SAP Cloud Platform Enterprise Messaging as an eventbus for SuccessFactors

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SuccessFactors allows you to simplify HR workflows with the capabilities of intelligent services. In this blog I would like to talk about integration of SuccessFactors intelligent services with SAP Cloud Platform Enterprise Messaging which would allow real time processing of events generated from HR workflows in a SuccessFactors system.

In the blog SAP Cloud Platform Enterprise Messaging – Making S/4HANA Event Notification Easy we have seen how you could integrate events generated from an S/4HANA system. Now let us continue from there and see how events generated from a SuccessFactors system could be integrated.

Assumption

You have followed the blog SAP Cloud Platform Enterprise Messaging – Making S/4HANA Event Notification Easy until Step 4 and created an Enterprise Messaging instance.

Step 5:

Logon to SuccessFactors Home Page and search for Integration and select Integration Center.



Step 6:

Click on the tile My Integrations.



Step 7:

Click Create Button to create a new integration between SuccessFactors and Enterprise Messaging.



 

Step 8:

Select More Integration Types.



 

Step 9:

Select the following
Trigger Type → Intelligent Services
Destination Type → REST
Source Type → SuccessFactors
Format → JSON

Click Create Button



 

Step 10:

A list of all the available Intelligent Service Events are displayed. But in this scenario let us look at "Emplyee Hire".



 

Step 11:

• The Employee Hire event information is displayed in the right-side panel and you could see the fields including a data preview.


• Click Select Button.

Step 12:

Enter a Name and Description to the Integration and click Next



 

Step 13:

Click the + button and select Insert Sibling Element.



Step 14:

Select the newly added Element and enter the following.
Label: context



Step 15:

Select the Element “Context” and click the + button and select Add Child Element.



Step 16:

Select the newly added Element and enter the following.
Label: userId
Description: userid of the new hire.

Click the  button to do a mapping of userId.



Step 17:

Click Entity Tree View and Select User ID.



Step 18:

Click Change Association to “User ID”.



 

Step 19:

Select the context Element, click the + button and choose Add Child Element.



Step 20:

Enter the following.
Label: managerId
Description: Manager of the new Hire
Default Value: “Enter your cloud Platform user id”.



 

Step 21:

Select the Element “context” and click the + button and select Add Child Element.



 

Step 22:

Enter the following and clikc on Next.
Label: “buddyId”
Description: Assigned Buddy’s userId
Default Value: “Enter your cloud Platform user id”.



Step 23:

Expand Advanced Filters and enter the following.
Field: context/userId
Operation: is equal to
Value: cgrant1.

The filter value enable you to test the integration.

Click on Next.



Step 24:

In the destination settings click on oAuth configuration and enter

Configuration Name → <Any Name>

OAuth Type → OAuth 2.0

Grant credentials → Client_Credentials

Client ID, Client Secret and Token URL → <To be noted from the Enterprise Messaging service key>

Token Method → POST

Save the oAuth configuration

 

In the destination settings enter

Connection Name → <Any Name>

REST API URL → https://enterprise-messaging-pubsub.cfapps.eu10.hana.ondemand.com/messagingrest/v1/queues/<Queue Name>/messages

Click Next.

 

Step 25:

Click on "Run Now" to test the event generation.

Check whether the message has been published to the queue by consuming a message via Messaging REST

 

With this we are done and now you should be able to integrate SuccessFactors with SAP Cloud Platform Enterprise Messaging.