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Getting Started

Create a workflow to Create Employee with the Personio API. When you configure and deploy the workflow, it will run on Pipedream's servers 24x7 for free.

  1. Configure the Create Employee action
    1. Connect your Personio account
    2. Configure Email
    3. Configure First Name
    4. Configure Last Name
    5. Optional- Configure Gender
    6. Optional- Configure Position
    7. Optional- Configure Subcompany
    8. Optional- Configure Department
    9. Optional- Configure Office
    10. Optional- Configure Hire Date
    11. Optional- Configure Weekly Working Hours
    12. Optional- Select a Status
    13. Optional- Select a Supervisor Id
    14. Optional- Configure Custom Attributes
  2. Select a trigger to run your workflow on HTTP requests, schedules or app events
  3. Deploy the workflow
  4. Send a test event to validate your setup
  5. Turn on the trigger

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Details

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To contribute an update to an existing component or create a new component, create a PR on GitHub. If you're new to Pipedream component development, you can start with quickstarts for trigger span and action development, and then review the component API reference.

Create Employee on Personio
Description:Creates a new employee. [See the documentation](https://developer.personio.de/reference/post_company-employees)
Version:0.0.1
Key:personio-create-employee

Code

import personio from "../../personio.app.mjs";

export default {
  key: "personio-create-employee",
  name: "Create Employee",
  version: "0.0.1",
  description: "Creates a new employee. [See the documentation](https://developer.personio.de/reference/post_company-employees)",
  type: "action",
  props: {
    personio,
    email: {
      propDefinition: [
        personio,
        "email",
      ],
    },
    firstName: {
      propDefinition: [
        personio,
        "firstName",
      ],
    },
    lastName: {
      propDefinition: [
        personio,
        "lastName",
      ],
    },
    gender: {
      type: "string",
      label: "Gender",
      description: "The gender of the employee.",
      optional: true,
    },
    position: {
      type: "string",
      label: "Position",
      description: "The position of the employee. E.g. **developer**.",
      optional: true,
    },
    subcompany: {
      type: "string",
      label: "Subcompany",
      description: "The subcompany employee belongs to. Should be predefined in Personio. Otherwise will be ignored with showing meta error in the response.",
      optional: true,
    },
    department: {
      type: "string",
      label: "Department",
      description: "The department employee belongs to. Should be predefined in Personio. Otherwise will be ignored with showing meta error in the response.",
      optional: true,
    },
    office: {
      type: "string",
      label: "Office",
      description: "The office employee belongs to. Should be predefined in Personio. Otherwise will be ignored with showing meta error in the response.",
      optional: true,
    },
    hireDate: {
      type: "string",
      label: "Hire Date",
      description: "Employee hire date. Format: \"yyyy-mm-dd\". If `status` is not provided, it will be set to `active` if the hire date is in the past, or to `onboarding` if it's in the future.",
      optional: true,
    },
    weeklyWorkingHours: {
      type: "integer",
      label: "Weekly Working Hours",
      description: "All hours usually worked, including regular overtime.",
      optional: true,
    },
    status: {
      type: "string",
      label: "Status",
      description: "Status of the employee. Overrides the status determined based on the value of `hire_date`.",
      options: [
        "onboarding",
        "active",
        "leave",
        "inactive",
      ],
      optional: true,
    },
    supervisorId: {
      propDefinition: [
        personio,
        "supervisorId",
      ],
      optional: true,
    },
    customAttributes: {
      type: "object",
      label: "Custom Attributes",
      description: "Additional attributes to the employee.",
      optional: true,
    },
  },
  async run({ $ }) {
    const {
      personio,
      firstName,
      lastName,
      hireDate,
      weeklyWorkingHours,
      supervisorId,
      customAttributes,
      ...data
    } = this;

    const response = await personio.createEmployee({
      $,
      data: {
        employee: {
          first_name: firstName,
          last_name: lastName,
          hire_date: hireDate,
          weekly_working_hours: weeklyWorkingHours,
          supervisor_id: supervisorId,
          custom_attributes: customAttributes,
          ...data,
        },
      },
    });

    $.export("$summary", `A new employee with Id: ${response.data?.id} was successfully created!`);
    return response;
  },
};

Configuration

This component may be configured based on the props defined in the component code. Pipedream automatically prompts for input values in the UI and CLI.
LabelPropTypeDescription
PersoniopersonioappThis component uses the Personio app.
Emailemailstring

The e-mail field is required for the employee creation. Updating of this field is not currently supported.

First NamefirstNamestring

The first name of the employee.

Last NamelastNamestring

The last name of the employee.

Gendergenderstring

The gender of the employee.

Positionpositionstring

The position of the employee. E.g. developer.

Subcompanysubcompanystring

The subcompany employee belongs to. Should be predefined in Personio. Otherwise will be ignored with showing meta error in the response.

Departmentdepartmentstring

The department employee belongs to. Should be predefined in Personio. Otherwise will be ignored with showing meta error in the response.

Officeofficestring

The office employee belongs to. Should be predefined in Personio. Otherwise will be ignored with showing meta error in the response.

Hire DatehireDatestring

Employee hire date. Format: "yyyy-mm-dd". If status is not provided, it will be set to active if the hire date is in the past, or to onboarding if it's in the future.

Weekly Working HoursweeklyWorkingHoursinteger

All hours usually worked, including regular overtime.

StatusstatusstringSelect a value from the drop down menu:onboardingactiveleaveinactive
Supervisor IdsupervisorIdstringSelect a value from the drop down menu.
Custom AttributescustomAttributesobject

Additional attributes to the employee.

Authentication

Personio uses OAuth authentication. When you connect your Personio account, Pipedream will open a popup window where you can sign into Personio and grant Pipedream permission to connect to your account. Pipedream securely stores and automatically refreshes the OAuth tokens so you can easily authenticate any Personio API.

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About Personio

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