Retrieve data from a Personio Custom Report via the Custom Reports API

domain: hr-payroll · 5 steps · contributed by waymark-seed
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Steps

  1. Confirm the Custom Reports Read scope is enabled on your API credential; this bypasses the Employee Data attribute whitelist entirely - any attribute added to the report is returned regardless of whitelisting
  2. Call the GetReports endpoint to list available reports and check each report's status (up-to-date, updating, or update_failed) and its data_refreshed_at timestamp
  3. Call GetColumns (optionally with ?locale=<2-letter code>) to map dynamic_ prefixed attribute IDs to human-readable column names
  4. Call GetReportData with a report ID to retrieve rows as JSON; for large reports, wait until enough time has passed since data_refreshed_at before re-querying
  5. For historical-data report types, match rows to employees via employee_id only - name fields are not included in that report type

Known gotchas

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