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If the publishDate is not set the mile stone called Publish advert will be set to next working day (Monday-Friday) counted from todays date. If the application deadline applicationDeadline is not set explicitly, it will be set set to 14 days after the publish advert date. This is the same behavior as when a new recruitment process is created in the Webcruiter UI.
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The API will use the same behavior as when creating a recruitment process in the UI without using a Process Templates. It will look upwards in the organization hierarchy and pick the pick the first default Job Analysis Template it can find, starting from the hierarchyNodeId owning the process.
The concept of Process Templates is currently not supported from in the Process API.
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