Configure and Deploy Integration Flows

Configure and deploy integration flows (iFlows) for SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central.

Prerequisites

You have deployed the required user credentials for the SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central system.

Procedure

In the Design tab of the SAP Cloud Integration system tenant, open the SAP Cloud for Customer Integration with SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central package.
The following integration flows are available in this package:
- Replicate Employee from SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central
- Manual Employee Replication from SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central
  
  Note
  
  Using this integration flow is optional and only necessary if you need to pull employee data for individual employees.
Select the Replicate Employee from SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central iflow.
From the Actions menu, select Configure.
Configure the Timer event.

This decides how often the integration flow runs to fetch the data from the Employee Central system.
To configure the receiver systems for CNS, enter the host and the user credential name of SAP Sales Cloud and SAP Service Cloud Version 2.
Select the EC_CE_API_QUERY receiver channel from the Receiver dropdown for SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central and enter the address and the credential information in Address, Authentication and Credential Name respectively.
Configure the following external parameters:
- maxRows: The maximum number of employees to be fetched from Employee Central in each query.
- Receiver System ID: The default communication system of the SAP Sales Cloud and SAP Service Cloud Version 2 tenant.
- Sender System ID: The communication system name maintained in SAP Sales Cloud and SAP Service Cloud Version 2.
- Include Contingent Worker: Indicator to replicate contingent workforce.
Recommendation

maxRows must be less than or equal to Page Size in SuccessFactors SOAP Receiver Adapter. maxRows is needed for calculating the number of processed records during the initial load. As long as maxRows is less than or equal to Page Size, maxRows takes precedence. Ensure that you set these to values between 400 and 800.
Optional: To configure and deploy the Manual Employee Replication from SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central iflow, do the following:
1. Repeat steps 1 to 3 with selecting the Manual Employee Replication from SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central iflow in step 2.
2. Execute step 4 as the following:
3. Repeat steps 5 to 7.
4. Provide a comma-separated list of IDs in PERSON_ID_EXTERNAL as shown in the following screenshot:
  
  Note
  
  You must enclose each ID with single quotation marks.
  
  For example, enter '47798','47799','5000' for multiple employees; enter ‘47798’ for a single employee.
5. Optional: Set the Include Contingent Worker parameter to true to replicate contingent workforce.
  Note
  
  The contingent employees are technically equal to internal employees in SAP Cloud for Customer. There is no standard field to differentiate between them. If you must differentiate, you must handle that via extension.
  
  You cannot change employee ID after replication. So, if you convert a contingent worker to a permanent employee, with a change in employee ID, you must replicate the employee as a new employee and terminate the old entry. The transactions assigned to the old employee ID is not transferred to the new employee automatically as well.