--- title: "Connect Personio and VideoDB - APIANT.ai" description: "When \"Employee Updated\" fires in Personio, your agent runs \"Add Collection\" in VideoDB." canonical: "https://apiant.ai/connect/personio-to-videodb" --- # Connect Personio and VideoDB When **Employee Updated** fires in [Personio](https://apiant.ai/connections/personio), your agent runs **Add Collection** in [VideoDB](https://apiant.ai/connections/videodb), or **New Video Uploaded & Indexed** in VideoDB to **Add project** in Personio. Describe the whole flow and it is built, tested on every scenario and kept running. Personio **7** triggers Personio **20** actions VideoDB **1** trigger VideoDB **21** actions What the catalog holds today. Ask for anything missing and your agent reads the API documentation and adds it. ## What do you want Personio and VideoDB to do together? 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[Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp) Example flows ## What Personio and VideoDB can do together ### From Personio to VideoDB - When **Employee Updated** in Personio then **Add Collection** in VideoDB - When **Employment Updated** in Personio then **Add Overlay / Watermark** in VideoDB ### From VideoDB to Personio - When **New Video Uploaded & Indexed** in VideoDB then **Add project** in Personio - When **New Video Uploaded & Indexed** in VideoDB then **Create Absence** in Personio Starting points drawn from the triggers and actions in the catalog today. Describe the flow you need, at any depth, and your agent builds it and tests every scenario before it ships. Everything your agent can do with Personio and VideoDB ## Triggers and actions 8 triggers · 41 actions - Trigger **Employee Updated** Triggers when an employee is updated. - Trigger **Employment Updated** Triggers when one or more Employment details of a Person are updated - Trigger **New Absence** Triggers when a new absence is created. - Trigger **New Candidate** Fires when a new recruiting candidate is added in Personio. - Trigger **New Employee** Triggers when a new employee is created. - Trigger **New Employment Created** Triggers when one or more Employment details of a Person are created - Trigger **New Open Position** Triggers when a new open position is created. - Action **Add project** /v2/projects - create a project. - Action **Create Absence** Creates a new absence. - Action **Create Attendance** Creates a new attendance. - Action **Create Employee** Creates a new employee. - Action **Delete absence** /v2/absence-periods/{id} - delete an absence period. - Action **Delete attendance** /v2/attendance-periods/{id} - delete an attendance period. - Action **Delete person** /v2/persons/{id} - delete a person. - Action **Find Absence** Finds an absence by employee ID. - Action **Find Employee** Finds a employee based on email. - Action **Find Person** Finds a person by their Personio ID, name, last name and email, optionally including their absence information. - Action **Get Employment** Retrieves one employment of a person by id: position, status, type, working hours, org units, cost centers, supervisor, office, legal entity, dates. - Action **List absence types** /v2/absence-types - list absence types. - Action **List Compensations** Lists compensations filtered by person.id and a start_date/end_date window; returns id, amount, interval, type, effective_from per record. - Action **List legal entities** /v2/legal-entities - list legal entities. - Action **List org units** /v2/org-units - list org units. - Action **List projects** /v2/projects - list projects. - Action **Update absence** /v2/absence-periods/{id} - update an absence period. - Action **Update Attendance** Updates an existing attendance. - Action **Update Employee** Updates an existing employee. - Action **Update Employment** updates an employment (position, department, office, weekly hours, status, etc.); requires personio:persons:write. Fires the employment.updated webhook. - Trigger **New Video Uploaded & Indexed** Triggered when a new video is uploaded to a VideoDB collection. - Action **Add Collection** Creates a new VideoDB collection to organize videos and scope search. - Action **Add Overlay / Watermark** Places an image (logo or watermark) over a VideoDB video at a chosen time and position, and returns a stream URL for the result. - Action **Ask Video (Q&A)** Get the Q&A for a video. - Action **Auto-Chapter Video** Splits a video into scenes (chapters) using shot detection or fixed time segments. The job runs in the background; the result is available at the returned output URL. - Action **Auto-Dub Video** Starts an AI dubbing job that replaces a video's soundtrack with a version in another language, preserving the speaker's voice characteristics. - Action **Check Job Status** Checks the progress of a long-running VideoDB job (dubbing, generation, transcoding, indexing) and returns its status and, once finished, its result. - Action **Create Highlight Clip** Starts an AI clip-generation job on an indexed video from a natural-language prompt describing the moments to include. - Action **Delete Video** Permanently delete a video and all its metadata, transcripts and indexes from VideoDB. - Action **Find Video Moment** Searches one indexed video for the moments matching a spoken-word or visual query, returning each match's start and end time, text and score. - Action **Generate Image** Generates an image from a text prompt using VideoDB's AI