Use the Taleo Get Objects activity to get objects such
as Employee, Task, Calendar Event, Account, Candidate, Contact, Interview,
Requisition, and User from the Taleo server.
About this task
Use this task to get objects from the Taleo server. The call
to this activity is a synchronous call where the input data is sent
to the activity for processing and the response is sent back to the
orchestration.
To configure Taleo Get Objects, complete the
following steps:
Procedure
- In an active orchestration, open the Activities tab
and expand the Taleo folder contents.
- Drag the Get Objects activity icon
onto the orchestration. The Taleo Get Objects Checklist is
displayed.
- In the Checklist, click Summary.
- Review the contents of the Activity Name field,
and make the required changes.
- In the Checklist, click Pick
Endpoint.
- Click Browse and use the Project
Explorer dialog box to select the relevant Taleo endpoint.
- Optional: You can create the endpoint by clicking New and
specifying the required connection details. Click OK to
save and use the endpoint for this configuration.
- To make required changes to the selected endpoint configuration,
click Edit to access the options in a separate
window. Any changes you make globally affects all uses of the endpoint
in active orchestrations.
- In the Checklist, click Configure.
- Click Browse to select the object
type. The Browse Taleo window is displayed.
- In Browse Taleo, you can either
filter the object type by specifying the object type in the Search
for an object type field, or select the object type from
the object type list. Click OK. The object field preferences are displayed.
- In Object Field Preferences, select
the fields that you would like to map by selecting the corresponding
field name check boxes.
- In the Checklist, click Retry.
Review the default settings and make the required changes. For more
information, see Specifying retry parameters for Taleo activities.
- Select the Map Inputs in the Checklist.
The XML Schemas generated from the selected object of the Get
Objects activity are displayed as nodes under the request
input parameter in the To Activity panel.
- Create a map between the orchestration variables and the
input parameter of the activity.
Note: Values must be
provided at run time for any mandatory elements of the input structure.
A value can be provided by specifying a default value for element
or by linking the element with an input node. During run time if no
value is provided for a mandatory element, the activity throws an
exception, which is reported by the Web Management Console. If a value
is not provided at run time for an optional input parameter, no exception
is thrown during run time.
- Select the Map Outputs in the Checklist.
The XML Schema generated to hold the response of the activity is displayed
as nodes under the response output parameter in the From
Activity panel.
- Create a map between the output parameters and orchestration
variables.
Results
You have configured the Taleo Get Objects activity.