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How to integrate Ceridian Dayforce with ADManager Plus for streamlined user management.
The integration of Ceridian Dayforce with ADManager Plus offers IT teams an effective way to keep employee information up-to-date and streamline user management. By connecting HR and IT, this integration ensures that employee details are automatically synced across Active Directory, Exchange, Microsoft 365, and other essential applications when a new employee joins the organization.
Streamlined operations
Ensure a more cohesive and productive HR ecosystem, ultimately leading to increased organizational effectiveness and employee satisfaction
Increased productivity
Grant immediate access to necessary resources for new hires and simplify the management of group permissions, making necessary changes and updates easily manageable.
How to configure Ceridian Dayforce integration in ADManager Plus
Prerequisites
- Ceridian Dayforce uses basic authentication credentials to authorize the API request.
- Authentication credentials required: Username and Password obtained from Ceridian Dayforce.
Privileges
To import users (Inbound action): Your user role must be assigned access to the Read Data subfeature under HCM Anywhere > Web Services in the Features tab of System Admin > Roles.
In addition, for security, you must enable XRefCode under RESTful Services > Human Resources > Employee in the Web Services Field-Level Access tab of System Admin > Roles.
To perform any action or query in Ceridian Dayforce (Outbound action): Your user role must be assigned access to the PATCH/POST Employee HR Data sub-feature under HCM Anywhere > Web Services in the Features tab of System Admin > Roles.
In addition, for security, you must enable Can Create for the applicable Authorizations tab of System Admin > Roles.
Note: ADManager Plus comes with a preconfigured set of APIs that helps perform basic actions with the integration. If the action you require is not available, please gather the necessary API details from the Ceridian Dayforce API documentation to configure the inbound or outbound webhooks to perform the required actions..Authorization configuration
- Log in to ADManager Plus and navigate to Directory/Application Settings.
- Go to Application Integrations, then search and select Ceridian Dayforce.
- Toggle the Enable Ceridian Dayforce Integration button on.
- In the Ceridian Dayforce Configuration page, click Authorization.
- Enter the credentials, replace username and password with respect to your username and password.
- Click Configure.
Inbound webhook configuration
I nbound webhook enables you to fetch user data from Ceridian Dayforce and move it to ADManager Plus. The attribute mapping configured in this section can be selected as the data source during automation configuration to perform the desired action on the list of users received from the API response. To configure an inbound webhook for Ceridian Dayforce:
- Under Inbound Webhook, click Ceridian Dayforce Endpoint Configuration.
- Ceridian Dayforce follows a nested call design, requiring two endpoints for retrieving user data: Users List endpoint which collects user IDs and Users endpoint which fetches details for each collected user ID.
- To use these preconfigured endpoints, in both endpoints replace {subdomain} and {clientNamespace} with your respective sub-domain and clientNamespace from your Dayforce instance.
- Each endpoint must be tested and saved individually before proceeding. If you would like to use a new endpoint to import users, you can configure one using the + Add API endpoint button and filling in the required fields as per Ceridian Dayforce's API references. Click here to learn how.
- You can use the filterUpdatedStartDate and filterUpdatedEndDate parameters to fetch only filtered responses from Dayforce. This allows you to retrieve data specific to your environment's needs.
- The API key value pair is preconfigured as a header for authenticating API requests as configured during Authorization Configuration.
- You can add macros to your endpoint configuration to dynamically change it as per your requirement using the macro chooser component.
- Refer to the Ceridian Dayforce's API references and configure additional headers and parameters, if required.
- Once done, click Test & Save. A response window will display all the requested parameters that can be fetched using the API call. Click Proceed.
- Refer to the Ceridian Dayforce's API references to know the Parameters that must be configured to fetch only specific parameters.
- You can configure multiple endpoints for Ceridian Dayforce using the + Add API endpoint button. Click here to learn how.
- Click Data Source - LDAP Attribute Mapping to match endpoints and to map AD LDAP attributes with the respective attributes in Ceridian Dayforce.
- Click + Add New Configuration and perform the following:
- Enter the Configuration Name and Description and select the Automation Category from the drop-down menu.
- In the Select Endpoint field, select the desired endpoint and a Primary Key that is unique to a user (for example, employeeIdentifier). Note: When multiple endpoints are configured, this attribute must hold the same value in all the endpoints.
- In the Attribute Mapping field, select the attribute from the LDAP Attribute Name drop-down menu and map it with the respective column in Ceridian Dayforce.
- If you would like to create a new custom format for this, click Mapping Attribute.
- Click Save.
Note
Note
[ADManager Plus also enables you to customize the attribute format from Ceridian Dayforce]
Outbound webhook configuration
Outbound webhook enables you to update the changes made in AD using ADManager Plus to Ceridian Dayforce and synchronize them with AD. To configure an outbound webhook for Ceridian Dayforce:
- Under Outbound Webhook, click Ceridian Dayforce Webhook Configuration.
- Click + Add Webhook.
- Enter a name and description for this webhook.
- Decide on the action that has to be performed and refer to Ceridian Dayforce's API references for the API details, such as the URL, headers, parameters, and other requirements that will be needed.
- Select the HTTP method that will enable you to perform the desired action on the endpoint from the drop-down menu.
- Enter the endpoint URL.
- Configure the URL, Headers, Parameters, and Body Message in the appropriate format based on the API call that you would like to perform.
- Click Test and Save.
- A pop-up window will then display a list of AD users and groups to test the configured API call. Select the desired user or group over which this API request has to be tested and click OK. This will make a real-time call to the endpoint URL, and the selected objects will be modified as per the configuration.
- The webhook response and request details will then be displayed. Verify them for the expected API behavior and click Save.
- The configured webhooks can be integrated into Orchestration Templates—enabling scheduled or event-driven automation—to consecutively perform the action configured in the outbound webhook among of actions on a group of users or on individual users.