ScriptingDevelopment

Payroll Engine Client Tutorials - Scripting Development

Overview

Tutorial topic: Develop payroll reports with Visual Studio

Prerequisites

• Payroll Engine Backend running with SimplePayroll
• Visual Studio with .NET 8
• Tutorial: Console Application

Learnings

• Scripts in Visual Studio
• Invoke and debug scripts
• Invocation input and output data

Notes

• Preparation
  • Setup SimplePayroll
• Welcome - tutorial slide
  • Develop payroll reports with Visual Studio
  • Prerequisites
  • Learnings
• Client Services
  • Scripting Development

• Functions
  • Tutorial: report function

• Reporting
  • Build: setup report parameters
  • Start: setup report queries
  • End: build result data set

- Application use cases - Code a report in Visual Studio - Debug a report in Visual Studio - Visual Studio - Tutorial project `ScriptingDevelopment.csproj` - Tutorial notes in project folder README.md - SimplePayroll WageTypesReport - json example - Query - Regulations - Query name: table name in dataset - Query value: Rest API web method name - Parameters - TenantId - RegulationId - Regulations.Filter - Program usage - program help - command line arguments - Program - help: command line arguments - ScriptMode - ReportName - QueryFileName - ResultFileName - debug program - Invoke report start function - ReportStartFunctionInvoker - debug breakpoint - QuickWatch this.Runtime - view output file with query results - Invoke report end function - ReportEndFunctionInvoker - input file with query results - debug breakpoint - QuickWatch regulations collection - view output file with report results - Invoke report start/end function - ReportStartFunctionInvoker - ReportEndFunctionInvoker - debug breakpoint start - debug breakpoint end