names and the unique ID of each child account. The child account ID can be any ID that is unique per child account and available in the source system. This ID will be used to find the child's account in Enboarder. The ID can be alphanumeric or string. It should be passed to our system as a string.


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