Connect Pigment with Personio

This article explains how to connect Personio with Pigment to retrieve custom report results into a Pigment block.

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As with all other native Pigment integrations, you’ll first need to configure a Connection in the integration Library page. Once configured, this connection can be used by any Application that is authorized as a data source. These authorized Apps are defined during the ‘Import Data’ configuration step. Now, let’s see how to configure and use this native integration!

Collecting the Personio API secrets to set up the connection

To communicate with your Personio account, Pigment needs some credentials, which need to be generated on Personio side. (cf. Personio Doc)

Step 1. From within Personio, go in Settings > Integrations > API Credentials.  Next click on the Generate new credential. 

Step 2. Fill the following fields: Name: Pigment Interation: Other Personal data  Employee: Read Custom Reports: Read  Readable employee attributes: Select fields you plan to export in the reports. Step 3. Click on Generate new credential. Step 4. Copy the Client ID and Secret generated. Those will be needed in the next step.

Setting up the Personio Connector 

Within Pigment, navigate to the Integration page from your Workspace homepage, and click on “+ Add” on the Personio integration.

Click on Setup a Connection and then fill in the following fields:  Name: give a name to your connection Application Access: List the application which will be allowed to use this connection Client ID: paste the Client ID you generated during the previous step. Client secret: paste the secret you generated during the previous step. Click on Setup to finish the setup!

 

Loading data into Pigment

Once the Personio Connection is configured, open an Application that the connection is available on and open the “Import Data” interface for the object you want to import data into.  For example, if you were importing data into a Transactions, you would open up list and then select Import and Download and then Import.

Instead of “Upload file”, select the Integration option.  From here, select the Personio Connection you just configured. 

 

 

The Personio connector allows you to load any “Point in Time” custom report data into Pigment.

To do so, you need to fill-in the Report ID you want to load. To find this report Id, just open the board in Personio and copy the last part of the URL. For example, if the board url is  https://mycompagny.personio.de/custom-reports/6f976df8-af49-45c4-b10c-3336a5bd87b4  the Report id is 6f976df8-af49-45c4-b10c-3336a5bd87b4 .

Select your prefered Language and click on Set up import.

The data should load in Pigment within a few seconds!