SAP Successfactors Odata and SFAPI API-How to work with them

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A must have course to work with any kind of integration with SAP Successfactors. Also

What you’ll learn:
Students would be able to execute SFAPI, OData APIs with confidence and clarity. Students will be able to comprehend with clarity the various technical aspects of Successfactors API execution. Also
Will be able to do create, read, update, delete, upsert, batch operations on the Successfactors objects. Also
With the understanding imparted during the course various scenarios requiring SAP Successfactors integrations can be understood and developed. Also

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The ONLY course that deals with the technical aspects of the SAP Successfactors’ SFAPI and OData API know how and execution. Also
Disclaimer: This course is in no way created in affiliation with SAP. This is sole work of the technical information gathered while years of working with Successfactors APIs. Also
Demonstrations and sessions in the course have been made upon SAP Successfactors Employee Central and HCM Suite foundation APIs; the core of the Successfactors. Also

Requirements
Understanding of the English Language. Also
PC with internet. Also
In order to practice the use cases and demo sessions provided during the course, students would require access to the Successfactors instance. Also
NO need to have any integration tool to run the use cases and/or API calls demonstrated and discussed in this course. Also

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A complete Hands-On course!!!

This course uncovers the SFAPI and ODATA APIs , which are the interoperability mechanism offered by SAP Successfactors. Also

It will show as to how the various aspects of APIs, the endpoint URLs, input / output parameters for the API calls, access permissions , SFAPI and OData APIs, How to executed them , various concepts around effective dated entities, operations like query, update (both variants merge and replace), upsert, delete etc. can be sought out and operated upon. Also

With this course , you will be able to gather the practical knowledge of working with the APIs in depth, a must for any Successfactors consultant, solution architect and for that matter an enviable armor for SAP HCM Successfactors functional consultants. Also

Various use cases are also covered in the course wherein it is practically demonstrated on how the APIs can be called to satisfy the needed objective from the API. Also

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The years of practice and challenges those were encountered while calling the APIs, creating the objects , demystifying various aspects like how to gather the values that a field should take; all have been placed in the course with the sole ideology that a person should be able to start from the scratch and reach the end. Also

Also all the learning is done from the open source tools like SOAP UI and community edition of Postman and there is no need for Boomi / PI like paid tools for this course.

Following is the course content:

Section 1: Introduction

1. Introduction Also

Section 2: SFAPI : Successfactors SFAPI URI and wsdl

2. Also What is the Data Center URL

3. Data Center URL significance Also

4. Gathering Data Center URL

5. Gathering Data Center URL continuation Also

6.* Further Steps , SFAPI URL and others

7. Formulation of SFAPI URL Also

8. SFAPI wsdl

9. SFAPI Enabled?

Section 3: Soap UI Set Up

10. SOAP UI Download and Install

11. SOAP UI Configuration changes, in view of Successfactors’ TLS v1.0 disablement Also

Section 4*: Creating an API User ID to make SFAPI call

12. Creating an User ID for the SFAPI calls Also

13. Creating User IDs via Option 1(Provisioning)

14. Creating API User IDs via Option 2.1 (Successfactors Application UI) Also

15. Creating API User IDs Option 2.2 (Import Employee via SFSF Application UI)

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Section 5*: Setting the Password for the API User

16. Setting the Passwords for the API User IDs created above Also

17. Setting the Password for the API User – Option 1.1

18. Setting the Password for the API User – Option 1.2

19. Setting the Password for the API User – Option 2 Also

20. Also Setting Password for the User – Option 3 and 4

21. Considerations when SSO is enabled

22. Considerations for SSO – Enabling the loginMethod field Also

23. Making First SFAPI call !

Section 6: SFAPI Methods And Parameters

24. Also SFAPI Methods

25. Understanding SFAPI wsdl Also

26. Preparation for the Hands ON Sessions on API calls

27. Setting API User login exception Also

28. Making the call to SFSF to retrieve the List of the SFAPI SFObjects

29. Making the SFAPI Call for Session Management and MetaData Inspection methods Also

30. SFAPI call for Data Query Category (query and queryMore)

31. SFAPI call for Data Manipulation Category (upsert call) Also

32. SFAPI Call for Asynchronous Operations

Section 7: OData : Tools to make the OData call

33. Postman Set Up

34. Also SOAPUI : Making Rest Calls from SoapUI

35. Advanced Rest Client from Chrome Also

36. Chrome/FireFox Browser

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Section 8: Odata Basics (with relation to Successfactors Odata service)

37. Odata Introduction and Structure Components Also

38. OData Basics : Service Document vs. Service Metadata Document

39. OData Basics : Entity Metadata Document-comparison with other documents Also

40. Also OData Basics : How to gather Service Document , Service and Entity Metadata Docs

41. OData Basics : Understanding Service Metadata Document – EntitySets , EntityType Also

42. OData Basics : Understanding Service Metadata Document – AssociationSet and Type

43. OData Basics : Understanding Service Metadata Document – Navigation Property Also

44. Also OData Basics : Understanding Service Metadata Document – Function Imports

45. OData Basics : Understanding Entity Metadata Document Also

Section 9: OData URI

46. OData URI : Introduction and How to gather the service root uri for Odata calls Also

47. OData URI : URI and its components – All components

48. OData URI : URI and its components – Resource Path -part I Also

49. OData URI : URI and its components – Resource Path -part II

50. OData URI : URI and its components – Query Options Also

Also Section 10: OData Query Options

51. OData Query Options: $orderby Also

52. OData Query Options: $top and $skip

53. OData Query Options: $top + $skip combined with $orderby Also

54. OData Query Options: $filter – Introduction

55. OData Query Options: $filter-supported Logical Operators Also

56. OData Query Options: $filter-supported Arithematic Operators Also

57. OData Query Options: $filter-supported Grouping ,Customized & String Operators

58. DateTime and DateTimeOffset DataType fields

59. OData Query Options: $filter – supported DateTime Operators -Part I Also

60. Time DataType fields

61. OData Query Options: $filter-supported DateTime Operators -Part II

62. OData Query Options: $filter-supported Numeric Datatypes Also

63. OData Query Options: $filter-supported Boolean Datatype

64. OData Query Options: $expand

65. OData Query Options: $format Also

66. OData Query Options: $select

67. OData Query Options: $inlinecount

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Section 11: OData API User Permissions

