BambooHR - New/Updated employee trigger (real-time)

This trigger picks up employees that are created or updated in your BambooHR instance. Each employee is processed as a separate job.

This trigger picks up events as soon as they occur. To set up this trigger, you have to configure webhooks in your BambooHR instance. Learn how to configure a webhook in BambooHR.

Enable Webhooks on BambooHR

Webhooks are not enabled by default. Contact BambooHR support to enable this feature.

Input

After defining the Event name, a webhook endpoint URL will be generated. This will be needed to configure a webhook in BambooHR.

New/Updated employee trigger (real-time)

Input field	Description
Event name	Provide a descriptive name for this event. It will be appended to the webhook endpoint URL.
Output fields	Select the fields that will be posted from BambooHR. Ensure that the fields selected are identical. Find out more about BambooHR employee fields (opens new window).

Output

The output of this action are fields defined by the BambooHR webhook. By default, Workato will retrieve the Employee ID.

Output field.	Description
Employee ID	The employee ID assigned by BambooHR.
Output fields	Output fields as defined in the BambooHR webhook.

For a full list of employee fields, see field names (opens new window).

How to set up a webhook in BambooHR

Complete the following steps to set up a webhook in BambooHR:

1

Set up the Workato trigger and select the event to generate an endpoint URL.

Retrieve Workato webhook endpoint URL

2

Sign in to your BambooHR instance and go to Account > Webhooks > + Add Hooks.

BambooHR Webhooks

3

Select which Webhook fields to monitor. Updates to this field create a trigger event. Refer to the BambooHR webhook fields (opens new window) documentation for more information.

Select fields to monitor

4

Select which Webhook fields to post. These fields are sent to Workato as datapills. Refer to the BambooHR webhook fields (opens new window) documentation for more information.

Ensure that the fields to post are identical to the fields configured in the trigger input.

Select fields to post

5

Select JSON as the format.

Select JSON format

6

Fill Post to URL with the endpoint provided by Workato.

Provide webhook endpoint URL

7

Select Save.

Refer to the BambooHR Webhooks (opens new window) documentation for more information.