Create a connection to Kintone by navigating to the Connections page in the Sync App application and selecting the corresponding icon in the Add Connections panel. If the Kintone icon is not available, click the Add More icon to download and install the Kintone connector from the CData site.

Required properties are listed under the Settings tab. The Advanced tab lists connection properties that are not typically required.

Connecting to Kintone

In addition to the authentication values, set the following parameters to connect to and retrieve data from Kintone:

• Url: The URL of your account.
• GuestSpaceId: Optional. Set this when using a guest space.

Authenticating to Kintone

Kintone supports the following authentication methods.

Password Authentication

You must set the following to authenticate to Kintone:

• User: The username of your account.
• Password: The password of your account.
• AuthScheme: Set AuthScheme to Password.

API Token

You must set the following to authenticate to Kintone:

• APIToken: The API Token.

  To generate an API token access the specific app and click on the cog wheel. Proceed to App Settings tab > API Token. Click on the Generate button, an API token will be generated.

• AppId: The Application Ids.

  The AppId is the number of that specific app in the sequence under Apps in Kintone UI dashboard.

• AuthScheme: Set AuthScheme to APIToken.

Additional Security

In addition to the mentioned authentication schemese, Kintone offers additional security in the form of both an additional Basic Auth header, and an SSL Certificate.

Using Client SSL

In addition to your authentication information, Kintone may be configured to require an SSL certificate to accept requests. To do so, set the following:

• SSLClientCert: The file containing the certificate of the SSL Cert. Or alternatively, the name of the certificate store for the client certificate.
• SSLClientCertType: The type of certificate.
• SSLClientCertSubject: (Optional) If searching for a certificate in the certificate store, the store is searched for subjects containing the value of the property.
• SSLClientCertPassword: If the certificate store is of a type that requires a password, this property is used to specify that password to open the certificate store.

Basic

Kintone environments using basic authentication will need to pass additional basic credentials. To do so, specify the following:

• BasicAuthUser: The basic login name.
• BasicAuthPassword: The basic password.

This section details a selection of advanced features of the Kintone Sync App.

User Defined Views

The Sync App allows you to define virtual tables, called user defined views, whose contents are decided by a pre-configured query. These views are useful when you cannot directly control queries being issued to the drivers. See User Defined Views for an overview of creating and configuring custom views.

Firewall and Proxy

Configure the Sync App for compliance with Firewall and Proxy, including Windows proxies and HTTP proxies. You can also set up tunnel connections.

Query Processing

The Sync App offloads as much of the SELECT statement processing as possible to Kintone and then processes the rest of the query in memory (client-side).

See Query Processing for more information.

Logging

See Logging for an overview of configuration settings that can be used to refine CData logging. For basic logging, you only need to set two connection properties, but there are numerous features that support more refined logging, where you can select subsets of information to be logged using the LogModules connection property.

Connecting Through a Firewall or Proxy

HTTP Proxies

To connect through the Windows system proxy, you do not need to set any additional connection properties. To connect to other proxies, set ProxyAutoDetect to false.

In addition, to authenticate to an HTTP proxy, set ProxyAuthScheme, ProxyUser, and ProxyPassword, in addition to ProxyServer and ProxyPort.

Other Proxies

Set the following properties:

• To use a proxy-based firewall, set FirewallType, FirewallServer, and FirewallPort.
• To tunnel the connection, set FirewallType to TUNNEL.
• To authenticate, specify FirewallUser and FirewallPassword.
• To authenticate to a SOCKS proxy, additionally set FirewallType to SOCKS5.

The Sync App models the Kintone API as relational Tables, Views, and Stored Procedures.

Tables

Using the Sync App, you can work with all the tables in your account. The table schemas can be static or dynamic. The Comments table has a static schema with fixed columns, while other tables are dynamic, reflecting changes in the metadata -- when you connect, the Sync App retrieves table metadata from Kintone to generate the table schemas.

Static schemas are defined in schema files, which makes them easy to extend. Edit the schema file to customize the column behavior of the static Comments table, to change the data type for example. The schema files are located in the db subfolder of the Sync App installation folder.

Sub-Tables

In some Kintone apps, the user can add custom fields containing many records. The Sync App models these fields as dynamic subtables reflecting your changes.

Stored Procedures

Stored Procedures are function-like interfaces to Kintone. They can be used to search, update, and modify information in Kintone. For example, use stored procedures to execute operations on apps or work with files.

Views

The Sync App models apps in the static Apps view.

