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April 19, 2022

TCC 22a.1 – Issues With TCC_Touchpoints

So they’ve upgraded saxon8.jar to saxon10.jar (the XSLT and XQuery processor) but the framework (TCC_Touchpoints) that the majority of installs use have the reference to saxon8.jar hard coded in the init.bat/.sh files. Not sure that hard coded is the right word as you can change it but it’s another thing that would have been nice to know.

So the quick takeaway is that if you are using TCC_Touchpoints at all in your integrations, a change is going to have to be made to the touchpoints itself before it can work at all with TCC 22a.1.

The reference to saxon8.jar is found in the following files:

  • TCC_Touchpoints\bin\Unix\core\Init.sh (Linux: Lines 56 & 62)
  • TCC_Touchpoints\bin\Windows\core\Init.bat (Windows: Lines 117 & 131)
  • TCC_Touchpoints\bin\Windows\DailyLimits.bat (Windows: Lines 19 & 20)
  • TCC_Touchpoints\bin\Windows\tools\Parameterize_config.bat (Windows: Line 28)

While we haven’t seen any issues after this change is made. The expected new behavior is going to be the normal process runs but you won’t be able to see the individual steps that you are used to seeing. E.g. between the two pictures below, the top being with saxon10.jar and the bottom one being saxon8.jar.

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March 22, 2022

TCC – Emailing Import Errors

This is for when you need to have the results file sent to you if there are errors in said results file. This can be a little tricky because you will not get a file if all elements were successful although you can probably do something about that with the trigger rule.
In any case this is the last custom step of the post process and assuming you have the mail host set properly in the config boards, you should be golden.

<cli:CustomStep>
	<cli:JavaClass>com.taleo.integration.client.customstep.mail.SendEmailPostStep</cli:JavaClass>
	<cli:Parameters>
		<cli:Parameter>
			<cli:Name>active</cli:Name>
			<cli:Value>true</cli:Value>
		</cli:Parameter>
		<cli:Parameter>
			<cli:Name>SMTPHost</cli:Name>
			<cli:Value>[MAIL_HOST]</cli:Value>
		</cli:Parameter>
		<cli:Parameter>
			<cli:Name>from</cli:Name>
			<cli:Value>[ALERTING_MAIL_FROM]</cli:Value>
		</cli:Parameter>
		<cli:Parameter>
			<cli:Name>to</cli:Name>
			<cli:Value>[ALERTING_MAIL_ON_ERROR_TO]</cli:Value>
		</cli:Parameter>
		<cli:Parameter>
			<cli:Name>subject</cli:Name>
			<cli:Value>Reporting - Subject/Object of Integration</cli:Value>
		</cli:Parameter>
		<cli:Parameter>
			<cli:Name>messageTemplate</cli:Name>
			<cli:Value>$file.content()</cli:Value>
		</cli:Parameter>
		<cli:Parameter>
			<cli:Name>sendAttachment</cli:Name>
			<cli:Value>true</cli:Value>
		</cli:Parameter>
		<cli:Parameter>
			<cli:Name>triggeringRule</cli:Name>
			<cli:Value>$logic.greaterThan($file.errorCount(),0)</cli:Value>
		</cli:Parameter>
	</cli:Parameters>
</cli:CustomStep>
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April 14, 2021

TCC – Looping with LRD

So looping is great if you have a static set that you are pulling, think a big set of resumes. But what if you are using this as part of an ongoing and looping is needed with a LRD. Fear not, this is how you do it.

Pre-processing:
1st step – com.taleo.integration.client.customstep.paging.PagingPreStep
Arguments:
pagingSize
100000
pagingFilename
[CFGFOLDER]\pagefile.pgn

2nd step – com.taleo.integration.client.customstep.lrd.LRDPreStep
Arguments :
lrdFilename
LRD filename, this will be the name as created by the config in the standard LRD location

Post-processing (no arguments needed):
1st step – com.taleo.integration.client.customstep.count.ExportCountPostStep
2nd to last step – com.taleo.integration.client.customstep.paging.PagingPostStep
Last step – com.taleo.integration.client.customstep.lrd.LRDPostStep

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April 14, 2021

TCC – Table Key

So sometimes you’re digging through a table and there isn’t an obvious primary key (normally Number). While most of the tables this happens on aren’t usually exported but in case you need to, you can query the table for the primary key by using this projection, then you can hopefully figure out what the key is named.

<quer:projection alias="Validkey" xmlns:quer="http://www.taleo.com/ws/integration/query">
  <quer:key path=""/>
</quer:projection>
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April 8, 2021

TCC – Synchronous vs Asynchronous

So for whatever reason I have a mental block distinguishing between these two when it comes to the Taleo API. So to finally write it down:

  • TCC uses ‘asynchronous’ transactions (it processes transactions in a queue) while the Taleo Web Services is ‘synchronous’.  
  • The Taleo WebServiceAPI is type Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) for XML-based message exchange, not Representational State Transfer (REST).
  • Taleo Web Services is designed for smaller integrations.  
  • The integration limits of each are covered in the appendix of their respective user guides.
  • For more information about the Taleo integration tools and their limits please see:
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December 28, 2020

NetChange Result Files

So net-change has given you a bunch of errors, oh well, that’s why we’re here. But it would be nice if net-change would give you the actual identifier instead of instead of a concatenated entity, operation and identifier with a pipe. Oh well, here’s how you pull it in SQL (access) so I don’t have to look up the three functions again.