68. OData : creating an API user and assigning the password Also

Section 12: Effective Dated Entities

69. Effective Dated Entities – What are They? Also

70. Effective Dated Entities – How are they defined?

71. Effective Dated Entities – The Concept Also

72. Effective Dated Entities – Advanced Concept

73. Different Modes in which Data can be entered in Successfactors

74. Concept of fromDate, toDate and asOfDate for Effective Dated Entities Also

75. Concept of fromDate, toDate and asOfDate for Advanced Effective Dated Entities

76. Initial data entry : Impact on effective dated objects Also

77. Correction Mode data entry : Impact on effective dated objects

78. Edit Mode data entry : Impact on effective dated objects

79. Insert and Delete Mode data entry :Impact on effective dated objects Also

Section 13: Effective Dated Entities behavior with Navigation

80. Effective Dated Entities behavior with Navigation : Rules

81. Effective Dated Entities behavior with Navigation : Advanced navigation concepts Also

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Section 14: Effective Dated Entities : How can they be queried

82. Effective Date Entities: multiple parameters available to query ’em Also

83. Effective Dated Entities: Querying involving from/to/asOfDate

84. Effective Dated Entities: Querying involving start/endDate Also

85. Effective Dated Entities: Logic system follows when from/to/asOfDate are present Also

86. Effective Dated Entities: lastModifiedOnDateTime parameters Rules

87. Effective Dated Entities-filter by lastModifiedDateTime scenarios Part-I Also

88. Effective Dated Entities-filter by lastModifiedDateTime scenarios Part-II

89. Effective Dated Entities-filter by lastModifiedDateTime scenarios Part-III Also

90. Effective Date Entities-filter by lastModifiedDateTime – Final Algorithm

Section 15: Effective Date Entities – Behavior with $expand

91. Effective Dated Entities behavior with $expand – Rules Also

92. Effective Dated Entities behavior with $expand – Further understanding – partI

93. Effective Dated Entities behavior with $expand – Further understanding – partII Also

Section 16: OData APIs : Push Operations

94. OData APIs : Push Operations : Overview

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Section 17: OData APIs : Push Operations : INSERT

95. Section Overview : OData APIs : INSERT

96. INSERT : Is the operation supported by entity, required fields, URI, HTTP Verb Also

97. INSERT : Request Body : Are all fields supported for the operation?

98. INSERT : Allowable Field Values – Data Types and MaxLength Also

99. INSERT : Allowable Field Values – PickLists Also

100. INSERT : Allowable Field Values – MDF Objects

101. INSERT : Allowable Field Values – Navigation Links Also

102. INSERT : Allowable Field Values – OptionId or ExternalCode (PickList values) Also

103. INSERT : Perform Insert on the Entity via OData API

104. INSERT : Can Multiple Calls be posted in one OData Call Also

Section 18: OData APIs : Operations on Links

105. OData APIs : Links Overview Also

106. OData APIs : Query Operation On Links/Navigation Also

107. OData APIs : Create Operation on Links

108. OData APIs : Delete Operation On Links Also

109. OData APIs : Update Operation On Links

Section 19: OData APIs : Push Operations: UPDATE

110. UPDATE : Perform Update on the Entity via OData API Also

111. UPDATE : Perform a Replace Operation Also

112. UPDATE : Perform a Merge Operation

113. UPDATE : Some additional differences between Replace and Update Operation Also

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Section 20: OData APIs : Push Operations : UPSERT

114. UPSERT : Introduction and initial call Also

115. UPSERT : Demystifying User and PerPerson relationship – a specific challenge

116. UPSERT : Further discussion over Upsert Also

117. UPSERT : processing parameter purgeType (full) Also

118. UPSERT : Which all entities support purgeType=full

119. UPSERT : processing parameter purgeType (incremental) Also

120. UPSERT : purgeType behavior with NO_OVERWRITE property of Entity

121. UPSERT : Understanding the EmpGlobalAssignment Object Also

122. UPSERT : processing parameter suppressUpdateOfIdenticalData

123. UPSERT : processing parameter fileLocale Also

124. UPSERT : Multiple Requests in one call

125. UPSERT : Multiple Inline Entity Types in one call -Part 1 Also

126. UPSERT : Multiple Inline Entity Types in one call -Part 2

127. UPSERT : Avenue for Performance Improvement of Upsert call Also

Section 21: OData APIs : Operation : DELETE

128. DELETE : Deleting the entities

Section 22: Bonus

129. Use Case : Creating and Querying PickList entries Also

130. Use Case : Function Import : Add or remove users from the Static Group Also

Who this course is for
Anyone interested in how SAP Successfactors Odata and SFAPI work. Also
Course details the SFAPI and OData Objects , their properties , operations and their executions. Also
A must have knowledge bundle for SAP Successfactors consultants and solution architects who need to design solutions over the various APIs offered by Successfactors. Also
Functional consultants who want to have the ownership and command in the Successfactors objects and foster their say in how the integrations be designed. Also