In this exercise, you will test the integration scenario that you have designed. Please ensure that you have downloaded Postman client. You will create a new employee on BambooHR and then use the employee ID to trigger a request from Postman to your integration flow.
- You have completed all the prerequisites including the creation of service instance and key.
- You have established connectivity to Non-SAP systems.
- You have designed and deployed an integartion flow.
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Login to your BambooHR system.
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Select New > New Employee.
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Mandatorily enter the following values. If you wish, you can also enter values for the other fields as well. Once you have entered all the values, click on Save.
| Field | Descrption |
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| Employee# | Enter an employee number of your choice |
| Name | Enter values for first and last name |
| Preferred Name | Enter the preferred name |
| Gender | Choose a gender from the dropdown list |
| Address | Mandatorily fill all values of the address, including the postcode and country |
| Work Email | Enter the emailID of your GMail account that you used for this exercise |
- You will see a success message that the employee has been added. From the browser URL, plese make a note of the employeeID. You will see it indicated by the id URL parameter.
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Launch Postman and click on + icon to create a new request.
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Select the POST operation.
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In the request URL, enter the endpoint of your integration flow that you deployed in this exercise.
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Select the Authorization tab and select Basic Auth in the TYPE dropdown list.
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Enter the clientid in the Username field and clientsecret in the Password field.
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Select Body tab. Select raw radio button and enter the employee ID of the employee you created in this section. Here's an example of the value you would enter if the employee ID is 110.
<eid>110</eid>After entering the value, click on Send.
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If the request is successful, you will see a response code 200.
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Access your GMail account. You should have received an email, referring to the new employee you created.
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Access your Slack teched2020 workspace. You should see a message addressed to the team and requesting for the next steps to be processed.
