Create

How to post a new assignment to the Brainville Marketplace.

Note: in this document the word assignment refers to a job posting on the Brainville
Marketplace.

End point

/api/DistributionApi/Create

Request format

POST

Request content

The request body should be formatted as XML, see below.

<?xml version=""1.0"" encoding=""UTF-8""?>
<requisition>
  <assignmentstartdate></assignmentstartdate>
  <assignmentenddate></assignmentenddate>
  <competenceareaid></competenceareaid>
  <extent></extent>
  <extenttype></extenttype>
  <location></location>
  <locationcountryid></locationcountryid>
  <masterlevel></masterlevel>
  <maxrate></maxrate>
  <maxratedisplay></maxratedisplay>
  <publicationenddate></publicationenddate>
  <regionid></regionid>
  <role></role>
  <text></text>
  <title></title>
  <applicationemail></applicationemail>
</requisition>

 

Property Name Required Description 
acceptsubcontractors
 No

Boolean value (true/false)

If subcontractors are accepted when applying for this assignment

 
allowremote
 No

Boolean value (true/false) or"No", "Yes", "Partly"
If the assignment allows for remote work

 
applicationemail
 No

Tracking email from calling system

 
assignmentenddate
 No

End date for the assignment. If specified, should be formatted as YYYY-MM-DD

 
assignmentstartdate
 No

Start date for the assignment. If specified, should be formatted as YYYY-MM-DD

 
autotags
 No

Boolean value (true/false)

Tags the assignment automatically. This property is ignored if tags have been explicitly set by the request

Default value: true

 
category
 No

Assignment category. Possible values:

0 - Consultant (default)

1 - Commitment

2 - Licenses/software

3 - Hardware

 
competenceareaid
 Yes

An integer value for competence area (industry). Possible values can be found here:

https://www.brainville.com/content/xml/industries.xml

 
endclient
 No

End client status. Possible values:

0 (default) - Not set

2 - Posting company have agreement with the end client

3 - Posting company is the end client

 
endclientvat
 No

Vat ID for end client (if any). Note that Brainville will automatically try to create the end client if the VAT doesn't belong to an existing client

 
extent
 Yes

Extent in hours or percentage. Must be an integer.
Extent is the total number of hours or a percentage of a full time that the consultant is expected to work with the assignment.

 
extenttype
 Yes

Integer value:

1 - Percentage
2 - Hours
3 - Hours per week

 
externalurl
 No

URL to external site. Displayed as a link on top of an assignment in Brainville, if applicable and according to agreement. 

This parameter is deprecated.

 
locations
 No

List of locations for the assignment

Format:

<locations>
  <location>
    <city></city>
    <regionid><regionid>
    <countryid></countryid>
  <location>
</locations>

Possible values for countryid and regionid can be found here: https://www.brainville.com/content/xml/countries.xml

 
location
 Yes

Geographic location, i.e. city name

 

NOTE: Deprecated. Please use the locations property instead

 
locationcountryid
 Yes

Country id. Possible values can be found here:

https://www.brainville.com/content/xml/countries.xml

NOTE: Deprecated. Please use the locations property instead

 
masterlevel
 Yes

Skill/Experience level. Possible values are

Low
Medium
High
Advanced
Expert

 
maxrate
 No

Rate, if specified must be a numeric value. Decimal values are allowed.

 
maxratedisplay
 No

How maxrate should be displayed. Possible values:

1 - Mandatory

2 (default) - Informative

4 - Negotiable (rate is not shown)

 
nodelay
 No

Boolean value (true/false)
Publishes the assignment directly to non-premium users of Brainville (without the normal delay of 48 hours). Note that in most cases the publishing company will be charged for each assignment published with NoDelay.

 
optiondate
 No

If there's an option to extend, specifies the end date of the potential extension. If assignmentenddate is specified, optiondate must be greater than that value.

 
publicationenddate
 Yes

End date for assignment publication. Must be a date on the format YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss or YYYY-MM-DD.
Note: The date has to be in the future!

 
referencenumber
 No

Internal reference number used by posting company

 
regionid
 No

Region ID. Possible values can be found here:
https://www.brainville.com/content/xml/countries.xml
Note that regions belong to countries. Which regions belong to which countries can be found in the above xml.

NOTE: Deprecated. Please use the locations property instead

 
requestor
 No

Id-number för the Co-worker that will be shown as Contact for the assignment. This Id can be found as the last numeric part of the URL when clicking on a Co-worker in Brainville. If not specified, the user identified by the authkey will be set as requestor.

 
role
 Yes

Consultant role for the assignment. Must be a text containing max 100 characters.

 
tags
 No

List of tags for the assignment. Format:

<tags>
  <tag>Java</tag>
  <tag>JBoss</tag>
</tags>
 
text
 Yes

Description of assignment. Must be a text containing max 10 000 characters. HTML-formatting can be used, but is limited to the following tags:

br i b li ul

Observe that if you send HTML-tags as part of the text, these have 
to be XML-encoded, or sent as part of a CDATA-element.
 
title
 Yes

Title of the assignment. Must be a text containing max 100 characters.

Response Messages

The Brainville API will respond to the HTTP POST in the following manner:

Success

If the post was successful, the response will be the URL to the posted assignment. For example: https://www.brainville.com/Market/RequisitionSearchResult/Details/6020

 

Failure

Bad XML – If the XML is malformed, a HTTP Status 400 (Bad Request) will be returned.

Missing/incorrect data – If the XML is correct, but the data inside it is wrong (for example, a required value is missing, out of range or of the wrong type), a message with HTTP Status 200 (OK) will be returned. The message will begin with “ERROR:”, then followed by a text describing the specific error.