SELECT SourceCandError.Identifier
,StrReverse(SourceCandError.Identifier) as Rev
,InStr(SourceCandError.Identifier, "|") as FirstPipeLoc
,InStr(StrReverse(SourceCandError.Identifier), "|") as LastPipeLoc
,Right(SourceCandError.Identifier, InStr(StrReverse(SourceCandError.Identifier), "|") -1) as Ident
,Right(SourceCandError.Identifier, InStr(SourceCandError.Identifier, "|")) as AfterPipe
,Mid(SourceCandError.Identifier, InStr(SourceCandError.Identifier, "|")+1, Len(SourceCandError.Identifier) - InStr(SourceCandError.Identifier, "|") - InStr(StrReverse(SourceCandError.Identifier), "|")) as Oper
,SourceCandError.Status
FROM SourceCandError;
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November 20, 2020

TCC – Employee Net-Change Musings

If you’ve ever done time with TCC you’ll know that the bane of the out of the box integration possibilities is the employee net-change. This is because it’s a marriage of candidate and user and depending on both of those tables to be clean and ready for this is asking a lot.
I ran across a MOS article that actually made clear about the lookups for those two tables. It’s article Doc ID 1047682.1 and here is the PDF defining the candidate/user update columns in the employee net-change sample.

Doc-ID-1047682.1Download
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November 9, 2020

TCC – Text in Export Spec (warning)

A long time ago I posted the code to be able to put test in a column in an export specification. This one in case you need to read the original.
There is an oddity with this in that if you alias “Comment” you will get a sax parsing error. The specific error is: “ORA-00936: missing expression”. I’m not sure why but you have to alias your comment as something other than “Comment”

8/20/2021 – Just found out an alias of Union will do the same thing.

