HR generator source systems
The HR Generator source system generates sample employees for testing purposes. You may want to experiment with one before connecting a production source system.
To get started, Add an HR generator source system. (When you're ready to connect a production source system, Add a source system.)
You don't normally need to modify the Persons import script or the Departments import script in an HR Generator source system. Instead, configure it using the following settings on its Configuration tab.
- Number Of Persons
The number of employees to generate, which will become Persons during the import process.
- Number Of Contracts
The number of Contracts to generate for each employee.
- Percentage Of Inactive Persons
Percentage of employees with only Inactive contracts.
- Naming Convention
Change how employees' Display names are formatted.
- Contract Calculation Type
Whether contract dates are based on employments or positions.
- Number Of Departments
The number of Departments to generate.
- Percentage Of Departments With A Parent Department
The percentage of Departments with a
ParentExternalIddefined. See Departments import script.- Generation Seed
An integer that determines the RNG seed used to generate the example data. Typically only needs to be changed if you have multiple HR generator systems, and you want them to have different data.