The Sync App models the data in Kintone into a list of tables that can be queried using standard SQL statements.

Generally, querying Kintone tables is the same as querying a table in a relational database. Sometimes there are special cases, for example, including a certain column in the WHERE clause might be required to get data for certain columns in the table. This is typically needed for situations where a separate request must be made for each row to get certain columns. These types of situations are clearly documented at the top of the table page linked below.

Kintone Connector for CData Sync Tables

Query the available comments in kintone.

Select

The RecordId and AppId columns are required in the WHERE clause. The Sync App will use the Kintone APIs to filter the results by these columns. The Kintone APIs also support filters on Id. By default, the Sync App will process other filters client-side within the Sync App. If SupportEnhancedSQL is set to false, an error will be returned for filters on other columns.

For example, the following queries are processed server side:

SELECT * FROM Comments WHERE RecordId=1 AND AppId=5 AND Id=1

Insert

The AppId and RecordId columns are required in the INSERT statement.

INSERT INTO Comments (AppId,RecordId,Text,MentionsAggregate) VALUES (5,1,'To do','[{"code": "Administrator","type": "USER"}]')

Delete

Comments can be deleted by issuing a DELETE statement and specifying the RecordId, AppId, and Id.

DELETE FROM Comments WHERE RecordId=1 AND AppId=5 AND Id=1

Columns

Views are composed of columns and pseudo columns. Views are similar to tables in the way that data is represented; however, views do not support updates. Entities that are represented as views are typically read-only entities. Often, a stored procedure is available to update the data if such functionality is applicable to the data source.

Queries can be executed against a view as if it were a normal table, and the data that comes back is similar in that regard.

Dynamic views, such as queries exposed as views, and views for looking up specific combinations of project_team work items are supported.

Kintone Connector for CData Sync Views

Query the available apps in kintone.

Select

By default, the Sync App will use the Kintone APIs to process search criteria that refer to the following columns and will process other filters client-side within the Sync App: the Kintone API supports searches on the AppId, Code, and SpaceId columns. These columns support server-side processing for the = and IN operators while the Name column supports only the LIKE operator. For example, the following query is processed server side:

SELECT * FROM Apps WHERE AppId IN (20,21,51,56) AND Name LIKE '%To Do%'

If SupportEnhancedSQL is set to false, an error will be returned for filters on other columns.

Columns

The connection string 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 string for this provider. Click the links for further details.

Authentication

SSL

Firewall

Proxy

Logging

Schema

Miscellaneous

This section provides a complete list of the Authentication properties you can configure in the connection string for this provider.

Whether to connect to Kintone with User/Password or APIToken.

Remarks

• Password: Set this to perform Password authentication.
• APIToken: Set this to perform APIToken authentication.

The Kintone URL. For example: https://SUBDOMAIN_NAME.cybozu.com .

Remarks

The Kintone URL. For example:

https://SUBDOMAIN_NAME.cybozu.com

The Kintone user account used to authenticate.

Remarks

Together with Password, this field is used to authenticate against the Kintone server.

The password used to authenticate the user.

Remarks

The User and Password are together used to authenticate with the server.

The additional username required for domains using basic authentication.

Remarks

The basic authentication username, used to connect to basic-authentication-enabled domains. Basic authentication provides a double authentication: if you are connecting to a domain using basic authentication, set BasicAuthUser and BasicAuthPassword in addition to User and Password.

The additional password required for domains using basic authentication.

Remarks

The basic authentication password, used to connect to basic-authentication-enabled domains. Basic authentication provides a double authentication: if you are connecting to a domain using basic authentication, set BasicAuthUser and BasicAuthPassword in addition to User and Password.

The AppId used along with the APIToken for authentication.

Remarks

The AppId is the number of that specific app in the sequence under Apps in Kintone UI dashboard.

The APIToken used for authentication.

Remarks

The APIToken used for authentication.To create an API token. Access the specific app to create the API tokens for and click on the cog wheel. Proceed to App Settings tab > API Token > click on the Generate button, an API token will be generated.

This section provides a complete list of the SSL properties you can configure in the connection string for this provider.

The TLS/SSL client certificate store for SSL Client Authentication (2-way SSL).

Remarks

The name of the certificate store for the client certificate.

The SSLClientCertType field specifies the type of the certificate store specified by SSLClientCert. If the store is password protected, specify the password in SSLClientCertPassword.

