Field Types
There are a number of field types that are supported in the BambooHR system. The API attempts to balance the conflicting goals of providing the raw data for these fields in a machine-readable format while simultaneously requiring as few API lookup calls as possible to accomplish a given task.
To eliminate the need for additional API requests, some data will be passed using human-readable plain text strings. Locale-specific settings will be ignored in the API in order to provide a consistent machine-readable format. All values are case insensitive.
| Field Types | Description |
|---|---|
| date | A complete date with a four-digit year. Format: yyyy-mm-dd Example: "2010-03-19" |
| text | Any valid UTF-8 sequence of characters. Example: "I do not like green eggs and ham. I do not like them, Sam-I-Am." |
| ssn | A standard United States Social Security number, with dashes. Example: "123-45-6789" |
| phone | A plain text string with a phone number, no formatting is enforced. Example: "1-866-387-9595" |
| gender | The plain text name of the gender. Example: "Male" or "Female" |
| currency | A simple quantity value without thousands separators or currency signs using a period as a decimal point. Example: "27000.00" To add a currency code that is different from the company default, specify the code using the currency tag. Example: “payRate”: { “value”: “27000.00”, “currency”: “EUR”} |
| checkbox | "yes" or "checkbox" will mark the checkbox checked and everything else will default to unchecked Example: "yes", "checkbox", "no" |
| country | The name of the country. Must exist in the BambooHR country list. Example: "Australia", "United States", etc. |
| state | The full name of the state/province. Example: "Florida" |
| marital_status | Plain text status of marriage. Example: "Single" or "Married" |
| status | The employee's employment status as used to filter employees in BambooHR. Example: "Active" or "Inactive" |
| pay_type | One of several predefined options for the unit of pay. Example: "Hourly", "Salary", "Commission", "Exception Hourly", "Monthly", "Piece Rate", "Contract" or "Daily" |
| employee | A reference to another employee expressed as preferred name-space-last name. Example: "Robert Smith" |
| timestamp | The UTC time that an event occurred. Format: ####-##-##T##:##:##+##:## Example: "2012-10-17T20:27:17+00:00" |
| textarea | A larger section of text that can include line feed characters. Example: "How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?" |
| list | The exact text for an option from a list. Example: "Marketing" |
| An email address. Example: "[email protected]" | |
| bool | A boolean value, true or false. Example: "true" |
| employee_access | Enabled or Disabled Example: "Enabled" |
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