GetDepartments

Organisation service 1.9: Returns every ACTIVE department of the account as a flat list, ordered by name.


Service	Organisation 1.9
Endpoint	`POST https://app{server-number}.timelog.com/{account}/WebServices/Organisation/V1_9/OrganisationServiceSecure.svc`
SOAPAction	`http://www.timelog.com/api/tlp/v1_9/OrganisationService/GetDepartments`
Content-Type	`text/xml; charset=utf-8`
Authentication	A token from GetToken
Changes data	No
Safe to retry	Yes

How it works

Reads all departments with IsActive = 1 and returns them as one flat list. Inactive departments are NOT returned - including departments just created through CreateDepartment, which are inactive until UpdateDepartment is called. The contract has no IsActive member, so there is no way to list inactive departments here; GetDepartmentByNo does return them. Not filtered by the caller's privileges and not gated by the Departments feature.

Parameters

Each parameter has one label: Required, Conditional (required depending on other values) or Optional. Send them in the order shown.

tokenSecurityToken

Required

The token from GetToken: Initials, Expires and Hash, sent back unchanged.

Request

POST /{account}/WebServices/Organisation/V1_9/OrganisationServiceSecure.svc HTTP/1.1
Host: app{server-number}.timelog.com
Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8
SOAPAction: "http://www.timelog.com/api/tlp/v1_9/OrganisationService/GetDepartments"

<soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"
                  xmlns:org="http://www.timelog.com/api/tlp/v1_9"
                  xmlns:tok="http://www.timelog.com/api/tlp/v1_3">
  <soapenv:Body>
    <org:GetDepartments>
      <org:token>
        <tok:Initials>{Initials from GetToken}</tok:Initials>
        <tok:Expires>{Expires from GetToken, unchanged}</tok:Expires>
        <tok:Hash>{Hash from GetToken}</tok:Hash>
      </org:token>
    </org:GetDepartments>
  </soapenv:Body>
</soapenv:Envelope>

curl -X POST "https://app{server-number}.timelog.com/{account}/WebServices/Organisation/V1_9/OrganisationServiceSecure.svc" \
  -H "Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8" \
  -H 'SOAPAction: "http://www.timelog.com/api/tlp/v1_9/OrganisationService/GetDepartments"' \
  --data-binary @request.xml

import requests

URL = "https://app{server-number}.timelog.com/{account}/WebServices/Organisation/V1_9/OrganisationServiceSecure.svc"
SOAP_ACTION = '"http://www.timelog.com/api/tlp/v1_9/OrganisationService/GetDepartments"'

envelope = """<soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"
                  xmlns:org="http://www.timelog.com/api/tlp/v1_9"
                  xmlns:tok="http://www.timelog.com/api/tlp/v1_3">
  <soapenv:Body>
    <org:GetDepartments>
      <org:token>
        <tok:Initials>{Initials from GetToken}</tok:Initials>
        <tok:Expires>{Expires from GetToken, unchanged}</tok:Expires>
        <tok:Hash>{Hash from GetToken}</tok:Hash>
      </org:token>
    </org:GetDepartments>
  </soapenv:Body>
</soapenv:Envelope>"""

response = requests.post(
    URL,
    data=envelope.encode("utf-8"),
    headers={"Content-Type": "text/xml; charset=utf-8", "SOAPAction": SOAP_ACTION},
    timeout=60,
)
result = parse_result(response)  # see "Responses and errors"

Replace every {…} placeholder with your own value.

Response

The call returns the standard response envelope. Check ResponseState first: a failed call still returns HTTP 200.

ResponseStatestring

Required

Success, Invalid or Error.

ErrorCodeinteger

0 on success, otherwise the error code. See Errors.

ReturnDepartment[]

Response<Department>: Return holds every active department, flat. Success message names return type 'Department'. ResponseState Success with an empty Return when the account has no active department.

Example response

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8

<s:Envelope xmlns:s="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
  <s:Body>
    <GetDepartmentsResponse xmlns="http://www.timelog.com/api/tlp/v1_9">
      <GetDepartmentsResult xmlns:a="http://api.timelog.com"
                            xmlns:b="http://www.timelog.com/api/tlp/v1_9"
                            xmlns:i="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
        <a:Return>
          <b:Department>
            <a:Action>Original</a:Action>
            <a:IsCustomFieldsLoaded>false</a:IsCustomFieldsLoaded>
            <a:CustomFields i:nil="true"/>
            <a:IsExternalKeysLoaded>false</a:IsExternalKeysLoaded>
            <a:ExternalKeys i:nil="true"/>
            <b:ID>3f2504e0-4f89-41d3-9a0c-305000000001</b:ID>
            <b:Name>Example </b:Name>
            <b:No>1001</b:No>
            <b:ParentDepartmentGuid>3f2504e0-4f89-41d3-9a0c-305000000002</b:ParentDepartmentGuid>
            <b:DepartmentManagerGuid>3f2504e0-4f89-41d3-9a0c-305000000003</b:DepartmentManagerGuid>
            <b:DepartmentID>1001</b:DepartmentID>
          </b:Department>
        </a:Return>
        <a:ReturnTypeDescription>Department</a:ReturnTypeDescription>
        <a:Request>…</a:Request>
        <a:ResponseState>Success</a:ResponseState>
        <a:Messages>
          <a:APIMessage>
            <a:Message>Duration of call was 0,0421337 sec.</a:Message>
            <a:Severity>Message</a:Severity>
            <a:ErrorCode>0</a:ErrorCode>
          </a:APIMessage>
        </a:Messages>
        <a:ErrorCode>0</a:ErrorCode>
        <a:IsReturnPaged>false</a:IsReturnPaged>
        <a:TotalPageCount>0</a:TotalPageCount>
      </GetDepartmentsResult>
    </GetDepartmentsResponse>
  </s:Body>
</s:Envelope>

Illustrative example: built from the service description (WSDL) in the same format as a real response, with made-up values. The Request block is shortened.

Errors

All errors come back with HTTP 200: check ResponseState, ErrorCode and Messages. The errors every operation can return (expired or invalid token, API not enabled, HTTPS required, general errors) are listed once in Responses and errors.

This operation has no errors of its own beyond the shared ones.

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