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Integration with BambooHR
BambooHR has a REST API. Try reviewing it for what you need and using it in a web request from Power BI: http://www.bamboohr.com/api/documentation
Hi there,
I've just managed to get it working, hopefully this will help you too.
You need two bits of information to make it work, your subdomain and an API key. The subdomain is whatever your company's address starts with, e.g. if the users log on to https://contoso.bamboohr.com, then it's contoso. This article says how to generate an API key.
Once you've got that:
- Get data > Web.
- URL: use the following, changing the subdomain bit: https://api.bamboohr.com/api/gateway.php/subdomain/v1/employees/directory
- For the credentials, you don't want the Web API option, but just select Basic. Put your API key in the Username field, leave the password blank. Obviously!
That will get you towards a table showing what everyone's ID is in the system and some basic user info. To get other details you have to change that /employees/directory part of the URL; you could replace it with /time_off/whos_out to find out who's on holiday today. This page looks to be the best source of what those different address endings could be. Good luck!
Cheers,
Matt
I'm able to connect to our Bamboo data in Power BI Desktop, but once I publish the report it won't refresh the data. The Power BI service says that "Your data source can't be refreshed because the credentials are invalid. Please update your credentials and try again." When I edit the credentials, it won't let me proceed without a password. Has anyone gotten around this issue?
I was able to enter "x" in the password field and connect for refresh.