Use this procedure to enable your extension application to consume events defined in the SAP SuccessFactors system based on user propagation with SAML identity federation.
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You have an extension application deployed in SAP BTP.
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You have specific Role-based permissions to use Intelligent Services Center. See Intelligent Services Center.
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You need to have specific Role-based permissions to use Integration Center. See Role-based Permissions for Integration Center.
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This integration flow is based on exchanging the SAML (bearer) assertion from the SAP SuccessFactors identity provider for an OAuth access token from the SAP BTP authorization server. Using the access token, SAP SuccessFactors can access the OAuth-protected application.
You can integrate the extension application to subscribe to an event defined in the SAP SuccessFactors system. For example, if you want your extension application to be notified when a job title of an employee has been changed, you have to use the Change in Job Title event.
Follow these steps to subscribe an extension application to receive notifications from an SAP SuccessFactors event of your choice:
Alternatively, in the Neo environment, you can perform step 1 to step 4 automatically, by configuring the
sfsf-outbound-connectionsparameter in the Java application module of your Multi-Target Application (MTA) deployment descriptor. See MTA Module Types, Resource Types, and Parameters for Applications in the Neo Environment.