Create a Person

To invoke the API for executing operations or retrieving data required by your application, initiate a POST request to the corresponding endpoint. When creating new resources, such as an EmpowerID Person, send a POST request to the endpoint associated with the EmpowerID Workflow service, providing the necessary header and request data.

Prerequisites

• Register OAuth application in EmpowerID
• Get an access token

For creating an EmpowerID Person, the required data is as follows:

Endpoint

https://{FQDN_OF_Your_EmpowerID_Web_Server}/api/services/v1/workflow/start

Headers

Key	Value
X-EmpowerID-API-Key	The API key for the OAuth application you created above.
Content-Type	application/json
Authorization	Bearer token

Request Data

Request data is sent to the API in JSON format. The data in the below request represents the minimum key/value pairs required for creating an EmpowerID Person. The API Reference includes all possible key/value pairs that can be submitted when creating people.

info

OutputParameters are optional, but are useful for viewing the results of the operation.

{
  "Name": "CreatePerson",
  "InputParameters":
  {
    "TargetPerson" :
    {
      "LastName": "Adams",
      "FirstName": "Samuel",
      "PrimaryOrgRoleOrgZoneID": "2"
    }
  },
  "OutputParameters": [{"TargetPerson": ["PersonID", "FirstName", "LastName"]}]
}

Element	Description	Type	Required
Name	Name of the workflow	String	Required
InputParameters	Workflow input	Data Object	Required
TargetPerson	Attributes of the person	Data Object	Required
Firstname	First name of the person	String	Required
LastName	Last name of the person	String	Required
PrimaryOrgRoleOrgZoneID	Primary Business Role and Location of the person	Integer	Required
OutputParameters	Workflow output	Data Object	Optional

Code Examples

In the examples, we are passing in the minimum number of parameters and requesting an output showing the PersonID, LastName and FirstName attributes of the person that is created by the operation.

C#

var url = "https://{FQDN_OF_Your_EmpowerID_Web_Server}/api/services/v1/workflow/start";
using (var webClient = new WebClient())
{
   webClient.Headers[HttpRequestHeader.Authorization] = String.Format(BearerHeaderFormat, {Your_Access_Token});
   webClient.Headers[ApiKeyHeader] = {Your_API_Key};
   webClient.Headers.Add(HttpRequestHeader.ContentType, "application/json");  
   var workflowInput = new WorkflowInput {Name = "CreatePerson"};
   workflowInput.InputParameters["TargetPerson"] = new
   {
      FirstName = "Samuel";
      LastName = "Adams";
      PrimaryOrgRoleOrgZoneID = 2; //Temporary Role in Temporary Location
   };
   workflowInput.OutputParameters.Add(new { TargetPerson = new[] {"PersonGUID", "PersonID", FirstName", "LastName"}});   
   var inputJsonData = Json.convert.SerializeObject(workflowInput);
   var jsonResult = webClient.UploadString(url, inputJsonData);
   
   //Write results to console if desired
   if(!String.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(jsonResult))
   {
      workflowOutput = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<WorkflowOutput>(jsonResult);
      string results = workflowOutput.OutputParameters["TargetPerson"].ToString();
      Console.Write(results);
   }
}

cURL

caution

Be sure to use double quotes unless you are making the request from a non-Windows OS.

curl "https://{FQDN_Of_Your_EmpowerID_Web_Server}/api/services/v1/workflow/start" \
-X POST \
-H "X-EmpowerID-API-Key: {Your_API_Key} \
-H "Authorization: Bearer {OAuth_token_you_received_from_EmpowerID}" \
-H "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded" \
-d "{ \"Name\": \"CreatePerson\", \"InputParameters\": {\"TargetPerson\":{\"LastName\"" \"Adams\",
\"FirstName\": \"Samuel\", \"PrimaryOrgRoleOrgZoneID\" \"2\" }}, \"OutputParameters\": [{\"TargetPerson\":
[\"PersonID\", \"FirstName\", \"LastName\"]}]}"

Ajax

$.ajax({
  url: "https://{FQDN_OF_Your_EmpowerID_Web_Server}/api/services/v1/workflow/start",
  type: "POST",
  
 headers: {
    "X-EmpowerID-API-Key": "{Your_API_Key}",
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
    "Authorization": "Bearer {OAuth_token_you_received_from_EmpowerID
    }
  },
  
  data: JSON.stringify({
    "Name": "CreatePerson",
        "InputParameters":
        {
            "TargetPerson": {
            "FirstName": "Adams",
            "LastName" : "Samuel",
            "PrimaryOrgRoleOrgZoneID": "4980"
        }
    },
    "OutputParameters": [{"TargetPerson": ["PersonID", "FirstName", "LastName"]}]  
  
  })
})

Response

If the request is successful, you should receive a JSON response that looks similar to that below:

{
  "Id": 0,
  "Name": "CreatePerson",
  "InstanceId": "db14de5f-b8e4-4e61-a6a5-d17030e4a44f",
  "CorrelationId": "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000",
  "UIType": "None",
  "UIName": "",
  "UIData": null,
  "OutputParameters": {
    "TargetPerson": {
      "PersonID": 402,
      "FirstName": "Samuel",
      "LastName": "Adams"
    }
  },
  "OutputTaskParameters": null,
  "WorkflowState": "Completed",
  "DeferredUntil": "0001-01-01T00:00:00",
  "Error": null
} 

Postman Example

1. Open the Postman app on your machine.

2. In Postman, open a new tab, select POST as the HTTP method and enter https://{FQDN_Of_Your_EmpowerID_Web_Server}/api/services/workflow/start.

3. Click the Headers tab and add the above mentioned key/value pairs.

4. Click the Body tab, select raw, and then add the below JSON:

{
  "Name": "CreatePerson",
  "InputParameters":
  {
    "TargetPerson" :
    {
      "LastName": "Adams",
      "FirstName": "Samuel",
      "PrimaryOrgRoleOrgZoneID": "2"
    }
  },
  "OutputParameters": [{"TargetPerson": ["PersonID", "FirstName", "LastName"]}]
}

5. Click Send.

If the request is successful, you should receive a JSON response that looks similar to that shown below.

{
  "Id": 0,
  "Name": "CreatePerson",
  "InstanceId": "db14de5f-b8e4-4e61-a6a5-d17030e4a44f",
  "CorrelationId": "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000",
  "UIType": "None",
  "UIName": "",
  "UIData": null,
  "OutputParameters": {
    "TargetPerson": {
      "PersonID": 381,
      "FirstName": "Samuel",
      "LastName": "Adams"
    }
  },
  "OutputTaskParameters": null,
  "WorkflowState": "Completed",
  "DeferredUntil": "0001-01-01T00:00:00",
  "Error": null
}