#706 OIC Taleo EE / OTAC adapter - Importing Candidates

Welcome to the world of Taleo EE now known as OTAC -

OTAC = Oracle Talent Acquisition Cloud

Introduction

Today a simple example of leveraging the new Taleo EE adapter in OIC.
This leads on from the previous post on this topic - you can read it here

I am going to import the following Candidates, contained in the file candidates.csv,  into Taleo,
nothing like keeping it in the family.

The input candidates.csv file has a particular format -

That equates nicely to the Taleo Candidate format.

This format can be generated from TCC(Taleo Connect Client) as mentioned in the previous post.

The generated file I am using - let's call it the wrapsoap file - has the following format -

Again, this is based on the Taleo Candidate definition - one just chooses which Candidate attributes one wants to use. The file will then be used by the Taleo adapter in OIC for mapping purposes.

Now to avoid any confusion - the adapter documentation specifies TCC as pre-requisite. This is purely to generate these input data format files. TCC itself is NOT used by OIC to communicate with Taleo EE.

Ergo, TCC is required only at design time and NOT at runtime.

So back to our wrapsoap file - here is how you generate such for Candidates -

Choose the operation - merge

You will see the following -

Click on the Columns tab -

Here you can select the Candidate columns for importing -

Just drag and drop from the Structure panel -

Note, here I am building the same structure
Save this file.

Next step is to create a new Configuration -

I base this on the import file I previously saved.

I then set the Temporary files folder -

Here you see the step where the wrap soap file in created -

I set the response to No File needed -

Final step is to run this with my sample file containing 2 candidates.
I save the Configuration file and then click the execute icon.

I check the progress in Monitoring -

I click on the Wrap SOAP link -

And save the file...

Ok, so what do I have now?
1. candidates.csv file with my 2 new candidates -
2. Target Candidate definition (wrapsoap file) for Taleo EE.

Now on to OIC...

Creating the Taleo Integration in OIC

My simple integration will do the following -

1. download the file from my ftp server via the FTP Adapter

2. read the file using the STAGE FILE Action 

3. Leverage the Taleo EE adapter to import the candidates into Taleo
4. Receive back a MessageKey from Taleo

This key can then be used to query the status of the import.

Here is my Taleo adapter configuration -

Here is my Integration -

I will skip the download/read actions and go straight to the Taleo Import -

Note the use of the file we generated in TCC - this contains the candidate definition.

Now to the Mapping -

Now let's run it...

I check out the Activity Stream -

Note the MessageKey returned by Taleo.

Let's check out our new candidates in Taleo -

Now back to the MessageKey, returned by Taleo.

This can be used to check on the Import Status.
Note the use of a loop here - I check until the Status = 5, i.e. import completed.

From the docs...

Note the invoke of the Taleo Adapter - getImportStatus

It is configured as follows -

The Request Mapping is as follows -

Note: I have assigned the MessageKey returned to a variable.

I then update the status with the response from getImportStatus -

Note the CorrelationKey - this will be used to retrieve the importResult (itself a file) later.

Ok, now the import has completed - let's get the result -

getImportResult is configured as follows -

Request mapping as follows -

I save the result to a file on the OIC virtual file system using the STAGE FILE Action -
WriteFile.

Note the use of a function - oraext:encodeReferenceToBase64

The Write file has been configured to use an xsd -

The xsd is very simple -

Final step is to Write the file to my FTP Server -

The result of a test -

It is very important to check the file - it may seem in OIC that all has completed successfully -
however, all that it is tell us is that the import has been started and then completed. The result, whether it was successful or not is in this file.

Here is an example, containing errors -