Establishing a Connection
Enabling SSIS in Visual Studio 2022
If you're using Visual Studio 2022, you will need to install the SQL Server Integration Services Projects extension to use SSIS.
- Navigate to Extensions > Manage Extensions.
- In the Manage Extensions window's search box, search for "SQL Server Integration Services Projects 2022" and select the extension in the list.
- Click Download.
- Close Visual Studio and run the downloaded Microsoft.DataTools.IntegrationServices.exe installer. Proceed through the installer with default settings.
- Open Visual Studio. There should now be an "Integration Services Project" project template available.
Adding the Kintone Connection Manager
Create a new connection manager as follows:
- Create a Visual Studio project with the "Integration Services Project" template.
- In the project, right-click within the Connection Managers window and select New Connection from the menu.
- In the Description column, select CData Kintone Connection Manager and click Add...
- Configure the component as described in the next section.
Alternatively, if you have an existing project and CData Kintone Source or CData Kintone Destination:
- Right-click your CData Kintone source or destination component in your data flow
- Select Edit... to open an editor window.
- Click the New... button next to the Connection manager: dropdown selector to create a connection manager.
- Configure the component as described in the next section.
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. You can also specify multiple comma-seperated APITokens.
- AppId: The Application Ids.
The AppId is the number of that specific app in the sequence under Apps in Kintone UI dashboard. You can also specify multiple comma-seperated AppIds.
- 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.