Connection Properties
The connection properties are the various options that can be used to establish a connection. This section provides a complete list of the options you can configure in the connection settings for this provider. Click the links for further details.
For more information on establishing a connection, see Getting Started.| Auth Scheme | The type of authentication to use when connecting to SAP SuccessFactors. |
| Auto Cache | Automatically caches the results of SELECT queries into a cache database specified by either CacheLocation or both of CacheConnection and CacheProvider . |
| Cache Connection | The connection string for the cache database. This property is always used in conjunction with CacheProvider . Setting both properties will override the value set for CacheLocation for caching data. |
| Cache Location | Specifies the path to the cache when caching to a file. |
| Cache Metadata | This property determines whether or not to cache the table metadata to a file store. |
| Cache Provider | The name of the provider to be used to cache data. |
| Cache Tolerance | The tolerance for stale data in the cache specified in seconds when using AutoCache . |
| Company Id | Unique identifier of your company. This is required to authenticate. |
| Default Domain | This property is used for the Oracle Database Gateway for ODBC. |
| Enable Foreign Key Detection | Whether to detect the foreign keys in ODBC. |
| Firewall Password | A password used to authenticate to a proxy-based firewall. |
| Firewall Port | The TCP port for a proxy-based firewall. |
| Firewall Server | The name or IP address of a proxy-based firewall. |
| Firewall Type | The protocol used by a proxy-based firewall. |
| Firewall User | The user name to use to authenticate with a proxy-based firewall. |
| Include Dual Table | Set this property to mock the Oracle DUAL table for better compatibility with Oracle database. |
| Include Navigation Properties | A boolean indicating if navigation properties should be included in the column listing. |
| Limit Key Size | The maximum length of a primary key column. |
| Location | A path to the directory that contains the schema files defining tables, views, and stored procedures. |
| Logfile | A filepath which designates the name and location of the log file. |
| Log Modules | Core modules to be included in the log file. |
| Map To Int | This property controls whether or not the long type maps to SQL_INTEGER instead of SQL_BIGINT. This property is false by default. |
| Map To Long Varchar | This property controls whether or not a column is returned as SQL_LONGVARCHAR. |
| Map To WVarchar | This property controls whether or not string types map to SQL_WVARCHAR instead of SQL_VARCHAR. This property is set by default. |
| Maximum Column Size | The maximum column size. |
| Max Log File Count | A string specifying the maximum file count of log files. When the limit is hit, a new log is created in the same folder with the date and time appended to the end and the oldest log file will be deleted. |
| Max Log File Size | A string specifying the maximum size in bytes for a log file (for example, 10 MB). When the limit is hit, a new log is created in the same folder with the date and time appended to the end. |
| Max Rows | Limits the number of rows returned rows when no aggregation or group by is used in the query. This helps avoid performance issues at design time. |
| OAuth Client Id | The client ID assigned when you register your application with an OAuth authorization server. |
| OAuth Client Secret | The client secret assigned when you register your application with an OAuth authorization server. |
| OAuth Grant Type | The grant type for the OAuth flow. |
| OAuth Verifier | The verifier code returned from the OAuth authorization URL. |
| Offline | Use offline mode to get the data from the cache instead of the live source. |
| Other | These hidden properties are used only in specific use cases. |
| Password | The password used to authenticate the user. |
| Proxy Auth Scheme | The authentication type to use to authenticate to the ProxyServer proxy. |
| Proxy Auto Detect | This indicates whether to use the system proxy settings or not. This takes precedence over other proxy settings, so you'll need to set ProxyAutoDetect to FALSE in order use custom proxy settings. |
| Proxy Exceptions | A semicolon separated list of destination hostnames or IPs that are exempt from connecting through the ProxyServer . |
| Proxy Password | A password to be used to authenticate to the ProxyServer proxy. |
| Proxy Port | The TCP port the ProxyServer proxy is running on. |
| Proxy Server | The hostname or IP address of a proxy to route HTTP traffic through. |
| Proxy SSL Type | The SSL type to use when connecting to the ProxyServer proxy. |
| Proxy User | A user name to be used to authenticate to the ProxyServer proxy. |
| Pseudo Columns | This property indicates whether or not to include pseudo columns as columns to the table. |
| Purge Type | PurgeType is an optional parameter that determines whether an incremental or full update will be performed on an entity. |
| Readonly | You can use this property to enforce read-only access to SAP SuccessFactors from the provider. |
| RTK | The runtime key used for licensing. |
| SSL Server Cert | The certificate to be accepted from the server when connecting using TLS/SSL. |
| Support Enhanced SQL | This property enhances SQL functionality beyond what can be supported through the API directly, by enabling in-memory client-side processing. |
| Tables | This property restricts the tables reported to a subset of the available tables. For example, Tables=TableA,TableB,TableC. |
| Timeout | The value in seconds until the timeout error is thrown, canceling the operation. |
| Upper Case Identifiers | This property reports all identifiers in uppercase. This is the default for Oracle databases and thus allows better integration with Oracle tools such as the Oracle Database Gateway. |
| URL | Set this to the URL of the server where your SuccessFactors instance is hosted. |
| Use Client Side Paging | Whether or not the CData ADO.NET Provider for SAP SuccessFactors should use client side paging. |
| Use Display Names | Boolean determining whether or not to use SAP labels. |
| User | The SAP SuccessFactors user account used to authenticate. |
| Verbosity | The verbosity level that determines the amount of detail included in the log file. |
| Views | Restricts the views reported to a subset of the available tables. For example, Views=ViewA,ViewB,ViewC. |