generation. Generation runs asynchronously; the result returns a job id and an address to check for the finished image. - Action **Generate Subtitles** Generates subtitles for a video using VideoDB service. - Action **Generate Video** Starts an AI video generation job from a text prompt and saves the result to a collection. - Action **Generate Voice-Over** Converts text into AI-generated speech (a voice-over audio asset) in a VideoDB collection. Generation runs as a job; check its result with Check Job Status or a callback URL. - Action **Get Collection** Retrieve the details of one VideoDB collection by its id. - Action **Get Meeting Assets** Get a meeting recording's status and recorded video URL. - Action **Get Transcript** Get the transcript of a video. - Action **Get Video Metadata** Get metadata for a video. - Action **List Collections** Retrieve all collections in your VideoDB account, including the default collection. - Action **List Videos** Lists the videos in a VideoDB collection. - Action **Summarize Video** Asks VideoDB's AI to summarize a video using your own instructions. Summarization usually runs as a background job: use Check Job Status with the returned job id to fetch the finished summary. - Action **Upload & Index Video** Uploads a video from a URL into a VideoDB collection, waits for the upload to finish, then starts indexing it (spoken words by default) and returns the indexing job. ## Each app on its own - [ **Personio** Personio is a holistic HR software for companies from 10 - 2000 employees.](https://apiant.ai/connections/personio) - [ **VideoDB** VideoDB is an AI engine for video workflows—search scenes, cut clips, dub, subtitles, and apply GenAI effects.](https://apiant.ai/connections/videodb) Reviews ## What our customers say ## More from Personio - [ **Personio to Google Chat** Google Chat is a communication software developed by Google built for teams that provides direct messages...](https://apiant.ai/connect/personio-to-google-chat) - [ **Personio to Salesforce** Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/personio-to-salesforce) - [ **Personio to Slack** Slack is a messaging platform for teams. Post messages, manage channels, users, reminders, and react to...](https://apiant.ai/connect/personio-to-slack) - [ **Personio to Stripe** Stripe is a payment processing platform for online businesses.](https://apiant.ai/connect/personio-to-stripe) - [ **Personio to Shopify** Shopify is a commerce platform for online stores and retail point-of-sale.](https://apiant.ai/connect/personio-to-shopify) - [ **Personio to QuickBooks Online** QuickBooks Online accounting — manage customers, invoices, bills, payments, vendors, expenses, and more via...](https://apiant.ai/connect/personio-to-quickbooks-online) ## More into VideoDB - [ **HubSpot to VideoDB** HubSpot is your all-in-one stop for all of your marketing software needs.](https://apiant.ai/connect/hubspot-to-videodb) - [ **Salesforce to VideoDB** Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/salesforce-to-videodb) - [ **Slack to VideoDB** Slack is a messaging platform for teams. Post messages, manage channels, users, reminders, and react to...](https://apiant.ai/connect/slack-to-videodb) - [ **Google Sheets to VideoDB** Google Sheets is Google's online spreadsheet app for creating, editing and sharing spreadsheets.](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-sheets-to-videodb) - [ **Gmail to VideoDB** Gmail is Google’s email service, featuring spam protection, search functions, and seamless integration with...](https://apiant.ai/connect/gmail-to-videodb) - [ **Google Calendar to VideoDB** Google Calendar is a time management tool providing scheduling features, event reminders, and integration...](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-calendar-to-videodb) Questions ## Personio and VideoDB, answered ### ### What can start an automation from Personio? Any of Personio's 7 triggers in the catalog, including Employee Updated, Employment Updated, New Absence and New Candidate. Describe the moment in plain language and your agent picks the right one. ### ### What can your agent do in VideoDB when something happens in Personio? Any of VideoDB's 21 actions, including Create Highlight Clip, Upload & Index Video, Add Collection and Add Overlay / Watermark. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Can it also run from VideoDB to Personio? Yes. When something happens in VideoDB, your agent can act in Personio too. This page covers both directions: VideoDB's triggers and Personio's actions are listed here as well. ### ### Do I have to build a connector for Personio or VideoDB? No. Both are in the catalog with their triggers and actions. You describe the automation; your agent builds it, tests every scenario and keeps it running. ### ### Can my AI client use Personio and VideoDB without building an automation? Yes. With your AI client connected to APIANT, ask it to do something in either app once and it runs that action on the spot. Ask for an automation and your agent builds it, tests every scenario and keeps it running. One connection covers both. ### ### What happens when something fails? Your agent works that out for you. It plans the failure paths along with the happy path, then tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Is there a free plan? Yes. Every plan includes the agent, including free, and building from your own AI client spends no assistant credits.