SSLClientCert is used in conjunction with the SSLClientCertSubject field in order to specify client certificates. If SSLClientCert has a value, and SSLClientCertSubject is set, a search for a certificate is initiated. See SSLClientCertSubject for more information.

Designations of certificate stores are platform-dependent.

The following are designations of the most common User and Machine certificate stores in Windows:

In Java, the certificate store normally is a file containing certificates and optional private keys.

When the certificate store type is PFXFile, this property must be set to the name of the file. When the type is PFXBlob, the property must be set to the binary contents of a PFX file (for example, PKCS12 certificate store).

The type of key store containing the TLS/SSL client certificate.

Remarks

This property can take one of the following values:

The password for the TLS/SSL client certificate.

Remarks

If the certificate store is of a type that requires a password, this property is used to specify that password to open the certificate store.

The subject of the TLS/SSL client certificate.

Remarks

When loading a certificate the subject is used to locate the certificate in the store.

If an exact match is not found, the store is searched for subjects containing the value of the property. If a match is still not found, the property is set to an empty string, and no certificate is selected.

The special value "*" picks the first certificate in the certificate store.

The certificate subject is a comma separated list of distinguished name fields and values. For example, "CN=www.server.com, OU=test, C=US, [email protected]". The common fields and their meanings are shown below.

If a field value contains a comma, it must be quoted.

This section provides a complete list of the Firewall properties you can configure in the connection string for this provider.

The protocol used by a proxy-based firewall.

Remarks

This property specifies the protocol that the Sync App will use to tunnel traffic through the FirewallServer proxy. Note that by default, the Sync App connects to the system proxy; to disable this behavior and connect to one of the following proxy types, set ProxyAutoDetect to false.

To connect to HTTP proxies, use ProxyServer and ProxyPort. To authenticate to HTTP proxies, use ProxyAuthScheme, ProxyUser, and ProxyPassword.

The name or IP address of a proxy-based firewall.

Remarks

This property specifies the IP address, DNS name, or host name of a proxy allowing traversal of a firewall. The protocol is specified by FirewallType: Use FirewallServer with this property to connect through SOCKS or do tunneling. Use ProxyServer to connect to an HTTP proxy.

Note that the Sync App uses the system proxy by default. To use a different proxy, set ProxyAutoDetect to false.

The TCP port for a proxy-based firewall.

Remarks

This specifies the TCP port for a proxy allowing traversal of a firewall. Use FirewallServer to specify the name or IP address. Specify the protocol with FirewallType.

The user name to use to authenticate with a proxy-based firewall.

Remarks

The FirewallUser and FirewallPassword properties are used to authenticate against the proxy specified in FirewallServer and FirewallPort, following the authentication method specified in FirewallType.

A password used to authenticate to a proxy-based firewall.

Remarks

This property is passed to the proxy specified by FirewallServer and FirewallPort, following the authentication method specified by FirewallType.

This section provides a complete list of the Proxy properties you can configure in the connection string for this provider.

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.

Remarks

This takes precedence over other proxy settings, so you'll need to set ProxyAutoDetect to FALSE in order use custom proxy settings.

To connect to an HTTP proxy, see ProxyServer. For other proxies, such as SOCKS or tunneling, see FirewallType.

The hostname or IP address of a proxy to route HTTP traffic through.

Remarks

The hostname or IP address of a proxy to route HTTP traffic through. The Sync App can use the HTTP, Windows (NTLM), or Kerberos authentication types to authenticate to an HTTP proxy.

If you need to connect through a SOCKS proxy or tunnel the connection, see FirewallType.

By default, the Sync App uses the system proxy. If you need to use another proxy, set ProxyAutoDetect to false.

The TCP port the ProxyServer proxy is running on.

Remarks

The port the HTTP proxy is running on that you want to redirect HTTP traffic through. Specify the HTTP proxy in ProxyServer. For other proxy types, see FirewallType.

The authentication type to use to authenticate to the ProxyServer proxy.

Remarks

This value specifies the authentication type to use to authenticate to the HTTP proxy specified by ProxyServer and ProxyPort.

Note that the Sync App will use the system proxy settings by default, without further configuration needed; if you want to connect to another proxy, you will need to set ProxyAutoDetect to false, in addition to ProxyServer and ProxyPort. To authenticate, set ProxyAuthScheme and set ProxyUser and ProxyPassword, if needed.

