POST api/Absence/{employeeNo}/{startDate}

Update an Absence for an Employee. The key for updates is the StartDate

Request Information

URI Parameters

Name	Description	Type	Additional information
employeeNo	Employee Number	string	Required
startDate	Start Date in the format yyyy-MM-dd	date	Required

Body Parameters

In request Body: Employee Absence Details

AbsenceDetail

Name	Description	Type	Additional information
StartDate		date	Required
EndDate	Must be after StartDate	date	Required
AbsenceType	1 = Holiday, 2 = Sickness, 3 = Unpaid Leave	integer	Required
NoOfUnits	Number of units in the absence.	decimal number	Required
PayMaximumDays	Indicates whether to pay maximum holiday available instead of throwing any errors. example, if an employee has accrued 2 days, but an entry is sent for 5 days of holiday, the record will instead be inserted as 2 days.	boolean	Nullable
Offset	Sickness only. Allows the statutory payment to be offset by an identical negative payment and is used in scenarios where you wish to continue to pay the employee as normal. Where a payment is to be only partially offset, an adjustment can be made via statutory override.	boolean	Nullable

Request Formats

application/json, text/json

Sample:

{
        "StartDate": "2022-02-09T11:08:37.966519+00:00",
        "EndDate": "2022-02-11T11:08:37.966519+00:00",
        "AbsenceType": 2,
        "NoOfUnits": 4.0,
        "PayMaximumDays": false
}

application/xml, text/xml

Sample:

<AbsenceDetail>
    <AbsenceType>2</AbsenceType>
    <EndDate>2022-02-11T11:08:37.966519+00:00</EndDate>
    <NoOfUnits>4</NoOfUnits>
    <StartDate>2022-02-09T11:08:37.966519+00:00</StartDate>
</AbsenceDetail>

application/x-www-form-urlencoded

Sample:

Sample not available.

Response Information

Resource Description

Result

ResultWithMessage

Name	Description	Type	Additional information
result	'OK', 'Error'	string	None.
message	Returns if result is Error	string	None.
returnValue		string	None.

Response Formats

application/json, text/json

Sample:

{
    "result": "OK"
}

{
    "result": "Error",
    "message": "Unable to save: the..."
}

application/xml, text/xml

Sample:

<ResultWithMessage>
    <result>OK</result>
</ResultWithMessage>

<ResultWithMessage>  
    <result>Error</result>
    <message>Unable to save: the...</message>
</ResultWithMessage>