2355576 - How do to generate Employee ID automatically for user creation via the OData API

Creation of a new user via Successfactors UI automatically generates an employee Id for that user. How to achieve the same automatic generation of employee id when creating new users via the API?

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• You can achieve the same functionality via APIs but you need to execute one additional API call to achieve the same functionality.
• The userId is not automatically generated via the 'User API Upsert' operation but you can call another API(generateNextPersonID) as follows-

https://apiX.successfactors.com/odata/v2/generateNextPersonID?$format=json

• This will return you the 'PersonId' which is nothing but the automatically generated userId, exactly same as how the 'Add New Employee' feature generates when employee is created via UI.
• This Id can be passed in the subsequent API request for different entities as follows-
• User Entity: In the fields username and userID
• PerPerson Entity: In the field personIdExternal
• Employment Entity: In the fields personIdExternal and userID
• Per* Entities: Used in all Per* entities for the field personIdExternal
• Emp*Entities: Used in all Emp* entities for the field userId

Note: When you generate more than one ID, use a $BATCH statement to avoid too many roundtrips. Make sure that users use the generated IDs in a unique way. Any unused numbers will create gaps since the API generates the numbers in an incremental fashion. More information at the OData API EC Reference Guide.

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