Bulk upsert Employee Central job/compensation records via SAP SuccessFactors OData v2 batch changesets, respecting effective-dating rules
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Steps
Build a multipart/mixed batch request containing one or more changesets, each with an upsert operation on an effective-dated entity
Set the startDate (or effectiveStartDate for entities like EmpCostDistribution) business key for each record instead of an end date
Omit end dates in the request URI — SuccessFactors auto-closes the prior record's end date to the day before the new startDate and sets the new record's end date to 12-31-9999
Submit the batch and parse the per-changeset HTTP status in the multipart response
Retry only the failed changesets, since one failed time slice fails all time slices sharing the same external code
Known gotchas
A batch response with overall 200 OK can still contain individual failed changesets — you must parse each part's status code, not just the outer response
Upserting an effective-dated entity without correctly sequencing startDate/sequence numbers can create duplicate or overlapping time slices
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