Note: If you selected Ascender HCM on the Activate Setup page, the Employee Data - Extract Data from Ascender page shows.
Use this page to extract legacy data directly from an existing Ascender HCM database and migrate it directly into the Getting Started process of Activate. You can use this legacy data to build the Dayforce instance. The Dayforce instance provides all of the information that you need to complete the Getting Started wizard.
Activate validates that an Ascender tenant key has been entered for the customer and then extracts data for the following template names:
- Employee Data
- Employee Address Data
- Organizational Site Data
- Legal Entity Data
Important: This page is available only to Ascender HCM migration projects. One of the following Ascender HCM options must have been selected in Activate Central for the question Ascender Migration Type:
- Ascender HCM
- Ascender HCM + Preceda
- Ascender HCM + Ascender Pay
Before you begin
The tenant key must be provided to Activate Support before this feature is visible to Dayforce and SI users. This unique identifier enables Activate to extract data from the customer's Ascender database.
Important: The tenant key must be provided to Activate Dayforce Support for this feature to be visible to Dayforce and SI users. Only an Activate Support representative can enter the tenant key. You’ll need to create a ticket to have it entered.
Tasks
To extract data from Ascender:
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On the Employee Data - Extract Data from Ascender page, click Extract.
Activate sends the Ascender Tenant Key, which was set up when the project was set up. The Tenant Key tells Ascender which database to pull the data from. The extracted data will show in the grid on the Employee Review page in the Getting Started wizard.
Note: Because Ascender HCM is a talent information system instead of a human resources system of record, some information required by Activate for the employee record might be missing, which will result in errors.
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Click Next. The data extracted from Ascender has pre-populated following:
- Employee Review
- Site Addresses
- Legal Entities
- Employee Addresses
To not extract data from Ascender:
If you don’t want to migrate the Ascender data, click Skip to go to the Employee Data - Load page.