Hello,
I am creating a time tracking app. The times are going to be updated only by the team manager, so I am trying to create a set of records each week, so every week the team manager will create a new time sheet for the week that will be a cartesian between the dates and his team members automatically.
So far I can create the records for only 1 employee using the API, but I can’t figure it out how to call the API looping the employee table.
These are my tables:
And the JSON that I am using is :
{
"Action": "Add",
"Properties": {
"Locale": "en-US",
"Location": "47.623098, -122.330184",
"Timezone": "Pacific Standard Time"
},
"Rows": [
<<START:SELECT (lkp_dates[date], AND( [date] >= [_THISROW-1].[start_date] , [date] <= [_THISROW-1].[end_date]) ),
SELECT (employee[employee_id], true) >>
{
"id":"<<UNIQUEID()>>",
"employee_id":"<<employee[employee_id]>>",
"date":"<<[date]>>",
"paid_by":"<<[_THISROW-1].[pay_period_id]>>"
}
<<END>>
]
}
how can I make this call using all the employees?
Thanks in advance for your help 
If you are OK NOT to use API, you can implement this (or something similar) by modifying this technique.
https://www.googlecloudcommunity.com/gc/Tips-Tricks/FAQ-add-row-per-value-in-EnumList/m-p/357133
Basic idea is
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You set up a control table like
[manager]: key, to reserve one rec per manager
[pay_period] :ref
[dates]: vc to populate a list of dates related to the [pay_period] selected
[index]: number
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Let the manager choose a pay_period
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“Action 3: Add Row For This Enum” in the FAQ needs to be modified
3-1. Create on the table employees an action to “add a new row to another table (time_card) using values from this row”
Use values both from Employees and the Control table (using LOOKUP())
3-2. Call the action created in 3-1 for each of the [dates] (should be seven days or whatever you define in each pay_period) by an action of type “Data: execute an actionon a set of rows”
For a record of this table: control,
Referenced Table: employess
Referenced Action: 3-1
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Repeat
I have added a step to initialize the index. This can be done manually in step 2)
This is a demo app I created. See timesheet_2. (https://www.appsheet.com/portfolio/3401559)
Note. I have used security filter to control the control table which forces user login.
Copy the app and play with it if you like.
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