The authentication type can be one of the following:

• BASIC: The Sync App performs HTTP BASIC authentication.
• DIGEST: The Sync App performs HTTP DIGEST authentication.
• NEGOTIATE: The Sync App retrieves an NTLM or Kerberos token based on the applicable protocol for authentication.
• PROPRIETARY: The Sync App does not generate an NTLM or Kerberos token. You must supply this token in the Authorization header of the HTTP request.

If you need to use another authentication type, such as SOCKS 5 authentication, see FirewallType.

A user name to be used to authenticate to the ProxyServer proxy.

Remarks

The ProxyUser and ProxyPassword options are used to connect and authenticate against the HTTP proxy specified in ProxyServer.

You can select one of the available authentication types in ProxyAuthScheme. If you are using HTTP authentication, set this to the user name of a user recognized by the HTTP proxy. If you are using Windows or Kerberos authentication, set this property to a user name in one of the following formats:

user@domain
domain\user

A password to be used to authenticate to the ProxyServer proxy.

Remarks

This property is used to authenticate to an HTTP proxy server that supports NTLM (Windows), Kerberos, or HTTP authentication. To specify the HTTP proxy, you can set ProxyServer and ProxyPort. To specify the authentication type, set ProxyAuthScheme.

If you are using HTTP authentication, additionally set ProxyUser and ProxyPassword to HTTP proxy.

If you are using NTLM authentication, set ProxyUser and ProxyPassword to your Windows password. You may also need these to complete Kerberos authentication.

For SOCKS 5 authentication or tunneling, see FirewallType.

By default, the Sync App uses the system proxy. If you want to connect to another proxy, set ProxyAutoDetect to false.

The SSL type to use when connecting to the ProxyServer proxy.

Remarks

This property determines when to use SSL for the connection to an HTTP proxy specified by ProxyServer. This value can be AUTO, ALWAYS, NEVER, or TUNNEL. The applicable values are the following:

A semicolon separated list of destination hostnames or IPs that are exempt from connecting through the ProxyServer .

Remarks

The ProxyServer is used for all addresses, except for addresses defined in this property. Use semicolons to separate entries.

Note that the Sync App uses the system proxy settings by default, without further configuration needed; if you want to explicitly configure proxy exceptions for this connection, you need to set ProxyAutoDetect = false, and configure ProxyServer and ProxyPort. To authenticate, set ProxyAuthScheme and set ProxyUser and ProxyPassword, if needed.

This section provides a complete list of the Logging properties you can configure in the connection string for this provider.

Core modules to be included in the log file.

Remarks

Only the modules specified (separated by ';') will be included in the log file. By default all modules are included.

See the Logging page for an overview.

This section provides a complete list of the Schema properties you can configure in the connection string for this provider.

A path to the directory that contains the schema files defining tables, views, and stored procedures.

Remarks

The path to a directory which contains the schema files for the Sync App (.rsd files for tables and views, .rsb files for stored procedures). The folder location can be a relative path from the location of the executable. The Location property is only needed if you want to customize definitions (for example, change a column name, ignore a column, and so on) or extend the data model with new tables, views, or stored procedures.

If left unspecified, the default location is "%APPDATA%\\CData\\Kintone Data Provider\\Schema" with %APPDATA% being set to the user's configuration directory:

This property restricts the schemas reported to a subset of the available schemas. For example, BrowsableSchemas=SchemaA,SchemaB,SchemaC.

Remarks

Listing the schemas from databases can be expensive. Providing a list of schemas in the connection string improves the performance.

This property restricts the tables reported to a subset of the available tables. For example, Tables=TableA,TableB,TableC.

Remarks

Listing the tables from some databases can be expensive. Providing a list of tables in the connection string improves the performance of the Sync App.

This property can also be used as an alternative to automatically listing views if you already know which ones you want to work with and there would otherwise be too many to work with.

Specify the tables you want in a comma-separated list. Each table should be a valid SQL identifier with any special characters escaped using square brackets, double-quotes or backticks. For example, Tables=TableA,[TableB/WithSlash],WithCatalog.WithSchema.`TableC With Space`.

Note that when connecting to a data source with multiple schemas or catalogs, you will need to provide the fully qualified name of the table in this property, as in the last example here, to avoid ambiguity between tables that exist in multiple catalogs or schemas.

Restricts the views reported to a subset of the available tables. For example, Views=ViewA,ViewB,ViewC.

Remarks

Listing the views from some databases can be expensive. Providing a list of views in the connection string improves the performance of the Sync App.

