Archives: April 14, 2021

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

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>

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:
  • OTAC (Taleo TEE) Integration Overview (Doc ID 2271745.1)
  • OTAC Web Services – Overview and Key Points (Doc ID 2438855.1)
  • TCC/TCB: What is the difference between TCC and TCB? (Doc ID 2152258.1)
  • Oracle Talent Acquisition Cloud Service Documentation Homepage (Doc ID 1496352.1)