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Working with Attendance in Zoho People

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The createAttendance operation creates a check-in and check-out record of an employee. You must specify one of the following properties to identify the employee in the request: empId, emailId, or mapId.

createAttendance
<zohopeople.createAttendance>
	<empId>{$ctx:empId}</empId>
	<emailId>{$ctx:emailId}</emailId>
	<mapId>{$ctx:mapId}</mapId>
	<dateFormat>{$ctx:dateFormat}</dateFormat>
	<checkIn>{$ctx:checkIn}</checkIn>
	<checkOut>{$ctx:checkOut}</checkOut>
</zohopeople.createAttendance>
Properties
  • empId: The employee ID.
  • emailId: The employee email address.
  • mapId: The mapper ID of the employee.
  • dateFormat: The date format for the check-in/check-out time.
  • checkIn: The check-in time of an employee.
  • checkOut: The check-out time of an employee.
Sample request

Following is a sample REST/JSON request that can be handled by the createAttendance operation.

Sample Request for createAttendance
{ 
	"apiUrl" : "https://people.zoho.com", 
	"authToken" : "7ac303a827d72af66b6071187c681b51", 
	"emailId" : "campaignmonitor89@gmail.com", 
	"dateFormat" : "dd/MM/yyyy HH:mm:Ss", 
	"checkIn" : "09/09/2014 11:10:23", 
	"checkOut" : "09/09/2014 14:10:23", 
	"responseType" : "application/json" 
}
Related Zoho People API documentation

https://www.zoho.com/people/help/api/attendance-api.html

Sample configuration

Following is a sample proxy service that illustrates how to connect to Zoho People with the init operation and use the createAttendance operation. The sample request for this proxy can be found in createAttendance sample request.

Sample Proxy
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<proxy xmlns="http://ws.apache.org/ns/synapse" name="zohopeople_createAttendance" transports="https,http" statistics="disable" trace="disable" startOnLoad="true">
	<target>
		<inSequence onError="faultHandlerSeq">
			<property name="apiUrl" expression="json-eval($.apiUrl)" />
			<property name="authToken" expression="json-eval($.authToken)" />
			<property name="empId" expression="json-eval($.empId)" />
			<property name="emailId" expression="json-eval($.emailId)" />
			<property name="mapId" expression="json-eval($.mapId)" />
			<property name="dateFormat" expression="json-eval($.dateFormat)" />
			<property name="checkIn" expression="json-eval($.checkIn)" />
			<property name="checkOut" expression="json-eval($.checkOut)" />
			<property name="responseType" expression="json-eval($.responseType)" />
			<zohopeople.init>
				<apiUrl>{$ctx:apiUrl}</apiUrl>
				<authToken>{$ctx:authToken}</authToken>
				<responseType>{$ctx:responseType}</responseType>
			</zohopeople.init>
			<zohopeople.createAttendance>
				<empId>{$ctx:empId}</empId>
				<emailId>{$ctx:emailId}</emailId>
				<mapId>{$ctx:mapId}</mapId>
				<dateFormat>{$ctx:dateFormat}</dateFormat>
				<checkIn>{$ctx:checkIn}</checkIn>
				<checkOut>{$ctx:checkOut}</checkOut>
			</zohopeople.createAttendance>
			<respond />
		</inSequence>
		<outSequence>
			<send />
		</outSequence>
	</target>
	<description />
</proxy>