Connecting to Sage Business Cloud Accounting

Establishing a Connection shows how to authenticate to Sage Business Cloud Accounting and configure any necessary connection properties. You can also configure cmdlet capabilities through the available Connection properties, from data modeling to firewall traversal. The Advanced Settings section shows how to set up more advanced configurations and troubleshoot connection errors.

Connecting from PowerShell

The CData Cmdlets PowerShell Module for Sage Business Cloud Accounting provides a familiar way to interact with Sage Business Cloud Accounting from PowerShell. The cmdlets provide a standard PowerShell interface and an SQL interface to live data. The CData cmdlets enable you to work with Sage Business Cloud Accounting using standard PowerShell objects; you can chain the cmdlets to each other or other cmdlets in pipelines. The cmdlets also support PowerShell debug streams.

Data Manipulation with Cmdlets

See Establishing a Connection to learn how to get started with the Connect-SageBCAccounting cmdlet. You can then pass the SageBCAccountingConnection object returned to other cmdlets for accessing data:

• Select-SageBCAccounting
• Add-SageBCAccounting
• Update-SageBCAccounting
• Remove-SageBCAccounting

Executing SQL from PowerShell

You can execute any SQL query with the Invoke-SageBCAccounting cmdlet.

Accessing Debug Output from Streams

See Capturing Errors and Logging to obtain the debug output through PowerShell streams.

PowerShell Version Support

The standard cmdlets are supported in PowerShell 2, 3, 4, and 5.

Sage Business Cloud Accounting Version Support

The cmdlet leverages the Sage Accounting API to enable bidirectional access to Sage Business Cloud Accounting.