Employee Feeds can publish lifecycle events that other Applaud products use to trigger automated experiences, such as onboarding, offboarding, and manager changes.
Employee record synchronization and lifecycle events are separate. You choose which events each feed publishes.
Before you begin
- Create the Employee Feed and configure field mappings.
- Confirm that the fields required for each event you want to enable are mapped. Events are generated only when the required employee fields are available.
- Identify the workflows or experiences that should respond to the events.
Available lifecycle events
| Event | Typical use |
| New joiner | Start onboarding when a new employee is synchronized and has a start date. |
| Leaver | Begin offboarding when an end date is first set on an employee. |
| Manager change | Update reporting structures and related processes. |
| Job change | Trigger experiences related to role changes. |
| Became a manager | Start manager-specific onboarding or enablement. |
| Profile update | Respond to changes such as name, email address, or other mapped attributes. |
Configure lifecycle events
- Open the Employee Feed.
- Open the lifecycle event settings.
- Enable the events your organization needs.
- Confirm that the required fields for each enabled event are mapped.
- Save the configuration.
Note: Only enabled events with their required fields mapped can be generated.
Understand the first full synchronization
The first full synchronization of a workforce updates employee records but doesn't publish lifecycle events.
This prevents existing employees from triggering onboarding and similar workflows when a feed goes live.
Keep this behavior in mind when you:
- Bring a new feed into production.
- Expect onboarding or offboarding to start only after subsequent employee changes.
- Validate event delivery after the initial load using later synchronizations or controlled test changes.
Recommendations
- Enable only the events needed for your experiences.
- Use a separate feed for event publishing only when it requires different mappings or synchronization timing.
- Monitor event delivery after enabling events. See Monitor Employee Feed activity.
- Pause the feed when you need to stop synchronization and event processing during maintenance.