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November 2, 2020

TCC – What Templates Are Active

So this is specifically for job templates but can be adapted to anything that needs to find out what languages are active for any given situation.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<quer:query productCode="RC1704" model="http://www.taleo.com/ws/tee800/2009/01" projectedClass="JobTemplate" locale="en" mode="CSV" csvheader="true" largegraph="true" preventDuplicates="false" xmlns:quer="http://www.taleo.com/ws/integration/query">
	<quer:subQueries/>
	<quer:projections>
		<quer:projection>
			<quer:field path="Number"/>
		</quer:projection>
		<quer:projection>
			<quer:field path="JobCode"/>
		</quer:projection>
		<quer:projection>
			<quer:field path="State,Description"/>
		</quer:projection>
		<quer:projection alias="Lang_fr">
			<quer:field path="JobInformation,DescriptionActive" localeFiltering="customLocales" locales="fr"/>
		</quer:projection>
		<quer:projection alias="Lang_en">
			<quer:field path="JobInformation,DescriptionActive" localeFiltering="customLocales" locales="en"/>
		</quer:projection>
		<quer:projection alias="Lang_es">
			<quer:field path="JobInformation,DescriptionActive" localeFiltering="customLocales" locales="es"/>
		</quer:projection>
		<quer:projection alias="Lang_de">
			<quer:field path="JobInformation,DescriptionActive" localeFiltering="customLocales" locales="de"/>
		</quer:projection>
		<quer:projection alias="Lang_it">
			<quer:field path="JobInformation,DescriptionActive" localeFiltering="customLocales" locales="it"/>
		</quer:projection>
		<quer:projection alias="Lang_nl">
			<quer:field path="JobInformation,DescriptionActive" localeFiltering="customLocales" locales="nl"/>
		</quer:projection>
		<quer:projection alias="Lang_fr_FR">
			<quer:field path="JobInformation,DescriptionActive" localeFiltering="customLocales" locales="fr-FR"/>
		</quer:projection>
		<quer:projection alias="Lang_en_GB">
			<quer:field path="JobInformation,DescriptionActive" localeFiltering="customLocales" locales="en-GB"/>
		</quer:projection>
		<quer:projection alias="Lang_zh_CN">
			<quer:field path="JobInformation,DescriptionActive" localeFiltering="customLocales" locales="zh-CN"/>
		</quer:projection>
		<quer:projection alias="Lang_ja">
			<quer:field path="JobInformation,DescriptionActive" localeFiltering="customLocales" locales="ja"/>
		</quer:projection>
		<quer:projection alias="Lang_pt_BR">
			<quer:field path="JobInformation,DescriptionActive" localeFiltering="customLocales" locales="pt-BR"/>
		</quer:projection>
		<quer:projection alias="Lang_sv">
			<quer:field path="JobInformation,DescriptionActive" localeFiltering="customLocales" locales="sv"/>
		</quer:projection>
		<quer:projection alias="Lang_da">
			<quer:field path="JobInformation,DescriptionActive" localeFiltering="customLocales" locales="da"/>
		</quer:projection>
		<quer:projection alias="Lang_pl">
			<quer:field path="JobInformation,DescriptionActive" localeFiltering="customLocales" locales="pl"/>
		</quer:projection>
		<quer:projection alias="Lang_ru">
			<quer:field path="JobInformation,DescriptionActive" localeFiltering="customLocales" locales="ru"/>
		</quer:projection>
		<quer:projection alias="Lang_fi">
			<quer:field path="JobInformation,DescriptionActive" localeFiltering="customLocales" locales="fi"/>
		</quer:projection>
		<quer:projection alias="Lang_cs">
			<quer:field path="JobInformation,DescriptionActive" localeFiltering="customLocales" locales="cs"/>
		</quer:projection>
		<quer:projection alias="Lang_zh_TW">
			<quer:field path="JobInformation,DescriptionActive" localeFiltering="customLocales" locales="zh-TW"/>
		</quer:projection>
		<quer:projection alias="Lang_ko">
			<quer:field path="JobInformation,DescriptionActive" localeFiltering="customLocales" locales="ko"/>
		</quer:projection>
		<quer:projection alias="Lang_th">
			<quer:field path="JobInformation,DescriptionActive" localeFiltering="customLocales" locales="th"/>
		</quer:projection>
		<quer:projection alias="Lang_ms">
			<quer:field path="JobInformation,DescriptionActive" localeFiltering="customLocales" locales="ms"/>
		</quer:projection>
		<quer:projection alias="Lang_ca">
			<quer:field path="JobInformation,DescriptionActive" localeFiltering="customLocales" locales="ca"/>
		</quer:projection>
		<quer:projection alias="Lang_tr">
			<quer:field path="JobInformation,DescriptionActive" localeFiltering="customLocales" locales="tr"/>
		</quer:projection>
		<quer:projection alias="Lang_sk">
			<quer:field path="JobInformation,DescriptionActive" localeFiltering="customLocales" locales="sk"/>
		</quer:projection>
		<quer:projection alias="Lang_et">
			<quer:field path="JobInformation,DescriptionActive" localeFiltering="customLocales" locales="et"/>
		</quer:projection>
		<quer:projection alias="Lang_no">
			<quer:field path="JobInformation,DescriptionActive" localeFiltering="customLocales" locales="no"/>
		</quer:projection>
		<quer:projection alias="Lang_bg">
			<quer:field path="JobInformation,DescriptionActive" localeFiltering="customLocales" locales="bg"/>
		</quer:projection>
		<quer:projection alias="Lang_hr">
			<quer:field path="JobInformation,DescriptionActive" localeFiltering="customLocales" locales="hr"/>
		</quer:projection>
		<quer:projection alias="Lang_hu">
			<quer:field path="JobInformation,DescriptionActive" localeFiltering="customLocales" locales="hu"/>
		</quer:projection>
		<quer:projection alias="Lang_ro">
			<quer:field path="JobInformation,DescriptionActive" localeFiltering="customLocales" locales="ro"/>
		</quer:projection>
		<quer:projection alias="Lang_el">
			<quer:field path="JobInformation,DescriptionActive" localeFiltering="customLocales" locales="el"/>
		</quer:projection>
		<quer:projection alias="Lang_sr">
			<quer:field path="JobInformation,DescriptionActive" localeFiltering="customLocales" locales="sr"/>
		</quer:projection>
		<quer:projection alias="Lang_lt">
			<quer:field path="JobInformation,DescriptionActive" localeFiltering="customLocales" locales="lt"/>
		</quer:projection>
		<quer:projection alias="Lang_pt">
			<quer:field path="JobInformation,DescriptionActive" localeFiltering="customLocales" locales="pt"/>
		</quer:projection>
		<quer:projection alias="Lang_sl">
			<quer:field path="JobInformation,DescriptionActive" localeFiltering="customLocales" locales="sl"/>
		</quer:projection>
		<quer:projection alias="Lang_in">
			<quer:field path="JobInformation,DescriptionActive" localeFiltering="customLocales" locales="in"/>
		</quer:projection>
		<quer:projection alias="Lang_ar">
			<quer:field path="JobInformation,DescriptionActive" localeFiltering="customLocales" locales="ar"/>
		</quer:projection>
	</quer:projections>
	<quer:projectionFilterings/>
	<quer:filterings>
		<quer:filtering>
			<quer:equal>
				<quer:field path="State,Description"/>
				<quer:string>Active</quer:string>
			</quer:equal>
		</quer:filtering>
	</quer:filterings>
	<quer:sortings>
		<quer:sorting ascending="true">
			<quer:field path="JobCode"/>
		</quer:sorting>
	</quer:sortings>
	<quer:sortingFilterings/>
	<quer:groupings/>
	<quer:joinings/>
</quer:query>
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