Configure a Connection Profile

From the CData ribbon, click Get Data and select From API connection/s to launch the CData Query window. To setup a new connection, you will have to click the New API Connection button. Here you can set the connection settings, test the connection, and save the connection profile.

The CData Excel Add-In for API can be used to connect to a variety of data sources from within your application.

Connecting to Profiles

The add-in can be used to connect to a variety of data sources, called Profiles, from within your application. An API profile is a collection of schemas modeling data from an application or online service as tables, views or stored procedures. API Profile files have the file exension ".apip" and can be download from the CData website.

To establish a connection using a Profile, set the Profile property to the path of the API profile file, and ProfileSettings to a connection string containing the credentials to the data-source. The most common forms of authentication are supported, including HTTP basic, HTTP digest, NTLM, and OAuth. For more information on the required connection properties, please refer to the documentation of each profile.

Connection Properties

The Connection properties describe the various options that can be used to establish a connection.

Managing Connections

After successfully authenticating to API you will be able to customize the data you are importing. To learn more about this, see Managing Connections.

See Also

• Querying Data: Use the data selection wizard to pull data into a spreadsheet. You can also configure scheduled data refresh here.
• Using the Excel Add-In: Find other ways to interact with API data, such as using the available CData Excel Functions.