This property can also be used as an alternative to automatically listing views if you already know which ones you want to work with and there would otherwise be too many to work with.

Specify the views you want in a comma-separated list. Each view should be a valid SQL identifier with any special characters escaped using square brackets, double-quotes or backticks. For example, Views=ViewA,[ViewB/WithSlash],WithCatalog.WithSchema.`ViewC With Space`.

Note that when connecting to a data source with multiple schemas or catalogs, you will need to provide the fully qualified name of the table in this property, as in the last example here, to avoid ambiguity between tables that exist in multiple catalogs or schemas.

This section provides a complete list of the Miscellaneous properties you can configure in the connection string for this provider.

Determines whether or not to allow special characters. If true special characters will not be replaced.

Remarks

Determines whether or not to allow special characters. If true special characters will not be replaced.

A comma-separated list of Kintone apps to retrieve subtables from.

Remarks

Set this field to * to check for subtables in all Kintone apps. Set this field to 'None' to not search for any subtables. Kintone subtables are exposed as separate tables and retrieving the list of all subtables from the API is a time-consuming operation. By specifying only some app names in this field, the performance of the Sync App increases. You can also set this field to * to check for subtables in all Kintone apps, but note that if there is a large number of apps, listing the tables will take much longer.

Restrict query results to a guest space.

Remarks

This connection property restricts query results to the specified guest space.

You can find the GuestSpaceId from the Sync App in the SpaceId column of the Apps table. Or, obtain the GuestSpaceId from the URL when you navigate to the created space. For example, in the following URL, the GuestSpaceId would be "3":

https://xlqc1.cybozu.com/k/guest/3/#/space/3/thread/3

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.

Remarks

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.

Determines whether or not to change the datatype of number fields from decimal to double.

Remarks

Determines whether or not to change the datatype of number fields from decimal to double. If true the datatype will be changed from decimal to double.

These hidden properties are used only in specific use cases.

Remarks

The properties listed below are available for specific use cases. Normal driver use cases and functionality should not require these properties.

Specify multiple properties in a semicolon-separated list.

Integration and Formatting

The maximum number of results to return per page from Kintone.

Remarks

The Pagesize property affects the maximum number of results to return per page from Kintone. Setting a higher value may result in better performance at the cost of additional memory allocated per page consumed.

The character used for dividing tables from subtables in the format tablename + char + subtable.

Remarks

If an app has a subtable, it is represented as a separate table. Its name will be the AppName + SubtableSeparatorCharacter + SubtableName. Use this property to set a custom character as the separator and easily identify subtables from apps. This property allows you to set different special characters in the subtable's name without breaking your app's naming conventions.

The value in seconds until the timeout error is thrown, canceling the operation.

Remarks

If Timeout = 0, operations do not time out. The operations run until they complete successfully or until they encounter an error condition.

If Timeout expires and the operation is not yet complete, the Sync App throws an exception.

Determines whether to use Label or Code for Field Name.

Remarks

If true, Code is used for Field Name.

Boolean determining if cursors should be used to retrieve records.

Remarks

Boolean determining if cursors should be used to retrieve records.

A filepath pointing to the JSON configuration file containing your custom views.

Remarks

User Defined Views are defined in a JSON-formatted configuration file called UserDefinedViews.json. The Sync App automatically detects the views specified in this file.

You can also have multiple view definitions and control them using the UserDefinedViews connection property. When you use this property, only the specified views are seen by the Sync App.

This User Defined View configuration file is formatted as follows:

• Each root element defines the name of a view.
• Each root element contains a child element, called query, which contains the custom SQL query for the view.

For example:

{
	"MyView": {
		"query": "SELECT * FROM Comments WHERE MyColumn = 'value'"
	},
	"MyView2": {
		"query": "SELECT * FROM MyTable WHERE Id IN (1,2,3)"
	}
}

"UserDefinedViews", "C:\\Users\\yourusername\\Desktop\\tmp\\UserDefinedViews.json"

Boolean determining if simple names should be used for tables and columns.

Remarks

Kintone tables and columns can use special characters in names that are normally not allowed in standard databases. UseSimpleNames makes the Sync App easier to use with traditional database tools.

Setting UseSimpleNames to true will simplify the names of tables and columns returned. It will enforce a naming scheme such that only alphanumeric characters and the underscore are valid for the displayed table and column names. Any nonalphanumeric characters will be converted to an underscore.

Determines whether to display unit with Field Name.

Remarks

If set to false, Unit will not be displayed with Field Name.