UpBooks ACTION
Add New Employee
Adds a new employee to Upbooks. See the documentation
- Action
- Writes data
- OAuth
- SDK
- MCP
IMPLEMENTATION
Call this tool
Connect a user's UpBooks account once, then configure and run Add New Employee from your backend or agent.
import { PipedreamClient } from "@pipedream/sdk"
const pd = new PipedreamClient({
projectId: process.env.PIPEDREAM_PROJECT_ID!,
clientId: process.env.PIPEDREAM_CLIENT_ID!,
clientSecret: process.env.PIPEDREAM_CLIENT_SECRET!,
projectEnvironment: "production",
})
const result = await pd.actions.run({
id: "upbooks-add-employee",
externalUserId: "{external_user_id}", // any stable ID for this user in your system
configuredProps: {
upbooks: { authProvisionId: "apn_xxxxxxx" },
name: "Name",
employeeNumber: "Employee Number",
},
})
console.log(result)curl -X POST https://api.pipedream.com/v1/connect/{project_id}/actions/run \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-H "X-PD-Environment: production" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer {access_token}" \
-d '{
"external_user_id": "{external_user_id}",
"id": "upbooks-add-employee",
"configured_props": {
"upbooks": { "authProvisionId": "apn_xxxxxxx" },
"name": "Name",
"employeeNumber": "Employee Number"
}
}'// accessToken: mint a short-lived token with the Connect SDK — see the MCP guide
const transport = new StreamableHTTPClientTransport(
new URL("https://remote.mcp.pipedream.net/v3"),
{
requestInit: {
headers: {
Authorization: `Bearer ${accessToken}`,
"x-pd-project-id": "{project_id}",
"x-pd-environment": "production",
"x-pd-external-user-id": "{external_user_id}", // any stable ID for this user in your system
"x-pd-app-slug": "upbooks",
},
},
},
)
const mcp = new Client({ name: "my-agent", version: "1.0.0" })
await mcp.connect(transport)
const { tools } = await mcp.listTools()
// listTools() hands your model this tool's input schema, so it can
// fill the arguments itself:
const result = await mcp.callTool({
name: "upbooks-add-employee",
arguments: {
name: "Name",
employeeNumber: "Employee Number",
},
})SCHEMA
Inputs
Pipedream supplies the connected account. Your application provides the operation-specific values below. Dynamic inputs are resolved against that user's account.
| Property | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
name Name | string | Full name of the employee. Required |
employeeNumber Employee Number | string | The identification number of the employee. Optional |
type Type | string | The employee's type. Optional |
email Email | string | The employee's email. Optional |
phone Phone | string | The employee's phone. Optional |
dob DOB | string | The employee's date of birth. Format: YYYY-MM-DD Optional |
dateOfJoining Date Of Joining | string | The employee's start date. Format: YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SSZ Optional |
dateOfLeaving Date Of Leaving | string | The employee's end date. Format: YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SSZ Optional |
ctc CTC | integer | Cost to company in cents. Required |
salaryComponentId Salary Component Id | string | The identification of the salary component. Required Dynamic |
designation Designation | string | In which position the employee will work. Optional |
role Role | string | The identification of the employee's role. Optional |
REFERENCE
Tool details
Behavior hints are published with the component in the Pipedream registry and surface as MCP tool annotations, so an agent can reason about a tool before it calls it.
- Registry key
- upbooks-add-employee
- Version
- 0.0.2
- App
- UpBooks
- Authentication
- OAuth
- Read-only
- No
- Destructive
- No
- Open world
- Yes
- Source
- View on GitHub ↗