Articles
Field notes on Cornerstone data
Hard-won, practical writing on getting your HR and L&D data out of Cornerstone OnDemand – the APIs, the limits, the reporting, and everything the docs make you dig for.
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Cornerstone OnDemand · APIs
Getting data out of Cornerstone: REST, Reporting API, or Data Exporter?
Cornerstone has more ways out than almost any HR system – REST, RAPI, the Data Exporter, and Bulk. Here's the whole map, and a three-question way to pick.
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Cornerstone OnDemand · Compliance
Cornerstone compliance %: the one number every manager asks for
“How compliant is my team?” sounds like one number. In Cornerstone OnDemand it's a completion rate rolled up across a manager's whole reporting line – direct and indirect reports – and it's surprisingly hard to get. Here's why, and the two ways to actually get it.
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Cornerstone OnDemand · Data Exporter API
The Cornerstone Data Exporter API (DEAPI), and the throttle limits nobody warns you about
What the DEAPI is genuinely good for, where its rate limits bite, and how to tell whether the wall is your code or Cornerstone's servers.
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Cornerstone OnDemand · Reporting 2.0
Cornerstone Reporting 2.0: the limits nobody mentions until you hit one
The 200,000-row default, the one-million-record ceiling, the schedules that switch themselves off, and why Cornerstone itself is moving past the reporting screen.
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Cornerstone OnDemand · Dashboards & KPIs
The Cornerstone dashboards and KPIs that actually matter
The handful of HR and L&D numbers worth putting on one screen – and why Cornerstone makes assembling them current and board-ready harder than it should be.
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Cornerstone OnDemand · Portal Health Check
The Cornerstone portal health check nobody schedules (until audit season)
Module activation, dormant users, orphaned learning, config drift, access – what a real portal audit covers, and why the answers are so hard to get from inside the platform.
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