Welcome to the SAP HANA Academy. My name is Bob. In this video series from the SAP HANA Academy
and Digital PartnerEengineering, we'll be looking at SAP Fieldglass integration. In this video we'll
go through an introduction into the integration tools and we'll look at using the integration
connector wizard. In the previous video, we went through an overview of using SAP Fieldglass as
an end user, and we created a job posting. Again in this video, we're covering the integration tools.
To access those integration tools, on the top right hand side as your user we have what's called
a linked account to our configuration manager. Essentially this configuration manager is
assigned an additional SAP Fieldglass sign-in id and this id will only allow access to the
self-service dashboard. If you want to perform other administrative or general actions within
SAP Fieldglass, the id associated with the user's original role must be used to sign in.
When the configuration manager account is created, a linked account is automatically created between
the user's account and the configuration manager's account and it will display in the linked accounts
list for both of these accounts. In order to access my integration tools, i select the user.
When you use these integration tools, you're actually accessing a series of tiles.
At a high level, if we look at some of those tiles, you'll see that we've got
enable integration connector, view integration connector ,and browse integration catalog.
Within enable integration connector, you're able to define connector specifications,
deal with security, add custom fields and custom templates. You can deal with different transfer
methods and you've got some other options as well which we're going to have a look at.
Within view integration connector, you're able to view and manage standard and custom
connectors currently enabled. You'll be able to see any of your custom integration connectors
within your my integrations page and you can also choose to browse the complete integration catalog .
This is where you can see a complete list of all the possible connectors available .
You'll see that we've also got an option for monitor activity. As you can
imagine, this allows you to view batch activity for connect to upload and download transactions.
You'll be able to identify when people are using the APIs to upload or download data.
This also enables you to look at an integration audit trail page where you
can see when changes were made to that API. You're also able to create new endpoints for
sftp subscriptions via these create connector endpoints and view connector endpoint tiles.
Additionally you've got the options to create and view API application keys. This is where we can
see information related to security such as your client id and your client secret. Let's look
at how to enable these integration connectors by using the wizard. So once you enable a connector
you're prompted with a series of questions. In this question it's asking which category
do we want to add an integration connector? Here you can see the various categories .
Some of the categories which you select will have further questions which will be asked
whereas some of the categories will simply prompt you with the list of available connectors to use.
If i scroll down, what we'll see is we've got an option to use the job posting
category. But, in this first example, what i'll do is i'll show you how to use the worker and work
order category. For this category when we click on select we'll be prompted with further questions .
As you can see, it's prompting to say which type of integration do we want to activate, whether it's
an upload or a download integration, and as you can imagine upload is sending data to SAP Fieldglass
and download is retrieving retrieving information from SAP Fieldglass. If i select download, we're
prompted with another question -- do you want to download active workers only?
This really relates to the type of worker that you want to get information on. For example if you
choose active workers only, then these are workers who you might not necessarily employ full time.
The same here really applies to profile workers as these are workers from other organizations who
perform certain jobs like cleaning and maintenance work of a building but are not contracted directly
by the buyer organization. This last question relates to workers that you might have re-employed .
You might want to have multiple records per each individual worker so you can choose if you
want a single record or multiple records . If i select multiple in this example, what we'll see
is the recommended connector or API that we're going to use.
The navigation wizard is telling us based on our answers that it recommends the active
worker download connector is to be used. That means we can actually select that individual
connector or we can browse to see all the other available connectors to do with active workers
that we can use as you can see here listed. We can enable these suggested connectors now.
What I'll do is if i go back to my home page, we'll go through the connector setup
wizard navigation again, but this time we'll use the recommended connector. I'll select enable .
We'll select the worker and work order connector. i'll select a download. We'll say that we do
want some active workers and we don't need the profile workers and we'll select a single line.
It's now recommending a different connector but instead of browsing what i'll do
is select the recommended connector. What we can do here then is enable that connector.
We're presented with some information. We can enable this as a new connector which
basically means we need to give it another name, or we can select an existing variant which allows
you to create a copy of the connector and modify any of its details. It's often used to send data to
multiple receiving systems. You're also presented with the connector version and a brief description
of what the connector does. We'll look at enabling these connectors in the next video.