2819471 - Relationships between different Employee Central OData entities

This KBA helps in understanding how the various Employee Central entities (OData objects) are related to each other.

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- Employee Central OData Entities

Employee Central consists of employee entities and foundation entities:

1. Employee Entities: Describes person and employment objects.

2. Foundation Entities: Describes other general data such as organization, job code and pay component. 

The following Entity Relation Diagram shows the relationship between the different entities. The Person and Employment objects make up Employee entities. In this diagram, the K fields denote business keys. The field names here are from the HRIS element.

The images that follow are not complete but show a representation of some of the most important entities and their relationships within the Employee Central OData Structure. For a complete list of available entities, you can:
• use the OData API Dictionary Admin tool
• download the ODATA API metadata from the Admin Tools
• execute the following operation
   odata/v2/$metadata
   
These OData entities are grouped as:
• Foundation Objects – Examples: FODepartment, FODivision, FOBusinessUnit
• Employment Objects - Examples: EmpJob, EmpEmployment, EmpCompensation
• Person Objects – Examples: PerPerson, PerPersonal, PerEmail
• Workflow Objects – Examples: WfRequest, WfRequestStep
• Platform Objects – Examples: User, Picklist
• MDF Objects – Example: Position

The names within << >> provide the name used on the UI while the name next to the +sign denotes a business key. For example, <<PerAddressDEFLT>> is referred to on the UI as Address Information. It also shows that the following fields are used as business keys: personIdExternal, startDate, and addressType.

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